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Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, god

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too low.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about stores, home, house

A chattering bird builds no nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian

He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about advice, home, house, man

The body builds up with work, the mind with studying.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about body, mind, work

He who builds with sweat, defends with blood.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about blood

He builds a castle by demolishing a country.

Proverbs and old sayings about country

Every wise woman builds her house: but the fool plucks it down with her hands.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, woman

When a Bulgar gets rich he builds himself another house.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about wealth, home, house

Reticence builds a fortress in the mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about mind

One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about family

The scholar builds the cities, the woman knocks them down.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about woman

One generation builds the street on which the next will walk.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A woman builds and destroys a house.

Proverbs and old sayings about home, house, woman

He who builds to every man's advice will have a crooked house.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about advice, home, house, man

He who builds according to every man's advise will have a crooked house.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, house, man

By slow degrees the bird builds his nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Slowly but surely, the bird builds its nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch