If the bread in the oven is a failure you lose a week; if the harvest is a failure you lose a year; if marriage is a failure then you lose a life.
More Estonian Proverbs:
The devil does not always wear boots -- he sometimes comes barefoot.Estonian
It is better to be without a wife for a minute than without tobacco for an hour.
Estonian
Happy the marriage where the husband is the head and the wife the heart.
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Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.
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The summer comes and kisses the child, the winter comes and kills it.
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There is no room for two kings in one castle.
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