The Proverbs is a collection of
ancient wisdom, still recognized today as practical advice. It contains
the sayings not only of Solomon, but other sages of ancient Israel as well.
The teachings of this book can be applied by everyone from children to young
men and women to the leaders of business empires and nations.
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.
Proverb
Nature will come through the claws, and the hound will follow the hare.
Proverb, (Irish)
Nature without an effort surpasses art.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Naught must disturb a man of worth at dinner.
Proverb, (French)
Naught venture, naught have.
Proverb
Naughty boys sometimes make good men.
Proverb
Near is my coat, but nearer is my shirt.
Proverb, (Latin)
Near is my kirkle, but nearer is my smock.
Proverb
Near is my petticoat but nearer is my smock.
Proverb, (Italian)
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.
Proverb
Near the church far from God.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nearest the heart, nearest the mouth.
Proverb
Nearest the King, nearest the widdie.
Proverb
Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.
Proverb
Necessity becomes will.
Proverb, (Italian)
Necessity breaks iron.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
Necessity could make a thief. . . .
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Necessity has no law.
Proverb, (French, German, Italian)
Necessity is a strong weapon.
Proverb, (Latin)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)
Necessity knows no law.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, Irish, Latin)
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Proverb, (North American)
Necessity recognizes no law.
Proverb, (Latin)
Necessity requires no decision.
Proverb
Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.
Proverb, (German)
Necessity teaches arts.
Proverb, (German)
Necessity teaches even the lame to dance.
Proverb, (German)
Necessity unites hearts.
Proverb, (German)
Neck or nothing.
Proverb
Need makes the old wife trot.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)
Need makes the old woman trot.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)
Need teaches a plan.
Proverb, (Irish)
Need teaches things unlawful.
Proverb
Needle and thread are half clothing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Needles and pins, pins and needles,
When a man's married his trouble begins.
Proverb
Needs must when the devil drives.
Proverb
Negation proves nothing. [Mere opposition to a theory does not commit you to
anything.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge.
Proverb
Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour over it again.
Proverb, (German)
Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad one for enemy.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Neither beautiful, nor young.
Proverb, (Latin)
Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a
servant.
Proverb
Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.
Proverb
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.
Proverb, (Irish)
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Proverb
Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly enough to frighten away.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Neither handsome enough to kill, nor ugly enough to frighten.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Neither seek nor shun the fight.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
Neither serve one who has been a servant, nor beg of one who has been a
beggar.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Neither trust or contend, nor lay wagers or lend, and you'll have peace to
your end.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Neither women nor linen by candlelight.
Proverb, (Italian)
Neutrals are soused from above, and singed from below.
Proverb, (German)
Neutrals tread on eggs and break none.
Proverb, (German)
Never a barrel the better herring.
Proverb
Never advise a man to go to the wars, or to marry.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.
Proverb
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Proverb, (Cowboy)
Never ask of him who has, but of him you know wishes you well.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Never ask pardon before you are accused.
Proverb
Never be ashamed to eat your meat.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never be content with your lot. Try for a lot more.
Proverb, (American)
Never be too much elated.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
Proverb, (Irish)
Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Proverb
Never buy through your ears but through your eyes.
Proverb, (Irish)
Never cast a clout till May be out.
Proverb
Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime drunk.
Proverb
Never catch at a falling knife or a falling friend.
Proverb
Never challenge a fool to do wrong.
Proverb, (French)
Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.
Proverb
Never cross a bridge till you come to it.
Proverb
Never cut what can be untied.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Never descend to vulgarity even in joking.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never did capon love a hen.
Proverb, (French)
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that
you can do lying down.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Never do evil that good may come of it.
Proverb, (Italian)
Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
Proverb, (Scottish)
Never draw your dirk when a dunt will do.
Proverb
Never expect your friends to do for you that which you can yourself
accomplish.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never fall out with your bread and butter.
Proverb, (English)
Never fell oak at the very first stroke.
Proverb, (German)
Never fight an enemy whilst it is possible to cheat him.
Proverb
Never forget benefits done you, regardless how small.
Proverb, (Vietnamese)
Never give a child a sword.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never give a sucker an even break.
Proverb
Never give advice in a crowd.
Proverb, (Arab)
Never give advice unasked.
Proverb, (German)
Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool.
Proverb, (German)
Never grieve over spilt milk.
Proverb
Never heed the colour of a gift horse.
Proverb, (Italian)
Never is a long day.
Proverb
Never is a long time.
Proverb
Never judge a book by its cover.
Proverb
Never judge from appearances.
Proverb
Never kill a man who says nothing.
Proverb, (Ibo)
Never let any mechanical device know that you are in a hurry.
Proverb
Never let fools see half-finished work.
Proverb, (Danish)
Never let the bottom of your purse or of your mind be seen.
Proverb, (Italian)
Never let the sun go down on your anger.
Proverb
Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
Proverb, (Scottish)
Never limp before the lame.
Proverb, (French)
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
Proverb
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
Proverb, (English)
Never malign a friend.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
Proverb
Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
Proverb, (Scottish)
Never mention a rope in the house of a thief.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged.
Proverb
Never mind storms and snows for the sake of a friend.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Proverb, (American)
Never murder a man who is about to commit suicide.
Proverb, (German)
Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one.
Proverb, (Brazilian)
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Proverb
Never put your finger between the tree and the bark.
Proverb, (French)
Never put your thumbs between two grinders.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Never refuse a good offer.
Proverb, (Latin, Italian)
Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Proverb, (Japanese)
Never repent a good action.
Proverb, (Danish)
Never say die.
Proverb, (American)
Never say, "die!"
Proverb, (Latin)
Never say, Fountain, I will not drink of thy water.
Proverb, (French)
Never say, of this water I will not drink, of this bread I will not eat.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
Proverb, (Polish)
Never seemed prison fair, or mistress foul.
Proverb, (French, German)
Never sell the bearskin till you have killed the bear.
Proverb, (French)
Never send a boy to do a man's job.
Proverb
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
Proverb
Never sigh, but send.
Proverb
Never sit in the place of a man who can say to you, "Rise.".
Proverb, (Arab)
Never speak ill of the dead.
Proverb
Never speak in a hurry.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never speak of a rope in the house of one who was hanged.
Proverb,
(French, German, Italian, Spanish)
Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Never spur a willing horse.
Proverb, (Italian)
Never squat with your spurs on.
Proverb, (Texan)
Never swap horses crossing a stream.
Proverb, (American)
Never take the antidote before the poison.
Proverb, (Latin)
Never tell tales out of school.
Proverb
Never too old to learn.
Proverb
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Proverb, (American)
Never trust people who tell you all their troubles but keep from you all
their joys.
Proverb, (Jewish)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.
Proverb, (Japanese)
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all
his joys.
Proverb, (Jewish)
Never trust to another what you should do yourself.
Proverb, (German)
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Never venture out of your depth till you can swim.
Proverb
Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.
Proverb, (Italian)
Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore.
Proverb
Never was hood so holy but the devil could get his head into it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Never write a letter while you are angry.
Proverb, (Chinese)
New brooms sweep clean.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, German, Italian)
New churches and new taverns are seldom empty.
Proverb, (German)
New come, welcome.
Proverb, (German)
New comers are always welcome.
Proverb, (Danish)
New dishes beget new appetites.
Proverb
New doctor, new churchyard.
Proverb, (German)
New laws, new roguery.
Proverb, (German)
New lords, new laws.
Proverb, (French)
New loves drive out the old.
Proverb, (Spanish)
New songs are eagerly sung.
Proverb, (German)
New songs are liked the best.
Proverb, (Danish)
New things are most looked at.
Proverb
New trappings to an old mule.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Night brings counsel.
Proverb
Night has no friend.
Proverb, (French)
Night is the mother of councils.
Proverb, (Greek)
Nine tailors make a man.
Proverb
Nip sin in the bud.
Proverb
Nip the briar in the bud.
Proverb
No and yes cause long disputes.
Proverb, (Danish)
No answer is also an answer.
Proverb, (Danish)
No ape but swears he has the handsomest children.
Proverb, (German)
No armour is proof against the gallows.
Proverb, (German)
No bees, no honey.
Proverb, (Latin)
No better masters than poverty and want.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No better than she should be.
Proverb
No butter will stick to his bread.
Proverb
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Proverb, (Jamaican)
No camel route is long with good company.
Proverb, (Turkish)
No case: abuse the plaintiff's attorney.
Proverb
No choice amongst stinking fish.
Proverb
No choice is ever wholly unregretted, each brings more joy and more sorrow
than we can foresee.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
No comforter's head ever aches.
Proverb, (Italian)
No corn without chaff.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No cross, no crown.
Proverb
No crowd ever waited at the gates of patience.
Proverb, (Arabic)
No cure, no pay.
Proverb
No day but has its evening.
Proverb, (Italian)
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
Proverb
No day is wholly productive of evil.
Proverb, (Latin)
No day passeth without some grief.
Proverb
No day should pass without something being done.
Proverb, (Latin)
No day so long but has its evening.
Proverb, (French)
No day without a line.
[Lat., Nulla dies sine linea.]
Proverb, (Latin)
No dish pleases all palates alike.
Proverb
No feast like a miser's.
Proverb, (French)
No fence against a flail.
Proverb
No fine clothes can hide the clown.
Proverb
No fire without smoke.
Proverb, (French)
No fishing like fishing in the sea.
Proverb
No flies get into a shut mouth.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Portuguese)
No flies light on a boiling pot.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No fly gets into a shut mouth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No folly to being in love.
Proverb
No fool like an old fool.
Proverb
No friend like the penny.
Proverb
No gain is as certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what
you already have.
Proverb, (Latin)
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what
you already have.
Proverb, (Latin)
No gains without pains.
Proverb
No garden without its weeds.
Proverb
No good doctor ever takes physic.
Proverb, (Italian)
No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
No good thing is failure and no evil thing success.
Proverb
No grass grows on a beaten road.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No horse is so good, but that he will at times stumble.
Proverb, (Latin)
No house without a mouse, no barn without corn, no rose without a thorn.
Proverb, (German)
No house without a mouse.
Proverb
No house without its cross.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No is a good answer when given in time.
Proverb, (Danish)
No jealousy, no love.
Proverb, (German)
No jesting with edged tools.
Proverb, (French)
No Jew a fool; no hare lazy.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No joy with annoy.
Proverb
No joy without alloy.
Proverb
No king was ever a traitor, or pope excommunicated.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No lamp burns till morning.
Proverb, (Persian)
No living man all things can.
Proverb, (French)
No lock avails against a hatchet.
Proverb, (French)
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
Proverb
No longer pipe, no longer dance.
Proverb
No mad dog runs seven years.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No man acquires perfection all at once.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man can be happy without a friend, or be sure of his friend till he is
unhappy.
Proverb
No man can both sup and blow at once.
Proverb
No man can call again yesterday.
Proverb
No man can do nothing and no man can do everything.
Proverb, (German)
No man can like all, or be liked by all.
Proverb
No man can make another's destiny and all the wishing in the world will not
make it so.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
No man can play the fool so well as the wise man.
Proverb
No man can swim ashore and carry his baggage with him.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others.
Proverb
No man commands ably unless he has himself obeyed discipline.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man cries stinking fish.
Proverb
No man grieves long unless by his own fault.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man has a worse friend than he brings with him from home.
Proverb
No man hath a worse friend than he brings from home.
Proverb
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Proverb, (Arabian)
No man is a hero in the eyes of his valet.
Proverb, (French)
No man is a match for a woman till he is married.
Proverb
No man is a prophet in his own country.
Proverb, (French)
No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
Proverb
No man is contented with his lot in this life.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man is faultless.
Proverb
No man is his craft's master the first day.
Proverb
No man is impatient with his creditors.
Proverb
No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No man is so rich as to say, "I have enough!"
Proverb, (Latin)
No man is so tall that he need never stretch, and none so small that he need
never stoop.
Proverb, (Danish)
No man is so young he cannot teach, or so old he cannot learn.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
No man is wise at all times.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man knoweth fortune till he dies.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No man learneth but by pain or shame.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No man limps because another is hurt.
Proverb, (Danish)
No man looks for another in a sack, unless he has been there him himself.
Proverb, (Danish)
No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
Proverb
No man sees his shadow who faces the sun.
Proverb
No man should be a witness in his own cause.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk.
Proverb, (French)
No man will another in the oven seek, except that himself have been there
before.
Proverb
No man will feed on herbs when meat is to be had.
Proverb, (Latin)
No man's master, no master's man.
Proverb, (German)
No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
Proverb, (Latin)
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
Proverb, (Turkish)
No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.
Proverb, (Congolese)
No matter how hard you throw a dead fish in the water, it still won't swim.
Proverb
No matter how often a pitcher goes to the water it is broken in the end.
Proverb, (Irish)
No matter how stout one beam, it cannot support a house.
Proverb, (Chinese)
No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.
Proverb, (Chinese)
No matter where you go, your destiny follows you.
Proverb, (Kurdish)
No means, no market.
Proverb
No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be.
Proverb, (Italian)
No medicines can cure the vulgar man.
Proverb, (Chinese)
No melon-peddler cries: Bitter melons! No wine-dealer says: Sour wine!
Proverb, (Chinese)
No mill, no meal.
Proverb, (Greek)
No mischief but a woman or a priest is at the bottom of it.
Proverb, (Latin)
No money no Swiss.
Proverb, (French, German)
No moon, no man.
Proverb
No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.
Proverb
No names, no pack-drill.
Proverb
No need to say "trot" to a good horse.
Proverb, (Italian)
No need to seek shelter for an old ox.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No need to teach an eagle to fly.
Proverb, (Greek)
No news is good news.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
No office so humble but it is better than nothing.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No one betrays himself by silence.
Proverb, (German)
No one can be caught in places he does not visit.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one can blow and swallow at the same time.
Proverb, (German)
No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck.
Proverb, (German)
No one can do nothing, and no one can do everything.
Proverb, (German)
No one can guard against treachery.
Proverb, (German)
No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No one can see into another further than his teeth.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water
that we can see.
Proverb, (Taoist)
No one ever became poor through giving alms.
Proverb, (Italian)
No one ever kicks a dead dog.
Proverb
No one ever repented of having held his tongue.
Proverb, (Italian)
No one ever saw a goat dead of hunger.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
No one ever suddenly reached the height of vice.
Proverb, (Latin)
No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one gets into trouble without his own help.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one has seen to-morrow.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No one in a shabby coat is treated with respect.
Proverb, (Latin)
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.
Proverb, (Latin)
No one is a good judge in his own cause.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No one is always right.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No one is bound to do impossibilities.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
No one is content with his lot.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No one is expected to achieve the impossible.
Proverb, (French)
No one is hurt by doing the right thing.
Proverb, (Hawaiian)
No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
Proverb, (French)
No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give.
Proverb, (French)
No one is too old to learn.
Proverb, (German)
No one is wise enough to advise himself.
Proverb, (German)
No one is wise in his own affairs.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No one knows better where the shoe pinches that he who wears it.
Proverb, (German)
No one knows the parson better than the clerk.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one knows what a day may bring forth.
Proverb
No one knows what the dinner was after the plates have been washed.
Proverb
No one knows what will happen to him before sunset.
Proverb
No one knows where another's shoe pinches.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No one likes justice brought home to his own door.
Proverb, (Italian)
No one likes to bell the cat.
Proverb, (German)
No one loves another better than himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
Proverb, (Italian)
No one says his own buttermilk is sour.
Proverb, (Afghan)
No one sees his own faults.
Proverb, (German)
No one should take in an eating pawn (or pledge).
Proverb, (Italian)
No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper who has got into power.
Proverb, (Danish)
No one so sure but he may miss.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No one takes away anything with him.
Proverb, (Maltese)
No one tests the depth of the river with both feet.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)
No one will get a bargain he does not ask for.
Proverb, (French)
No one with a good catch of fish goes home by the back alley.
Proverb
No one would be an innkeeper but for money.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No pain, no gain.
Proverb
No pains, no gains.
Proverb, (German)
No pear falls into a shut mouth.
Proverb, (Italian)
No penny, no paternoster.
Proverb, (German)
No pride like that of an enriched beggar.
Proverb
No protection is so sure as that of innocence.
Proverb, (Latin)
No purchase like a gift.
Proverb, (French)
No receiver, no thief.
Proverb
No relation is poor.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No remedy but patience.
Proverb
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No rogue like the godly rogue.
Proverb
No rose without a thorn.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian)
No safe wading in an unknown water.
Proverb
No sane person sharpens his machete to cut a banana tree.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
No sauce like appetite.
Proverb, (French)
No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf.
Proverb, (Dutch)
No smoke without fire.
Proverb, (German)
No song, no supper.
Proverb
No sooner have you spoken than what you have said becomes the property of
another.
Proverb, (Hindustani)
No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.
Proverb, (Italian)
No sooner said than done.
[Lat., Dictum factum.]
Proverb, (Latin)
No stake ever grew old with the bark on.
Proverb, (Zulu)
No strength within, no respect without.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)
No sunshine but hath some shadow.
Proverb
No sweet without sweat.
Proverb
No taxation without representation.
Proverb
No tree falls at the first stroke.
Proverb, (German)
No tree so small but it can cast a shade.
Proverb
No use in flogging a dead horse.
Proverb
No villain like the conscientious villain.
Proverb
No viper so little but hath its venom.
Proverb
No weather is ill if the wind be still.
Proverb
No wind can do him good who steers for no port.
Proverb, (French)
No wind, no waves.
Proverb, (Chinese)
No wisdom like silence.
Proverb, (Greek)
No wisdom to silence.
Proverb
No woman is ugly if she is well dressed.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No woman is ugly when she is dressed.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
Proverb, (German)
No wonder if he breaks his head who stumbles twice over one stone.
Proverb, (Spanish)
No wonder lasts more than three days.
Proverb, (Italian)
No word is ill spoken, that is not ill taken.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
No. 1 is the first house in the row.
Proverb
Nobility imposes obligations.
Proverb, (French)
Nobility is nothing but ancient riches, and money is the world's idol.
Proverb
Nobility of conduct is a greater recommendation than nobility of birth.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide
has left.
Proverb, (Latin)
Noble and common blood is of the same color.
Proverb, (German)
Noble is, that noble does.
Proverb, (German)
Nobody gathers firewood to roast a thin goat.
Proverb, (Kenyan)
Nobody is to blame for all.
Proverb, (German)
Nobody so wise but has a little folly to spare.
Proverb, (German)
Nobody sows a thing that will not sell.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Nobody will plough the land except its cows.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
Nobody's perfect.
Proverb
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Nodding the head does not row the boat.
Proverb, (Irish)
Noiseless is the approach of the avenging deities.
Proverb
None can guess the jewel by the casket.
Proverb, (English)
None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fly in his eyes.
Proverb
None is offended but by himself.
Proverb, (Latin)
None so busy as those who do nothing.
Proverb, (French)
None so deaf as he that will not hear.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
None so deaf as those who won't hear.
Proverb, (Danish, French)
None so keen at the hunting of wolves as the dog with wolf blood.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
None so old that he hopes not for a year of his life.
Proverb, (Latin)
Northampton stands on other men's legs.
Proverb
Not a long day, but a good heart, rids work.
Proverb
Not all are asleep who have their eyes shut.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not all brave words become deeds.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Not all flowers are fit for nosegays.
Proverb, (German)
Not all porridge cooked is eaten.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Not all that is true is to be spoken.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Not all that shakes falls.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all
enemies exposed and denounced.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Not all who make love make marriages.
Proverb, (Russian)
Not all words require an answer.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not even a drop is left.
Proverb, (Latin)
Not even a god can bring back the leaves that have fallen.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Not even Hercules could contend against two.
Proverb
Not even the Lord of Light can turn back time, or undo what has been done.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Not every ass has long ears.
Proverb, (German)
Not every ball hits.
Proverb, (German)
Not every dog that barks bites.
Proverb, (French)
Not every land has all at hand.
Proverb, (German)
Not every one may pluck roses.
Proverb, (German)
Not every one that dances is glad.
Proverb, (French)
Not every sort of wood is fit to make an arrow.
Proverb, (French)
Not every wood will make wooden shoes.
Proverb, (Danish)
Not every word requires an answer.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk.
Proverb, (Russian)
Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Not everything is a mermaid that dives into the water.
Proverb, (Russian)
Not everything that is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, (Italian)
Not God above gets all men's love.
Proverb, (Greek)
Not having enough is like not having anything.
Proverb
Not he gives who likes, but who has.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and
follow.
Proverb
Not to advance is to go back.
Proverb, (Latin)
Not to advance is to recede.
Proverb, (Latin)
Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double.
Proverb, (German)
Not to disturb that which is at rest.
Proverb, (Latin)
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
Not to know the good we have
Till time has stolen the cherish'd gift away,
Is cause of half the misery that we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is.
Proverb
Not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.
Proverb
Not to wish to recover is a mortal symptom.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Not too little, not too much.
Proverb, (German)
Not what you do, but how you do it.
Proverb
Not wine . . . men intoxicate themselves; not vice . . . men entice
themselves.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Not words but knocks.
Nothing answers worse than too high farming.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing bears a stronger resemblance to a madman than a man when drunk.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing bolder than the miller's shirt, that every morning collars a thief.
Proverb, (German)
Nothing can be said which has not been said already.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nothing can exist long without occasional rest.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing comes of nothing.
[Lat., Ex nihilo nihil fit.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Proverb, (German)
Nothing dries up more quickly than a tear.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing falls into the mouth of a sleeping fox.
Proverb, (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
Nothing for nothing.
Proverb
Nothing grows old sooner than a kindness.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing happens for nothing.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing hath no savour.
Proverb
Nothing have, nothing crave.
Proverb
Nothing in this world is certain but death and next winter's snows.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Proverb
Nothing is certain but the unforeseen.
Proverb
Nothing is certain but uncertainty.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing is difficult to a willing mind.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nothing is done while something remains undone.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Proverb
Nothing is ever well done in a hurry, except flying from the plague or from
quarrels, and catching fleas.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nothing is grievous which necessity enjoins.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing is had for nothing.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is haste but catching flies.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Nothing is ill said if it is not ill taken.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Proverb
Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is lost on a journey by stopping to pray or to feed your horse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Nothing is more contagious than a bad example.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is more easily blotted out than a good turn.
Proverb
Nothing is more foolish than to dabble in too many things.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing is more humiliating than when a reproach recoils on the head or him
who utters it.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing is more like an honest man than a rogue.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome than mere ceremony.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is so burthensome as a secret.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is so clean as a fish.
Proverb, (Welsh)
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
Proverb, (Malagasy)
Nothing is so full of victory as patience.
Proverb
Nothing is so liberally given as advice.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing is so new as what has long been forgotten.
Proverb, (German)
Nothing is so new but it has happened before.
Proverb, (Danish)
Nothing like leather.
Proverb
Nothing looks more like a man of sense than a fool who holds his tongue.
Proverb, (German)
Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
Proverb
Nothing passes between asses but kicks.
Proverb, (Italian)
Nothing prevails against wealth.
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas.
Proverb, (German)
Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
Proverb
Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.
Proverb
Nothing so bad but it finds its master.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse.
Proverb
Nothing so bold as a blind man.
Proverb
Nothing so bold as a blind mare.
Proverb
Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat
every morning).
Proverb, (French)
Nothing so crouse as a new washen louse.
Proverb
Nothing so good as forbidden fruit.
Proverb, (French)
Nothing stake, nothing draw.
Proverb
Nothing stings more deeply than the loss of money.
[Lat., Nec quicquam acrius quam pecuniae damnum stimulat.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
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