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When problems visit a man it arrives with its own bed and table.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about problems, man

A blind person knows his environment more than a visitor with eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about blind, eyes, people

He who visits you personally is better than another who sends a delegate.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Several repeated visits to the mud pit enable the wasp to build its house.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about home, house

Don't expect to be offered a chair when you are visiting a place where the chief sits on the floor.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Fish and visitors smell after three days.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about day, americans

The busy man has few idle visitors: to the boiling pot the flies come not.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, man

Any visitor to the country who drinks from the River Bengo will never want to leave.

Proverbs and old sayings Angolan about country

He who would visit a vice, never has far to travel.

Proverbs and old sayings about vice

If your neighbor visits Mecca once, watch out for him. If he makes a second visit, you had better avoid him. After the third visit you had better move to another street.

Proverbs and old sayings

In the planting season visitors come singly, and in harvest time they come in crowds.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about season, time

Long visits bring short compliments.

Proverbs and old sayings British

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

It is easier to visit your friends than to live with them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If at home you receive no visitors, then abroad you will have no host.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about home

No one can be caught in places he does not visit.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck

Truth comes back where she has once visited.

Proverbs and old sayings English about truth

God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, time, god

God visits us often, but most of the time we are not home.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, time, god