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A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about end, americans, good, good luck

The best chaperon a girl can have is to be in love with another fellow.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about love, americans

Kissing a girl for the first time is like getting the first olive from a jar: after the first one, they come rolling out.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about kiss, time, americans

The doorstep weeps for forty days whenever a girl is born.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

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

Proverbs and old sayings

A girl with a golden cradle doesn't remain long in her father's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about home, house

Away from home the girl picks forbidden fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about home

A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian about husband, wife

Where the girls are there are no spider's webs.

Proverbs and old sayings

A girl apes her neighbor's frowning.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A girl receives, a widow takes her husband.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about husband

A girl that blushes too much, knows too much.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about good, good luck

Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about happiness

Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If a girl seems as shy as a mouse, you still have to look out for the tiger within her.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Flatter the mother to get the girl.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A girl without a needle is like a cat without a claw.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

A girl who cannot patch man's trousers in between the legs, must not marry at all, because what use does a man have of such a stupid wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about use, wife, man