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.
Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll not steal when he's old.
Proverb
Hang him that hath no shift and him that hath one too many.
Proverb
Hang the young thief, and the old one will not steal.
Proverb, (Danish)
Hannibal is at the gate.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Hap and a halfpenny are world's gear enough.
Proverb
Happiness follows simplicity.
Proverb, (Irish)
Happiness invites envy.
Proverb, (Latin)
Happiness is a homemade article.
Proverb
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while
adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it.
Proverb, (Russian)
Happy are one-eyed men in the country of the blind.
Proverb, (Latin)
Happy he who can take warning from the mishaps of others.
Proverb, (Danish)
Happy is he that is happy in his children.
Proverb
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
Proverb
Happy is he whose friends were born before him.
Proverb
Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard.
Proverb, (Italian)
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
Proverb
Happy is the bride the sun shines on, and the corpse the rain rains on.
Proverb
Happy is the child whose father goes to the devil.
Proverb
Happy is the country which has no history.
Proverb
Happy is the man who has a handsome wife close to an abbey.
Proverb, (French)
Happy is the man who is out of debt.
Proverb, (Latin)
Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.
Proverb
Happy is the one who forgets that which cannot be changed.
Proverb, (German)
Happy is the wooing that is not long a-doing.
Proverb
Happy man be his dole.
Proverb
Happy people never count hours as they pass.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Happy the child whose father goes to the devil.
Proverb, (French)
Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows
that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
Happy the house in which there is no shaven crown.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Happy the man who keeps out of strife.
Proverb, (Latin)
Happy's the wooing that is not long a-doing.
Proverb
Hard against hard never was good.
Proverb, (German)
Hard by a river he digs a well.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hard fare makes hungry bellies.
Proverb
Hard is a new law imposed on old licence.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hard is the path from poverty to renown.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance must unite them:
and so with hard men--to fraternize they require some soft influence from
others.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Hard upon hard does not make a good wall.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Hard upon hard never made a good wall.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hard with hard never made good wall.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hard words break no bones.
Proverb
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
Proverb
Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold.
Proverb, (German)
Hares are not caught by the sound of the drum.
Proverb, (French)
Hares are not caught with drums.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hat in hand goes through the land.
Proverb, (German)
Hate has no medicine.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)
Hate knows no age but death.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hate not at the first harm.
Proverb
Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Hatred is a settled anger.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Proverb
Hatred renewed is worse than at first.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hatred watches while friendship sleeps.
Proverb, (French)
Have a bill to pay at Easter, and your Lent will be short.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people.
Attack not a combined force.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may repent.
Proverb, (Latin)
Have a care of a silent dog and a still water.
Proverb
Have a horse of thine own and thou mayest borrow another.
Proverb
Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's.
Proverb, (Welsh)
Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger, but a heart as soft as tofu.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Have an eye to the main chance.
Proverb
Have but few friends though much acquaintance.
Proverb
Have confidence, but beware in whom.
Proverb, (Latin)
Have few friends, though many acquaintances.
Proverb
Have God and have all.
Proverb
Have luck, and sleep.
Proverb, (Italian)
Have not all your eggs in one nest.
Proverb
Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
Proverb
Have two strings to your bow.
Proverb
Have you any Spanish? (Meaning, Have you got any money?)
Proverb, (English)
Having a good discussion is like having riches.
Proverb, (Kenyan)
Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things.
Proverb, (Russian)
Having achieved your purpose, seek not to undo what has been done.
Proverb, (Latin)
Having been bitten by a snake, he's afraid of a rope.
Proverb, (Afghan)
Having given your word, be strong; not having done it, try not to promise.
Proverb, (Russian)
Having is haying, come whence it may.
Proverb, (German)
Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely venture on
greater achievements.
Proverb, (Latin)
Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.
Proverb, (Turkish)
Hawks will not pick out hawk's eyes.
Proverb
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
Proverb
He acts wisely who says little.
Proverb, (Latin)
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of
life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the
stream.
Proverb, (Latin)
He argues in vain who argues without means.
Proverb, (Latin)
He asked for bread and he received a stone.
Proverb, epigram on Butler
He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.
Proverb, (French)
He assumes a cheerful countenance suppressing the grief which weighs heavily
on his heart.
Proverb, (Latin)
He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He beat the bushes and another caught the birds.
Proverb, (French)
He begins to die that quits his desires.
Proverb
He begins to grow bad who believes himself good.
Proverb, (Italian)
He behoves to have meal enou, that sal stop ilka man's mou'.
Proverb, (Scotch)
He braks my head, an' syne puts on my hoo.
Proverb
He brings a staff to break his own head.
Proverb
He burns the candle at both ends.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He buys very dear who begs.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He buys well who is not called a donkey.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He came time enough who was hung by candlelight.
Proverb, (Danish)
He can carry the ox who has carried the calf.
Proverb, (Latin)
He can cheat a fish of its skin.
Proverb, (Russian)
He can do but little who cannot threaten another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He can give little to his servant who licks his own trencher.
Proverb
He can ill be master that never was scholar.
Proverb
He can't see the beam in his own, but he's looking for an eyelash in someone
else's.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)
He cannot be a friend to any one who is his own enemy.
Proverb, (French)
He cannot find water in the sea.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He cannot lead a good life who serves without wages.
Proverb, (Italian)
He cannot say Bo to a goose.
Proverb
He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
Proverb
He carries fire and water.
Proverb, (French)
He carries fire in one hand, water in the other.
Proverb
He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook.
Proverb, (Latin)
He catches the wind with a net.
Proverb
He comes with incense in one hand, in the other a spear.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He commands enough that obeys a wise man.
Proverb
He complains wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwreck.
Proverb
He conquers who conquers himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He could eat me without salt.
Proverb
He counts his chickens before they are hatched.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill.
Proverb
He cries out before he is hurt.
Proverb, (Italian)
He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
Proverb
He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
Proverb, (English)
He deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour.
Proverb, (Latin)
He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
Proverb, (Italian)
He devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil.
Proverb, (Italian)
He did not invent gunpowder.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He dies before he is old who is wise before his day.
Proverb, (Latin)
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
Proverb, (Latin)
He does a good day's work who rids himself of a fool.
Proverb, (French)
He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the rats, and warms
himself.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He does not guard himself well who is not always on his guard.
Proverb, (French)
He does not live in this world that can skin a grindstone.
Proverb, (Danish)
He does not show a decent quality even over a good dinner.
Proverb, (Latin)
He does not sing his father's songs. [He does not imitate the good example
of his father.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He does not think milk-and-water of himself.
Proverb
He does not think small beer of himself.
Proverb
He doubts nothing who knows nothing.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He drives a good waggonful into his farm who gets a good wife.
Proverb, (Danish)
He drives out one devil by another.
Proverb, (Latin)
He dwells far from neighbours that is fain to praise himself.
Proverb
He earns a farthing and has a penn'orth of thirst.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He either wheedles by suasive means or terrifies by threats.
Proverb, (Latin)
He even begrudges the water with which he washes.
Proverb, (Latin)
He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.
Proverb, (French)
He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He falls into the pit which he himself made.
Proverb, (Latin)
He falls into the pit who leads another into it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He falls on his back and breaks his nose.
Proverb, (French)
He falls short of his duty to both who tries to serve two masters.
Proverb, (Latin)
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion.
Proverb, (Arabic)
He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury of the waves.
Proverb, (Latin)
He fears the sack who has been in it.
Proverb, (Danish)
He fears the very flies.
Proverb, (Latin)
He feigns death like a panther.
Proverb, (Latin)
He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow.
Proverb, (Latin)
He fell with his nose in the butter.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He fishes in troubled waters. [If you wish to catch gudgeons stir up the mud.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He fishes on who catches one.
Proverb, (French)
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
Proverb, (Latin)
He flays enough who holds the foot.
Proverb, (French)
He flourishes by hereditary renown.
Proverb, (Latin)
He forgets himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He forgot nothing except to say farewell.
Proverb, (French)
He gains enough who loses sorrow.
Proverb, (French)
He gains much who loses a vain hope.
Proverb, (Italian)
He gapes like a clown at a fair.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He gathers up ashes and scatters flour.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He gets his wisdom cheaply who gets it at another's cost.
Proverb, (Latin)
He getteth a great deal of credit, who payeth but a small debt.
Proverb
He gives a party with bath-water.
Proverb, (Persian)
He gives him roast meat and beats him with the spit.
Proverb
He gives neither too little, nor too much.
Proverb, (Latin)
He gives too late who waits to be asked.
Proverb, (Latin)
He gives twice who gives in a trice.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Spanish)
He gives well and bountifully who accompanies the gift with a pleasing look.
Proverb, (Latin)
He giveth twice that gives in a trice.
Proverb, (Latin)
He giveth twice who giveth in a trice.
Proverb
He goes a great voyage that goes to the bottom of the sea.
Proverb
He goes about it like a cat round hot milk.
Proverb, (German)
He goes as willingly as a thief to the gallows.
Proverb, (German)
He goes beyond the bounds.
Proverb, (Latin)
He goes far that never turns.
Proverb
He goes long barefoot that waits for dead men's shoes.
Proverb
He goes not out of his way that goes to a good inn.
Proverb
He goes safely to trial whose father is a judge.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He goes safely who has nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He got out of the mud and fell into the river.
Proverb, (Italian)
He had need rise betimes who would please everybody.
Proverb, (Danish)
He had need rise early who would please everybody.
Proverb, (French)
He hangs the May-branch at every door. (Alluding to the Italian custom of
young men hanging out May-branches overnight before the door of their
mistress.
Proverb, (Italian)
He has a fault of a wife that marries mam's pet.
Proverb
He has a good estate, but that the right owner keeps it from him.
Proverb
He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin.
Proverb, (French)
He has a great fancy to marriage that goes to the devil for a wife.
Proverb
He has a head, and so has a pin.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom is out.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has a wolf-conscience.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has beans in his ears.
Proverb, (German)
He has brought his pigs to a fine market.
Proverb
He has but a short Lent that must pay money at Easter.
Proverb
He has command of the sack who is seated on it.
Proverb, (Danish)
He has done like the Perugian who, when his head was broken, ran home for
his helmet.
Proverb, (Italian)
He has eaten his corn in the blade.
Proverb, (French)
He has enough to do who holds the handle of a frying-pan.
Proverb, (French)
He has enough who is content.
Proverb, (French)
He has eyes in the back of his head.
Proverb, (Latin)
He has given the hen for the egg.
Proverb, (German)
He has great need of a fool that plays the fool himself.
Proverb
He has great need of a fool who makes himself one.
Proverb, (French)
He has hay on his horn, beware of him.
[Lat., Laenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He has him under his thumb.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has his finger in every pie.
Proverb, (German)
He has left no means untried.
Proverb, (Latin)
He has lost the nest-egg.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has much prayer but little devotion.
Proverb
He has much to do who would please everybody.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He has not a penny to bless himself.
Proverb
He has not done who is beginning.
Proverb, (French)
He has not even a clod of earth left to cover his remains. [A man reduced to
extreme poverty.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He has not leisure even to scratch his ears.
Proverb, (Latin)
He has not lost all who has one cast left.
Proverb
He has nothing who has not enough.
Proverb, (French)
He has nothing who is not content with what he has.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He has nothing, for whom nothing is enough.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He has put all his eggs into one basket.
Proverb, (French)
He has seen the wolf.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has sprung up like a mushroom.
Proverb, (Latin)
He has tasted of the lotus.
Proverb, (Latin)
He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He has too many lice to feel an itch.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He has wit at will that with an angry heart can hold him still.
Proverb
He hath ill neighbours that is fain to praise himself.
Proverb
He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well.
Proverb
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
Proverb
He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He hath not lived that lives not after death.
Proverb
He hath slept well that remembers not he hath slept ill.
Proverb
He hauls at a long rope who expects another's death.
Proverb, (Italian)
He heed have plenty of meal who would stop every man's mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He invites future injuries who rewards past ones.
Proverb
He invokes heaven if a flea bites him.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is a bad shot who cannot find an excuse.
Proverb, (German)
He is a bad smith who cannot bear smoke.
Proverb, (German)
He is a bad workman who cannot talk of work.
Proverb, (German)
He is a fool and ever shall,
Who writes his name upon a wall.
Proverb
He is a fool that forgets himself.
Proverb
He is a fool that is not melancholy once a day.
Proverb
He is a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is a fool that marries at Yule,
For when the corn's to shear the bairn's to bear.
Proverb
He is a fool that praises himself, and he a madman that speaks ill of
himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is a fool who boasts of four things: that he has good wine, a good horse,
a handsome wife, and plenty of money.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is a fool who does not know from what quarter the wind blows.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is a fool who loses the flight for the leap.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is a fool who makes a mallet of his fist.
Proverb, (French)
He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.
Proverb, (French)
He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is a fool who thinks that another does not think.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
He is a good dog who goes to church.
Proverb
He is a good man whom fortune makes better.
Proverb
He is a good physician who cures himself.
Proverb
He is a great fool who forgets himself.
Proverb, (French)
He is a great simpleton who starves himself to feed another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is a horse with four white feet (i.e., he is unlucky).
Proverb, (French)
He is a man as a book.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is a man, who acts like a man.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is a poor Smith who is afraid of sparks.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is a thief indeed who robs a thief.
Proverb, (French)
He is a very bad manager of honey who leaves nothing to lick off his fingers.
Proverb, (French)
He is a very sorry barber who has but one comb.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is a wise man who accommodates himself to all circumstances.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is an aristocrat in folio.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is an essence of scoundrels.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
Proverb
He is an ill guest that never drinks to his host.
Proverb
He is an old saint, any may leave it in the hands of God.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He is as easily caught as a hare with drums.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog; who ate flesh in Lent.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is as poor as Job.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is as sharp as a leaden dagger.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is as welcome as the first day in Lent. (Alluding to fastday.)
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is blind enough who cannot see through a sieve.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is blind enough who sees not through the holes of a sieve.
Proverb
He is born in good hour who gets a good name.
Proverb
He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in sand.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.
Proverb, (French)
He is caught in his own snare.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is consumed by a vain hope.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is easy to lure, who is ready to follow.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is either dead or teaching school.
Proverb, (Greek)
He is full of sweet faults.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is good friend that speaks well of us behind out backs.
Proverb
He is guilty who is not at home.
Proverb, (Ukrainian)
He is happy that thinks himself so.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is his own enemy.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is his own trumpeter.
Proverb
He is hunting for water in the sea.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is idle that might be better employed.
Proverb
He is in no place who is everywhere.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is in safety who rings the tocsin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is in search of a ram with five feet.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is indeed a conqueror who conquers himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is lifeless that is faultless.
Proverb, (English)
He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.
Proverb, (French)
He is like a silver pin,
Fair without, but foul within.
Proverb
He is like a singed cat, better than he looks.
Proverb, (French)
He is like the anchor that is always in the sea, yet does not learn to swim.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is like the gardener's dog, who don't eat cabbage and will let no one
else eat them.
Proverb, (French)
He is little suited to be a baker, whose head is made of butter.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is looking out for a fig. [He is planning for himself.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended.
Proverb, (German)
He is master of another man's life who is indifferent to his own.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is miserable indeed that must lock up his miseries.
Proverb
He is miserable once, who feels it; but twice, who fear it before it comes.
Proverb
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is most likely to spill who holds the vessel in his hand.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is my friend that grindeth at my mill.
Proverb
He is my friend that succoureth me, not he that pitieth me.
Proverb
He is my friend who grinds at my mill.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
He is nearest a thing, who has it in his hands.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is never likely to have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask a price.
Proverb
He is no friend that eats his own by himself, and mine with me.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He is no great heir that inherits not his ancestor's virtues.
Proverb
He is no man's enemy but his own.
Proverb
He is no merchant who always gains.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is no small knave who knows a great one.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is noble who performs noble deeds.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is nobody's enemy but his own.
Proverb
He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is not a good mason who refuses any stone.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is not a man who cannot say no.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is not a thorough wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasions.
Proverb
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the
company that the soup is hot.
Proverb
He is not escaped who drags his chain.
Proverb, (French)
He is not free who drags his chain after him.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is not happy who does not realize his happiness.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is not happy who knows it not.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is not laughed at that laughs himself first.
Proverb
He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much.
Proverb
He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Proverb
He is not so much of a devil as he is black.
Proverb, (French)
He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is not yet born who can please everybody.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve; who would always much rather have
than give.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is only bright that shines by himself.
Proverb
He is out of danger who rings the alarm-bell.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is past preaching to who does not care to do well.
Proverb, (French)
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Proverb
He is rich enough that want nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is rich enough who does not want.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is rich enough who is contented.
Proverb, (German)
He is rich enough who owes nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He is rich that is satisfied.
Proverb
He is rich who is satisfied.
Proverb
He is rich who owes nothing.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
He is separated from the water by a plank.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is the architect of his own fortunes.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is the best gentleman, who is the son of his own deserts.
Proverb
He is the devil's valet, he does more that he is ordered.
Proverb, (French)
He is the more obstinate for being advised.
Proverb
He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
Proverb, (French)
He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is too idle to fetch his breath.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.
Proverb
He is very blind who cannot see the sun.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is washing the crow.
Proverb
He is well constituted who grieves not for what he has not, and rejoices for
what he has.
Proverb
He is wise enough that can keep himself warm.
Proverb
He is wise in vain who does not use his wisdom for his own advantage.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is wise that is ware in time.
Proverb
He is wise that knows when he is well enough.
Proverb
He is wise to no purpose, who is not wise for himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is wise who learns at another's cost.
Proverb, (Italian)
He is wise, who suits himself to the occasion.
Proverb, (Latin)
He is young enough who has health, and he is rich enough who has no debts.
Proverb, (Danish)
He is your friend who gets you out of a fray.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He is your friend who gets you out of a scrape.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of
bad company.
Proverb
He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He keeps watch over a good castle who has guarded his own constitution.
Proverb, (Latin)
He knocks boldly at the door who brings a welcome message.
Proverb, (Danish)
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
He knows best where the shoe pinches who wears it.
Proverb, (Danish)
He knows enough that can live and hold his peace.
Proverb
He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.
Proverb, (French)
He knows it as well as his Lord's Prayer.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He knows the roads by which he has escaped before.
Proverb, (Latin)
He knows the water best who has waded through it.
Proverb, (Danish)
He knows well where the thorn pricks him.
Proverb, (Italian)
He knows where the devil carries his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
He knows where the devil has his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.
Proverb, (Latin)
He labours in vain who attempts to please everybody.
Proverb, (Latin)
He laughs at scars who never felt a wound.
Proverb, (German)
He laughs best who laughs last.
Proverb
He laughs ill that laughs himself to death.
Proverb
He laughs well who laughs last.
Proverb, (Italian)
He lays his eggs beside his nest.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He lies like a toothdrawer.
Proverb, (French)
He lives in the land of promise.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He lives long who lives well.
Proverb
He lives unsafely that looks too near on things.
Proverb
He looks for his ass and sits on its back.
Proverb, (French)
He looks one way and rows another.
Proverb
He lords it (or swaggers) like an eel in a tub.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He loses his market who has nothing to sell.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
Proverb
He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his tongue in cheek.
Proverb, (Danish)
He loseth indeed that loseth at last.
Proverb
He loseth nothing that loseth not God.
Proverb
He loves me as the devil loves holy water.
Proverb
He loves me for little that hates me for naught.
Proverb
He loves well who does not forget.
Proverb, (Italian)
He loves well who never forgets.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
He made a pit and digged it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.
Proverb
He made me mad
To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet.
Proverb
He makes a lion of a mouse.
Proverb, (Latin)
He makes a rod for his own back.
Proverb
He makes idle boasting.
Proverb, (Latin)
He may freely receive courtesies that knows how to requite them.
Proverb
He may ill run that cannot go.
Proverb
He may lie boldly who comes from afar.
Proverb, (French)
He may lie safely who comes from afar.
Proverb, (Italian)
He may swim boldly who is held up by the chin.
Proverb, (French)
He may well be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter.
Proverb
He means well, but has a bad way of showing it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He measures others by his own standard.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He measures others with his own yard.
Proverb, (Italian)
He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry. [Trifling assistance, of
little or no use. ]
Proverb, (Latin)
He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must be ill-favoured who scares the devil.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must be pure who would blame another.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must cry aloud who would scare the devil.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must gape wide who would gape against an oven.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He must have clean fingers who would blow another's nose.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He must have iron fingers who would flay the devil.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must have iron nails that scratches a bear.
Proverb
He must have keen eyes that would know a maid at sight.
Proverb, (German)
He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue.
Proverb
He must have much meal who would stop all mouths.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must have plenty of butter, who would stop everybody's mouth.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must indeed be a good master who never errs.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He must keep a sharp look-out who would speak the truth.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
Proverb
He must rise betimes that will cozen with the devil.
Proverb
He must rise betimes who would please everybody.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He must rise early that would please everybody.
Proverb
He must shoot well who always hits the mark.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He must stand high that would see the end of his own destiny.
Proverb, (Danish)
He must stoop that has a low door.
Proverb, (Italian)
He need not search his pockets for words.
Proverb, (Russian)
He needs a long spoon that would eat out of the same dish with the devil.
Proverb, (Danish)
He needs say nothing about the score who pays nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He never broke his hour that kept his day.
Proverb
He never did a good day's work who went grumblingly about it.
Proverb
He never lies but when the holly is green.
Proverb
He never tint a cow that grat for a needle.
Proverb
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He never was a friend who has ceased to be one.
Proverb, (French)
He opens the door with an ax.
Proverb, (English)
He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it. [He raises expectation, and
crushes it at the same time.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He ought not to complain of the sea who returns to it a second time.
Proverb, (Italian)
He painted a tiger, but it turned out a dog.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He pays dear for honey who licks it off thorns.
Proverb, (French)
He pays for the glasses who breaks them.
Proverb, (French)
He plays best, who wins.
Proverb, (German)
He plays well that wins.
Proverb, (French)
He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.
Proverb, (Latin)
He preaches well that lives well.
Proverb
He preaches well who lives well.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
Proverb
He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others.
Proverb, (Latin)
He pulls at a long rope who desires another's death.
Proverb, (French)
He puts his sickle into another man's harvest.
Proverb, (French)
He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.
Proverb, (Latin)
He quarrels over goat's hair.
[Lat., Rixatur de lana caprina.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He quibbles over straws.
Proverb
He rides sure that never fell.
Proverb
He rises early that is hanged before noon.
Proverb
He rises over early that is hanged ere noon.
Proverb
He ruins himself in promises, and clears himself by giving nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He runs far who never turns.
Proverb, (Italian)
He runs heavily who is forced to run.
Proverb, (Danish)
He said devil, but meant you.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He saith little that loveth much.
Proverb, (Italian)
He says what is wholly irrelevant.
Proverb, (Latin)
He scolds most that can hurt the least.
Proverb, (Danish)
He seeks renown by public applause.
Proverb, (Latin)
He seeks to live like a parasite. [He wants to sponge upon somebody.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He sells the bird on the branch.
Proverb, (Italian)
He sets the wolf to guard the sheep.
Proverb, (Italian)
He shaves close to the skin.
Proverb, (Latin)
He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
Proverb
He should not complain of being cheated who buys the cloth by the sample.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He sings his own praises.
Proverb, (Latin)
He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.
Proverb, (French)
He sits full still that has riven breeks.
Proverb
He sits not sure that sits too high.
Proverb
He sits well who can rise without help.
Proverb, (Danish)
He sleeps securely who has nothing to lose.
Proverb, (French)
He slumbers enough who does nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He smells best that smells of nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)
He spends the happiest life who knows nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)
He stands not surely that never slips.
Proverb
He sticks his nose in everything.
Proverb, (German)
He struck at Tib, but down fell Tim.
Proverb
He studies the Bible of fifty-two leaves (a pack of cards).
Proverb, (Dutch)
He suffers from the same disease. [He is in the same difficulty.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He suffocates me with kindness.
Proverb, (Latin)
He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.
Proverb, (French)
He swims on his own bullrush.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He takes out a nail and puts in a pin.
Proverb, (Italian)
He talks like a sausage without the fat.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He talks to a dead man.
Proverb, (Latin)
He talks to the wind.
Proverb
He teacheth ill who teacheth all.
Proverb
He tells a tale of a tub.
Proverb
He tells me my way, and knows not his own.
Proverb
He that abideth low cannot fall hard.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late.
Proverb, (German)
He that asketh faintly beggeth a denial.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will
never be, nor ever know, nor ever have.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that bears the cross, blesses himself first.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that believes all, misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.
Proverb
He that bewails himself hath the cure in his hands.
Proverb
He that bites on every weed must needs light on poison.
Proverb
He that blows in the dust fills his eyes with it.
Proverb
He that boasteth of himself affronteth his company.
Proverb
He that borrows must pay again with sham or loss.
Proverb
He that brings up his son to nothing, breeds a thief.
Proverb
He that buildeth upon the highway hath many advisers.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that burns his house warms himself for once.
Proverb
He that burns most shines most.
Proverb
He that buyeth magistracy will seek justice.
Proverb, (English)
He that buys a house already wrought hath many a pin and nail for nought.
Proverb
He that buys land buys many stones;
He that buys flesh buys many bones;
He that buys eggs buys many shells;
He that buys good ale buys nothing else.
Proverb
He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.
Proverb
He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that can reply to an angry man is too hard for him.
Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one.
Proverb
He that cannot ask cannot live.
Proverb
He that cannot make sport should mar none.
Proverb
He that cannot obey cannot command.
Proverb
He that cannot pay, let him pray.
Proverb
He that chases another does not sit still himself.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that chastiseth one amendeth many.
Proverb
He that climbs high, falls heavily.
Proverb, (German)
He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
Proverb
He that comes unbidden goes unthanked.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that cometh last to the pot is the soonest wroth.
Proverb
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Proverb
He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Proverb, (Turkish)
He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
Proverb
He that converses not knows nothing.
Proverb
He that corrects not youth, controls not age.
Proverb, (French)
He that could know what would be dear
Need be a merchant but one year.
Proverb
He that counts all costs will ne'er put plough in the earth.
Proverb
He that courts injury will obtain it.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that cuts above himself, will get splinters in his eye.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him.
Proverb
He that dares not venture must not complain of ill luck.
Proverb
He that deals in dirt has ay foul fingers.
Proverb
He that desires but little has no need of much.
Proverb
He that desires honour is not worthy of honour.
Proverb
He that despises the little is not worthy of the great.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that does amiss may do well.
Proverb, (English)
He that does bidding deserves no dinging.
Proverb
He that does ill never wants for excuses.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
Proverb, (French)
He that does not lie, does not come of good blood.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that does not love a woman sucked a sow.
Proverb
He that does not save pennies, will never have pounds.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you.
Proverb
He that doth lend doth lose his friend.
Proverb
He that doth most at once doth least.
Proverb
He that doth nothing doth ever amiss.
Proverb
He that doth what he will doth not what he ought.
Proverb
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
Proverb
He that eats his fowl alone may saddle his horse alone.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers.
Proverb
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Proverb
He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that falls by himself never cries.
Proverb, (Turkish)
He that falls to-day may be up again to-morrow.
Proverb
He that falls to-day may rise to-morrow.
Proverb
He that feareth every bush must never go a-birding.
Proverb
He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.
Proverb
He that fears death lives not.
Proverb
He that fears you present will hate you absent.
Proverb
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.
Proverb
He that finds fault wants to buy.
Proverb, (German)
He that finds something before it is lost, will die before he is sick.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that flies may fight another day.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that follows freits, freits will follow him.
Proverb
He that gains well and spends well needs no account book.
Proverb
He that gapeth until he be fed,
Well may he gape until he is dead.
Proverb
He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent.
Proverb
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
Proverb
He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
Proverb, (English)
He that goes softly goes safely.
Proverb
He that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
Proverb
He that goeth far hath many encounters.
Proverb
He that goeth out with often loss
At last comes home by weeping cross.
Proverb
He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not.
Proverb
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Proverb
He that handles thorns shall prick his fingers.
Proverb
He that has a choice has trouble.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that has a good harvest must be content with a few thistles.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that has a wife has a master.
Proverb
He that has an hour's start will not be hanged.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that has an ill name is half hanged.
Proverb
He that has been hurt, fears.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that has but one pig easily fattens it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that has good legs, has often bad boots.
Proverb, (German)
He that has lost his credit is dead to the world.
Proverb, (German)
He that has no children knows not what is love.
Proverb
He that has no gear to tine has shins to pine.
Proverb
He that has no head, need no hat.
Proverb, (German)
He that has no ill luck grows weary of good luck.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that has no money in his purse, should have fair words on his lips.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that has no money might as well be buried in a rice tub with his mouth
sewn up.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He that has no silver in his purse, should have silver on his tongue.
Proverb
He that has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.
Proverb
He that has not money in his purse should have honey in his mouth.
Proverb, (French)
He that has swallowed the devil may swallow his horns.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that has the devil on his neck must find him work.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that has the luck leads the bride to church.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that has two hoards will get a third.
Proverb
He that hath a good harvest may be content with some thistles.
Proverb
He that hath a head of butter must not come near the oven.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that hath a wife is sure of strife.
Proverb, (French)
He that hath an ill name is half hanged.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope.
Proverb
He that hath done ill once will do it again.
Proverb
He that hath it and will not keep it,
He that wants it and will not seek it,
He that drinks and is not dry,
Shall want money as well as I.
Proverb
He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool.
Proverb
He that hath no head needs no hat.
Proverb
He that hath no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
Proverb
He that hath no money needeth no purse.
Proverb
He that hath nothing is not contented.
Proverb
He that hath one hog makes him fat; and he that hath one son makes him a
fool.
Proverb
He that hath plenty of goods shall have more.
Proverb
He that hath right, fears; he that hath wrong, hopes.
Proverb
He that hath shipped the devil must make the best of him.
Proverb
He that hath some land must have some labour.
Proverb
He that hath time, and looks for time, loseth time.
Proverb
He that hears much and speaks not at all
Shall be welcome both in bower and hall."
Proverb
He that hears much, hears many lies.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that hides can find.
Proverb, (French)
He that hides is no better than he that steals.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that hires one garden eats birds; he that hires more than one will be
eaten by the birds.
Proverb
He that holds is no better than he that scourges.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.
Proverb, (French)
He that hopes not for good fears not evil.
Proverb
He that hunts others, must run himself.
Proverb, (German)
He that hunts two hares will catch neither.
Proverb, (French)
He that inquires much, learns much.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that is a master must serve.
Proverb
He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that is always right is always wrong.
Proverb
He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends.
Proverb
He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live.
Proverb, (French)
He that is at sea has not the wind in his hands.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that is born to be hanged will never be drowned.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion.
Proverb
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
Proverb
He that is down, down with him.
Proverb
He that is drowning shouts though he be not heard.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that is drunk is gone from home.
Proverb
He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full.
Proverb
He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
Proverb
He that is good for something is the ass of the public.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
Proverb
He that is in a town in May loseth his spring.
Proverb
He that is in fault is in suspicion.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that is kinder than he was wont hath a design upon thee.
Proverb
He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.
Proverb
He that is more civil than usual, either wants to cozen you or has need of
you.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or
experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing.
Proverb
He that is once at sea, must either sail or sink.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that is thrown would still wrestle.
Proverb, (French)
He that is too much in haste, may stumble on a good road.
Proverb, (French)
He that is too secure is not safe.
Proverb
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
Proverb, (Galician)
He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.
Proverb
He that jokes, confesses.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his
lips shall have destruction.
Proverb
He that keeps another man's dog shall have nothing left him but the line.
Proverb
He that keeps out of harm's way will gather goodly riches.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that kisseth his wife in the marketplace shall have many teachers.
Proverb
He that knows little soon repeats it.
Proverb
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
Proverb
He that labours and thrives spins gold.
Proverb
He that laughs at his ain joke spoils the sport o't.
Proverb
He that laughs on Friday may cry on Sunday.
Proverb, (French)
He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance,
When fools pipe he may dance.
Proverb
He that lets his fish escape, may cast his net often yet never catch it
again.
Proverb
He that lies down with the dogs, will get up with fleas.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that lies on the ground can fall no lower.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that live most dies most.
Proverb
He that lives ill, fear follows him.
Proverb
He that lives in hope dances to an ill tune.
Proverb
He that lives in hope danceth without music.
Proverb
He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.
Proverb
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Proverb
He that lives well is learned enough.
Proverb
He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that lives with wolves, must howl with wolves.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery
already with her in his heart.
Proverb
He that loseth his due gets not thanks.
Proverb
He that loseth his wife and sixpence hath
lost a tester.
Proverb
He that loves glass without G
Take away L and that is he.
Proverb
He that loves his child chastises him.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that loves the tree loves the branch.
Proverb
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
Proverb
He that makes a thing too fine breaks it.
Proverb
He that makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolf.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that makes one basket can make a hundred.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that marries a widow and three children marries four thieves.
Proverb
He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his
dish.
Proverb
He that marries ere he be wise will die ere he thrive.
Proverb
He that marries for love has good nights, but sorry days.
Proverb, (German)
He that marries late marries ill.
Proverb
He that may not as he wad, maun do as he may.
Proverb
He that may not do as he would must do as he may.
Proverb
He that minds his business at home, will not be accused of taking part in
the fray.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that mischief hatcheth mischief catcheth.
Proverb
He that mocks a cripple ought to be whole.
Proverb
He that neglects time, time will neglect.
Proverb
He that never climbed never fell.
Proverb
He that never fails never grows rich.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that once hits will ever be shooting.
Proverb
He that paints a flower does not give it perfume.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like
one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Proverb
He that pays last never pays twice.
Proverb
He that peeps into every bush will hardly get into the wood.
Proverb, (German)
He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones.
Proverb, (German)
He that performs his own errand saves the messenger's hire.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that picks up all sorts of wood, soon gets an armful.
Proverb, (German)
He that pities another remembers himself.
Proverb
He that plays at racket must watch the ball.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that preached giveth alms.
Proverb
He that promises too much means nothing.
Proverb
He that pryeth into every cloud may be stricken with a thunderbolt.
Proverb
He that pryeth into the clouds, may be struck with a thunderbolt.
Proverb
He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person.
Proverb
He that reckons without his host must reckon again.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
He that reckons without his host must reckon twice.
Proverb
He that refuseth praise the first time does it because he would have it the
second.
Proverb
He that repairs not a part, builds all.
Proverb
He that respects not is not respected.
Proverb
He that rewards flattery, begs it.
Proverb
He that riseth first is first dressed.
Proverb
He that runs fast will not run long.
Proverb
He that runs in the dark may well stumble.
Proverb
He that saveth his dinner will have the more for his supper.
Proverb, (French)
He that says A, must also say B.
Proverb, (German)
He that says what he should not, will hear what he would not.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that seeks to have many friends never has any.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that seeks trouble always finds it.
Proverb, (English)
He that seeks trouble never misses.
Proverb, (English)
He that seeks, finds, and sometimes what he would rather not.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that sends a fool means to follow him.
Proverb
He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar.
Proverb, (English)
He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
Proverb
He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages.
Proverb
He that shames shall be shent.
Proverb
He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.
Proverb
He that shoots oft shall at last hit the mark.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that shows his money shows his judgment.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that shows his passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him.
Proverb
He that sings himself is the best pleased.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that sits among reeds, cuts pipes when he pleases.
Proverb, (German)
He that spares something to-day will have something to-morrow.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that speaks me fair and loves me not,
I'll speak him fair and trust him not.
Proverb
He that speaks sows, and he that holds his peace gathers.
Proverb
He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
Proverb, (Turkish)
He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow.
Proverb
He that speaks, sows; he that hears, reaps.
Proverb
He that spends more than he is worth spins a rope for his own neck.
Proverb, (French)
He that stands may fall.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.
Proverb
He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill.
Proverb, (French)
He that stirs honey will have some of it stick to him.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head.
Proverb
He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.
Proverb, (French)
He that takes too great a leap falls into the ditch.
Proverb
He that talks much of his happiness summons grief.
Proverb
He that talks to himself speaks to a fool.
Proverb
He that teaches himself has a fool for his master.
Proverb
He that telleth his wife news is but lately married.
Proverb
He that tells his wife news is but newly married.
Proverb
He that that hath a head of wax must not approach the fire.
Proverb, (French)
He that thinks too much of his virtues bids others think of his vices.
Proverb
He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that ties well, unties well.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that touches pitch defiles himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that touches pitch shall be defiled.
Proverb
He that travels far knows much.
Proverb
He that trusts a faithless friend, has a good witness against him.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that ventures not fails not.
Proverb, (French)
He that walks too hastily, often stumbles in plain way.
Proverb
He that wants should not be bashful.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that wants the kernel must crack the nut.
Proverb, (German)
He that wants to hang a dog, is sure to find a rope.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that wants to hang a dog, says that it bites the sheep.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth
twopence.
Proverb
He that well considers the world, must own he has never seen a better.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way.
Proverb
He that will conquer must fight.
Proverb
He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
Proverb, (Latin)
He that will England win must with Scotland first begin.
Proverb
He that will France win must with Scotland first begin.
Proverb
He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that will have fire must bear with smoke.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it.
Proverb
He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell.
Proverb
He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that will not be ruled by his own dame shall be ruled by his stepdame.
Proverb
He that will not be saved needs no preacher.
Proverb, (German)
He that will not look forward must look behind.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
He that will not strive in this world should not have come into it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that will not when he can, cannot when he will.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
Proverb
He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
Proverb, (English)
He that will take the bird must not scare it.
Proverb
He that will thrive must first ask his wife.
Proverb
He that will thrive must rise at five,
He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
Proverb
He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.
Proverb
He that will, does more that he that can.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He that winketh with the one eye and looketh with the other, I will not
trust him though he were my brother.
Proverb
He that wipes the child's nose kisseth the mother's cheek.
Proverb
He that won't listen, must feel.
Proverb, (German)
He that woos a maid must come seldom in her sight,
But he that woos a widow must woo her day and night.
Proverb
He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that would be healthy, must eat temperately, and sup early.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that would be ill served should keep plenty of servants.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that would be old long must begin betimes.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He that would beat his dog can easily find a stick.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that would cheat a Jew, must be a Jew.
Proverb, (German)
He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
Proverb
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
Proverb, (French)
He that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime.
Proverb
He that would hang his dog, gives out first, that he is mad.
Proverb
He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Saturday.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He that would have a thing done quickly and well must do it himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
Proverb
He that would have good luck in horses must kiss the parson's wife.
Proverb
He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.
Proverb
He that would have the kernel must crack the shell.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that would have what he hath not should do what he doth not.
Proverb
He that would heal a wound must not handle it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He that would jest must take a jest, else to let it along were best.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He that would keep his house clean must not let priest or pigeon into it.
Proverb, (French)
He that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.
Proverb
He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Proverb
He that would live for aye must eat sage in May.
Proverb
He that would live in peace and rest
Must hear and see and say the best.
Proverb
He that would make a golden gate, must bring a nail to it daily.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that would no evils do must shun all things that long thereto.
Proverb
He that would please all, and himself too,
Undertakes what he cannot do.
Proverb
He that would stop everybody's mouth needs plenty of flour.
Proverb, (German)
He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.
Proverb, (English)
He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head.
Proverb, (Danish)
He that's born to be hanged will never be drowned.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He that's long a giving, knows not how to give.
Proverb
He thinks not well that thinks not again.
Proverb
He thinks nothing right, but what he does himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He threatens many who affronts one.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He threatens who is afraid.
Proverb
He to whom God gave no sons the devil gives nephews.
Proverb
He to whom God gives no sons, the devil gives nephews.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. [N.B. A good epitaph
for an alderman.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He travels fastest who travels alone.
Proverb
He understands badly who listens badly.
Proverb, (Welsh)
He unravels the enigmas of the Sphinx.
Proverb, (Latin)
He utters in his language something different from what he ponders in his
mind.
Proverb, (Latin)
He waits long that waits for another main's death.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He wants for ever, who would more acquire.
Proverb
He wants to fly before he has wings.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He wants to learn how to shave using my beard.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He warms too near that burns.
Proverb
He was born on a Sunday, he likes work ready done.
Proverb, (French)
He was born upon St. Galtpert's night, three days before luck.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He was born with a caul.
Proverb, (French)
He was hanged that left his drink behind him.
Proverb
He was scant of news that told his father was hanged.
Proverb
He was slain that had warning, not he that took it.
Proverb
He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge.
Proverb, (Italian)
He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.
Proverb, (French)
He who abuses others must not be particular about the answer he gets.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying
life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not
live.
Proverb, (Sanskrit)
He who always tells me a lie never cheats me.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who always thinks it is too soon, is sure to come too late.
Proverb, (German)
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a
question remains a fool forever.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a
fool forever.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)
He who asks the fewest favours is the best received.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who at twenty understands nothing, at thirty knows nothing, and at forty
has nothing, will lead a wretched old age.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who begins and does not finish loses his labour.
Proverb, (French)
He who begins badly, ends badly.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who begins ill finishes worse.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who begins many things finishes few.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who begins much, finishes little.
Proverb, (German)
He who bestirs himself sucks up, he who lies still dries up.
Proverb, (French)
He who blackens others does not whiten himself.
Proverb, (German)
He who blows dust fills his eyes with it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who blows in the fire will get sparks in his eyes.
Proverb, (German)
He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule on himself.
Proverb, (Philippine)
He who borrows sells his freedom.
Proverb, (German)
He who brings bad tidings, comes soon enough.
Proverb, (German)
He who brings, is welcome.
Proverb, (German)
He who builds a house in the market-place, builds either too high or too
low.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who builds a house, or marries, is left with a lank purse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who builds according to every man's advise will have a crooked house.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who builds by the road-side has many masters.
Proverb, (German)
He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who builds on another's ground loses his stone and mortar.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who builds on the public way, must let the people have their say.
Proverb, (German)
He who burns his posteriors must sit on blisters.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who buts a horse buys care.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing.
Proverb, (German)
He who buys and sells does not feel what he spends.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who buys betimes buys cheaply.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who buys by the pennyworth keeps his own house and other men's too.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who buys the broom can also buy the handle.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he would rather not.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who buys what he don't want, will soon sell what he does want.
Proverb, (German)
He who can does, he who cannot, teaches.
Proverb
He who can give has many a good neighbour.
Proverb, (French)
He who can lick can bite.
Proverb, (French)
He who can predict winning numbers should not set off fire crackers.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who can sit upon a stone and feed himself should not move.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who can wait obtains what he wishes.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who can't get bacon, must be content with cabbage.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.
Proverb, (Greek)
He who cannot conceal his sentiments, knows not how to live.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who cannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.
Proverb, (Czech)
He who cannot do what he wishes, must needs do as he can.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who cannot even manage a yacht asks for a ship of burthen!
Proverb, (Latin)
He who cannot help, may hinder.
Proverb, (German)
He who cannot keep silence cannot speak.
Proverb, (Swedish)
He who cannot paint must grind the colours.
Proverb, (German)
He who cannot pay with his purse, must pay with his hide.
Proverb, (German)
He who cannot revenge himself is weak, he who will not is contemptible.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it.
Proverb, (French)
He who caresses thee more than the occasion justifies, has either deceived
thee or intends it.
Proverb
He who carries nothing loses nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He who carries one burden will soon carry a hundred.
Proverb, (French)
He who carves the Buddha never worships him.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who catches one fish is a fisherman.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who chastises one threatens a hundred.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who cheats a cheat and robs a thief, earns a dispensation for 100 years.
Proverb, (German)
He who chooses takes the worst.
Proverb, (French)
He who climbs to high is near a fall.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who comes first grinds first.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who comes first to the mill is first served.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure
to be listened to with the utmost attention.
Proverb, (French)
He who commences many things finishes few.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
He who conceits himself wise, has an ass near at hand.
Proverb, (German)
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy.
Proverb, (German)
Proverbs
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for
thousands of years.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who decries, wants to buy.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who delays, gathers.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who demands does not command.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who denies all confesses all.
Proverb, (Spanish, Italian)
He who denies everything confesses everything.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who despises small things seldom grows rich.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth,
and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.
Proverb, (German)
He who dispraises a thing, wants to buy it.
Proverb, (French)
He who divides gets the worst share.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does a thing through another does it himself.
[Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He who does as he likes has no headache.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who does good to you either dies or goes away.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does look before him, must take misfortune for his earnings.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who does no more than another is no better than another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not advance recedes.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who does not bait his hook catches nothing.
Proverb, (German)
He who does not bait his hook fishes in vain.
Proverb, (French)
He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who does not gain loses.
Proverb, (French)
He who does not go forward, stays behind.
Proverb, (German)
He who does not honour his wife, dishonours himself.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not improve to-day will grow worse to-morrow.
Proverb, (German)
He who does not look before lags behind.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not open his eyes must open his purse.
Proverb, (German)
He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing for his wife.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not repair his gutter has a whole house to repair.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not rise early never does a good day's work.
Proverb
He who does not show himself, is overlooked.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not speak the whole truth is a traitor to truth.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who does not speak, God does not hear.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not tire, achieves.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does not tire, tires adversity.
Proverb, (French)
He who does not when he can, cannot when he will.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who does nothing does ill.
Proverb, (French)
He who does the wrong forgets it, but not he who receives it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who does what he likes, does not what he ought.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
Proverb, (Russian)
He who doth his own business defileth not his fingers.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who doth the injury never forgives the injured man.
Proverb
He who doubts nothing knows nothing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who dresses ion others' clothes will be undressed on the highway.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who eats alone chokes alone.
Proverb
He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who eats of the king's goose will void a feather forty years after.
Proverb, (French)
He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who eats the king's cow lean, pays for it fat.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)
He who eats the meat let him pick the bone.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who envies his admits his inferiority.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who envies, suffers.
Proverb, (German)
He who esteems none but himself is as happy as a king.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who excuses, accuses himself.
Proverb
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
Proverb
He who fain would marry, in choice should not tarry.
Proverb, (German)
He who fears every bramble should not go to the woods.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
Proverb, (French)
He who feeds a wolf, strengthens his enemy.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who feeds the hen out to have the egg.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who feels himself scabby, let him scratch.
Proverb
He who feels no compassion will become insane.
Proverb, (Hasidic)
He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
Proverb
He who finds fault wants to buy.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who finds what has not been lost, will chance to die before he is ill.
Proverb, (German)
He who flees, proves himself guilty.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who follows the crowd has many companions.
Proverb, (German)
He who follows two hares loses both.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who forces love when none is found, remains a fool the whole year round.
Proverb, (German)
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
Proverb, (Irish)
He who gets out of debt enriches himself.
Proverb, (French)
He who gives alms to the poor faces heaven.
Proverb, (Philippine)
He who gives bread to others' dogs is often barked at by his own.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
Proverb
He who gives little gives from his heart; he who gives much gives from his
wealth.
Proverb, (Turkish)
He who gives quickly, gives doubly.
Proverb, (German)
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord.
Proverb, (German)
He who gives to the public, gives to no one.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
Proverb
He who gives, must take (meaning a joke).
Proverb, (German)
He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who goes abroad by day has no need of a lantern.
Proverb, (French)
He who goes everywhere gains everywhere.
Proverb, (French)
He who goes far from home to marry, goes either to deceive or be deceived.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who goes to bed with dogs will get up with fleas.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who goes to bed with dogs, will wake up with fleas.
Proverb, (German)
He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn.
Proverb, (French)
He who goes to the mill gets befloured.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who goes with wolves learns to howl.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who grasps all loses all.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who grasps at all, holds nothing fast.
Proverb, (German)
He who grasps at much holds fast little.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who grasps too much holds not firmly.
Proverb, (French)
He who grasps too much holds nothing fast.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who grasps too much lets much fall.
Proverb, (German)
He who greases his cart-wheels helps his oxen.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who greases his wheels, helps his oxen.
Proverb
He who guesses well prophesies well.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who handles pitch, besmears himself.
Proverb, (German)
He who hangs out a branch wants to sell his wine.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a bad name is half hanged.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a bad tongue should have good loins.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a bad wife can expect no happiness that can be so called.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a companion has a master.
Proverb, (French)
He who has a glass roof must not throw stones at his neighbour's.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who has a glass roof must not throw stones at others.
Proverb, (German)
He who has a glass roof on his own house, must not throw stones at others.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has a glass roof should not throw stones at his neighbour's.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
He who has a good horse in his stable may go on foot.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a good neighbour has a good morning.
Proverb, (Danish, Italian)
He who has a good next, finds good friends.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who has a good wife can bear any evil.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the
roadside, is never without war.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a head won't want for a hat.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a mate has a master.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a mind to beat a dog will easily find a stick.
Proverb
He who has a son grown up should not call another a thief.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a straw tail is always in fear of its catching fire.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a tongue goes to Rome.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a tongue, may go to Rome.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has a trade may travel through the world.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has a white horse and a fair wife is seldom without trouble.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has bad neighbours is fain to praise himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has been first a novice and then an abbot, knows what the boys do
behind the altar.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has been stung by the scorpion is frightened at its shadow.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has both money and bread, may choose with whom his daughter to wed.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has but one coat cannot lend it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has come to the mill first does not grind last.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has crossed the ford knows how deep it is.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has daughters is always a shepherd.
Proverb, (French)
He who has daughters to marry, let him give them silk to spin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has done evil, expects evil.
Proverb, (Guinean)
He who has drunk will drink.
Proverb, (French)
He who has enemies, let him not sleep.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who has good neighbours, gets a good morning.
Proverb, (German)
He who has got four and spends five, has no occasion for a purse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Proverb, (Arab)
He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man.
Proverb, (French)
He who has land has war.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has left a rogue behind him, has made a good day's journey.
Proverb, (German)
He who has loaves has dogs.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has many irons in the fire, will let some of them burn.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has money can eat sherbet in hell.
Proverb, (Lebanese)
He who has money has capers.
Proverb, (French)
He who has money to throw away, let him employ workmen, and not stand by.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has no bread has no authority.
Proverb, (Turkish)
He who has no falcon, must hunt with owls.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has no head wants no hat.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has no voice in the valley, will have none in the council.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has no wife, is for thrashing her daily; but he that has one, takes
care of her.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has not health has nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He who has not tasted bitter, knows not what sweet is.
Proverb, (German)
He who has nothing fears nothing.
Proverb, (French)
He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
Proverb, (German)
He who has once invited the devil into his house, will never be rid of him.
Proverb, (German)
He who has once used deception will deceive again.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has one foot in a brothel, has the other in a hospital.
Proverb, (German)
He who has plenty of butter, may put some in his cabbage.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has property in the soil has the same up to the sky.
[Lat., Cuiuslibet est solum, eius usque ad coelum.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has received a kindness forgets it; he
who has been injured remembers it. [To benefit one and injure another at the
same time is a losing game, for revenge is a stronger feeling than
gratitude.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has scalded himself once blows the next time.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has servants has unavoidable enemies.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has sheep has fleeces.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has shipped the devil, must carry him over the sound.
Proverb
He who has teeth has no bread, and he who has bread has no teeth.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who has the fortune brings home the bride.
Proverb, (German)
He who has the Pope for his cousin may soon be a Cardinal.
Proverb, (German)
He who has three enemies must agree with two.
Proverb, (German)
He who has to deal with a blockhead has need of much brains.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen-roost.
Proverb, (German)
He who has tried it, is afraid of it.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who has victory, has right.
Proverb, (German)
He who hastens to be rich will not be without fault.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who hastens too much stumbles and falls.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who hath an ill name is half hanged.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Proverb, (German)
He who hath lost his good name how shall he in future gain his living.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who hath much peas may put the more in the pot.
Proverb
He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.
Proverb, (German)
He who helps everybody, helps nobody.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who herds with wolves, learns to howl.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
He who hold the thread holds the ball.
Proverb, (French)
He who holds his tongue does not commit himself.
Proverb, (French)
He who holds the handle of the frying-pan turns it as he pleases.
Proverb, (French)
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
Proverb, (German)
He who hunts after bargains will scratch his head.
Proverb, (Catalan)
He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who hunts two hares does not catch the one and lets the other escape.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who hunts two hares from one bush, is not likely to catch either.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who hunts with cats will catch mice.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who in under cover when it rains is a great fool if he stirs.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who inherits a farthing, is expected to disburse a dollar.
Proverb, (German)
He who is absent is always in the wrong.
Proverb
He who is afraid of doing too much, always does too little.
Proverb, (German)
He who is afraid of leaves must not go into the wood.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is always drinking and stuffing, will in time become a ragamuffin.
Proverb, (German)
He who is an ass and thinks himself a stag, finds his mistake when he comes
to leap the ditch.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull.
Proverb, (French)
He who is ashamed of asking, is ashamed of learning.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is at sea does not direct the winds.
Proverb, (French)
He who is being carried does not realize how far the town is.
Proverb, (African)
He who is born a fool is never cured.
Proverb
He who is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
Proverb, (French)
He who is born to misfortunate stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on
his back will fracture his nose.
Proverb, (German)
He who is embarked with the devil must make the passage in his company.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who is everywhere, is nowhere.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is far from home, is near to harm.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is feared by many, fears many.
Proverb, (German)
He who is feared gets more than his own.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who is fed by another's hand seldom gets enough.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is guilty believes that all men speak ill of him.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is his own teacher, has a fool for his pupil.
Proverb, (German)
He who is in hell knows not what heaven is.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is in love with himself need fear no rival.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who is in the mud likes to get another into it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who is judge between two friends, loses one of them.
Proverb, (German)
He who is meant to be a basket-carrier is born with the handle in his hand.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is not for me, is against me.
Proverb, (German)
He who is not impatient is not in love.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is of no use to himself, is of no use to any one.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is of on use to himself, is of no use to any one else.
Proverb, (German)
He who is of the craft can discourse about it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind
him.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who is quick at borrowing, is slow in paying.
Proverb, (German)
He who is scared by words, has no heart for deeds.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who is silent gains store.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who is surety for another, pays for him.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is the offender is never the forgiver.
Proverb
He who is unable is always willing.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
Proverb, (Kenyan)
He who is well prepared has won the battle.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who is without debt is without credit.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who judges between two friends loses one of them.
Proverb, (French)
He who keeps his own secret avoids much mischief.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who knows a knave, makes no bid for him.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who knows but little quickly tells it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who knows how to beg may leave his money at home.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who knows little quickly tells it.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who knows little soon blabs it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who knows little soon tells it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than
the most busy of busily-engaged men.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who knows nothing knows enough, if he knows how to be silent.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who knows nothing never doubts.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who knows the road can ride full trot.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who laid a snare for me has fallen into it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Proverb, (Danish, German)
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
Proverb
He who laughs overmuch may have an aching heart.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who learns, teaches.
Proverb, (African)
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Proverb, (German)
He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry
the cow.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who lies down in the wash will be eaten by swine.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)
He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who lies in the grave, is well lodged.
Proverb, (German)
He who lies on the ground cannot fall.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on.
Proverb, (German)
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
Proverb, (German)
He who likes drinking is always talking of wine.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who listens at doors hears more than he desires.
Proverb, (French)
He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who lives among wolves learns to howl.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who lives by medical treatment has but a wretched existence.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who lives by the church shall serve the church.
Proverb, (German)
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Proverb
He who lives in a glass house should be the last to throw stones.
Proverb
He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who lives long knows what pain is.
Proverb, (French)
He who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
He who lives on hope, dies of hunger.
Proverb, (German)
He who lives without restraint, will die without honour.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who looks demurely trust not with your money.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who looks not before finds himself behind.
Proverb, (French)
He who looks on has two-thirds of the game.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who looks on know more of the game than he who plays.
Proverb, (German)
He who loses his temper is in the wrong.
Proverb, (French)
He who loses is always in fault.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who loses sins.
Proverb, (French)
He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who loves Bertrand loves his dog.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who loves me loves my dog too.
Proverb
He who loves Peter won't harm his dog.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who loves sorrow, will always find something to mourn over.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who loves well is slow to forget.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who loves well, obeys well.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who made fun of the old man, laughed at first and cried afterwards.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who make more of you than he is wont, either means to cheat you or wants
you.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who makes a law should keep it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who makes a mouse of himself, will be eaten by the cats.
Proverb, (German)
He who makes friends of all keeps none.
Proverb
He who makes himself a dove is eaten by the hawk.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who makes himself a servant is expected to remain a servant.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who makes himself honey will be eaten by the bees.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who makes himself honey, will be eaten by the flies.
Proverb, (German)
He who makes himself nothing, is nothing.
Proverb, (German)
He who makes light of his enemy dies by his hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who makes one basket can make a hundred.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who makes too much haste gains his end later.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who marries a widow with three children, marries four thieves.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who marries does well, but who remains single does better.
Proverb, (German)
He who marries for love has good nights and bad days.
Proverb, (French)
He who marries ill, is long in becoming widowed.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who marrieth does well, but he who marrieth not, better.
Proverb
He who measures oil greases his hands.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who mixes himself with the draff will be eaten by the swine.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
Proverb, (Colombian)
He who never budges from Paris will never be pope.
Proverb, (French)
He who never undertook anything never achieved anything.
[Fr., Qui onques rien n'enprist riens n'achieva.]
Proverb, (French)
He who never was sick dies the first fit.
Proverb
He who owes nothing fears not the sheriff's officer.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who oweth is all in the wrong.
Proverb
He who paints the flower cannot paint its fragrance.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who passes a winter's day passes one of his mortal enemies.
Proverb, (French)
He who pays his debts, betters his condition.
Proverb, (German)
He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his mind.
Proverb, (French)
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Proverb
He who pays the piper may call the tune.
Proverb
He who pays well is master of another man's purse.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)
He who pays well is well served.
Proverb, (French)
He who pays well may borrow again.
Proverb, (German)
He who peeps at the neighbor's window may chance to lose his eyes.
Proverb, (Arabic)
He who peeps through a hole will discover his dole.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who pitches too high won't get through his song.
Proverb, (German)
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
Proverb
He who plants fruit-trees, must not count upon the fruit.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
Proverb, (Arabic)
He who plays with a sword plays with the devil.
Proverb, (Galician)
He who pledges or promises runs in debt.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who ploughs with young oxen, makes crooked furrows.
Proverb, (German)
He who pours water hastily into a bottle spills more than goes in.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who praises himself befouls himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who praises himself must have bad neighbours.
Proverb, (German)
He who praises in praesentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him
pestilentia.
Proverb, (German)
He who prates much, lies much.
Proverb, (German)
He who prizes little things, is worthy of great ones.
Proverb, (German)
He who promises incurs a debt.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who puts by for the night, puts by for the cat.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Proverb, (Jewish)
He who quits his place loses it.
Proverb, (French)
He who receives the offerings let him ring the bells.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.
Proverb, (French)
He who reforms, God assists.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who remains in the mill grinds, not he who goes to and fro.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who respects his parents never dies.
Proverb, (Greek)
He who revealeth his secret maketh himself a slave.
Proverb
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who rides behind another does not saddle when he will.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who rides on a tiger can never dismount.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who rides on the giant's shoulders sees further than he who carries him.
Proverb, (French)
He who rides the horse is his master.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who rides the mule shoes her.
Proverb, (French)
He who rises early will gather wisdom.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who risks nothing can gain nothing.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the
ashes.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who saves in little things, can be liberal in great ones.
Proverb, (German)
He who saves, finds.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who says nothing never lies.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like.
Proverb, (English, Latin)
He who says what he likes, hears what he don't like.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who searches for pearls should not sleep.
Proverb, (Lybian)
He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
Proverb, (Chinese)
He who seeks, finds.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who sees leather cut asks for a thong.
Proverb, (French)
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
Proverb, (Arabic)
He who serves is not free.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who serves many masters must neglect some of them.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who serves small masters, is himself one of them.
Proverb, (German)
He who serves the people has a bad master.
Proverb, (German)
He who serves the public has a sorry master.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who serves two masters must lie to one of them.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who shoots often, hits at last.
Proverb, (German)
He who sings drives away sorrow.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who slanders his neighbour makes a rod for himself.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who sleeps along keeps long cold, two soon warm each other.
Proverb, (German)
He who sleeps catches no fish.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who sleeps much, learns little.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who sleeps well does not feel the fleas.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who sows brambles must not go barefoot.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who sows brambles reaps thorns.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers
love.
Proverb
He who sows hatred shall gather rue.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who sows inequity shall reap shame.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who sows little, reaps little.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who sows money, will reap poverty.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who sows thistles reaps thorns.
Proverb, (French)
He who sows virtue reaps fame.
Proverb
He who sows well, reaps well.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who spares the rod hates his son.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who spares vice wrongs virtue.
Proverb, (French, German)
He who speaks ill of himself is praised by no one.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who spends more than he should
Shall not have to spend when he would.
Proverb
He who spits above himself will have it fall on his face.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who stands godfather to a wolf should have a dog under his cloak.
Proverb, (German)
He who stands high is seen from afar.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who stands near the woodcutter is likely to be hit by a splinter.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who steals once is never trusty.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who stops at every stone never gets to his journey's end.
Proverb, (French)
He who stops half way is only half in error.
Proverb, (German)
He who strikes another on the neck, does not strike far from the head.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who strives to do, does more than he who has the power.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who stumbles and does not fall mends his pace.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who stumbles twice over one stone deserves to break his shins.
Proverb
He who succeeds is reputed wise.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon.
Proverb
He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.
Proverb
He who suspects is seldom at fault.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who swears is a liar.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who sweats more in peace, bleeds less in war.
Proverb
He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Proverb
He who takes a wife takes a master.
Proverb, (French)
He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
He who takes it to himself, he it is who has done the act.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who takes no care of little things, will not have the care of great ones.
Proverb, (German)
He who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who takes the wrong road must make his journey twice over.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who talks incessantly, talks nonsense.
Proverb, (African)
He who talks much is sometimes right.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who tastes every man's broth, often burns his mouth.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
Proverb, (German)
He who tells his own affairs will hardly keep secret those of others.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who threatens is afraid.
Proverb, (French)
He who threatens to strike, and does not, is afraid.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who throws away money with his hands will seek it with his feet.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who throws himself under the bench will be left to lie there.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who tickles himself can laugh when he pleases.
Proverb, (Danish, German)
He who tickles himself, laughs when he likes.
Proverb, (German)
He who torments others does not sleep well.
Proverb, (French)
He who touches pitch defiles himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who travels with hope, has poverty for his coachman.
Proverb, (German)
He who treads on eggs, must tread lightly.
Proverb, (German)
He who trifles with his enemy dies by his hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will never be free from plague.
Proverb, (French)
He who turns aside avoids danger.
Proverb, (French)
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.
Proverb, (French)
He who waits for another man's trencher often dines in imagination (or with
Duke Humphrey).
Proverb, (French)
He who waits for another's platter has a cold meal.
Proverb, (Catalan)
He who waits for dead men's shoes, may have to go long barefoot.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who waits till an opportunity occurs may wait for ever.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who want a rose must respect the thorn.
Proverb, (Persian)
He who wants a mule without fault must walk on foot.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Proverb, (Persian)
He who wants content can't find an easy chair.
Proverb
He who wants his dog killed has only to say he's mad.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow
to back up to him.
Proverb
He who wants to be rich in a year comes to the gallows in half a year.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who wants to be rich in a year is hanged at six months' end.
Proverb, (French)
He who wants to catch fish must not mind a wetting.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who wants to kill his dog only has to say he is mad.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who wants to travel far takes care of his beast.
Proverb, (French)
He who was born to be hanged will not be drowned, unless the water go over
the gallows.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who was born to pennies, will never be master of dollars.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what
the boys do behind the altar.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who whispers, lies.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who will have eggs, must bear with the cackling.
Proverb, (German)
He who will not obey father, will have to obey stepfather.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who will not prosper in his sleep will not prosper when awake.
Proverb
He who will not serve one master must needs serve many.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who will not take cheap advice, will have to buy dear repentance.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who wills the end, wills the means.
Proverb
He who wipes the child's nose, means to kiss the mother's cheek.
Proverb, (German)
He who wishes to avoid Charybdis falls into Scylla.
[Lat., Quis vult vitare Charybdim incidit in Scyllam.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.
Proverb, (French)
He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.
Proverb, (French)
He who won't be advised, can't be helped.
Proverb, (German)
He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Proverb
He who works on the highway will have many advisers.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who would be everywhere will be nowhere.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would be long an old man must begin betimes.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would be rich in a year gets hanged in six months.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would buy sausage of a dog must give him bacon in exchange.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would catch a rogue must watch behind the door.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who would catch fish must not mind wetting himself.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
He who would catch fish, must not mind getting wet.
Proverb
He who would catch is caught.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who would cheat a peasant, must take one with him.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
He who would cheat the fox must rise early.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
Proverb, (German)
He who would close another man's mouth, should first tie up his own.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the nut.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would enjoy the feast should fast on the eve.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would enjoy the fire must bear its smoke.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
He who would gather honey must brave the sting of bees.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who would gather roses, must not fear thorns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He who would go further than his horse, must alight and go on foot.
Proverb, (German)
He who would hang himself is sure to find a rope.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would have clear water should go to the fountain head.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would have good cabbage, must pay its price.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would leap far must first take a long run.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would make a fool of himself will find many to like him.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would not go to hell, must not go to court.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would prosper in peace, must suffer in silence.
Proverb, (German)
He who would relish his food must not see it cooked.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would rest must work.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
Proverb, (German)
He who would save, should begin with the mouth.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would seek revenge must be on his own guard.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would serve everybody gets thanks from nobody.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would speak well should well consider his subject beforehand.
Proverb, (Latin)
He who would steal honey, must not be afraid of bees.
Proverb, (Danish)
He who would stop every man's mouth must have a great deal of meal.
Proverb, (Italian)
He who would succeed at court, must lie sometimes low, sometimes high.
Proverb, (German)
He who would take must give.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who would the daughter win, with the mother must begin.
Proverb, (German)
He who would thrive must follow the church, the sea, or the king's service.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He who would travel through the land, must go with open purse in hand.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He whose house is tiled with glass should not throw stones at his
neighbour's.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He whose mistress squints, says the ogles.
Proverb, (German)
He will die before he's old who's wise before his time.
Proverb, (Latin)
He will embark in litigation, even if a donkey has bitten his dog.
Proverb, (Latin)
He will never get into the wood who starts at every bush.
Proverb, (Danish)
He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a
trunk of wood in the garden.
Proverb, (Spanish)
He will not lose his oats for want of braying.
Proverb, (French)
He will not lost the parings of his nails.
Proverb
He won't give us so much as the skin.
Proverb, (Latin)
He would be a good one to send for death.
Proverb, (Italian)
He would be wise who knew all things beforehand.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He would bite a cent in two.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He would break his neck against a straw.
Proverb, (Italian)
He would drown in a spoonful of water.
Proverb, (Italian)
He would not give the devil a knife to cut his throat.
Proverb, (Italian)
He would rather have a bumper in hand than a Bible.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He would sell even his share of the sun.
Proverb, (Italian)
He would skin a flint.
Proverb
He would slaughter a bug to drink its blood.
Proverb, (Italian)
He wriggles like an ell.
Proverb, (Dutch)
He writes with an iron pen. [That which he writes will not be easily
altered.]
Proverb, (Latin)
He wrongs not an old man that steals supper from him.
Proverb
He'd skin a louse, and send the hide and fat to market.
Proverb
He'll laugh well that laughs longest.
Proverb, (French)
He'll swear through an inch board.
Proverb
He's a fool that's fond.
Proverb
He's a friend at sneezing-time--the most that can be got from him is a "God
bless you."
Proverb, (Italian)
He's a wise man that leads passion by the bridle.
Proverb
He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
Proverb
He, who denies his faults, makes no atonement for them.
Proverb, (Latin)
He, who kennels with wolves, must howl.
Proverb, (French)
He, who more than he is worth doth spend,
E'en makes a rope, his life to end.
Proverb
He, who neglects the little, loses the greater.
Proverb, (Latin)
He, who shareth honey with the bear, hath the least part of it.
Proverb
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Proverb
Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and
lie.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Health and wealth create beauty.
Proverb
Health is better than wealth.
Proverb
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Proverb
Health without money is a half-malady.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hear all parties.
Proverb
Hear all, say nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever
does owt for nowt do it for thysen.
Proverb
Hear and see and be still.
Proverb
Hear both sides of a question.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hear first, and speak afterwards.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Proverb
Hear one man before you answer; hear several before you decide.
Proverb, (Danish)
Hear the other side, and believe little.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hear the other side.
[Lat., Audi alteram partem.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Hear twice before you speak once.
Proverb
Hear, see, and be silent.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hear, see, and say nothing if you would live in peace.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Portuguese)
Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty. [Aliter., To feign deafness.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Hearken to reason, or she will be heard.
Proverb
Hearsay is half lies.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
Hearts may agree though heads differ.
Proverb
Heaven helps those that help themselves.
Proverb
Heaven preserve me from my friends!
Proverb
Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.
Proverb
Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Proverb
Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Hedgehogs are not to be killed with the fist.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Hedges have no eyes, but they have ears.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hell and Chancery are always open.
Proverb
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Proverb
Hell is crowded with ungrateful wretches.
Proverb
Hell is wherever heaven is not.
Proverb
Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Help by actions, not by words.
Proverb, (Latin)
Help him who is willing to work, not him who shrinks from it.
Proverb, (Latin)
Help is good everywhere, except in the porridge-bowl.
Proverb, (Danish)
Help me to salt, help me to sorrow.
Proverb
Help the lame dog over the stile.
Proverb
Help thyself and heaven will help thee.
Proverb, (French)
Help you to salt, help you to sorrow.
Proverb
Help yourself, and God will help you.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)
Help, hands! for I have no lands.
Proverb
Hens like to lay when they see an egg.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Hercules himself could not cope with two assailants.
Proverb, (Latin)
Here lies, not Rose the chaste, but Rose the fair!
Her scents no more perfume, but taint the air.
Proverb, epitaph on Fair Rosamund
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Proverb, (American)
Hereafter comes not yet.
Proverb
Heresy may be easier kept out than shook off.
Proverb
Herod and Pilate are good friends!
Proverb, (German)
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Hew not too high, lest a chip fall in thine eye.
Proverb
Hidden valour is as bad as cowardice.
Proverb, (Latin)
Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor, or your lawyer.
Proverb, (Italian)
Hide not your light under a bushel.
Proverb, (German)
Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and a lawyer.
Proverb
High birth is a poor dish on the table.
Proverb, (Italian)
High houses are mostly empty in the upper story.
Proverb, (German)
High places have their precipices.
Proverb
High regions are never without storms.
Proverb
High trees give more shadow than fruit.
Proverb, (Dutch)
High winds blow on high hills.
Proverb
Him who errs, forgive once, but never twice.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Him whom Jove would destroy he first deprives of his reason. [Arrogant,
insolent, and vainglorious people work out their own ruin.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Hired horses make short miles.
Proverb, (Dutch)
His bashful mind hinders his good intent.
Proverb
His brains hang at the top of his fez.
Proverb, (Lebanese)
His bread fell into the honey.
Proverb, (Spanish)
His bread is buttered on both sides.
Proverb
His courage oozed out at his fingers' ends.
Proverb
His eyes are like two burnt holes in a blanket.
Proverb, (Irish)
His face would hang him.
Proverb
His hair grows through his hood.
Proverb
His heart fell down to his heels.
Proverb, (Latin)
His heart is in his boots.
Proverb
His heart is in his mouth.
Proverb
His hens lay eggs with two yolks.
Proverb, (German)
His horse's head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable.
Proverb, (French)
His illness is more mental than bodily.
Proverb, (Latin)
His like Jean de Nivelle's dog, that runs away when he is called.
Proverb, (French)
His money burns a hole in his pocket.
Proverb
His money takes the place of wisdom.
Proverb, (Dutch)
His presents conceal a baited hook.
Proverb, (Latin)
His tongue says little, but powerful is his right arm.
Proverb, (Latin)
His wit got wings and would have flown,
But poverty still kept him down.
Proverb
His wits are wool-gathering.
Proverb
History repeats itself.
Proverb
Hitherto I gave you credit for having horns. [I gave you credit for not
being wanting in courage.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Hobby horses are dearer than Arabians.
Proverb, (German)
Hold a candle to the devil!
Proverb
Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a
profit.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Hold fast when you have it.
Proverb
Hold your dog in readiness before you start the hare.
Proverb, (Danish)
Hold your hands off other folk's bairns, till you get some of your own.
Proverb
Holyday time will not last forever.
Proverb, (Latin)
Home is home though it's never so homely.
Proverb
Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of
Session.
Proverb
Home is home, be it ever so humble.
Proverb
Home, dear home, small as thou art, to me thou art a palace.
Proverb, (Italian)
Homer sometimes nods.
Proverb, (Latin)
Honest men marry soon, wise men never.
Proverb
Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all.
Proverb
Honest poverty is thinly sown.
Proverb, (French)
Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is the end of it.
Proverb, (American)
Honesty lasts longest.
Proverb, (German)
Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be an ill pennyworth.
Proverb
Honesty with poverty is better than ill-gotten wealth.
Proverb, (Latin)
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
Proverb
Honey catches most flies.
Proverb
Honey cloys.
Proverb, (Latin)
Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Honey in the mouth saves the purse.
Proverb, (Italian)
Honey is dear bought if licked off thorns.
Proverb
Honey is not for asses.
Proverb, (French)
Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)
Honey was not made for the mouth of the ass.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.
Proverb, (Latin)
Honeyed speech often conceals poison and gall.
Proverb, (Danish)
Honor buys no meat in the market.
Proverb
Honor is better than honors.
Proverb, (Flemish)
Honour a good man that he may honour you, and a bad man that he may not
dishonour you.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.
Proverb
Honour and profit will not keep in one sack.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Honour blossoms on the grave.
Proverb, (French)
Honour once lost never returns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Honour the old, teach the young.
Proverb, (Danish)
Honour the tree that gives you shelter.
Proverb, (Danish)
