The Proverbs is a collection of
ancient wisdom, still recognized today as practical advice. It contains
the sayings not only of Solomon, but other sages of ancient Israel as well.
The teachings of this book can be applied by everyone from children to young
men and women to the leaders of business empires and nations.
Gifts should be handed, not thrown.
Proverb, (Danish)
Girls marry to please parents, widows to please themselves.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Girls will be girls.
Proverb
Give a bairn his will, and a whelp his fill, and none of these two will
thrive.
Proverb
Give a beggar a bed and he'll repay you with a louse.
Proverb
Give a clown your finger he'll grasp your fist.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give a clown your foot, and he'll take your hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
Proverb
Give a dog an ill name, and you may as well hang him.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give a grateful man more than he asks.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Give a helping hand to a man in trouble.
Proverb, (Latin)
Give a hint to the man of sense, and consider the thing done.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Give a lie twenty-four hours' start, and you can never overtake it.
Proverb
Give a little, take a little.
Proverb
Give a loaf, and beg a shive.
Proverb
Give a man luck, and throw him into the sea.
Proverb
Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself.
Proverb
Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.
Proverb, (Arabic)
Give a pig when it grunts, and a child when it cries, and you will have a
fine pig, and a bad child.
Proverb, (Danish)
Give a rogue an inch, and he will take an ell.
Proverb, (Danish)
Give a thief rope enough, and he'll hang himself.
Proverb
Give a thing and take again
And you shall ride in hell's wain.
Proverb
Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil's gold ring.
Proverb
Give a traitor good words and you make him loyal.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Give and spend and God will send.
Proverb
Give and take is fair play.
Proverb
Give at first asking what you safely can; 'tis certain gain to help an
honest man.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Give credit where credit is due.
Proverb
Give ear and weigh the matter well.
Proverb, (Latin)
Give ear to that man who has four ears.
Proverb, (Latin)
Give even an onion graciously.
Proverb, (Afghan)
Give every man his due.
Proverb
Give him a foot and he'll take four.
Proverb, (French)
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Give him an inch, he'll take an ell.
Proverb
Give him rope enough and he'll hang himself.
Proverb
Give him your finger and he will seize your hand.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Give losers leave to speak.
Proverb
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with
him afterwards.
Proverb
"Give me a push from my back" does not mean give me a hunchback.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
Give me a seat, and I will make myself room to lie down.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Give me money, not advice.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Give me the ass that carries me in preference to the horse that throws me.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Give me the rhubarb and you may take the senna.
Proverb, (French)
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
Proverb, (English)
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
Proverb
Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
Proverb
Give nine, save ten.
Proverb, (Kurdish)
Give orders and do no more, and nothing will come of it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Give orders, and do it yourself, and you will be rid of anxiety.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Give orders, and do no more, and nothing will be done.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Give out that you have many friends, and believe that you have but few.
Proverb, (French)
Give the devil his due.
Proverb, (English)
Give the Goddess her due, even when her due is grief.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Give the priest drink, for the clerk is thirsty.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give the wise man a hint and leave him to act.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give time time.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a
fine pig and a bad child.
Proverb, (Danish)
Give to each man that which is his due.
Proverb, (Latin)
Give to him that has.
Proverb, (Italian)
Give unto the king what is the king's, and unto God what is God's.
Proverb, (German)
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your
power.
Proverb, (German)
Give way to him with whom you contend; by doing so you will gain the victory.
Proverb, (Latin)
Give wine to them that are in sorrow.
Proverb
Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own.
Proverb, (Russian)
Give your ears to words but do not give your words to ears.
Proverb, (Hindustani)
Give your wife the short knife, and keep the long one for yourself.
Proverb, (Danish)
Given counsel is all the same hard to take.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)
Giving alms never lessens the purse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Giving is fishing.
Proverb, (Italian)
Glasses and lasses are brittle wear.
Proverb
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
Proverb, (Latin)
Glory lies still; abuse is running.
Proverb, (Russian)
Glowing coals sparkle oft.
Proverb
Glowworms are not lanterns.
Proverb, (Italian)
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
Proverb, (French)
Gluttony has killed more than the sword.
Proverb, (French)
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
Proverb, (Italian)
Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.
Proverb
Go abroad and you'll hear news of home.
Proverb
Go and wake up your cook.
Proverb, (Arab)
Go and wake up your luck.
Proverb, (Persian)
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you'll see further.
Proverb
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a
friend.
Proverb
Go farther and fare worse.
Proverb
Go further and fare worse.
Proverb
Go in God's name, for he takes a loaf of mine.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go not every evening to your brother's house.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer,
not for very thirst to the pot.
Proverb
Go not with every ailment to the doctor, nor with every plaint to lawyer.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Go not with every ailment to the doctor, with every plea to the lawyer, or
with every thirst to the can.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go not with every hunger to the cupboard, nor with every thirst to the
pitcher.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Proverb, (Scandanavian)
Go softly and look afar.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Go softly at bad bits of road.
Proverb, (Italian)
Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of others.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Go to bed supperless and you will wake without debt.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark.
Proverb
Go to bed without supper, you will rise without debt.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to
relatives for nothing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow.
Proverb, (German)
Go to the sea if you would fish well.
Proverb, (Italian)
Go to your aunt's house, but not every day.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Go to your rich friend's house when invited; to your poor friend's without
invitation.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God alone understands fools.
Proverb, (French)
God and man think him a fool who brags of his of his own great wisdom.
Proverb
God comes at last, when we think he is farthest off.
Proverb, (Danish)
God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.
Proverb
God cometh with leaden feet, but striketh with iron hands.
Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Proverb, (Jewish)
God created a world full of little worlds.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
God cures the sick, and the doctor gets the money.
Proverb, (German)
God cures, and the doctor gets the money.
Proverb, (Dutch)
God cures, and the doctor takes the fee.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
Proverb
God defend you from the devil, the eye of a harlot, and the turn of a die.
Proverb
God delays but doesn't forget.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God deliver me from a man of one book.
Proverb, (Dutch, Spanish)
God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night.
Proverb, (Dutch, Spanish)
God did not create hurry.
Proverb, (Finnish)
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor
from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that
she should be near his heart.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
God does not give to the cow that butts.
Proverb, (Russian)
God does not pay weekly, but pays at the end.
Proverb, (Dutch)
God does not smite with both hands.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God gave teeth; He will give bread.
Proverb, (Lithuanian)
God give you luck, my son, for little wit must serve your turn.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
God gives a curst one short horns.
Proverb, (Italian)
God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.
Proverb, (Danish)
God gives almonds to one who has no teeth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
God gives burdens also shoulders.
Proverb, (Jewish)
God gives clothes according to the cold.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God gives every bird its food, but does not throw it into the nest.
Proverb, (Danish)
God gives little folks small gifts.
Proverb, (Danish)
God gives the cold according to the cloth.
Proverb, (French)
God gives the milk, but not the pail.
Proverb, (Romanian)
God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
Proverb, (German)
God gives the will, necessity gives the law.
Proverb, (Danish)
God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God gives, but man must open his hand.
Proverb, (German)
God grant me a good sword and no use for it.
Proverb, (Polish)
God grant me to argue with those who understand me.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God grant me to contend with those that understand me.
Proverb
God grant me to dispute with those who understand me.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God grant you good fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God grant, dear wife, that this son be ours.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God has given nuts to one who has no teeth.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God heals and the doctor has the thanks.
Proverb, (Italian)
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
Proverb
God heals, and the doctor gets the money.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.
Proverb
God help the rich, the poor can beg.
Proverb
God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.
Proverb, (Danish)
God helps him who helps himself.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Spanish)
God helps the early riser.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God helps the strongest.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
God helps them that help themselves.
Proverb, (German, Portuguese)
God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkards.
Proverb, (French)
God is a good worker but loves to be helped.
Proverb, (Basque)
God is better pleased with adverbs than with nouns.
Proverb
God is everywhere, except where he has a delegate.
Proverb, (German)
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.
Proverb, (Irish)
God is on the side of the strongest battalions.
Proverb, (French)
God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself.
Proverb, (Italian)
God keep you from "It is too late."
Proverb, (Spanish)
God knows who is a good pilgrim.
Proverb, (French)
God made hands before knives.
Proverb
God made man because he loves stories.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
God made us, and we admire ourselves.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God makes and apparel shapes, but it is money that finishes the man.
Proverb
God makes the back to the burden.
Proverb
God never sends mouths but he sends meat.
Proverb, (Danish)
God permits the wicked; but not for ever.
Proverb
God permits, but not for ever.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
God postpones, he does not overlook.
Proverb, (Turkish)
God preserve you from one who eats without drinking.
Proverb, (Italian)
God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)
God puts a good root in the little pig's way.
Proverb, (French)
God save me from him who has but one occupation.
Proverb, (Italian)
God save me from him who studies but one book.
Proverb, (Italian)
God save me from one who does not drink.
Proverb, (Italian)
God save me from those I trust in.
Proverb, (French)
God save you from a bad neighbour, and from a beginner on the fiddle.
Proverb, (Italian)
God save you from a man who has but one business.
Proverb, (French)
God saves the moon from the wolves.
Proverb, (French)
God sells knowledge for labour, honour for risk.
Proverb, (Arabic, Dutch)
God send me a friend that may tell me of my faults; if not, an enemy, and he
will.
Proverb
God send you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough.
Proverb
God sends cold according to the clothes.
Proverb, (Italian)
God sends enough to all.
Proverb, (Latin)
God sends fortune to fools.
Proverb
God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Proverb
God sends men cold according to their clothes.
Proverb, (Danish)
God sends nothing but what can be borne.
Proverb, (Italian)
God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
God take you, pound (of flax), drunk out and not yet spun.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
Proverb, (French)
God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers.
Proverb, (Russian)
God will be present, whether asked or not.
Proverb, (Latin)
God will listen to you whatever cloak you wear.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God writes straight with crooked lines.
Proverb, (Spanish)
God's friends, the priest's foe.
Proverb, (German)
God's mill goes slowly, but it grinds well.
Proverb, (German)
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
Proverb, (Greek)
God's work is soon done.
Proverb, (French)
God, healeth, and the physician hath the thanks.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Going beyond is as bad as falling short.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Gold and silver are mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them.
Proverb
Gold does not buy everything.
Proverb, (Italian)
Gold goes in any gate except heaven's.
Proverb
Gold goes in at any gate.
Proverb, (German)
Gold has its price; learning is beyond price.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Gold is gold, though it be in a rogue's purse.
Proverb, (Danish)
Gold is proved by fire.
Proverb, (Latin)
Gold is proved in the fire, friendship in need.
Proverb, (Danish)
Gold is tested by fire, man by gold.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Gold is where you find it.
Proverb, (American)
Gold lies deep in the mountain, dirt on the highway.
Proverb, (German)
Gold may be bought too dear.
Proverb
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Golden bishop, wooden crosier; wooden bishop, golden crosier.
Proverb, (French)
Golden dishes will never turn black.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Golden dreams make men wake hungry.
Proverb
Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it.
Proverb, (German)
Good accounts make good friends.
Proverb, (Greek)
Good actions are never lost.
Proverb, (Turkish)
Good advice is as good as an eye in the hand.
Proverb, (French)
Good advice is beyond price.
Proverb, (Latin)
Good advice is given; good esteem is no given.
Proverb, (Turkish)
Good ale is meat, drink and cloth.
Proverb
Good ale will make a cat speak.
Proverb
Good and bad make up a city.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good and quickly seldom meet.
Proverb
Good bargains are ruinous.
Proverb, (French)
Good bargains empty the purse.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
Good blood never lies.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good blood will never lie.
Proverb, (French)
Good clothes open all doors.
Proverb
Good comes to better, and better to bad.
Proverb, (French)
Good company makes short miles.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good company on a journey is worth a coach.
Proverb
Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good corn is not reaped from a bad field.
Proverb, (Danish)
Good counsel comes over night.
Proverb, (German)
Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in time.
Proverb, (Danish)
Good counsel never comes too late.
Proverb, (German)
Good counsel will not rot, if it be got in dry.
Proverb, (Danish)
Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good debts become bad unless called in.
Proverb, (Latin)
Good deeds are the best prayer.
Proverb, (Serbian)
Good drink drives out bad thoughts.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good faith is a seldom guest, when you have him, hold him fast.
Proverb, (German)
Good faith stole the cow.
Proverb, (German)
Good fences make good neighbors.
Proverb, (American)
Good fortune may forebode bad luck, which may in turn disguise good fortune.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Good fruit never comes from a bad tree.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Proverb
Good harvests make men prodigal, bad ones provident.
Proverb
Good hunters track narrowly.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good in the mouth and bad in the maw.
Proverb
Good is good, but better beats it.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good is good, but better carries it.
Proverb
Good is the delay which makes sure.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good is the fowl which another rears.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good land should not be quitted for a bad landlord.
Proverb, (French)
Good leading makes good following.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good luck beats early rising.
Proverb, (Irish)
Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides.
Proverb, (Irish)
Good luck lasts not for ever.
Proverb, (Latin)
Good luck makes its way in by elbowing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good luck, with good looking after!
Proverb, (German)
Good management is better than good income.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good manners and plenty of money will make my son a gentlemen.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good masters make good servants.
Proverb
Good men are scarce.
Proverb
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good morrow spectacles, farewell lasses.
Proverb, (French)
Good nature without prudence is foolishness.
Proverb
Good never comes too often.
Proverb, (Danish)
Good news crawls on its belly; bad news has wings.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Good news is rumoured and bad news flies.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
Good or bad we must all live.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good people live far asunder.
Proverb, (German)
Good repute is better than a golden belt.
Proverb, (French)
Good repute is like the cypress: once cut, it never puts forth leaf again.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good riding at two anchors men have told,
For it one break, the other yet may hold.
Proverb, (Greek)
Good right needs good help.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good seed makes a good crop.
Proverb
Good swimmers are drowned at last.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
Good table, bad will.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good take heed doth surely speed.
Proverb
Good talk saves the food.
Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
Proverb
Good things require time.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good thongs may be cut out of other people's hides.
Proverb, (German)
Good to fetch a sick man sorrow and a dead man woe.
Proverb
Good tree, good fruit.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good ware makes quick markets.
Proverb, (Latin)
Good ware was never dear.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good watch prevents misfortune.
Proverb
Good watching drives away ill-luck.
Proverb, (French)
Good weight and measure is heaven's treasure.
Proverb
Good will should be taken for part payment.
Proverb
Good wind needs no bush.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good wine is milk for the aged.
Proverb, (German)
Good wine makes good blood.
Proverb, (Italian)
Good wine makes the horse go.
Proverb, (French)
Good wine needs no bush.
Proverb,
(Dutch, German, Italian, Portuguese)
Good wine needs no crier.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good wine needs no sign.
Proverb, (French)
Good wine needs no vine.
Proverb, (French)
Good wine praises itself.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Good wine ruins the purse, and bad the stomach.
Proverb, (German)
Good wine sells itself.
Proverb, (German, Spanish)
Good wines needs no bush.
Proverb
Good words and bad acts deceive both wise and wimple.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Good words and bad deeds deceive both wise and simple.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good words and no deeds are rushes and reeds.
Proverb
Good words cost nought.
Proverb
Good words fill not a sack.
Proverb
Good words without deeds
Are rushes and reeds.
Proverb
Good workmen are seldom rich.
Proverb
Good, good, good, but God keep my ass out of his rye.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Good, that comes too late, is good as nothing.
Proverb
