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Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Choose a wife to please yourself, not others.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wife

He has need rise betimes that would please everybody.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about need

Leave a jest when it pleases lest it turn to earnest.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Pardons and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The vine brings forth three grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about drunkenness, pleasure, sadness

You cannot please everybody.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A handful of dirt is pleasing if it's your own land.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about good, good luck, man

No plea is best.

Proverbs and old sayings

The first dish pleaseth all.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

An ill plea should be well pled.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

It is hard to please a' parties.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye're never pleas'd fu' nor fasting.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting

It is good gear that pleases the merchant.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about good, good luck

He that rides ahint anither doesna saddle when he pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

It's better to have few pleasures than many troubles.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In war, hunting, and love you suffer a thousand pains for one pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about suffering, pleasure, war, love

Choose her for her beauty and even choose her without a dowry because from her beauty you'll get pleasure.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about beauty, pleasure

Every one sneezes as God pleases.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god