A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

BEAUTY is only skin-deep
Physical beauty is no guarantee of good character, temperament, etc. Cf. a 1613 T. oVERBURY Wife (1614) B8^V All the carnall beautie of my wife, Is but skinne-deep.

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  1616 J. DAVIES Select Second Husband B3 Beauty’s but skin-deepe. 1829 CoBBETT Advice to Young Men III. cxxix. The less favoured part of the sex say, that ‘beauty is but skin deep’.. but it is very agreeable though, for all that. 1882 E. M. INGRAHAM Bond & Free xiii. Mother used to say that beauty was only skin deep, but I never before realized that bones could be so fearfully repulsive. 1978 A. PRICE ‘44 Vintage xix. Beauty is only skin-deep, but it’s only the skin you see. "beauty
  

bed see EARLY to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; as you MAKE your bed, so you must lie upon it; there goes more to MARRIAGE than four bare legs in a bed.
bedfellow see ADVERSITY makes strange bedfellows; PoLITICS makes strange bedfellows.
beer see he that DRINKS beer, thinks beer; LIFE isn’t all beer and skittles; TURKEY, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.
Where BEES are, there is honey
Cf. L. ubi mel, ibi apes, where there is honey, there are bees.

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  1616 T. DRAXE Adages 77 Where Bees are, there is honie. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 60 Where Bees are, there is honey. Where there are industrious persons, there is wealth, for the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 1748 M. FREEMAN Word in Season 6
  

Take away the Bees, and.. you shall have no Honey in the Hive,.. but there always will be Honey where there are Bees. 1931 P. A. TAYLOR Cape Cod Mystery ix. It’d look.. like they was something afoot, bein’ as how there’s bees where’s honey. ■ associates; diligence