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Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about home, house

Don't paint the devil on the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about devil

Don't paint the image of a demon on a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

A white wall is the fool's paper.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You cannot get oil out of a wall.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A wall between increases love.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

One may see through a wall, if there's a hole in it.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Many hands can shatter stout walls.

Proverbs and old sayings

Love your neighbor, but don’t take down the separating-wall.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Even the wall has an ear.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A bashful beggar has an empty wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It is like peas thrown against the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A bashful beggar will have an empty wallet.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It is not good to paint the devil on the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about devil, good, good luck

He was left behind like the Wallachians by St. Paul.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

There is no point in running ones head against the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads

When your neighbor's wall breaks, your own is in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about danger

The weakest go to the wall.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

The beggar's wallet has no bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian