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The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about common sense, sense, reason, home, wife, man

If you want to love your household as much as your bread then you will have to knead your wife like dough.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, love, contentment

All freight lightens, said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wife

If lending were a good idea, then the husband would lend out his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about idea, husband, wife, good, good luck

It's natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about husband, wife

You cannot tell from a man's clothes how much he is making, but you must look at his wife's.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about clothes, wife, contentment, man

He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse, a handsome wife, and plenty of money.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about wine, wife, good, good luck, things, money

A man who lets his problems get the better of him is like a man who divorces his wife the first time she makes him angry.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about problems, wife, time, man

Seek not ever to draw to thyself in love-whispering another's wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, love

As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about wife, man

Three things drive a man out of his house - smoke, rain and a scolding wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about smoke, rain, wife, things, home, house, man

The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wife, man

I winna mak a toil o' a pleasure, quo' the man when he buried his wife and was asked to speed it up.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about speed, pleasure, wife, man

Kiss him, kiss him, little mouth of honey: you're the hooker but I'm the wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss, wife, contentment

The horns of the sister are horns of gold; the horns of the wife are true horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife

Everyone knows that you mustn't praise a good wine, a good horse and a good wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about praise, good, good luck, wine, wife, contentment

If you have nothing better to do, go to bed with your own wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, nothing, contentment

There is no answer for God out of my house, and What have you to do with my wife?

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, home, house, god, contentment

When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about wife

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about smoke, wife, things, man