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Chins without beards deserve no honor.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

Keep your chin up

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about old, olderness

To be worn out is to be renewed. Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC)

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Search knowledge though it be in China.

Proverbs and old sayings about knowledge

Seek education even if it takes you to China.

Proverbs and old sayings about education

The barber learns his trade on the orphan's chin.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

The mouth is a chink.

Proverbs and old sayings

My treasures do not chink or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night.

Proverbs and old sayings about treasure, sun, night

A dimple in the chin, your living comes in; a dimple in the cheek, your living to seek.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin.

Proverbs and old sayings French

There's cunning in a pointed chin.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter, it gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about gypsies, dark, sun

An elephant in the china shop.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A dimple in the chin a devil within.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about devil

Forcing a bludgeon through a chinar trunk. Doing the impossible.

Proverbs and old sayings about impossible

He can see a louse as far away as China but is not aware of an elephant on his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

Chipped china lasts two centuries.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

There are two kinds of Chinese: those who give wine and those who drink it.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drinking, wine