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Being in love with a married woman is living on borrowed time.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about being, woman, time, love

Who gets married will be happy for a day, who butchers a pig will be happy for a year.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about happiness, day

Who gets married to a thin woman will know bitterness and strife, who marries a plump woman will be contented at the table and sleeping chamber.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman

A married couple is neither enemies nor friends.

Proverbs and old sayings about couple, enemies

For better for worse they have married me.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Never advise someone to go to war or to get married.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about war

When our daughter is married sons-in-law are plenty.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law

A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about paradise, man

Well-married is when you have no mother-in-law and no sister-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about present, war, advice, children

It is better to be married to an old lady than to remain unmarried.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about old, olderness

It's never too late to die or get married.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

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

If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about money, people

If the dog leads the man, the man is blind. If the man leads the dog, the man is married.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about man, blind

Praise your horse tomorrow, your son when he has a beard, your daughter when she is married and yourself never.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about praise