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One is received according to one's dress and sent off according to one's wit.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about wealth, good, good luck

A long dress makes a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Honor is determined by your dress.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

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

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

A woman who dresses up and puts on makeup is either in love or a clean whore.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about woman, love

Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about magic, bad luck, bad, contentment

Only God helps the badly dressed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god

The dress does not make the friar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

No woman is ugly when she is dressed.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman

A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who dresses ion others' clothes will be undressed on the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes

The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, husband

The woman who dresses well attracts the husband from another woman's door.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about woman, husband

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about proudness, contentment

A person is asked about his dress not what he has eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Big processes make well dressed lawyers and naked parties.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Girl, do not exult in thy wedding dress; see how much trouble lurks behind it.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about marriage, problems

You are ushered in according to your dress; shown out according to your brains.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about contentment