If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- When the word is out it belongs to another.
- The world is full of fools.
- Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- It takes two to make a bargain.
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
- After us the deluge.
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred Wise men cannot pull out.
- Fools make feasts, and Wise men eat them.
- It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
- Better the foot slip than the tongue.
- Fools rush in where angles fear to tread.
- A word and a stone let go cannot be called back.
- He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
- Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
- Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
- A great head and a little wit.
- If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.
- If an ass goes a travelling, he'll not come home a horse.
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
- A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
- The brains don't lie in the beard.
- The head grey, and no brains yet.
- Make not your sauce till you have caught the fish.
- Send not a cat for lard.
- He that sends a fool means to follow him.
- A grey head is often placed on green shoulders.
- Sweet appears sour when we pay.
- If all fools wore feathers we should seem a flock of geese.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Si promissa facit sapientem barba, quid obstat, barbatus possit vel caper esse Plato.
If a beard makes a man wise by promises, what is the problem, that a bearded man can be a goat or a goat?
French
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La barbe ne fait pas l'homme.
Beards don't make men.
German
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Es kommt nicht auf den Bart an, sonst beschämte der Bock den Mann.
It does not matter the beard, otherwise the buck shamed the man.
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Machte der Bart heilig, so wäre der Geißbock heiliger Vater.
If the beard made holy, the billy goat would be holy father.
Czech
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Kozel dlouhou bradu má, a není mudrcem.
The goat has a long beard, and he is not a sage.