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The hat does not make the gentleman nor the cap a lout.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Always use spurs with a horse, whether it's mean or gentle.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about use

The poverty of the gentleman is better than the money of the poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about poverty, money, man

May waters drench peasants and lords or gentlemen, as many of them as it encounters.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Money soothes more than a gentleman's words.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about money

Though your bloodhound be gentle, don't bite him on the lip.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about clothes

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about rightness

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother

Arrogance is not gentlemanly.

Proverbs and old sayings

A thief is a rogue but the one who repays is a gentleman.

Proverbs and old sayings about thieves

Fire is never a gentle master.

Proverbs and old sayings about fire, fire brigade

A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about woman, americans, man

A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about heart

When Adam delved, and Eve span, where was then the gentleman?

Proverbs and old sayings English

Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen.

Proverbs and old sayings French