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Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about commerce

He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Before you marry, beware, for it is a knot difficult to untie.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who goes far from home to marry, goes either to deceive or be deceived.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home

Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

Before you marry, have a house to live in, fields to till, and vines to cut.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home, house

If you marry money the devil lays an egg in your storeroom.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about devil, money

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverbs and old sayings about liberty, commerce, money

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverbs and old sayings

Look at the mother before marrying the daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about mother

Even the thinnest piece of meat will happily marry a piece of bread.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

If you marry a young woman, make sure your friends stay outside.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about woman

Better to marry a neighbor than a stranger.

Proverbs and old sayings

She who wants to marry her stepfather regrets it in bed.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

He who sacks his wife because she eats a lot will end up marrying a cannibal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wife, end

A girl who cannot patch man's trousers in between the legs, must not marry at all, because what use does a man have of such a stupid wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about use, wife, man

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, life, good, good luck

If the man lets a woman know what he has got in his saving box, she will marry him for his money.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about money, woman, man

A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about shame, heads

Priests, cousins and pigeons. The first two are not good to marry. The Last two, serve only to filth the house.

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