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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - I -

I a lazy lout, you a lazy lout, marry me, Antonia.
Proverb, (Spanish)

"I am a judge of cresses," said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock.
Proverb, (Danish)

I am a prince and you are a prince; who will lead the donkeys?.
Proverb, (Arabian)

I am dead. It is as if everybody were dead. Let the man left behind shut the door if he wants to.
Proverb, (Maltese)

I am in a fix. [In a place where three ways meet.]
Proverb, (Latin)

I am in a place where three ways meet.
Proverb

I am just as good as you are, and a damned sight better.
Proverb, (American)

I am less concerned about them than about the croaking frogs in the marsh.
Proverb, (Latin)

I am like you and you like me. the devil united us.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I am neither at the ford nor the bridge.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I am not here to catch flies.
Proverb, (Dutch)

I am on good terms with the friend who eats his bread with me.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I am recommending you to do what I should do myself.
Proverb, (Latin)

I am touched but not broken by the waves.
Proverb, (Latin)

I am very wheamow said the old woman, when she stepped into the milk-bowl.
Proverb

I am what you will be, I was what you now are.
Proverb, (Latin)

I am willing but unable.
[Lat., Volo non valeo.]
Proverb,
Latin motto of the Earl of Carlisle

I bear the laurel-branch.
Proverb, (Latin)

I beggar is not favoured even by his relations.
Proverb, (Latin)

I being satisfied, the world is satisfied.
Proverb, (Italian)

I bought the nettle, sowed the nettle, and then the nettle stung me.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)

I broke my leg, perhaps for my good.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I came, I saw, I won.
Proverb, (Latin)

I can see as far into a mill-stone as another man.
Proverb, (German)

I cannot be you friend and your flatterer too.
Proverb

I cannot get on with you, or without you.
Proverb, (Latin)

I dance to the tune that is played.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I do not tell thee what thou art, thou wilt tell it thyself.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I don't count them to you, wife, but a hog makes twelve puddings.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I don't want it, I don't want it, but put it into my hood.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I don't want the cheese; I just want out of the trap.
Proverb

I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
Proverb, (Chinese)

I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence.
Proverb, (Sierra Leonean)

I had rather have your room than your company.
Proverb

I hate fetters though they be of gold.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I have a good jacket in France.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please.
Proverb, (Dutch)

"I have had" is a poor man.
Proverb, (German)

I have lost my labour and my cost.
Proverb, (Latin)

I have nothing for dinner, sit down to table.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I have so much to do that I am going to bed.
Proverb, (Savoyard)

I have washed my hands of it.
Proverb, (Latin)

"I have" is a better bird than "If I had."
Proverb, (German)

I kill the boars, but another eats the flesh.
Proverb, (Latin)

I kiss thee hide, because thou art to be a wine-bag.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I know by my own pot how the others boil.
Proverb, (French)

I know him not though I should meet him in my dish.
Proverb

I know no more that the man in the moon about it.
Proverb

I know no more that the Pope of Rome about it.
Proverb

I know on which side my bread is buttered.
Proverb

I know Simon, and Simon knows me. [A couple of rogues.]
Proverb, (Latin)

I know well what I say when I ask for bread.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I know what I know, but will say nothing about it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I left what I knew for what I heard praised, and repented.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
Proverb

I live, and lords do no more.
Proverb

I love my friends well, but myself better.
Proverb, (French)

I love thee like pudding, if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
Proverb

I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time.
Proverb, (Dutch)

I may see him need, but I'll not see him bleed.
Proverb

I meant to cross myself and put out one of my eyes.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I mistress and you miss, who is to sweep the house?
Proverb, (Spanish)

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Proverb, (Russian)

I neither give nor take, like a Jew on the Sabbath.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I never saw a silent rich man.
Proverb, (French)

I never saw an oft-removed tree,
Nor yet an oft-removed family,
That throve so well as one that settled be.
Proverb

I never was satisfied with "I will, I will." One "take this" is better than two "I will give you."
Proverb, (Spanish)

I perfectly feel even at my fingers end.
Proverb

I prefer death to disgrace.
Proverb, (Latin)

I regret that I have given what I have.
Proverb, (Latin)

I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I renounce the golden basin in which I have to spit blood.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I rest, therefore I rust.
Proverb, (German)

I saw a man, who saw another man, who saw the sea.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I saw you at Lucca, I knew you at Pisa.
Proverb, (Italian)

I say it to you, daughter; hear it, daughter-in-law.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I say little but I think the more.
Proverb

I see by my daughter's face when the devil lays hold of my son-in-law.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I see by my mother-in-law's eyes when the devil takes hold of her.
Proverb, (Galician)

I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee.
Proverb, (Greek)

I shall paint you in your own colours. [Take you according to your own showing.]
Proverb, (Latin)

I simply state what I have heard.
Proverb, (Latin)

I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat.
Proverb, (French)

I speak of garlic, you reply about onions. [I speak of one thing, you reply what is wholly irrelevant.]
Proverb, (Latin)

I speak to you, daughter; hear it daughter-in-law.
Proverb, (Italian)

I stout and thou stout, who shall bear the ashes out?
Proverb

I stubborn and you stubborn, who is to carry the load?
Proverb, (Spanish)

I taught you to swim, and now you'd drown me.
Proverb

I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I thought to cross myself, and I put out my eye.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I too can lead the geese to water when it rains.
Proverb, (Italian)

I tried to draw the eyebrow, but I ended up poking the eye.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)

I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead.
Proverb, (Persian)

I want more for my teeth than for my relations.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

I want no drones in my bee-hive.
Proverb, (German)

I was not born yesterday.
Proverb

I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.
Proverb

I will do what I can, and a little less, to be able to continue at it.
Proverb, (Italian)

I will either grind or find.
Proverb

"I will not bite any dog," says the shepherd's dog, "for I must save my teeth for the wolf."
Proverb, (German)

I will not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.
Proverb

I will not keep a dog and bark myself.
Proverb

I will not make a toil of pleasure.
Proverb

I will not make my dish-clout my tablecloth.
Proverb

I will not pull the thorn out of your foot and put it into my own.
Proverb

I will trust him no further than I can fling him.
Proverb

I will win the horse, or lose the saddle.
Proverb, (German)

I wince to win.
Proverb, (Latin)

I wish I were at home. [Oh! that I were out of this mess and in safety.]
Proverb, (Latin)

I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years.
Proverb, (Dutch)

I wot well how the world wags,
He is most loved that hath most bags.
Proverb

I would not call the king my cousin.
Proverb

I would not purchase it at the price of a rotten nut.
Proverb, (Latin)

I would not touch him with a pair of tongs.
Proverb

I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a bad man in distress.
Proverb, (Latin)

I would rather buy than beg.
Proverb, (Latin)

I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy.
Proverb, (German)

I would rather see smoke from my own chimney than the fire on another's hearth.
Proverb, (Danish)

I'd rather be red than dead.
Proverb, (American)

I'd rather have them say "There he goes" than "Here he lies.".
Proverb, (American)

"I'll go myself," and "I'll see to it," are two good servants on a farm.
Proverb, (Danish)

I'll marry, and eat the prime of the pot, and sit down first.
Proverb, (Spanish)

I'll sleep on it.
Proverb, (Dutch)

I'm at my wits end.
Proverb

I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu!
You've play'd with me, now play with others too.
Proverb

Idle brains are the devil's workshop.
Proverb

Idle folks have the least leisure.
Proverb

Idle folks have the most labour.
Proverb

Idle men are dead all their life long.
Proverb

Idle men are the devil's playfellows.
Proverb

Idle people have the least leisure.
Proverb

Idle people take the most pains.
Proverb

Idleness has poverty for wages.
Proverb, (German)

Idleness is ever the root of indecision.
Proverb, (Latin)

Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Idleness is the beginning of all sin.
Proverb, (German)

Idleness is the devil's bolster.
Proverb, (Danish)

Idleness is the key of beggary.
Proverb

Idleness is the parent of all vice.
Proverb

Idleness is the root of all evil.
Proverb, (German)

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
Proverb

Idleness is to be dead at the limbs but alive within.
Proverb, (Fijian)

Idleness makes the wit rust.
Proverb

Idleness must thank itself if it go barefoot.
Proverb

If a beard were all, the goat would be the winner.
Proverb, (Danish)

If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones," be assured that he has stepped on one.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

If a centipede loses a leg, it does not prevent him from walking.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.
Proverb, (African)

If a dog's prayers were answered, bones would rain from the skies.
Proverb, (German)

If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn up.
Proverb, (Afghan)

If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If a man deceive me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.
Proverb

If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana.
Proverb, (Latin)

If a man has folly in his sleeve, it will be sure to peep out.
Proverb, (Danish)

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first.
Proverb, (Finnish)

If a man leaves children behind him, it is as if he did not die.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

If a man once fall, all will tread on him.
Proverb

If a man would know what he is, let him anger his neighbours.
Proverb, (German)

If a man would learn to pray let him go often to sea.
Proverb, (French)

If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
Proverb, (Persian)

If a monkey is amongst dogs, why won't it start barking.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

If a person is away, his right is away.
Proverb, (Moorish)

If a person shave you with a razor, do not shave him with broken glass.
Proverb, (Surinam)

If a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.
Proverb, (Arabic)

If a poor man gives to you, he expects more in return.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom.
Proverb

If a son is uneducated, his father is to blame.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If a string has one end, then it has another end.
Proverb

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Proverb

If a woman were little as she is good
A peascod would make her a gown and a hood.
Proverb, (Italian)

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
Proverb, (Greek)

If all fools wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese.
Proverb

If all men say that thou art an ass, then bray.
Proverb

If all men were just, there would be no need of valour.
Proverb, (Greek)

If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish: for who would till the ground? who would sow it? Who would plant? who would press wine?.
Proverb, (Latin)

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.
Proverb, (Akan)

If an ass goes a-traveling, he'll not come home a horse.
Proverb

If an enemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If anyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.
Proverb, (Lebanese)

If anything stay, let work stay.
Proverb

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
Proverb, (Arabian)

If being well bearded brings happiness. a he-goat must be happier than any of us.
Proverb, (Latin)

If better were within, better would come out.
Proverb

If blood is spilt on you before breakfast, you will shed blood before nightfall.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If Candlemas day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain,
Winter is gone and will come not again.
Proverb

If Candlemas day be sunny and bright, winter will have another flight; if Candlemas day be cloudy with rain, winter is gone and won't come again.
Proverb

If crocodiles eat their own eggs, what would they do to the flesh of a frog?
Proverb, (Nigerian)

If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but thee.
Proverb

If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors--Rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet.
Proverb, (Latin)

If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.
Proverb, (Danish)

If envy would burn, there would be no need for wood.
Proverb, (Yugoslavian)

If ever you should need my life, come and take it.
Proverb

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
Proverb, (Welsh)

If every man mend one, all shall be amended.
Proverb

If every man would sweep his own door-step the city would soon be clean.
Proverb

If every one were wise, a fool would be the prize.
Proverb, (German)

If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt.
Proverb, (Russian)

If everyone swept his own doorstep, then the whole wide world would be clean.
Proverb

If flesh is not to be had, fish must content us.
Proverb, (Latin)

If folly were a pain, there would be groaning in every house.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap.
Proverb, (Dutch)

If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If fools were to eat no bread, corn would be cheap.
Proverb, (German)

If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth.
Proverb, (Persian)

If God bids thee draw, he will find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride, he will find thee a horse.
Proverb, (Danish)

If God give not bushelfuls, he gives spoonfuls.
Proverb, (Danish)

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Proverb, (Jewish)

If God shuts one door, He opens another.
Proverb, (Irish)

If he should ask for wine, box his ears.
Proverb, (Latin)

If he waits long enough the world will be his own.
Proverb, (Dutch)

If he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.
Proverb

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If his legs fail him, he fights on his knees.
Proverb

If hope were not, heart would break.
Proverb

If I am a fool, put your finger in my mouth.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If I am seen, I am joking; if I am not seen, I steal.
Proverb, (German)

If I am to be drowned, it shall be in clean water.
Proverb, (German)


If I canna do't by might, I'll do't by sleight.
Proverb

If I cannot move the powers above, Acheron itself shall be appealed to. [If fair means cannot, foul shall.]
Proverb

If I die, I forgive you; if I live, we shall see.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If I had not lifted up the stone, you had not found the jewel.
Proverb

If I have lost the ring I still have the fingers.
Proverb, (Italian)

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Proverb, (Chinese)

"If I rest, I rust," says the key.
Proverb, (German)

If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I know not for whom.
Proverb, (Italian)

If I went to sea I should find it dry.
Proverb, (Italian)

If I wrestle with a filthy thing, win or lose, I shall be defiled.
Proverb, (Latin)

If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers.
Proverb

If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands.
Proverb

If Ifs and Ans were pots and pans
There'd be no trade for tinkers.
Proverb

If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would go wanting work.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain.
Proverb

If it can lick, it can bite.
Proverb, (French)

If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow.
Proverb, (Danish)

If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
Proverb, (Gaelic)

If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it.
Proverb, (Army)

If it only depends on swearing, the cow is ours.
Proverb, (French)

If it pleases you, it does not displease me.
Proverb, (Latin)

If it rained maccaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!
Proverb, (Italian)

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.
Proverb

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Proverb

If it were not for the belly the back might wear gold.
Proverb

If it were not for the belly, the back might wear gold.
Proverb

If it's not one thing, it's another.
Proverb

If Janiveer's calends be summerly gay,
'Twill be winterly weather till the calends of May.
Proverb

If lies are to find credence, they must be patched with truth.
Proverb, (Danish)

If lies were Latin, there would be many learned men.
Proverb, (Danish)

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Proverb, (modern)

If love be the music of life, then play on.
Proverb

If love be timid it is not true.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime.
Proverb

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
Proverb

If my shirt knew my design, I'd burn it.
Proverb

If neither animal nor vegetable you be, then mineral you are.
Proverb

If on the eighth of June it rain,
It foretells a wet harvest, men sain.
Proverb

If one finger brought oil it soiled others.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.
Proverb, (Persian)

If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If one sheep leap o'er the dyke, all the rest will follow.
Proverb

If one will not another will; so are all maidens married.
Proverb

If one won't another will.
Proverb, (Dutch)

If one, two and three say you are an ass, put on the ears.
Proverb

If one, two, three say you are an ass, put on a tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?
Proverb

If people lead, the leaders will follow.
Proverb

If physic do not work, prepare for the kirk.
Proverb

If poor, act with caution.
Proverb, (Latin)

If pride were an art, how many doctors we should have.
Proverb, (Italian)

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If Saint Paul's day be fair and clear, it will betide a happy year.
Proverb

If some men knew who some men were, then some would pay the more honour there.
Proverb, (German)

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault. If he betrays you twice, it's your fault.
Proverb, (Italian)

If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt.
Proverb, (Haitian)

If sorrow would not talk it would die.
Proverb, (Serbo-Croatian)

If St. Paul's be fine and clear
It doth betide a happy year.
Proverb

If St. Vitus day be rainy weather
It will rain for thirty days together.
Proverb

If strokes are good to give, they are good to receive.
Proverb

If stupidity were a crime, half the human race would be hanged at every crossroads.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If the adder could hear and the blindworm could see.
Neither man nor beast would ever go free.
Proverb

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet 'twill leave some mark.
Proverb

If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
Proverb, (Danish)

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush.
Proverb

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Proverb

If the bitch were not in haste, she would not litter blind puppies.
Proverb, (German)

If the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.
Proverb

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.
Proverb, (Saudi)

If the cap fits, wear it.
Proverb

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the child does not cry, the mother knows not its wants.
Proverb, (Russian)

If the cock goes crowing to bed,
He's sure to rise with a watery head.
Proverb

If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.
Proverb

If the devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work.
Proverb

If the devil find a man idle, he'll set him to work.
Proverb

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.
Proverb

If the dog bark, go in; if the bitch bark, go out.
Proverb

If the dog is not at home, he barks not.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

If the eye do not admire, the heart will not desire.
Proverb

If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help.
Proverb, (German)

If the eyes don't see, the heart won't break.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the father is a frog, the son will be a frog.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.
Proverb

If the glacier perceives a headless army is clumsy, it feels a sort of emphatic guilt, I dare say.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

If the grass grow in Janiveer,
It grows the worse for't all the year.
Proverb

If the head aches all the members of the body suffer.
Proverb, (Latin)

If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.
Proverb, (Danish)

If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.
Proverb, (Italian)

If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work.
Proverb

If the hyena eats the sick man, he will eat the whole one.
Proverb, (Swahili)

If the ice will bear a maman before Christmas, it will not bear a goose after.
Proverb

If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet.
Proverb, (Irish)

If the laird slight a lady, so will all the kitchen boys.
Proverb

If the landlady is fair, the wine is fair.
Proverb, (German)

If the left hand battles the right, who wins?
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.
Proverb, (French)

If the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.
Proverb, (Latin)

If the mother had never been in the oven, she would not have looked for her daughter there.
Proverb

If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Proverb

If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the mountain.
Proverb

If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the oak's before the ash, Then you'll only get a splash; If the ash precedes the oak, Then you may expect a soak.
Proverb

If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
Proverb, (German)

If the owner of the goat is not afraid to travel by night, the owner of a hyena certainly will not be.
Proverb, (Hausa)

If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.
Proverb

If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.
Proverb, (Russian)

If the prince wants an apple, his servants take the tree.
Proverb, (German)

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Proverb, (Jewish)

If the rings are lost, here are the fingers still.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing.
Proverb, (German)

If the shoe fits, wear it.
Proverb

If the sky falls there will be pots broken.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the sky falls we shall catch larks.
Proverb

If the sky falls, hold up your hands.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If the sky were to fall we should catch plenty of larks.
Proverb, (French)

If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
Proverb

If the sun in red should set,
The next day surely will be wet;
If the sun should set in grey,
The next will be a rainy day.
Proverb

If the sun shines on me I care not for the moon.
Proverb, (Italian)

If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.
Proverb, (Persian)

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Proverb, (Russian)

If the townspeople are happy, look for the chief.
Proverb, (Liberian)

If the twenty-fourth of August be fair and clear,
Then hope for a prosperous autumn that year.
Proverb

If the walls were adamant, gold would take the town.
Proverb

If the weather is fine, put on you cloak; if it rains, do as you please.
Proverb, (French)

If the wife sins the husband is not innocent.
Proverb, (Italian)

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Proverb, (Latin)

If the wolf had stayed in the wood there would have been no hue and cry after him.
Proverb, (German)

If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.
Proverb, (German)

If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.
Proverb, (Italian)

If there be a hell, Rome is built over it.
Proverb, (German)

If there be a rainbow in the eve,
It will rain and leave;
But if there be a rainbow in the morrow,
It will neither lend nor borrow.
Proverb

If there be no remedy, why worry?
Proverb, (Spanish)

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.
Proverb, (Korean)

If there is a strong general, there will be no weak soldiers.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If there is a wave there must be a wind.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If there is beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If there is no reason, why would the tempua bird nest on the low branches?
Proverb, (Malay)

If there is no wind, row.
Proverb, (Latin)

If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character.
Proverb

If there were clouds we should not enjoy the sun.
Proverb

If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

If there were no fault, there would be no pardon.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

If there were no knaves or fools, all the world would be alike.
Proverb

If there were no receiver there would be no thief.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves.
Proverb

If they say you are good, ask you self if it be true.
Proverb

If things are getting easier, maybe you're headed downhill.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)


If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If this ball does not stick to the wall it will at least leave a mark.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.
Proverb, (English)

If thou dealest with a fox, think of his tricks.
Proverb

If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.
Proverb

If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled.
Proverb, (Dutch)

If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue.
Proverb, (Danish)

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If thy heart fail thee, why then climb at all?
Proverb

If thy strength will serve, go forward in the ranks; if not, stand still.
Proverb, (Confucian)

If to-day will not, to-morrow may.
Proverb

If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind.
Proverb

If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Proverb

If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could.
Proverb

If we pay for the music we will join in the dance.
Proverb, (French)

If we pay for the music we will take part in the dance.
Proverb, (German)

If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If wind blows on you through a hole,
Make your will and take care of your soul.
Proverb

If wise men play the fool, they do it with a vengeance.
Proverb

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Proverb

If wishes were true, shepherds would be kings.
Proverb, (French)

If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.
Proverb, (French)

If wood-hewing were an order, there would be fewer monks.
Proverb, (German)

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
Proverb, (Haitian)

If ye do wrang, mak amends.
Proverb

If ye would know a knave, give him a staff.
Proverb

If you always give, you will always have.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you always say No, you'll never be married.
Proverb

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Proverb, (Russian)

If you are a mouse don't follow frogs.
Proverb, (Italian)

If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard.
Proverb, (German)

If you are contented with your lot, you will live wisely.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you are fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
Proverb

If you are going to steal horses, steal thoroughbreds.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If you are kind to the cruel, you will be cruel to the kind.
Proverb

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you are praised by a villain, mend your ways at once.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If you are ready to believe, you are easy to deceive.
Proverb

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.
Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If you bow at all, bow low.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?
Proverb, (Bugandan)

If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon be selling things you do.
Proverb, (Pampango)

If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)

If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid.
Proverb

If you can't be good, be careful.
Proverb

If you can't beat em, join em.
Proverb

If you can't beat them, join them.
Proverb

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Proverb, (Yiddish, Italian)

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you can't get it in bushels, take it in spoonfuls.
Proverb, (German)

If you can't go over, you must go under.
Proverb, (Jewish)

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.
Proverb, (American)

If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus.
Proverb

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Proverb, (American)

If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
Proverb

If you cannot drive an ox, drive a donkey.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you cannot get the bird, get one of its feathers.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you cannot heal the wound, do not tear it open.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you cannot say it, point to it with your finger.
Proverb, (French)

If you care for the court, the court will bring cares for you.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
[Russian, Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'.]
Proverb, (Russian)

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Proverb, (African)

If you come up in this world, be sure not to go down in the next.
Proverb, (Irish)

If you deal in camels, make the doors high.
Proverb, (Afghan)

If you desire peace, be ever prepared for war.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.
Proverb, (Hausa)

If you do not have patience you cannot make beer.
Proverb, (African Ovambo)

If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands.
Proverb, (Russian)

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Proverb

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
Proverb

If you don't light fires, smoke won't get in your eyes.
Proverb, (German)

If you don't like it, you may lump it.
Proverb

If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Proverb

If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything.
Proverb

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you don't speculate, you can't accumulate.
Proverb

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
Proverb, (African)

If you don't work you shan't eat.
Proverb

If you drink in your pottage, you'll cough in your grave.
Proverb

If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it for breakfast.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you enter a goat stable, bleat; if you enter a water buffalo stable, bellow.
Proverb, (Indonesian)

If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If you fail to take away a strong man's sword when he is on the ground, will you do it when he gets up?
Proverb, (Nigerian)

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Proverb, (Cowboy)

If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.
Proverb, (Sanskrit)

If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.
Proverb

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Proverb, (Cowboy)

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you had teeth of steel, you could eat iron coconuts.
Proverb, (Singhalese)

If you hand be bad, mend it with good play.
Proverb

If you have a bulldozer, you don't need a snow shovel.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If you have a friend who is a doctor, make your bow and send him to the house of your enemy.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you have a friend who is a physician, send him to your enemy's house.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
Proverb, (German)


If you have a loitering servant, set his dinner before him and send him on an errand.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow.
Proverb, (French)

If you have done no ill the six days, you may play the seventh.
Proverb

If you have learnt to wait, you may be Queen of Sweden.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Proverb, (Arabian)

If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils knocking at your door.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you have no arrows in your quiver, go not with archers.
Proverb, (German)

If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Proverb

"If you have no money, turn placeman!" as the court fool said to his sovereign.
Proverb, (German)

If you have one pair of good soles it is better than two pairs of good uppers.
Proverb, (Irish)

If you have to swallow a frog, try not to think about it. If you have to swallow two frogs, don't swallow the smaller one first.
Proverb

If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you have, give; if you lack, seek.
Proverb, (Malay)

If you hear hoof beats, look for horses, not zebras.
Proverb, (Medical)

If you kill one flea in March you kill a hundred.
Proverb

If you know what a dollar is worth, try to borrow it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you laugh to-day, you will cry to-morrow.
Proverb

If you leap into a well, Providence is not bound to fetch you out.
Proverb

If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)

If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow.
Proverb, (Italian)

If you lie and then tell the truth, the truth will be considered a lie.
Proverb, (Sumerian)

If you lie down with a man, you may rise up as a woman.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.
Proverb

If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.
Proverb

If you like things easy, you'll have difficulties; if you like problems, you'll succeed.
Proverb, (Laotian)

If you listen at a hole, you will hear ill of yourself as well as others.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you listen to dogs barking, you'll go deaf and never learn much.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

If you love me, John, your acts will tell me so.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you make a jest, you must take a jest.
Proverb

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself.
Proverb

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Proverb

If you pay what you owe, what you're worth you'll know.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you play with fire you get burnt.
Proverb

If you play with the fool at home, he will play with you abroad.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak.
Proverb, (Dutch)

If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out.
Proverb

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Proverb, (African)

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you saw what the river carried, you would never drink the water.
Proverb, (Jamaican)

If you say that he is guilty of ingratitude, you need say no more.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Proverb, (Italian)

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Proverb, (Native American Minquass)

If you share a man's wealth, try to lessen his misfortune.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.
Proverb

If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you snooze, you loose.
Proverb

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Proverb, (Turkish)

If you squeeze a cork, you will get but little juice.
Proverb


If you starve for three days, there is no thought that does not invade your imagination.
Proverb, (Korean)

If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
Proverb, (Arabian)

If you strike a goad with your fist, your hand will suffer most.
Proverb, (Latin)

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you swear you will catch no fish.
Proverb, (English)

If you take big paces you leave big spaces.
Proverb, (Burmese)

If you touch pot you must touch penny.
Proverb

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.
Proverb

If you trust before you try,
You will repent before you die.
Proverb

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
Proverb, (Japanese)

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Proverb

If you want a thing done, go; if not, send.
Proverb

If you want an audience, start a fight.
Proverb, (Chinese)

If you want clear water, draw it from the spring.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you want fire, look for it in the ashes.
Proverb, (German)

If you want peace, prepare for war.
[Lat., Si vis pacem, para bellum.]
Proverb, (Latin)

If you want peace, you must prepare for war.
Proverb

If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to be revenged, hold your tongue.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to be served, serve yourself.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you want to beat a dog, say he eat your iron.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to keep camels, have a big enough door.
Proverb, (Afghan)

If you want to know secrets, seek for them in trouble or in pleasure.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to know what a ducat is worth, try to borrow one.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want to know what a man is really like, notice how he acts when he loses money.
Proverb

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Proverb

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
Proverb

If you want to thrash your wife, ask her for a drink of water in the sun.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
Proverb, (Haitian)

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Proverb, (Russian)

If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.
Proverb

If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you wish a thing done, go; if not, send.
Proverb

If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Proverb, (Romanian)

If you wish to be well served, serve yourself.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)

If you wish to live and thrive
Let the spider run alive.
Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Proverb, (Oriental)

If you would acquire fame, let not the sun shine on you in bed.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you would be a good judge, hear what every one says.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you would be happy for a week take a wife; if you would be happy for a month kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life plant a garden.
Proverb

If you would be healthy, be sage betimes.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you would be in good repute, let not the sun find you in bed.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you would be well served, serve yourself.
Proverb

If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese.
Proverb, (Danish)

If you would fruit have,
You must bring the leaf to the grave.
Proverb

If you would get ahead, be a bridge.
Proverb, (Welsh)


If you would grow poor without perceiving it, employ workmen and go to sleep.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you would have the dog follow you, give him bread.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

If you would have the lamp burn, you must pour oil into it.
Proverb, (German)

If you would have your work ill done, pay beforehand.
Proverb, (Italian)

If you would know secrets, look for them in grief or pleasure.
Proverb

If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some.
Proverb

If you would live healthy, be old early.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you would live well for a week, kill a hog; if you would live well for a month, marry; if you would live well all your life, turn priest.
Proverb

If you would make a thief honest, trust him.
Proverb, (Spanish)

If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask it of him again.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

If you would resemble the vulture, look out for a carcase. [Wait for dead men's shoes.]
Proverb, (Latin)

If you would succeed, you must not be too good.
Proverb, (Italian)

If you would understand men, study women.
Proverb, (French)

If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him.
Proverb

If you wrestle with a collier you will get a blotch.
Proverb

If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned.
Proverb

If you're going home, you don't get wet.
Proverb, (African)

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Proverb

If you've money, take a seat; it you've none, take to your feet.
Proverb, (German)

If young men had wit and old men strength everything might be well done.
Proverb, (Italian)

If your conduct be noble, you will be a king.
Proverb, (Latin)

If your ear burns, someone is talking about you.
Proverb

If your head is made of butter, don't be a baker.
Proverb, (French)

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
Proverb, (African)

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
Proverb, (French)

If youth but knew, and age were able,
Then poverty would be a fable.
[Fr., Si jeune savoit, et vieux pouvoit,
Jamais disette n'y auroit.]
Proverb, a proverb of the twelfth century

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save.
Proverb

If youth knew! if age could!
Proverb, (French)

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.
Proverb, (Haitian)

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.
Proverb, (American)

Ignorance is bliss.
Proverb, (American)

Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Proverb

Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
Proverb

Ignorance is the peace of life.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Proverb, (Greek)

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.
Proverb

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
[Lat., Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Ill beef ne'er made gude broo.
Proverb

Ill befal the belly that forgets eaten bread.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Ill begun, ill done.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Ill comes in ells and goes out by inches.
Proverb

Ill comes upon waur's back.
Proverb

Ill doers are ill deemers.
Proverb

Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Ill got, ill spent.
Proverb, (German)

Ill gotten goods never thrive.
Proverb

Ill gotten goods seldom prosper.
Proverb

Ill gotten, ill spent.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ill in kine and worse in beeves.
Proverb, (Italian)


Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.
Proverb, (Italian)

Ill luck enters by fathoms and departs by inches.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Ill luck is good for something.
Proverb

Ill natures never want a tutor.
Proverb

Ill news comes apace.
Proverb, (Italian)

Ill news travels fast.
Proverb, (Italian)

Ill tidings come soon enough.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Ill vessels seldom miscarry.
Proverb

Ill weed grows fast.
Proverb

Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Ill weeds grow apace.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian)

Ill weeds grow the fastest and last the longest.
Proverb, (Danish)

Ill weeds grows apace.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ill will never said well.
Proverb

Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
Proverb

Ill-doers, ill-deemers.
Proverb

Ill-gotten gains seldom prosper.
Proverb

Ill-gotten goods seldom prosper.
Proverb, (Latin, German)

Ill-gotten goods thrive not to the third heir.
Proverb

Ill-luck is good for something.
Proverb, (French)

Ill-luck upon ill-luck, and a stone for a pillow.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Ill-matched horses draw badly.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Ill-timed laughter is a dangerous evil.
Proverb, (Greek)

Illness comes in by mouth; ills come out by it.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Illness tells us what we are.
Proverb, (Italian)

Imagination gallops, judgment merely walks.
Proverb

Imitate the snail in deliberation, the bird in execution.
Proverb, (Latin)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Proverb

Immortal glory waits on talent.
Proverb, (Latin)

Impatience does not diminish but augments the evil.
Proverb

In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.
Proverb, (German)

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
Proverb, (English)

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.
Proverb, (Rwandan)

In a fiddler's house, all are dancers.
Proverb

In a flat country a hillock thinks itself a mountain.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

In a golden sheath a leaden knife.
Proverb, (Italian)

In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation.
Proverb, (Russian)

In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.
Proverb, (Jewish)

In a smith's house the knife is wooden.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Proverb

In a very old tree, you may be certain that the sapwood is on the outside, while the heartwood is in the middle.
Proverb, (Maaori)

In a wood don't walk behind another.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In all games it is good to leave off a winner.
Proverb

In an ant colony dew is a flood.
Proverb, (Afghan)

In an ermine spots are soon discovered.
Proverb

In April, come he will;
In May, he sings all day;
In June he alters his tune;
In July he prepares to fly;
In August, go he must;
If he stay till September,
'Tis as much as the oldest man can ever remember.
Proverb

In at one ear and out at the other.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese)

In avoiding Charybdis, he falls into Scylla.
Proverb, (Latin)

In avoiding that which is evil I have found that which is good.
Proverb, (Latin)

In bad luck, hold out; in good luck, hold in.
Proverb, (German)


In Blindman's land your one-eyed man's a god.
Proverb

In borrowing an angel, in repaying a devil.
Proverb, (French)

In calm water every ship has a good captain.
Proverb

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
Proverb, (Legal)

In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
Proverb, (Latin)

In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another.
Proverb

In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him.
Proverb

In default of bread, meal cakes are good.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

In dock, out nettle.
Proverb

In eating 'tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In every country the sun rises in the morning.
Proverb

In every family's cooking pot is one black spot.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In every pomegranate a decayed pip is to be found.
Proverb, (Latin)

In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

In fair weather prepare for foul.
Proverb

In flying from one enemy you encounter another.
Proverb, (Latin)

In for a penny, in for a pound.
Proverb, (English)

In forming new friendships, forget not old friends.
Proverb, (Latin)

In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In giving and taking it is easy mistaking.
Proverb

In God we trust; all others pay cash.
Proverb, (American)

In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.
Proverb, (French)

In his decision the judge with seven reasons gives only one in court.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will.
Proverb, (Greek)

In hunting and in love you begin when you like and leave off when you can.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In less than a thousand years we shall all be bald.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In love is no lack.
Proverb

In love's wars, he who flieth is conqueror.
Proverb

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
Proverb, (French)

In March, the birds begin to search;
In April, the corn begins to fill;
In May, the birds begin to lay.
Proverb

In marriage cheat who can.
Proverb, (French)

In men every mortal sin is venial, in women every venial sin is mortal.
Proverb, (Italian)

In misfortune we need help, not lamentation.
Proverb, (Latin)

In my own city my name, in a strange city my clothes procure me respect.
Proverb

In my own house I am a king.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In old houses many mice, in old furs many lice.
Proverb, (German)

In politics, a man must learn to rise above principle.
Proverb, (American)

In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In prosperity look out for squalls.
Proverb, (Latin)

In prosperity no altars smoke.
Proverb, (Italian)

In prosperity think of adversity.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church; by a Frenchman, a fort; by a Dutchman, a warehouse; and by an Englishman, an alehouse.
Proverb

In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.
Proverb

In small boxes the best spice.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In small woods may be caught large hares.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In space comes grace.
Proverb

In still water are the largest fish.
Proverb, (Danish)

In still water the worms are worst.
Proverb, (Danish)

In still waters are the largest fish.
Proverb, (Danish)


In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Proverb

In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.
Proverb

In the bagpiper's house they are all dancers.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In the broken nest there are no whole eggs.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In the coldest flint there is hot fire.
Proverb

In the country of the blind blessed is he that hath one eye.
Proverb, (Italian)

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Proverb

In the deepest water is the best fishing.
Proverb

In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.
Proverb, (French)

In the end things will mend.
Proverb

In the evening one may praise the day.
Proverb, (German)

In the fiddler's house every one is a dancer.
Proverb, (French)

In the forehead and the eye
The lecture of the mind doth lie.
Proverb

In the fray the weak are strong.
Proverb, (Italian)

In the garden more grows, than the gardener sows.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In the grave, dust and bones jostle not for the wall.
Proverb

In the great sea fish is always to be caught. [There is a greater chance for enterprise in a large place.]
Proverb, (Latin)

In the kingdom of the blind men, those who are blessed with one eye are kings.
Proverb, (French)

In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In the long run, the greyhound kills the hare.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.
Proverb, (German)

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In the midst of our mirth some annoyance always arises to vex us.
Proverb, (Latin)

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
Proverb, (English)

In the old of the moon, a cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon.
Proverb

In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute.
Proverb, (Chinese)

In the report, of riches and goodness always bate one half.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In the rich woman's house she always commands; he never.
Proverb, (Spanish)

In the snare laid for others is your foot taken.
Proverb, (Latin)

In the tail lies the venom.
Proverb, (French)

In the very act of committing an offence. [Taken red handed.]
Proverb, (Latin)

In the war of love who flies conquers.
Proverb, (Italian)

In time a mouse will gnaw threw a cable.
Proverb, (Dutch)

In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.
Proverb, (Latin)

In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty,
In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
Proverb

In time of sickness man is ever on his best behaviour.
Proverb, (Latin)

In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.
Proverb, (German)

In times of peace we should think of war.
Proverb, (Latin)

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In times of adversity, not one in twenty.
Proverb, (English)

In too much disputing truth is lost.
Proverb, (French)

In trust is treason.
Proverb

In vain does a man possess property if he makes no use of it.
Proverb, (Latin)

In vain he craves advice that will not follow it.
Proverb

In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird.
Proverb

In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger.
Proverb, (Danish)

In war time there is pay for every horse.
Proverb, (Italian)

In war, hunting, and love, for one pleasure a hundred pains.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

In wine there is truth.
[Lat., In vino veritas.]
Proverb, (Latin)

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.
Proverb, (French)


Incense intoxicates and every one wishes for it.
Proverb, (French)

Indecision is the key to flexibility.
Proverb

Indulge not in boisterous mirth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
Proverb

Industry is the parent of fortune.
Proverb, (German)

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.
Proverb, (French)

Ingratitude is the world's reward.
Proverb, (German)

Ingratitude sickens benevolence.
Proverb, (German)

Injuries destroy affection.
Proverb, (Latin)

Injuries don't use to be written on ice.
Proverb

Injuries put us on our guard.
Proverb, (Latin)

Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.
Proverb, (Latin)

Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom.
Proverb, (Italian)

Injury is to be measured by malice.
Proverb

Ink, if not used, will dry up.
Proverb, (Polish)

Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a mask.
Proverb

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.
Proverb

Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.
Proverb, (English)

Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Instead of a fish he gives you a scorpion.
Proverb, (Latin)

Instead of a treasure, coals! ["'Rum,' I hopes! 'Baccy,' I thinks! 'Tracts,' by jingo!" Sailor's remark on discovering that he had picked up a bottle of tracts.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.
Proverb, (German)

Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Proverb, (Irish)

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

Intemperance is the doctor's wet-nurse.
Proverb, (German)

Interest on debts grow without rain.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Interest will not lie.
Proverb

Interfere not in the quarrels of others.
Proverb, (Latin)

Into every life a little rain must fall.
Proverb

Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone.
Proverb

Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone.
Proverb

Invalids live longest.
Proverb, (German)

Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Iron does not clang by itself.
Proverb, (Madagasy)

Iron may be rubbed so long that it gets heated.
Proverb, (French)

Iron that is not used soon rusts.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It befits the king to be liberal, for he is sure of never falling into poverty.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It chances in an hour, that happens not in seven years.
Proverb

It dawns none the sooner for all one's early rising.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It destroys the craft not to learn it.
Proverb, (Irish)

It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes.
Proverb, (Danish)

It does not depend upon the dog when the horse shall die.
Proverb, (Danish)

It does not fall to the lot of all to smell of musk.
Proverb, (Latin)

It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
Proverb, (Cowboy)

It doubles the value of a gift to be well-timed.
Proverb, (Latin)

It early pricks that will he a thorn.
Proverb

It fares ill with the house when the distaff commands the sword.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It fares ill with the house where the spinning-wheel commands the sword.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It flies at our approach but follows us as we retire. [A Shadow, Glory, or Love.]
Proverb, (Latin)


It flies gently, but wounds deeply. [Slander.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It flows like a fountain from a broomstick.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It goes ill in the house where the hen sings and the cock is silent.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It grieveth one dog that another goeth into the kitchen.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It hangs by a hair.
Proverb, (Latin)

It hangs upon a silken thread.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It has become a proverb.
Proverb, (Latin)

It has been blowing hard--the dirt has been blown into high places.
Proverb, (Danish)

It has caused injury and will do so again.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a bad action that success cannot justify.
Proverb

It is a bad bargain, where both are losers.
Proverb

It is a bad cloth that will take no color.
Proverb

It is a bad game where nobody wins.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another's.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from the farm.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a bad hen that lays in neighbour's houses.
Proverb, (German)

It is a bad horse that does not earn his fodder.
Proverb, (German)

It is a bad sack that will abide no clouting.
Proverb

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be known for one.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is a bad thing to be poor, and seem poor.
Proverb

It is a bad well into which one must put water.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

It is a bad well that need water to be carried to it.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.
Proverb

It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.
Proverb, (Japanese)

It is a blessing in disguise.
Proverb

It is a bold mouse that breeds in the cat's ear.
Proverb

It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the cat's ear.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a cart if it goes well, otherwise it is but timber.
Proverb, (Hindustani)

It is a dear collop that is cut out of thine own flesh.
Proverb

It is a disgrace to be praised by those who deserve no praise.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor.
Proverb

It is a foul bird that fills his own nest.
Proverb

It is a fraud to connive at a fraud.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a good answer which knows when to stop.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is a good file that cuts iron without making a noise.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is a good horse that never stumbles,
And a good wife that never grumbles.
Proverb

It is a good horse that never stumbles.
Proverb, (French)

It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none.
Proverb

It is a great art to laugh at you own misfortune.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is a hard morsel that chokes.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.
Proverb

It is a hard-fought field where none escapes.
Proverb

It is a lazy bird that will not build its own nest.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a long lane that has no turning.
Proverb

It is a long road that has no turning.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is a loss of soap to wash the ass's head.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is a mean thing to despise unsuccessful merit.
Proverb, (Latin)


It is a miserable habit to be poor.
[Lat., Gaudium est miseris socios habuisse penarum.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's.
Proverb

It is a pain both to pay and pray.
Proverb

It is a poor dog that's not worth whistling for.
Proverb

It is a poor fox that has but one hole.
Proverb, (German)

It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
Proverb

It is a poor horse that is not worth his oats.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)

It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is a poor stake that cannot stand one year in the ground.
Proverb

It is a proud horse that will not bear his own provender.
Proverb

It is a rank courtesy when a man is forced to give thanks for his own.
Proverb

It is a sad burden to carry a dead man's child.
Proverb

It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
Proverb

It is a sair dung bairn that dare not greet.
Proverb

It is a silly bargain where nobody gets.
Proverb

It is a silly goose that come to the fox's sermon.
Proverb

It is a sin to belie the devil.
Proverb

It is a sin to steal a pin.
Proverb

It is a solace to the miserable to have a companion in their grief.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen crows.
Proverb, (French)

It is a sorry house where the hens crow and the cock is silent.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.
Proverb, (French)

It is a wise child that knows its own father.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

It is a wise son that knows his own father.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is a wretched position to be dependent on others for support.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is advantageous to follow advice, for you will succeed in life.
Proverb, (Philippine)

It is all one whether you are bit a dog or a bitch.
Proverb, (French)

It is all one whether you die of sickness or of love.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is all over: I may as well go and hand myself.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is always good to have two strings to your bow.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is always term time in the court of conscience.
Proverb

It is always well to keep hold of your horse's bridle.
Proverb, (French)

It is an absurdity that he should rule others who cannot command himself.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is an easy task to improve upon an invention.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.
Proverb, (English)

It is an honourable thing to be accused by those who are open to accusation.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is an ill battle where the devil carries the colours.
Proverb

It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
Proverb, (German, Portuguese, Spanish)

It is an ill counsel that hath no escape.
Proverb

It is an ill procession where the devil bears the cross.
Proverb

It is an ill turn that does no good to any one.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Proverb

It is approved alchemy to have an income and spend nothing.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

It is as bad to have too many friends as no friends at all.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is as bad to spit out the fire and be shamed, as it is to swallow it and be burnt.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is as cheap sitting as standing.
Proverb

It is as hard to please a knave as a knight.
Proverb

It is as much intemperance to weep too much, as to laugh too much.
Proverb


It is as well to be naked as to have no covering.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.
Proverb, (French)

It is bad baking without flour and water.
Proverb, (German)

It is bad for puppies to play with bear-cubs.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is bad iron in which there is no steel.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is bad marketing with empty pockets.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is bad preaching to deaf ears.
Proverb, (German)

It is bad to be between two fires.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is bad to contend about trifles.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It is bad to lean against a falling wall.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new.
Proverb

It is best to be on the safe side.
Proverb

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is best to learn wisdom from the follies of others.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is best to play with equals.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is best to trust to two anchors. [Have two strings to your bow.]
Proverb

It is better the child should cry than the father.
Proverb, (German)

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead the rest of your life.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is better to be always prepared than to suffer once. [Keep oil in your lamps.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to be born lucky than rich.
Proverb

It is better to be entirely without a book than to believe it entirely.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It is better to be loved than feared.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

It is better to be the first on one's race than the last (meanest).
Proverb, (French)

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Proverb, (French)

It is better to bend than break.
Proverb, (French)

It is better to blow than burn your mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is better to buy dearly than to hunger direly.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is better to deal with a whole fool than half a fool.
Proverb, (German)

It is better to enjoy what we possess than to hanker after other things.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to exist unknown to the law.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is better to fly than to remain in disgrace.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to give than to receive.
Proverb

It is better to have a husband without love than jealous.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is better to have to do with God than with his saints.
Proverb, (French)

It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak.
Proverb

It is better to hear the nightingale sing than the mouse gnaw.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is better to irritate a dog than an old woman.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is better to leave than to lack.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is better to leave the child's nose dirty than wring it off.
Proverb, (French)

It is better to lose than lose more.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is better to marry a shrew than a sheep.
Proverb

It is better to refuse than to accept and not to go.
Proverb, (Malagasy)

It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is better to satisfy our hunger than to be clothed in purple.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to say nothing than not enough.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to scrape the cheese than to peel it.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is better to strive with a stubborn ass than to carry the wood on one's back.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
Proverb

It is better to turn back than go astray.
Proverb, (German)

It is better to turn back than to persevere in an evil course.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is better to walk fast than to grow angry at the forest.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to lie than to sit.
Proverb, (Hindu)

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is but fair that he who requires indulgence for his own offences should grant it to others.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is comparison that makes men miserable.
Proverb

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is cruel to refer to those things which cause sorrow.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great, they throw the stones at your head.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is day still while the sun shines.
Proverb

It is dear honey that must be licked off thorns.
Proverb, (German)

It is dear-bought butter that is licked off a woolcomb.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is difficult to get many heads under one hat.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is difficult to hide what everybody knows.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is difficult to spit honey out of a mouth full of gall.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is difficult to tie an unborn horse to the manger.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is difficult to trap an old fox.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easier to abstain than to restrain.
Proverb, (French)

It is easier to blame than do better.
Proverb, (German)

It is easier to build two chimneys that to maintain one.
Proverb

It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep fire on one.
Proverb, (German)

It is easier to descend than ascend.
Proverb

It is easier to fall than rise.
Proverb

It is easier to fill a rogue's belly than his eye.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easier to get away from the back than the bottom.
Proverb, (French)

It is easier to guard against a bushel of fleas than a woman.
Proverb, (German)

It is easier to know how to do than it is to do.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them.
Proverb

It is easier to pull down than to build up.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is easier to raise the Devil than to lay him.
Proverb

It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue.
Proverb

It is easier to stem the brook than the river.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Proverb

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
Proverb, (Greek)

It is easier to win good luck than to retain it.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to be generous with another man's money.
Proverb

It is easy to be liberal out of another man's purse.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is easy to be wise after the event.
Proverb

It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to bowl down hill.
Proverb

It is easy to cut thongs form other men's leather.
Proverb, (Dutch)


It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)

It is easy to find the rod when another finds the bottom.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to give advice when all goes well.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is easy to halve the potato where there's love.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is easy to help him, who is willing to be helped.
Proverb, (German)

It is easy to manage when fortune favors.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to poke another man's fire.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to preach fasting with a fully belly.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is easy to rob an orchard when noon keeps it.
Proverb

It is easy to set a cask a rolling. [To influence a fool.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to swim, when another holds up your head.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is easy to threaten a bull from a window.
Proverb, (Italian)

"It is easy to work with a good comb," said the devil, when he combed his mother's hair with a pitchfork."
Proverb, (Danish)

It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is folly to drown on dry land.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is folly to fear what one cannot avoid.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is folly to gape against an oven.
Proverb, (French)

It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is folly to take a thorn out of another's foot and put it into your own.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is good beating proud folks, for they will not complain.
Proverb

It is good fishing in troubled waters.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Spanish)

It is good living under the shadow of the belfry.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is good rowing with set sail.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is good sailing with wind and tide.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is good sheltering under an old hedge.
Proverb

It is good sleeping in a whole skin.
Proverb

It is good speaking that improves good silence.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is good spinning from another's yarn.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is good to be near of kin to an estate.
Proverb

It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is good to beat a proud man when he is alone.
Proverb, (French)

It is good to beware by other men's harms.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is good to buy when another wants to sell.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is good to fear the worst, the best will be the welcomer.
Proverb

It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is good to have a hatch before the door.
Proverb

It is good to have friends everywhere.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is good to have friends in all parts.
Proverb, (French)

It is good to hold the clothes of one who is swimming.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
Proverb, (Arab)

It is good to lend to God and to the soil--they pay good interest.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy.
Proverb

It is good to sleep in a whole skin.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, German)

It is good to warm oneself by another's fire.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is Greek to me.
Proverb

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Proverb

It is hard to be wretched, but worse to be known so.
Proverb

It is hard to blow with a full mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)


It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
Proverb, (German)

It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is hard to find a pin in the dark.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is hard to glean after a niggardly husbandman.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to halt before a cripple.
Proverb

It is hard to labour with an empty belly.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to laugh and cry both with a breath.
Proverb

It is hard to live in Rome and strive against the Pope.
Proverb

It is hard to lure hawks with empty hands.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to make a fire on a cold hearth.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to please all.
Proverb

It is hard to please every one.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is hard to sail without wind, and to grind without water.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to sit in Rome and strive against the Pope.
Proverb

It is hard to steal where the host himself is a thief.
Proverb, (German)

It is hard to steal where the host is a thief.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is hard to swim against the stream.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to teach old dogs to bark.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.
Proverb

It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It is harder work getting to hell than to heaven.
Proverb, (German)

It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere.
Proverb

It is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail.
Proverb

It is ill catching hares with drums.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is ill done to chain a dragon for roasting your meat.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

It is ill fishing before the net.
Proverb, (English)

It is ill healing of an old sore.
Proverb

It is ill jesting with edged tools.
Proverb

It is ill prizing of green barley.
Proverb, (English)

It is ill putting a naked sword in a madman's hand.
Proverb

It is ill sailing against wind and tide.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope.
Proverb

It is ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.
Proverb

It is ill striving against the stream.
Proverb

It is ill takin' the breeks off a highlandman.
Proverb

It is ill taking the breeks off a Hielandman.
Proverb

It is ill to drive black hogs in the dark.
Proverb

It is ill waiting for dead men's shoes.
Proverb

It is in putting it into the oven that the loaf is made crooked.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is in vain for a man to rise early who has the repute of lying in bed all the morning.
Proverb, (French)

It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is in vain to lay a net in sight of the birds.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is in vain to lean the ox to the water if he is not thirsty.
Proverb, (French)

It is inexcusable to have remained long away, and return empty-handed.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is just that the priest should live by the altar.
Proverb, (French)

It is lawful to learn even from an enemy.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is love that makes the world go round.
Proverb, (French)


It is loving too much to die of love.
Proverb, (French)

It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.
Proverb

It is merry in hall when beards wag all.
Proverb

It is merry when gossips meet.
Proverb

It is merry when knaves meet.
Proverb

It is more difficult to bridle the tongue than to conquer an army.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is more difficult to contend with oneself than with the world.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear it.
Proverb

It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest.
Proverb, (German)

It is more painful to do nothing than something.
Proverb

It is more wicked to love a sin than to commit one.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is never too late to ask what time it is.
Proverb

It is never too late to learn.
Proverb

It is never too late to mend.
Proverb

It is no advantage for a man in fever to change his bed.
Proverb

It is no business of mine; may it go to the devil!
Proverb, (Latin)

It is no child's play when an old woman dances.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

It is no more pity to see a woman weep than to see a goose go barefoot.
Proverb

It is no play where one greets and another laughs.
Proverb

It is no sin to sell dear, but a sin to give ill measure.
Proverb

It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is no time to stoop when the head is off.
Proverb

It is no use crying over spilt milk.
Proverb

It is no use fretting after last winter's snow.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure.
Proverb

it is not all butter that the cow yields.
Proverb

It is not all gold that glitters.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not all who turn their backs that flee.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not allowed in war to blunder twice.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is not always good to be wise.
Proverb, (German)

It is not as thy mother says, but as thy neighbours say.
Proverb

It is not at the altar that we should consider the course we would take.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is not becoming to play the fox, or to play up on both sides.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is not easy suddenly to cast aside a fancy long indulged in.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not easy to know your butter in another man's cabbage.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not easy to pluck hairs from a bald pate.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not easy to show the way to a blind man.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not easy to steal in thieves' houses.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
Proverb

It is not easy to walk upon the devil's ice.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Proverb, (German, Italian)

It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it.
Proverb, (French)

It is not enough to know how to steal, one must know also how to conceal.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not enough to run; one must start in time.
Proverb, (French)


It is not every flower that smells sweet.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not every hog that the crow will ride.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not every man that can carry a falcon on his hand.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not every one who takes the right sow by the ear.
Proverb, (Danish)

"It is not for my own sake," said the fox, "that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood."
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not for nothing that the devil lays himself down in the ditch.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not for the good of the cow when she is driven in a carriage.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not for the swan to teach eaglets to sing.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not good to be the poet of a village.
Proverb, (German)

It is not good to want and to have.
Proverb

It is not honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not how long we live but how.
Proverb

It is not how long, but how well we live.
Proverb

It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the wind from blowing.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is not lost that a friend gets.
Proverb

It is not lost that comes at last.
Proverb

It is not necessary to fall into a well to know its depth.
Proverb

It is not necessary to fish up every bucket that falls into the well.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies.
Proverb

It is not the big oxen that do the best day's work.
Proverb, (French)

It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast.
Proverb

It is not the cowl that makes the friar.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is not the fine, but the coarse and ill-spun that breaks.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is not the greatest beauties that inspire the most profound passion.
Proverb, (French)

It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is not the load but the overload that kills.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is not the long day, but the heart that does the work.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is not the same thing to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is not the suffering, but the cause, that makes a martyr.
Proverb

It is not the surplice that makes parson or clerk.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.
Proverb, (Czech)

It is not till the cow has lost her tail, that she discovers its value.
Proverb, (German)

It is not want but abundance that makes avarice.
Proverb

It is not What she is, but What has she.
Proverb

It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.
Proverb, (African)

It is not with saying, "Honey," "Honey," that sweetness will come into the mouth.
Proverb

It is not work that kills, but worry.
Proverb

It is not worth a button.
Proverb

It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning.
Proverb, (French)

It is nothing, they are only killing my husband.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It is nothing, they are only thrashing my husband.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is of no use making shoes for geese.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is often better to go by a circuitous than by a direct path.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is one thing to boast, another to fight.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones.
Proverb, (French)

It is only good bargains that ruin.
Proverb, (French)

It is only idle people who can find time for everything.
Proverb, (French)

It is only the bashful that lose.
Proverb, (French)

It is only the blind who ask why they are loved who are fair.
Proverb, (Danish)


It is only the first bottle that is dear.
Proverb, (French)

It is pleasant driving when there is no danger of upsetting.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is pleasant enough going afoot when you lead your horse by the bridle.
Proverb, (French)

It is pleasant to cut thongs on another man's leather.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg, that another has broken his neck.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is possible for a ram to kill a butcher.
Proverb

It is prophet-drink (i.e. water).
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is safe taking a shive of a cut loaf.
Proverb

It is safe to lend barley to him who has oats.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is safer to irritate a dog than an old woman.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is safest sailing within reach of the shore.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is soon known which trees will bear fruit. [A natural bent for good or evil is easily perceptible in youth.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It is sweet and meritorious to die for one's country.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is the beautiful bird which gets caged.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It is the blood of the soldier that makes the general great.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

It is the duty of a good sportsman to kill game freely, but not kill all.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the duty of friends mutually to correct each other.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the essence of good taste to do that which is consistent with our position.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the fear of offence that makes men swallow poison.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

It is the first step that is difficult.
Proverb

It is the fool's sheep that break loose twice.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.
Proverb, (Scandanavian)

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
Proverb

It is the master-wheel that makes the mill go round.
Proverb, (French)

It is the men who make a city.
Proverb, (Greek)

It is the nature of the beast.
Proverb

It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It is the old cow's notion that she never was a calf.
Proverb, (French)

It is the pace that kills.
Proverb

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the perfection of art when no trace of the artist appears.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the petty expenses that empty the purse.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
Proverb, (Irish)

It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is the sauce that makes the fish edible.
Proverb, (French)

It is the season not the soil that brings the crop.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the tone that makes the music.
Proverb, (French)

It is the tree that gives its nature to the fruit.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is the unforeseen that always happens.
Proverb

It is the very backbone of wisdom not to trust too hastily.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is thinking about the load that makes one tired.
Proverb

It is thou must honour the place, not the place thee.
Proverb

It is time enough to take off your hat when you see the man.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is too late for the bird to scream when it is caught.
Proverb, (French)

It is too late to come with water when the house is burnt down.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is too late to cry "Hold hard!" when the arrow has left the bow.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It is too late to cry cat, when the bacon is eaten.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
Proverb

It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)

It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.
Proverb

It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is too much to expect of a cat that she should sit by the milk and not lap it.
Proverb, (German)

It is truth that makes a many angry.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is ungentlemanly to lie; truthfulness becomes the gentleman.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is unlucky to marry in May.
Proverb

It is useless to gape against an oven.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is vain to do that by a multitude which a few can accomplish.
Proverb, (Latin)

It is vain to fish if the hook is not baited.
Proverb, (Italian)

It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is very savoury to eat scot free.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It is well to buy oil as well as salt. [Different remedies should be at hand when required.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It is well to fly low on account of the branches.
Proverb, (French)

It is well to have clean bread in one's wallet.
Proverb, (Danish)

It is well to know how to be silent till it is time to speak.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

It is well to leave off playing when the game is at its best.
Proverb, (French)

It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but wisdom to let them alone.
Proverb

It little avails the unfortunate to be brave.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It matters little whether we are the slaves of circumstance, or of man.
Proverb, (Latin)

It matters not what religion an ill man is of.
Proverb

It may be said that noisy barrels are easier to carry.
Proverb

It must be a hard winter when one wolf devours another.
Proverb, (Danish)

It must be true that all men say.
Proverb

It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool's head.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It needs a high wall to keep out fear.
Proverb, (Danish)

It needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.
Proverb, (Danish)

It needs but slight provocation to make the wolf devour the lamb.
Proverb, (Danish)

It needs no laran to prophesy snow at midwinter.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

It never rains but it pours.
Proverb

It never thunders but it rains.
Proverb, (Italian)

It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.
Proverb

It rings, it is empty.
Proverb, (Latin)

It rolled like water off a duck's back.
Proverb

It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.
Proverb

It smells of midnight oil. [An elaborate piece.]
Proverb, (Latin)

It smells of the lamp.
[Lat., Olet lucernam.]
Proverb

It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It takes a good many mice to kill a cat.
Proverb, (Danish)

It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.
Proverb, (African-America)

It takes a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, (American)

It takes a village to raise a child.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

It takes all sorts to make a world.
Proverb

It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of a house.
Proverb, (Italian)

It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It takes many words to fill a sack.
Proverb, (Danish)

It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job.
Proverb, (American)

It takes one to know one.
Proverb


It takes three generation to make a gentleman.
Proverb

It takes two to make a bargain.
Proverb

It takes two to make a quarrel.
Proverb

It takes two to tango.
Proverb

It was the piece of straw that broke the camel's back.
Proverb

It will all come out in the soap-suds.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It will be all the same a hundred years hence.
Proverb

"It will come back," said the man, when he gave his sow pork.
Proverb, (Danish)

It will not do to keep holidays before they come.
Proverb, (French)

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
Proverb

It won't do to trifle with fire.
Proverb, (French)

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.
Proverb, (French)

It would be clear enough even to a blind man.
Proverb, (Latin)

It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch,
To see a man live poor to die rich.
Proverb

It would puzzle even Apollo to understand it.
Proverb, (Latin)

It's a bad child who does not take advice.
Proverb, (African)

It's a bad hen that won't scratch herself.
Proverb, (Irish)

It's a bad mouthful that chokes.
Proverb, (Italian)

It's a free country.
Proverb

It's a long lane that has no turning.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
Proverb

It's a poor sheep that cannot carry its own wool.
Proverb, (German)

It's a sin to steal a pin.
Proverb

It's a very proud horse that will not carry his oats.
Proverb, (Italian)

It's a well-known fact, dirt stinks more when stirred.
Proverb, (Latin)

It's all grist to the mill.
Proverb

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
Proverb, (Latin)

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Proverb

It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Proverb

It's as difficult to be rich without bragging as it is to be poor without complaining.
Proverb, (Chinese)

It's as hard to see a woman crying as it is to see a barefooted duck.
Proverb, (Irish)

It's bad combing where there is no hair.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's better to arrive on time than to be invited.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It's dogged as does it.
Proverb

It's enough to make a parson swear, or a quaker kick his mother.
Proverb

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor.
Proverb, (Italian)

It's for her own good that the cat purrs.
Proverb, (Irish)

It's good dancing on another man's floor.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's good feasting in another's hall.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's good steering with wind and tide.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's good to be off wi' the old love
Before ye be on wi' the new.
Proverb

It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's ill jesting with edged tools.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.
Proverb

It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes.
Proverb

It's never too late.
Proverb

It's no crime to steal from a thief.
Proverb

It's no delay to stop to edge the tool.
Proverb, (Irish)

It's no shame to look into the warm spring sun and regret a lost limb.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
Proverb, (Irish)

It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Proverb

It's not healthy to swallow books without chewing.
Proverb, (German)

It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise after he is dead.
Proverb

It's not shameful not to know, but it's shameful not to ask.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)

It's not the fault of the mouse, but of the one who offers him the cheese.
Proverb, (Mexican)

It's not the fault of the parrot, but of the one who teaches him to talk.
Proverb, (Guatemalan)

It's not the fault of the pig, but of the one who scratches his back.
Proverb, (Argentinean)

It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
Proverb

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Proverb

It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
Proverb, (Spanish)

It's not worth crying over spilt milk.
Proverb

It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry.
Proverb, (Dutch)

It's the empty can that makes the most noise.
Proverb

It's the little things in life that count.
Proverb

It's the same donkey, but with a new saddle.
Proverb, (Afghan)

It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Proverb

It's your own lantern; don't poke holes in the paper.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Italian devotion and German fasting have no meaning.
Proverb, (Danish)

Its no use going to the goat's house to look for wool.
Proverb, (Irish)

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