Beauty without virtue is as a flower without perfume.
Proverbs and old sayings French about perfume, garden, virtue, beauty
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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
Proverbs and old sayings French about perfume, garden, virtue, beauty
The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.
Proverbs and old sayings French about voice, flowers, proudness
Painted flowers are scentless.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
Painted flowers have no scent.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
Not all flowers are fit for nosegays.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
An old man loved is a winter with flowers.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers, man, old, olderness
Fair flowers to not remain long by the wayside.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
The old one who is loved is like a winter flower.
Proverbs and old sayings German about garden, old, olderness
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
Look before you leap, For snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
Proverbs and old sayings German about flowers
A woman is a flower in a garden; her husband is the fence around it.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about garden, husband, woman
He who wants fruit should not pick flowers.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about flowers
Never strike your wife, not even with a flower.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden, wife
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man's is but weeds.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about flowers, wealth, wine, man
Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden, flowers, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about garden, people
The scent of every flower is short lived.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden
It is not every flower that smells sweet.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about garden
He that paints a flower does not give it perfume.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about perfume, garden
