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House protecting: God, bless the world and all that is therein

House protecting

God, bless the world and all that is therein.
God, bless my spouse and my children,
God, bless the eye that is in my head,
And bless, O God, the handling of my hand;
What time I rise in the morning early,
What time I...

Houses are the graves of the living.

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

A house is a fine house when good folks are within.

Keep your house and your house will keep you.

A house full of people is a house full of different points of view.

Guest coming into house - God coming into house.

A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel.

In a small house God has His corner; in a big house, He has to stand in the hall.

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

If your neighbor's house is on fire, make haste to put out the fire in your own house.

If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timber will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.

Sweep the house with a broom in may and you'll sweep the luck of the house away.

A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.

If you find your own house is on fire, you may be sure that your neighbour's house is burning much more fiercely.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

When you go to a donkey's house, don't talk about ears.

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

Man who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement.

Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house.