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Work the fields on a fine day, study on a rainy day.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about day, work

Rain before seven, fine before eleven.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian about rain

After bad weather comes fine weather.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about weather, bad luck, bad

Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and riches for the poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, clothes, man

He who wears too fine clothes, shall go about in rags.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

He whose clothes are too fine, shall go about in rags.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about being

Love is deed and not fine phrases.

Proverbs and old sayings about love

Everything new is fine.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

No fine cloth can hide the clown.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about clowns

An argument is fine only when there is to be a fight.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fight

Better a gude fame than a fine face.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fame, face

If you would be a merchant fine, beware o' auld horses, herring, and wine.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wine, contentment

Deeds are love, and not fine phrases.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about deeds, love

If you want a fine wife, don't pick her on a Sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, contentment

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wife, money, home, house

A boil is fine as long as it's under someone else's arm.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about law, blind