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Love is blind -- but not the neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about blind, love

Either do as your neighbors do, or move away.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

In your neighbors' soup there is always one fatty morsel.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about garden

Better learn by your neighbors skaith nor by your own.

Proverbs and old sayings

Greed and envy are good neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about greed, envy, good, good luck

Brothers, rivers and priests are three bad neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about bad luck, bad

God save us from evil neighbors and from the indignation of the upright.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about god

The teeth and the tongue are close neighbors, and yet they sometimes bite each other.

Proverbs and old sayings

Ask about your neighbors, and then buy the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about commerce, home, house

Mix with your neighbors, and you learn what's doing in your own house.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about home, house

Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

The butcher should not be trusted that has missing neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin, I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, All of us against the foreigner.

Proverbs and old sayings

What people get by hard work they don't get for their neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about work, people

Judge a man not by the words of his mother, but from the comments of his neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings about judges, mother, man

It's better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about fight