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With a bottle and a girl one does not count the hours.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

When a girl is born it is like having six thieves invade the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about thieves, home, house

A girl, a vineyard and a beanfield are difficult to guard.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

A girl, a vineyard, an orchard, and a bean-field, are hard to watch.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about garden

A girl never grows into a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

When a girl is born all four walls weep.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A girl only gets pregnant once.

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan

She would be a nice girl if she didn't have her head.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness

An ugly girl blames the mirror.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

Her beauty is the only dowery a beautiful girl needs.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty

The girl with stars in her eyes will shine like the moonlight.

Proverbs and old sayings about celebrity, stars, eyes

A girl draws more than a rope.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Her father's fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

It's always something said the girl with a nosebleed.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Marry the girl of a good family though she be seated on a mat, very poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about family, good, good luck

An ugly girl does not become old at home.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about home, old, olderness