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

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

All are not maidens that wears bare hair.

Proverbs and old sayings

Every man wears his belt his ain gait.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

The feet are slow when the head wears snaw.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads

Quiet water wears down a mountain.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about quiet, water

Bad luck wears out even the stout-hearted.

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

The gutter by dropping wears the stone.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Not everyone who wears spurs owns a horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

May the man be damned and never grow fat, Who wears two faces under one hat.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

An aimless wanderer wears away his legs.

Proverbs and old sayings about wanderer

An ape is ne'er so like an ape/ As when he wears a doctor's cape.

Proverbs and old sayings

Man grows up, felt wears out.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

An insult is but a short garment: it reveals the one who wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings

If you don't lift the skirt of a bride you don't know what she wears under it.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Silence is a wonderful jewel for a woman but she seldom wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about silence, woman

No one knows better where the shoe pinches that he who wears it.

Proverbs and old sayings German