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It does not matter if your tavern sits in a remote location so long as the smell of your wine is appealing.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wine

The wedding lasts for two or three days, but the trouble stays longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about marriage, day

When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sleep

That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about consequences, trains, things

You lament not the dead, but lament the trouble of making a grave; the way of the ghost is longer than the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings

A cobbler formed the shape of shoes on a wooden foot shaped last. If it lasted long he was happy.

Proverbs and old sayings English about happiness

The weather, fleecy clouds, and a made up woman don't last long.

Proverbs and old sayings French about weather, woman

The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.

Proverbs and old sayings French about prestige, shadow, man

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wine, life

Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power.

Proverbs and old sayings German about power, secret

Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone, will not agree long.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

If work were a good thing, the rich would have grabbed it a long time ago.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about things, work, wealth, time, good, good luck

In my life of vanity i saw everything: a righteous man dying in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long after his evil deeds.

Proverbs and old sayings about rightness, proudness, vanity, deeds, life, man

A person who is being carried to the market does not realize that the way is long.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about being, people

No war is more bitter than the war of friends, but it does not last long.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about war, bitter

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about wife, mother, man

If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is better to go home and make your net than to gaze longingly at the fish in the deep pool.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about home

The fox loves cunning, the wolf covets the lamb, and a woman longs for praise.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about praise, woman

A rash man, a skin of good wine, and a glass vessel, do not last long.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wine, good, good luck, man