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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

Bypass monks with a big stride; have nothing to do with priests, except at Mass.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about nothing

Capacious as the sleeve of a monk and patient as the priest with his arms across his chest.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

There are three who have to give an accounting to God; the judges, the priests, and the godparents.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about judges, god

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sin, enemies, home, house, god, americans

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