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An ugly girl blames the mirror.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

January commits the sin and May gets blamed.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about sin

A bad writer blames his pen.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about writers, bad luck, bad

Praise gets closer than blame.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about praise

What can't be alter'd must be borne, not blamed.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Praise makes the good man better, blame makes the bad one worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about praise, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, man

Those who dances poorly, blames the musician.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings about praise

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverbs and old sayings about purpose, being, people

When a yam doesn't grow well, we don't blame it; it is because of the soil.

Proverbs and old sayings

If the bride can't dance, she blames the musicians.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dance

We must blame the thief first before we say that where the owner put her property improper.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about thieves

When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, mother

If you are to hit then make it painful, because you'll get one blame eitherways.

Proverbs and old sayings

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

Proverbs and old sayings English about time

If you stumble more than once over the same stump, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about rocks, praise

He that learns naught will never know how one is the fool of another, for if one be rich another is poor and for that should bear no blame.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth