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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - L -

Labour conquers all things.
Proverb, (Latin)

Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.
Proverb, (Danish)

Labour warms, sloth harms.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
Proverb, (Irish)

Lad's love is lassies' delight, and if lads won't love, lassies will flite.
Proverb

Lad's love's a busk of broom, not a while and soon done.
Proverb

"Ladies have ladies' whims." said crazy Ann, when she draggled her cloak in the gutter.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lambs don't runs with the mouth of the sleeping wolf.
Proverb, (Danish)

Land was never lost for want of an heir.
Proverb

Lang tarrying taks a' the thanks awa'.
[Long tarrying takes all the thanks away.]
Proverb

Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Large desire is endless poverty.
Proverb, (Indian)

Large thongs of another man's leather.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Large trees give more shade than fruit.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lasses and glasses are always in danger.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lasses are lads' leavings.
Proverb

Last but not least.
Proverb

Last make fast.
Proverb

Last ship, best ship.
Proverb, (English)

Late children are early orphans.
Proverb

Late fruit keeps well.
Proverb, (German)

Late hours and love and wine lead not to moderation in anything.
Proverb, (Latin)

Late repentance is rarely sincere.
Proverb, (Latin)

Late repentance is seldom true.
Proverb, (Latin)

Late repentance is seldom worth much.
Proverb, (Danish)

Laugh and grow fat.
Proverb

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
Proverb

Laugh with those that laugh.
Proverb, (Latin)

Laugh, if you are wise.
Proverb, (Latin)

Laughter abounds in the mouths of fools.
Proverb, (Latin)

Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away.
Proverb, (Japanese)


Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.
Proverb

Laughter makes good blood.
Proverb, (Italian)

Law catches flies, but lets hornets go free.
Proverb

Law helps the waking, luck may come to the sleeping.
Proverb, (Danish)

Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave.
Proverb, (Russian)

Law makers should not be law breakers.
Proverb

Law, logic, and Switzers may he hired to fight for anybody.
Proverb

Laws are silent in time of war.
Proverb

Laws control the lesser man; right conduct controls the greater one.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Laws go the way kings direct.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Laws go where dollars please.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Laws go where money pleases.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Laws have wax noses.
Proverb, (French)

Laws were made for rogues.
Proverb, (Italian)

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Lawsuits consume time, and money, and rest, and friends.
Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lawyers are bad Christians.
Proverb, (German)

Lawyers' gowns are lined with the wilfulness of their clients.
Proverb

Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.
Proverb, (French)

Lawyers' houses are built on the heads of fools.
Proverb

Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of suitors.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lay it on thick and some of it will stick.
Proverb

Lay on more wood; ashes give money.
Proverb

Lay your hand on your bosom and you will not speak ill of another.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Layovers for meddlers.
Proverb

Laziness is often mistaken for patience.
Proverb, (French)

Lazy folk take the most pains.
Proverb

Lazybones take all day to get started.
Proverb, (German)

Leal heart lied never.
Proverb

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
Proverb

Lean meat from a fat pig.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Learn politeness from the impolite.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

Learn thou of learned men, th' unlearned of thee; for thus must knowledge propagated be.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Learn to creep before you run.
Proverb

Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learn to obey before you command.
Proverb, (Greek)

Learn to walk before you run.
Proverb

Learn weeping and thou shalt gain laughing.
Proverb

Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Proverb

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
Proverb, (Scottish)

Learned fools are the greatest fools.
Proverb, (German)

Learned fools exceed all fools.
Proverb, (German)

Learning has sour roots, but pleasant fruits.
Proverb, (Latin)

Learning is a golden urn that can never be stolen.
Proverb, (Mannar)

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learning is a weightless treasure you always carry easy.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learning is better than house and land.
Proverb

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learning is there for every man.
Proverb, (French)

Learning is treasure no thief can touch.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learning is weightless, treasure you can always carry easily.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Proverb

Learning makes people fit company for themselves.
Proverb, (English)

Least said is soonest mended.
Proverb

Least said, soonest mended.
Proverb

Least talk most work.
Proverb

Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
Proverb

Leave is light.
Proverb

Leave no nail unclenched.
Proverb, (Italian)

Leave not your staff at home.
Proverb, (Latin)

Leave off while the play is good.
Proverb

Leave off with an appetite.
Proverb

Leave the jest at its best.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Leave the minster where it is.
Proverb, (French)

Leave well alone.
Proverb

Leave well enough alone.
Proverb, (American)

Leaves enough, but few grapes.
Proverb

Lend and lose; so play fools.
Proverb

Lend not horse, nor wife, nor sword.
Proverb

Lend to your friend, and ask payment of your enemy.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lend your money and lose your friend.
Proverb, (English)

Length begets loathing.
Proverb

Length of time rots a stone.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men's tables.
Proverb, (Italian)

Less advice and more hands.
Proverb, (German)

Less is more.
Proverb

Less malevolence, or more power to exercise it.
Proverb, (Latin)

Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
Proverb

Let a child have its will, and it will not cry.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let a dog get at a dish of honey, and he will jump in with both legs.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.
Proverb

Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let alone makes many a loon.
Proverb

Let another man praise thee, not thine own mouth.
Proverb

Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark.
Proverb

Let bygones be bygones.
Proverb

Let deeds match words.
Proverb

Let each man do his best.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let every bird sing its own note.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let every fox take care of his own tail.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let every herring hang by its own tail.
Proverb

Let every man carry his own sack to the mill.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

Let every man have his due.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let every man look to the bread upon which he must depend.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let every man mind his own business, and leave others to theirs.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let every man mind his own business.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
Proverb, (English)

Let every one be content with what God has given him.
Proverb, (Portuguese)


Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Let every one mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended.
Proverb, (French)

Let every one sweep before his own door.
Proverb, (German)

Let every pedlar carry his own pack.
Proverb

Let every sheep hand by its own leg.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let every sheep hang by it own foot.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
Proverb

Let everyone pick his own nose.
Proverb, (Russian)

Let God's waters run over God's acres.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Let him bear the prize, who has deserved it.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let him eat the tough morsel who eat the tender.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let him fry in his own grease.
Proverb

Let him laugh who wins.
Proverb

Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.
Proverb

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
Proverb, (English)

Let him not be a lover who has not courage.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let him not complain of being cheated who buys cloth by the pattern.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let him play the instrument who knows how.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let him stay at the oar who has learnt to row.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let him take the oars who has learned to row.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let him that earns the bread eat it.
Proverb

Let him that has a mouth not say to another, Blow.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let him that is cold blow at the coal.
Proverb

Let him that itches scratch himself.
Proverb, (French, German)

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let him who does not know what war is go to war.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Let him who does not know you buy you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let him who feels he has a dirty nose wipe it.
Proverb, (French)

Let him who is cold blow the fire.
Proverb, (French)

Let him who is well off hold his tongue.
Proverb, (German)

Let him who is well off stay where he is.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let him who will not have advice have conflict.
Proverb, (Irish)

Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let his own wand ding.
Proverb

Let ilka herring hing by its ain head.
Proverb

Let it be a husband, though it be but a log.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let it be given to the most meritorious.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let it be well recorded that a harlot is a gate which leads to death.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let it go for what it is worth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let it roll; it will right itself.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Let lie what is too heavy to lift.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Let me go warm, and folks may laugh.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Let no man be the servant of another, who can be his own master.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let no man refuse to endure that which is common to the lot of all.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let no one say, "Of this water I will not drink."
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let no one take a pawn that eats.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let no shovel-beaked bird ever enter your yard.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let not a child sleep upon bones.
Proverb

Let not him that has a mouth ask another to blow.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let not the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen.
Proverb

Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
[Lat., Ne sutor ultra crepidam.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.
Proverb, (German)

Let not you shirt know your secret.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let not your shirt know all your thoughts.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let not your shirt know your way of thinking.
Proverb, (French)

Let not your sword be drawn at any man's bidding.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Proverb

Let nothing but good be said of the dead.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Let patience grow in your garden alway.
Proverb

Let people take and dogs bark.
Proverb, (German)

Let sleeping dogs lie.
Proverb

Let someone else acknowledge your virtues.
Proverb, (Maaori)

Let that flee stick to the wall.
Proverb

Let that which is lost be for God.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let the big dog eat.
Proverb, (American)

Let the blood be ever so thin, it is always thicker than water.
Proverb, (Danish)

Let the buyer be on his guard.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let the buyer beware.
Proverb

Let the cobbler stick to his sandals.
[Lat., Ne sutor ultra crepidam.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Let the dead bury the dead.
Proverb

Let the dead rest.
Proverb, (German)

Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar.
Proverb, (German)

Let the devil never find you unoccupied.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let the dog bark at me, so he don't bite me.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let the dog bark so he don't bite me.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let the experiment be made on a worthless body.
[Lat., Fiat experimentum in corpore vili.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Let the guest go before the storm bursts.
Proverb, (German)

Let the guts be full, for it is they that carry the legs.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Let the ignorant learn, and the learned delight in refreshing the memory.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let the injurer not forget.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let the miracle be wrought, though it be by the devil.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let the sun shine on me, for I care not for the moon.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let them be birds. (Small eggs make little soup.)
Proverb

Let them hate, so that they fear me.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let them laugh that win.
Proverb

Let them talk of men, and beg of me.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let them whip me in the market-place, provided it be not known at home.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let there be food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let there be no delay.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let there be no lack of food in the pigeon-house, and the pigeons will come to it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let those pater nosters be for your own soul. (Ironical, against swearing.)
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let us be judged of by our actions.
Proverb, (Latin)

Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let us go, where fate directs us.
Proverb, (Latin)


Let us have florins and we shall find cousins.
Proverb, (Italian)

Let us sit bent, and talk straight.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

Let well alone.
Proverb

Let what is lost go for God's sake.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.
Proverb, (German)

Let your letter stay for the post, not the post for the letter.
Proverb

Let your purse be your master.
Proverb

Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.
Proverb

Liars begin by imposing upon others, but end by deceiving themselves.
Proverb

Liars need good memories.
Proverb, (French)

Liars should have good memories.
Proverb, (German, Italian, Latin)

Liberal enough of another man's leather.
Proverb, (Latin)

Liberal hands make many friends.
Proverb, (Danish)

Liberate me from that bad fellow, myself.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lies and Latin go round the world.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men.
Proverb, (Hasidic)

Lies have short legs.
Proverb, (German, Italian)

Lies melt the snow.
Proverb, (German)

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

Life at court is often a short cut to hell.
Proverb, (Danish)

Life begins at forty.
Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what life is.
Proverb, (French)

Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain.
Proverb, (Fiji)

Life is made up of little things.
Proverb

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work.
Proverb, (Indian)

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
Proverb, (Native American Blackfoot)

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Life is sweet.
Proverb

Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Proverb

Life lies not in living but in liking.
Proverb

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
Proverb

Life's not all beer and skittles.
Proverb

Light burdens borne far become heavy.
Proverb, (French)

Light burdens carried far become heavy.
Proverb, (German)

Light cares speak, great ones are dumb.
Proverb, (Latin)

Light come, light go.
Proverb

Light gains make a heavy purse.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Light gains make heavy purse.
Proverb

Light griefs can speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
Proverb, (Latin)

Light is bad for sore eyes.
Proverb, (French)

Light is half a companion.
Proverb, (Genoese)

Light is light, though the blind man see it not.
Proverb, (German)

Lightly come, lightly go.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, German)

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Proverb

Like a collier's sack, bad without and worse within.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Like a parakeet that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Like author, like book.
Proverb

Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one hole make three.
Proverb


Like blood, like good, and like age, make the happiest marriage.
Proverb

Like blood, like means, and like age, make the happiest marriage.
Proverb, (German)

Like box-makers, more noise than work.
Proverb, (French)

Like breeds like.
Proverb

Like cures like.
Proverb, (Latin)

Like father, like son.
[Lat., Qualis pater talis filius.]
Proverb, (Latin, Portuguese)

Like king, like law; like law, like people.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Like likes like.
Proverb, (Latin)

Like lips, like lettuce.
Proverb, (Italian)

Like master, like man.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, German, Italian)

Like mistress, like maid.
Proverb, (Latin)

Like mother, like daughter.
Proverb

Like plays best with like.
Proverb, (Danish)

Like pot, like cover.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Like priest, like people.
Proverb, (Latin)

Like prince, like people.
Proverb, (Latin)

Like punishment and equal pain both key and keyhole do sustain.
Proverb

Like saint like incense.
Proverb, (French)

Like saint like offering.
Proverb, (Italian)

Like seeks like--a scabbed horse and a sandy dike.
Proverb, (Danish)

Like the curate's egg, good in parts.
Proverb

Like to like, Jack to Gill, a penny a pair.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Like well like bucket.
Proverb, (Italian)

Like will to like, as the devil said to the collier.
Proverb

Like will to like, be they poor or rich.
Proverb, (Dutch)

"Like will to like," as the devil said to the coal-burner.
Proverb, (German)

Like will to like.
Proverb, (Danish, French, Italian, Latin)

Likely lies in the mire when Unlikely gets over.
Proverb

Likeness causeth liking.
Proverb

Likeness is the mother of love.
Proverb

Lilies are whitest in a blackmoor's hand.
Proverb

Limit your inquiry after knowledge.
Proverb, (Latin)

Limping justice ne'er will fail
To hunt out the longest trail.
Proverb

Link by link the coat of mail is made.
Proverb, (French)

Lion-skins were never had cheap.
Proverb, (French)

Lions in time of peace; deer in war.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lip courtesy avails much and costs little.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Lip courtesy pleases much and costs little.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.
Proverb

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
Proverb, (Native American)

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Listen to that which is openly and seriously spoken.
Proverb, (Latin)

Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Proverb, (Irish)

Listeners hear no good of themselves.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Listeners never hear any good of themselves.
Proverb

Little and often fills the purse.
Proverb

Little and often makes a heap in time.
Proverb, (German)

Little beard, little modesty.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Little bird, little nest.
Proverb, (Spanish)


Little birds may pick a dead lion.
Proverb

Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.
Proverb

Little brooks make great rivers.
Proverb, (French)

Little by little as the cat ate the flickle.
Proverb

Little by little grow the bananas.
Proverb, (Congolese)

Little by little one goes far.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Little by little the bird builds its nest.
Proverb, (French)

Little by little, a little becomes a lot.
Proverb, (Tanzanian)

Little by little, one catches the monkey in the jungle.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

Little by little, the camel goes into the couscous.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches.
Proverb, (Italian)

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows.
Proverb, (Danish)

Little chips kindle fire, and big logs sustain it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Little drops produce the shower.
Proverb, (Latin)

Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised.
Proverb, (German)

Little fish are sweet.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)

Little fishes make the pike big.
Proverb, (German)

Little folk are soon angry.
Proverb, (Scottish)

Little folks are fond of talking about what great folks do.
Proverb, (German)

Little goods, little care.
Proverb

Little grain have I collected from a mass of chaff.
Proverb, (Latin)

Little intermeddling makes good friends.
Proverb

Little is done where many command.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Little kens the wife that sits by the fire
How the wind blows cold in Hurle-burle-swyre.
Proverb

Little knoweth the fat sow what the lean doth mean.
Proverb

Little leaks sink the ship.
Proverb

Little pitchers have large ears.
Proverb

Little pitchers have long ears.
Proverb, (French)

Little pots soon run over.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Little presents maintain friendship.
Proverb, (French)

Little saints also perform miracles.
Proverb, (Danish)

Little sorrows are loud, great ones silent.
Proverb, (Danish)

Little sticks kindle a fire, great ones put it out.
Proverb

Little strokes fell great oaks.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Proverb

Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Little things are pretty.
Proverb

Little things attract light minds.
Proverb

Little things please little minds.
Proverb, (Latin)

Little wood, much fruit.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Live according to your means.
Proverb, (Latin, Danish)

Live and learn.
Proverb, (Italian)

Live and let live.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Live for today for tomorrow never comes.
Proverb

Live long and prosper.
Proverb, (Vulcan)

Live near a lame man, and you will soon learn to limp.
Proverb, (Latin)

Live not beyond your means.
Proverb, (Latin)

Live to live and you will learn to live.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Live today, forget the past.
Proverb, (Greek)


Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Proverb, (Arab)

Live with vultures, become a vulture; live with crows, become a crow.
Proverb, (Laotian)

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Proverb, (Latin)

Loaves put awry into the oven come out crooked.
Proverb, (French)

Lock your door rather than accuse your neighbor.
Proverb, (Lebanese)

Locks and keys are not made for honest fingers.
Proverb, (German)

London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under.
Proverb

Long a widow weds with shame.
Proverb

Long absence changes friends.
Proverb, (French)

Long absent, soon forgotten.
Proverb, (Romanian)

Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.
Proverb

Long beards heartless,
Painted hoods witless,
Gay coats graceless
Makes England Thriftless.
Proverb

Long borrowed is not given.
Proverb, (German)

Long choosing and cheapening ends in buying nothing, or bad wares.
Proverb, (German)

Long fasting is no bread sparing.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Long fasting is no economy of food.
Proverb, (German)

Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past.
Proverb

Long is not for ever.
Proverb, (German)

Long life to the conqueror.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Long looked for comes at last.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Long on hair, short on brains.
Proverb, (French)

Long roads test the horse, long dealings the friend.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Long talk makes short days.
Proverb, (French)

Long tongue, short hand.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.
Proverb, (Russian)

Long-talked-of (or looked-for) comes at last.
Proverb, (German)

Long-tongued wives go long with bairn.
Proverb

Look at your corn in May,
And you'll come weeping away;
Look at the same in June,
And you'll come home in another tune.
Proverb

Look before you leap,
For snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
Proverb, (German)

Look before you leap.
Proverb, (Italian)

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Look for the hog at the oak.
Proverb, (Italian)

Look high and fall low.
Proverb

Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
Proverb,
(Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish)

Look not out for dead men's shoes.
Proverb

Look on the bright side.
Proverb

Look to the end.
[Lat., Respice finem.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Look to the main chance.
Proverb

Look with suspicion on the flight of an enemy.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lookers-on see most of the game.
Proverb

Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds.
Proverb, (Russian)

Looking for fish? Don't climb a tree.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Loose lips sink ships.
Proverb, (American)

Loquacity and lying are cousins.
Proverb, (German)

Lords and fools speak freely.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be all day hunting for it.
Proverb

Lose no rights, and commit no extortions.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Lose nothing for want of asking.
Proverb


Losers are always in the wrong.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Losing comes of winning money.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Losses make us more cautious.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lost time is never found again.
Proverb

Loth to bed and loth out of it.
Proverb

Loth to drink and loth to leave it off.
Proverb

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Proverb, (Russian)

Love and faith are seen in works.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Love and lordship like no fellowship.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Portuguese)

Love and poverty are hard to conceal.
Proverb, (Danish)

Love and pride stock Bedlam.
Proverb

Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
Proverb

Love begets love.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love begins at home.
Proverb, (German)

Love Bertrand love his dog.
Proverb, (French)

Love brooks no delay.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love can do much, money can do all.
Proverb, (German)

Love cannot be bought or sold, its only price is love.
Proverb

Love comes in at the window and foes out at the door.
Proverb

Love demands faith, and faith firmness.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love does much, money does all.
Proverb, (Catalan, French)

Love does much, money everything.
Proverb, (French)

Love does wonders, but money makes marriage.
Proverb, (French)

Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.
Proverb, (Polish)

Love expels jealousy.
Proverb, (French)

Love for those too easily won does not last long.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love grows with obstacles.
Proverb, (German)

Love has no law.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Love him who tells you your faults in private.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Love is a kind of military service.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love is an excuse for its own faults.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love is blind but sees afar.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love is blind, and greed insatiable.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Proverb

Love is blind.
Proverb

Love is full of trouble.
Proverb

Love is incompatible with fear.
Proverb

Love is lawless.
Proverb

Love is like a shuttlecock.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Proverb, (Swedish)

Love is like war, begin when you like and leave off when you can.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Love is love no matter whence it comes or in what form.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Love is master of all arts.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love is never without jealousy.
Proverb

Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
Proverb

Love is the art of making exceptions.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Love is the fruit of love.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love is the lodestone of love.
Proverb

Love is the true price at which love is bought.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love knows hidden paths.
Proverb, (German)

Love knows no law.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Love knows not labour.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love laughs at locksmiths.
Proverb, (British)

Love levels all inequalities.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
Proverb

Love locks no cupboards.
Proverb

Love makes labour light.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Love makes the world go round.
Proverb

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.
Proverb, (French)

Love makes time pass; time makes love pass.
Proverb, (French)

Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe.
Proverb, (American)

Love me little and love me long.
Proverb, (Danish, French, Italian)

Love me love my dog.
Proverb, (Italian, Latin, Spanish)

Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out.
Proverb

Love one that does not love you, answer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love rules without law.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love rules without rules. [Amore regge senza legge.]
Proverb, (Italian)

Love steals on us imperceptibly.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love subdues everything except the recreant's heart.
Proverb, (French)

Love tastes sweet, but only with bread.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Love teaches asses to dance.
Proverb, (French)

Love teaches even asses to dance.
Proverb, (French)

Love tells us many things that are not so.
Proverb, (Ukranian)

Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.
Proverb

Love well whip well.
Proverb

Love will creep where it cannot go.
Proverb

Love will find a way.
Proverb

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
Proverb

Love without return is like a question without an answer.
Proverb, (German)

Love would soon perish, unless nourished by Ceres and Bacchus.
Proverb, (Latin)

Love your friend with his faults.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
Proverb, (German)

Love your neighbour, but don't pull down the fence.
Proverb, (German)

Love's anger is fuel to love.
Proverb, (German)

Love's merchandise is jealousy and broken faith.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care.
Proverb, (Danish)

Love's quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Proverb

Love, a cough, and smoke will not remain secret.
Proverb, (French)

Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide.
Proverb, (Italian)

Love, a cough, smoke, and money, cannot long be hid.
Proverb, (French)

Love, fire, a cough, the itch, and gout are not to be concealed.
Proverb, (German)

Love, grief, and money cannot be kept secret.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.
Proverb, (German)

Lovers are madmen.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lovers live by love as larks live by leeks.
Proverb

Lovers think others are blind.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lovers think that others have no eyes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.
Proverb, (Italian)

Lovers' quarrels are love redoubled.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Loves makes one fit for any work.
Proverb

Loving and singing are not to be forced.
Proverb, (German)

Loving comes by looking.
Proverb

Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.
Proverb, (Congolese)

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Proverb, (Lebanese)

Loyalty is more valuable than diamonds.
Proverb, (Filipino)

Luck comes to those who look after it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Luck has but a slender anchorage.
Proverb, (Danish, English)

Luck has much for many, but enough for no one.
Proverb, (Danish)

Luck is better than a hundred marks.
Proverb, (Danish)

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Proverb, (Persian)

Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Luck never gives; it only lends.
Proverb, (Scottish)

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
Proverb, (Danish)

Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within.
Proverb, (Danish)

Luck taps at the door and inquires whether prudence is within.
Proverb, (Danish)

Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap.
Proverb, (Danish)

Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Proverb

Lucky charms protect you only if you have your own luck.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Lucky men need no counsel.
Proverb

Lucy light, Lucy light,
The shortest day and the longest night.
Proverb

Lust of power is the strongest of all passions.
Proverb, (Latin)

Lying and gossiping go hand in hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Lying is the first step to the gallows.
Proverb, (German)

Lying pays no tax.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Mad as a wet hen.
Proverb

Mad dogs get their coats torn.
Proverb, (Danish)

Mad drunkenness discloses every secret.
Proverb, (Latin)

Mad love, I for you and you for another.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Mad love--I for you, and you for another.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Maidens must be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
Proverb

Maidens say no, and mean yes.
Proverb, (German)

Maidens should be mim till they're married, and then they may burn kirks.
Proverb

Maids say nay, and take.
Proverb, (German)

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.
Proverb

Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Make a friend when you don't need one.
Proverb, (Jamaican)

Make a silver bridge for a flying enemy.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Make a virtue of necessity. [Claim credit for compulsory rectitude.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards complain.
Proverb

Make good flour and you need no trumpet.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Make good flour, and do not blow the trumpet.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Make haste slowly.
Proverb, (Latin)

Make hay when the sun shines.
Proverb

Make love, not war.
Proverb, (American)

Make me a prophet and I will make you rich.
Proverb, (Italian)

Make new friends, but don't forget the old ones.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Make no more haste than good speed.
Proverb

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