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Holiday of Saint Nicolae

Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Having beauty doesn't mean understanding the perseverance of marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about perseverance, marriage, beauty

He was entrapped by the evening, it has cost him his marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about marriage

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about pleasure, marriage, garden, wine

Who can tie an oven brush, weave a sackcloth and turn over chitterlings is ready for marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about marriage

If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about failure, marriage, life

Love does wonders, but money makes marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings French about money, love

Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings German about marriage, blood, age, olderness

Getting married with a woman is nothing; it's assuming the responsibility of marriage that counts.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about marriage, woman, nothing

Death and marriages make changes.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about death

There is no feast till a roast and no torment till a marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about feast, marriage

A woman who has not been twice married cannot know what a perfect marriage is.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about perfection, marriage, woman

From Spain can come neither good winds nor good marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about good, good luck

Not all who make love make marriages.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about love

The first snow does not mean winter, nor the first love marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about marriage, love

If marriages are made in heaven, you twa hae few friends there.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Late marriages, premature orphans.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Like blood, like good, and like age, make the happiest marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage, blood, age, olderness, good, good luck

My daughter, as long as you keep quiet, much money will paid for your marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about quiet, marriage, money