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Gold glitters even in the mud.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian

Gold is a debt we can repay, but kindness not till our dying day.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about day

Gold rain drops on a foreign country, wherelse rain of stones drops on our country, but our country is better.

Proverbs and old sayings Malaysian about country, rain

Gold like the sun melts wax and hardens clay.

Proverbs and old sayings about sun

Gold, when beaten, shines.

Proverbs and old sayings Peruvian

Gold is tried in the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fire, fire brigade

Golden hands, but a wicked mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Gold attracts a crowd.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Gold without wisdom is but clay.

Proverbs and old sayings Czechoslovak about wisdom

Gold that falls to earth never dims.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about earth

Gold takes no rust.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about tears

Golden dreams make men wake hungry.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about dream, man

Golden dishes will never turn black.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about magic

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

The miser does not own the gold, it is the gold that owns the miser.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

What is gold is worth gold.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about thieves

People are the thing: if i call 'gold, ' gold does not respond; if i call 'clothes, ' clothes do not respond; people are the thing.

Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, things, people