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He that has a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about problems, wife

A wife is not a pot, she will not break so easily.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife

Don't blame your wife's side if your son is cross-eyed.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife

A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur cap.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, man

Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, wealth, things, good, good luck

A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, good, good luck, contentment

Why marry, when your neighbor's wife is ready to go to bed with you?

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, contentment

There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about law, wife, wealth, mother, nothing

The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, home, house

A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about paradise, wife

They are as wife, as speir not.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

The Tailours wife is worst clad.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

The Sowter's wife is worst shod.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

A Scots man is ay wife behind band.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, man

Drunken wife gat ay the drunken penny.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife

A man cannot thrive except his wife let him.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, man

Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys are tint.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, good, good luck

Every man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her.

Proverbs and old sayings about rules, wife, man

Little kens the wife that sits by the fire, how the wind blows cold in hurle-burle swyre.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, fire, fire brigade

He that has a wife has a maister.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife