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In a community, your reputation matters. in a strange place, your clothing counts.

Proverbs and old sayings about prestige

An elephant, no matter how skinny, is valuable.

Proverbs and old sayings

No matter if the child's born blind, as long as it doesn't beg.

Proverbs and old sayings about blind, children

What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves it's purpose well?

Proverbs and old sayings about purpose, dark, good, good luck

He seizes the lighter end of the matter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about end

In much talk there is much bottom, inferior matter.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A slave boy is blamed no matter what he does: If he does not wash his hands, he is accused of being dirty. If he washes his hands, he is accused of wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about being, water

Only two things matter in this world: a son and a daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about world, things

No matter how smart a person is, eventually he will make a mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, mistake, people

No matter how successful a person is, he will experience some bad things too.

Proverbs and old sayings about experience, people, things, bad luck, bad

No matter how stressed or angry we are, we have to solve a problem with rationale.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of ups and downs.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

No matter who succeeds or fails, the peacemaker will always suffer.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about suffering

No matter who comes off well, the peacemaker is sure to come off ill.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

No matter how often a pitcher goes to the water it is broken in the end.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about end, water

No matter how tall your grandfather was, you have to do your own growing.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Money matters make strangers.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about money

The breaking of a betrothal is no small matter.

Proverbs and old sayings