Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly.
Proverbs and old sayings
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A Monkey never thinks her baby is ugly.
Proverbs and old sayings Hatian
Breasts adorn a woman and make a man look ugly.
Proverbs and old sayings about woman, man
It is an ugly bird that defiles its own nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about woman
He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil
Handsome women generally fall to the lot of ugly men.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fall, man
A gilt-edged visiting card often hides an ugly face.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about face
Death said to the man with his throat cut, How ugly you look.
Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about death, man
Having need of makes the ugly beautiful.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about need
No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about woman
The devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about devil
If one loves the ugly, one shall find it beautiful.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly enough to frighten away.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
The looking glass is the enemy of ugly women.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about enemies
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about beauty
No family has no ugly member.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian about family
An ugly girl blames the mirror.
Proverbs and old sayings Serbian
Who makes baskets, makes some ugly and some beautiful.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Desire beautifies what is ugly.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
