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There's a dub at every door, and before some doors there's twa.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil, home, house

Every door has its own hinges.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

God closes a door and opens a portico.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about god

The door is always open to the bearer of gifts.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about gifts

If you close the door, the devil will turn his back on you.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about devil

God save you from narrow doorways, a caning, stones thrown at the blind and the weighing of shop keepers.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about blind, god

A doorstep is the highest of all mountains.

Proverbs and old sayings Slovenian

An open door tempts a saint.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about saints

A postern door makes a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about thieves

When one door shuts, a hundred open.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Where one door is shut another opens.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is no fun to guard a house with two doors.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

When you go to a strange house knock at the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour a good woman.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, good, good luck

The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house, woman

Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and could not go in.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish