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A monkey dressed up is still a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings

But may not truth in laughing guise be dressed?

Proverbs and old sayings French about truth

Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.

Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house

You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.

Proverbs and old sayings French about dance, contentment

A silk dress doesn't mean clean undergarments.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

Always be well dressed, even when begging.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

A sly rogue is often in good dress.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about good, good luck

If you put a silk dress on a goat, he is a goat still.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about contentment

When kitchen dresser tumble dung, maaga dog laugh.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about kitchen

Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Wisdom does not consist in dress.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wisdom

A dressed up lie is worth more than a badly told truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about lie, truth

Although a monkey be dressed in silk, she is still a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about woman

Don? t undress a saint to dress the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints

The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

It's not worth undressing a saint to dress another one.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about saints

Although the monkey might dress in silk, monkey it still is.

Proverbs and old sayings

Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie

Take care of your dress from when it's new and your honor from your youth.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about youth