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Places are God's; placemen are the devil's.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil, god

A good place you don't go to is a good place: if you go too often, it isn't a good place any longer.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is thou must honour the place, not the place thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about honour

Your own small place is not like a big place of your companion.

Proverbs and old sayings

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

Proverbs and old sayings about happiness

You cackle in our place but you lay your eggs at someone else's place.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian

The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Whatever the type of firewood found in a place, it is usually good enough for the people of that place to cook with.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people, good, good luck

Your own bad place is far better than your companion's place.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad

Don't lie down in low places, flood will take you, don't lie down in high places, wind will take you.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about lie

A woman's place is in the home.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, woman

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

Proverbs and old sayings British

There is a time and a place for everything.

Proverbs and old sayings British about time

There's no place like home.

Proverbs and old sayings British about home

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

The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about mind, man

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about purpose, home, time, love

Do not spend it all in one place

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness