52 Proverbs about Silk

1. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
2. Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk robe.
3. You cannot forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper.
4. Silk and velvet put out the kitchen fire.
5. Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.
6. With patience and time the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
7. You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
8. An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet.
9. Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
10. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
11. A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.
12. He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.
13. A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters.
14. It hangs upon a silken thread.
15. There's no making a silk purse of a sow's ear.
16. We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference.
17. If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.
18. If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.
19. Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
20. A boor remains a boor even if sleeping on silken pillows.
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