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Customs are stronger than laws.

Proverbs and old sayings

A henpecked husband gets no support during a lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband

It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fight

Better no law than laws not enforced.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about law

A bad agreement is better than a good lawsuit.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

A lawsuit is a fruit-tree planted in a lawyer's garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden

A long lawsuit breeds poverty.

Proverbs and old sayings about poverty

The lawsuit of a fool keeps the court all day.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

One lawsuit begets another.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

For the king, the laws and the people.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about people

Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about books, old, olderness, wine

Wrong laws make short governance.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about bad

New lairds have new laws.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

If you're not a King don't make new laws; leave the world the way you find it.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about world

When drums beat, laws are silent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A lawsuit for a maravedi consumes a real's worth of paper.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about real estate

The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth, Fond of doctors, little health.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wealth

Necessity knows no laws.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

Where there are no laws, they can't be broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian