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Many a one blames his wife for his own unthrift.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

He that tells his wife news, is but newly married.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

Ye may drive the deil into a wife, but ye'll ne'er ding him oot o' her.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wife

If you sell your purse to your wife, give your trousers into the bargain.

Proverbs and old sayings British about commerce, wife, contentment

He that seeks a horse or a wife without fault, has neither steed in his stable nor angel in his bed.

Proverbs and old sayings British about angels, wife

Pretty wife, old wine -- many friends.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about wine, wife, old, olderness

When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about wife

Lying can get you a wife, but it won't keep her.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about lie, wife, contentment

Lying will get you a wife, but it won't keep her.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about lie, wife, contentment

Show me your wife and I will tell you what kind of a husband she has.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, wife, contentment

Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sleep, night, wife

Virtue becomes a wife; beauty becomes a concubine.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about virtue, beauty, wife

Don't trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, contentment

A man thinks that he knows it, but his wife knows better.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, man

Teach your son in the front garden and your wife on the pillow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden, wife

A woman that always laughs is everybody's wife; a man that is always laughing is an idiot.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wife, woman, man

If you curse your wife in the evening, you will sleep alone at night. A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, sleep, night, wife, contentment

If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness, garden, wife, life, contentment

In good companionship, the monk took a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, good, good luck