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A crow is no whiter for being washed.

Proverbs and old sayings French about being

He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).

Proverbs and old sayings French

However black a cow is, the milk is always white.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

Black cows give white milk.

Proverbs and old sayings German about magic

Green Christmas, a white Easter.

Proverbs and old sayings German about christmas

One cannot wash a blackamoor white.

Proverbs and old sayings German

What bird so white as mine? says the crow.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Youth and white paper take any impression.

Proverbs and old sayings German about youth

Who blackens others, does not whiten himself.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who blackens others does not whiten himself.

Proverbs and old sayings German

The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Ghanaian about man

He that has a white horse and a fair wife need never want for trouble.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, problems, need, wife

The good white man dies, the bad one remains.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about bad luck, bad, good, good luck, man

The dead do not know the value of white sheets.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about value

The milk of black goats and white goats is all the same.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

Black Christmas, white Easter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about christmas, magic

Even the white lily casts a shadow.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about shadow

He shows the whiteness of his teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

First God, then the white man.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about god, man

Even black hens lay white eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about magic