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Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about marriage, happiness, wife, life, day

The bachelors crave it, and the married ones regret it.

Proverbs and old sayings about bachelors, regret

How gently glides the married life away, When she who rules still seems but to obey.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about rules, life

When two paupers get married it is the beginning of a generation of beggars.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about beginning

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

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about perfection, marriage, woman

Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about happiness, life

Children married, cares increased.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about children

She is well married who has neither mother-in-law nor sister-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about law, mother

The nights are short for him who married late in life.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about life

When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about cruelty, revenge, anger

After your daughter is married, there comes a number of potential sons-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about numbers, law

Maidens should be meek while they be married.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better half hanged than ill married.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Say still no and ye'll never be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There are mae married than good house-hadders.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about home, house, good, good luck

Ye're of sae mony minds ye'll never be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A dish o' married love right sune grows cauld, and dosens drown to nane as folk grow auld.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rightness, love

A self confident woman will soon be married.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about self-control, woman

A couple married on Monday is headed for a fall.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about couple, fall

For women the highest state is the married state.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about state