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A pretty person looks pretty in every clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about people

No fine cloth can hide the clown.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about clowns

Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about measure

Give a naked man a piece of cloth and he will say it is too thick.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about man

Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, man

By candle light, neither women nor cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about light

Dress up once a year, and dress up in cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Women and cloth should not be bought in the evening.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who dresses in the clothing of others, will soon undress.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

The best cloth has uneven threads.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Needle and thread are half clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A spot shows most on the finest cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck

There is no better patch than one off the same cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, secret

Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about being

The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes, poverty, man

If Nakedness promises you a piece of cloth, ask him his name.

Proverbs and old sayings about name, contentment

A tailor does not select his cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings

That which eats you up is in your clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment