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When your fortune improves, the columns of your house appear to be crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about wealth, home, house

When someone's wealth improves, all of a sudden their house's columns appear to be crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about wealth, home, house

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about worry, shadow

He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about shadow, body

Presents make women affable, priests indulgent, and the law crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law

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

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home, house, man

If you build according to every man's advice, you will have a crooked house.

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

The dog's tail, even if buried for twelve years, will remain as crooked as ever.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish