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A house ready made and a wife to make.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, home, house

He that hath a wife is sure of strife.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife

The clever wife makes her husband an apron.

Proverbs and old sayings French about intelligence, husband, wife

Choose a wife with your ears, not your eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wife

Where rosemary grows the wife wears the trousers.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife

He that telleth his wife news is but lately married.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife

In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about family, husband, blind, wife, good, good luck

Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.

Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, wife, man

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings French about husband, blind, wife, good, good luck

The devil sweetens another man's wife with a spoonful of honey.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, devil, man

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wife

If you lose your wife and fifteen pennies -- oh! what a pity about the money.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, money, contentment

A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em the better they be.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wife, contentment

Smoke, floods, and a troublesome wife, are enough to drive a man out of his life.

Proverbs and old sayings French about smoke, wife, life, man

Men prefer the wife of another but love their own sons more.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife, man, love

The lucky fellow loses his wife, the unlucky fellow loses his horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife

The mother said I will die, the wife said I will marry, and in the meantime the house is full of dirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian about wife, mother, death, home, house

The weeping bride makes a laughing wife.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wife

The husband's mother is the wife's devil.

Proverbs and old sayings German about husband, wife, mother, devil

A young wife is an old man's post-horse to the grave.

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