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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

Proverbs and old sayings

A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog as well.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A guest should not cause his host's demise. When the guest is ready to leave, his host should not have given him a hunch-back.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo

A guest sees more in an hour than a host in a year.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It is better to host a good stranger than a bad brother.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A guest who breaks the dishes of his host is not soon forgotten.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian

One guest does not trouble two hosts.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about intelligence, devil

When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest's purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A merry host makes merry guests.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves

Who reckons without his host must reckon again.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Don't reckon with your host.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, good, good luck

Where the hostess is beautiful the wine is tasty.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine

He that reckons without his host must reckon again.

Proverbs and old sayings French