624 Proverbs about House / Page 14
261. He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.
262. He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair.
263. He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.
264. He whose house is tiled with glass should not throw stones at his neighbour's.
265. I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?
266. If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.
267. If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.
268. In a smith's house the knife is wooden.
269. In my own house I am a king.
270. In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.
271. In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.
272. It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.
273. It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.
274. It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.
275. Justice, but not in my own house.
276. Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
277. Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
278. Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.
279. Right or wrong, 'tis our house up to the roof.
280. Sour wine, old bacon, and rye bread keep a house rich.
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