No cloth can be better than your skin.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
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When a naked person promises you cloth beware.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about people, contentment
If nakedness promises to cloth you then look at its name.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about name, contentment
There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about weather, bad luck, bad, things
He whose mother is naked is not likely to clothe his aunt.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
It is the cloth of an orphan that is often given to the guest.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
You can't tell the colour of somebody's cloth from his shadow.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about shadow, contentment
The worst you can do to truth is to cloth it in lies, you can't undo it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about truth, contentment
You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans, contentment
Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
When a man is wealthy, he may wear an old cloth.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about man, old, olderness
Vice is often clothed in virtue's habit.
Proverbs and old sayings British about habits, vice, virtue
The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.
Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about husband, wife, clothes, face
A cloth is not woven from a single thread.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
You cannot draw white cloth from a dying vat.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed in men's clothes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clothes, man
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about clothes, man
Better coarse cloth than naked thighs.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
Wolves are often hidden under sheep's clothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish
