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A bad son gives his mother a bad name.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, name, bad, mother

A bad wife is one hundred years of bad harvest.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about bad luck, bad, wife

A bad beginning, a bad ending.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about beginning, bad luck, bad

A bad woman is worse than a bad man.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad luck, bad, woman, man

There is not so bad a gill, but there's as bad a Will.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad luck, bad

It is a bad workman that has a bad saw.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about bad luck, bad

There are no bad ships at all, there are bad captains.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about bad luck, bad

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, name, bad

The bad collector makes the bad payer.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad

There is no bad weather only bad clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about weather, bad luck, bad

A good husband might have a bad wife, and a bad wife might have a good husband.

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

Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, children, good, good luck

A good horse and a bad horse need the spur; a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, woman, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

As both a good horse and a bad horse heed the spur, so both a good woman and a bad woman need the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, bad luck, bad, need, good, good luck

The one who makes little bad things, can as easyly do big bad things.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about things, bad luck, bad

Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Better the bad one from a good breed than the better one from a bad breed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Sow good and you'll reap good; sow bad and you'll reap bad. You don't have to cut down a tree to get its fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls onto a stone, it is still bad for the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about bad luck, bad