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Girls will be girls.

Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.

Girl, do not exult in thy wedding dress; see how much trouble lurks behind it.

Yankee Doodle:

Yankee Doodle went to town
A-riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.

Father and I...

A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.

If you keep stirring at a girl you cannot have you will never see a girl you can have.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.

A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror.

Knees up mother Brown:

There came a girl from France
Who didn't know how to dance
The only thing that she could do
Was knees up Mother Brown

Oh, knees up Mother Brown
Knees up Mother Brown
Knees up, knees up, never let the breeze up,...

Cockles and Mussels:

In Dublin's fair city
Where girls are so pretty
'Twas there I first met with
Sweet Molly Malone

She drove a wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "Cockles and mussels,
Alive, alive-o"

Alive,...

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

A girl's patience can only be recognised by how long she keeps her virginity.

When a girl whistles, the angels cry.

A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse.

Boys seldom make passes at girls wearing glasses.

Don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January.

A whistling girl and a cackling hen come to no good end.