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Handsome is as handsome does

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Handsomely asked, handsomely refused.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Handsome is the handsome does.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Handsome is not what is handsome, but what pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Handsome poverty is no disgrace.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about poverty, americans

Handsome apples are sometimes sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Handsome cats and fat dung heaps are the sign of a good farmer.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall, man

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

Proverbs and old sayings German about truth

Do not employ handsome servants.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again.

Proverbs and old sayings about nature

A handsome shoe often pinches the feet.

Proverbs and old sayings French

A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.

Proverbs and old sayings French about bad luck, bad

The devil was handsome when he was young.

Proverbs and old sayings French about devil

A big nose never spoiled a handsome face.

Proverbs and old sayings French about face

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.

Proverbs and old sayings French about wine, good, good luck

The handsomest woman can only give what she has.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman

Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.

Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, wife, man

Every mother's child is handsome.

Proverbs and old sayings German about children, mother

The handsomest snuffs the candle.

Proverbs and old sayings German