The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A bad haircut is two people’s shame. (Danish)
A long life has many shames. (Japanese)
A shamefaced man seldom acquires wealth. (Irish)
He who tells lies to gain honor will be shamed. (Yoruban)
Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man’s back. (Danish)
Natural things are without shame. (Roman)
Shame comes to no man unless he himself helps it on the way. (Danish)
Shame forbids what the law does not. (Roman)
Shame lasts longer than poverty. (Dutch)
Some thinking to avenge their shame increase it. (French)
The beginning of shame is baring the body in public. (Roman)
The longer the life, the more the shame. (Japanese)
There is no shame in not knowing but in not wanting to know. (Unknown)
Three ailments without shame: love, an itch, and thirst. (Irish)
What is no sin, is no shame. (German)
Whate’er’s begun in anger ends in shame. (Poor Richard)
Who fears no shame comes to no honor. (Dutch)
Who has no shame all the world is his own. (Italian)
Who is not shamed by his sins, sins double. (German)
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