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No matter how kind a man might be he cannot accept to share his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, man

You can bear with your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wife, americans, contentment

Don't send an old man to buy a donkey, nor a young man to woo a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, wife, man, old, olderness

He gets his passage for nothing and then winks at the captain's wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, nothing

The woman who loves her husband corrects his faults; the man that loves his wife exaggerates them.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about husband, wife, woman, man

To 'get out of my house. ' or 'what do you want with my wife? ' there is no answer.

Proverbs and old sayings Bolivian about wife, home, house, contentment

A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about husband, wife

A good dog does not bite a chicken and a good man does not hit his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, good, good luck, man

When buying a house, check the beams; when choosing a wife; check the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, mother, home, house

Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, mother, home, house

He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wife, good, good luck

We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about patience, wife, man

Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house, man, old, olderness

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

Proverbs and old sayings English about quiet, wife, life, things, heart

Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about marriage, husband, happiness, wife, heads, heart

The man who can sharpen hundred stakes between two meals, can take a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about wife, man

A girl who cannot patch man's trousers in between the legs, must not marry at all, because what use does a man have of such a stupid wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about use, wife, man

Rather a man without a cow for the summer than without a wife for Christmas night.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about christmas, night, wife, man

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about couple, husband, happiness, blind, wife