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A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thinking

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wealth, man

A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses.

Proverbs and old sayings French about spring

A fine girl and a tattered gown always find something to hook the them.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Force me, and I shall commit no sin, said the girl.

Proverbs and old sayings German about force, police, sin

Even the devil's grandmother was a nice girl when she was young.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

Eat your fish while it is still fresh and marry the girl while she is still young.

Proverbs and old sayings German

You have to put a young girl onto an old man.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about man, old, olderness

In the dark all cats and all girls are beautiful.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about dark

An unlucky girl may make a good woman.

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

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When a girl in the teahouse smiles at you, look the other way.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about love

A gadding girl is rarely coy.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The girl is more inviting who smells of wild thyme than she who smells of musk.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Keep your eye on girls that don't tell their mothers everything.

Proverbs and old sayings

If it is not a boy it will be a girl, says the fortune-teller.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth

A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about shame, heads

You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans, man, old, olderness