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You are sure to marry a woman either beautiful or ugly; If ugly she will be a punishment; if beautiful, you will share her with others. Therefore do not marry.

Proverbs and old sayings about punishment, woman

A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian

An excuse is sometime more ugly than a guilt.

Proverbs and old sayings about guilt

If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you will end up killing it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

Why they like an ugly person it takes long for a beautiful person to know it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about people

It's those ugly caterpillars that turn into beautiful butterflies after seasons.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It's the tortoise's shell, ugly and hard that protects its life long journey on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, life

An ugly woman's husband better be blind.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, blind, woman

Wealth can give legs to the cripple, beauty to the ugly, and sympathy to tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about tears, wealth, beauty

God don't like ugly.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

Truth often hides in an ugly pool.

Proverbs and old sayings British about truth

Better to kiss an ugly woman than to lick yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Burundi about kiss, woman

Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about people

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

That which in the beautiful woman is grace, in the ugly woman turns to disgrace.

Proverbs and old sayings about grace, woman

A mother never thinks her baby is ugly.

Proverbs and old sayings English about mother

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl.

Proverbs and old sayings French about eyes, wealth, man

There are no beautiful prisons or ugly loved ones.

Proverbs and old sayings French

An ugly child of your own is more to you than a beautiful one belonging to your neighbor.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about children