One does not wash one's dirty linen in public.
Proverbs and old sayings English about public
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Absence, and a friendly neighbor, washeth away love.
Proverbs and old sayings English about love
Foul linen should be washed at home.
Proverbs and old sayings French about home
A crow is no whiter for being washed.
Proverbs and old sayings French about being
He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.
Proverbs and old sayings French
To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap.
Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, time
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.
Proverbs and old sayings French about public, home
To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour. )
Proverbs and old sayings French about heads, time
One cannot wash a blackamoor white.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Who bathes his hands in blood will have to wash them with tears.
Proverbs and old sayings German about tears, blood
Rain wets a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rain
Rain beats on a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rain
One hand washes the other and both wash the face.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about face
The washerman never tears his father's clothes.
Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, tears
He washes his hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Like wash-basin, like towel.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Slow water washes away the bank.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about bankers, water
He is like water shaking in a wash tub.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about water
Weeping washes the face.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about face
It is a lonely washing that has no man's shirt in it.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about man
