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.
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.
Proverb
Tak awa' Averdeen and twal' mile round aboot, an' far are ye?
Proverb
Take a dog for a companion and a stick in your hand.
Proverb, (English)
Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no
longer.
Proverb
Take a hair of the dog that has bitten you.
Proverb
Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Take a horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle.
Proverb, (German)
Take a second look; it costs you nothing.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Take a woman's first advice and not her second.
Proverb, (French)
Take advice of a red-bearded man, and be gone.
Proverb, (Danish)
Take all you want; eat all you take.
Proverb, (German)
Take an ox by his horn, a man by his word.
Proverb, (French)
Take away fuel, take away flame.
Proverb
Take away my good name, take away my life.
Proverb
Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Take care how you beseech the gods for a gift, for they will give it to you.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Take care how you beseech the gods, they may answer you.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Proverb
Take care of your geese when the fox preaches.
Proverb, (Danish)
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
Proverb, (Scottish)
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of your widow's
next husband.
Proverb, (American)
Take care of your pennies and your pounds will take care of your heirs and
barristers.
Proverb, (English)
Take care of your plough, and your plough will take care of you.
Proverb, (German)
Take care you don't let your tail be caught in the door.
Proverb, (Italian)
Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Take counsel of your pillow.
Proverb, (Latin)
Take down a rogue from the gallows and he will hang you up.
Proverb, (French)
Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.
Proverb, (Italian)
Take gifts with a sigh; most men give to be paid.
Proverb, (Irish)
Take heed is a good reed.
Proverb
Take heed of an enemy reconciled.
Proverb, (French)
Take heed of an ox before. an ass behind, and a monk on all sides.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
Proverb, (English)
Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine.
Proverb
Take heed you find not that you do not seek.
Proverb
Take help of many, advice of few.
Proverb, (Danish)
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of
felicity in love.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Take hold of a good minute.
Proverb
Take in laundry before you take in partners.
Proverb
Take not a musket to kill a butterfly.
Proverb
Take not the antidote before the poison.
Proverb, (Latin)
Take not your sickle to another man's corn.
Proverb, (Danish)
Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows.
Proverb
Take the bit and the buffet with it.
Proverb
Take the bitter with the sweet.
Proverb, (American)
Take the bull by the horns.
Proverb, (Russian)
Take the goods the gods provide.
Proverb
Take the middle of the way and thou wilt not fall.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Take the will for the deed.
Proverb
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
Proverb, (German)
Take things as they come.
Proverb
Take things as you find them.
Proverb
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the
evening.
Proverb, (Russian)
Take time by the forelock.
Proverb
Take time to smell the roses.
Proverb
Take time when time is, for time will away.
Proverb
Take time while time is, for the time will away.
Proverb
"Take what you want and pay for it," says God.
Proverb,
indicated as a Spanish proverb in Agatha Christie's play, Verdict, act I,
scene I spoken by the character William Rollander to Karl Henryk; but it may
be of Arab origin
Take your wife's first advice and not her second.
Proverb
Take your will of it, as the cat did of the haggis.
Proverb
Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Taking out without putting in, soon comes to the bottom.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word,
and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.
Proverb, (Persian)
Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.
Proverb, (Latin)
Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Talk does not cook rice.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Talk is but talk; but 'tis money buys lands.
Proverb
Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey.
Proverb, (American)
Talk is cheap.
Proverb
Talk less, think more.
Proverb
Talk little and well, and you will be looked upon as somebody.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Talk much, and err much.
Proverb
Talk of an angel and you'll hear his wings.
Proverb
Talk of sporting, and buy game in the market.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Talk of the devil and he'll appear.
Proverb, (Latin)
Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear.
Proverb
Talk of the devil, and his imp appears.
Proverb, (German)
Talk of the wolf and behold his skin.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Talk of the wolf and you see his tail.
Proverb, (French)
Talk too much and you talk about yourself.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
Proverb
Talking is easier than doing, and promising than performing.
Proverb, (German)
Talking is easy, action difficult.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Talking is silver, silence is gold.
Proverb, (German)
Talking pays no toll.
Proverb
Tall trees catch much wind.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Tarry-long brings little home.
Proverb
Tastes differ.
Proverb
Taught in the same school.
Proverb, (Latin)
Teach an eagle to fly, a dolphin to swim.
Proverb
Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know."
Proverb, (Hebrew)
Teach your grandam to spin.
Proverb
Teach your grandame to suck eggs.
Proverb
Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Proverb
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Teaching others teacheth yourself.
Proverb
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
Proverb, (Italian)
Tell a lie and find the truth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell a lie, and you will bring out the truth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell a lie, and you'll hear the truth.
Proverb, (German)
Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.
Proverb, (Italian)
Tell everybody your business and they will do it for you.
Proverb, (Italian)
Tell God the truth, but give the judge money.
Proverb, (Russian)
Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her brain.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Tell her she is handsome, and you will turn her head.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell it her once, and the devil will tell it her ten times.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell it well, or say nothing.
Proverb
Tell lies, but become not tangled in lies.
Proverb, (Russian)
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll
understand.
Proverb, (Native American)
Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish)
Tell me who you live with, and I will tell you who you are.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Proverb, (Russian)
Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.
Proverb, (Creole)
Tell me with whom thou goest, and I'll tell thee what thou doest.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Tell money after your own father.
Proverb
Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Tell no tales out of school.
Proverb, (German)
Tell not all you know, nor do all you can.
Proverb, (Italian)
Tell not all you know, nor judge of all you see, if you would live in peace.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell not all you know; believe not all you hear; do not all you are able.
Proverb, (German)
Tell nothing to thy friend which why enemy may not know.
Proverb, (Danish)
Tell that to the Marines.
Proverb
Tell the truth and run.
Proverb, (Yugoslavian)
Tell the truth and shame the Devil.
Proverb
Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and
another white.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell your friend a lie; and if he keeps it secret, tell him the truth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell your friend your secret, and he will set his foot on your neck.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
Tell your friends a lie; if he keeps it secret tell him the truth.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Tell your own story first.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Tell your secret to your friend and he will set his foot on your neck.
Proverb, (Italian)
Temperance is the best medicine.
Proverb
Tempest in a teapot.
Proverb
Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Ten noes are better then one lie.
Proverb, (Danish)
Tender surgeons make foul wounds.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Terrifying are the weaknesses of power.
Proverb, (Greek)
Test the danger by the Carians. [Practise new experiments on things of
little value.]
Proverb, (Latin)
Thank 'ee for nothing.
Proverb
Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat.
Proverb, (Italian)
That beer's of your own brewing, and you must drink it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
That bench is well adorned that is filled with virtuous women.
Proverb, (Danish)
That brings water to the mill.
Proverb, (French)
That cock won't fight.
Proverb
That costs dear which is bought with begging.
Proverb, (Italian)
That country will I call mine which supports me, not that which gave me
birth.
Proverb, (Latin)
That day is lost on which one has not laughed.
Proverb, (French)
That fellow roasts his fish in the flames of a fire.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
That grief is light which is capable of counsel.
Proverb
That happens in a moment which may not happen in a hundred years.
Proverb, (Italian)
That is a game that two can play.
Proverb
That is beggar's fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages.
Proverb, (Dutch)
That is but an empty purse that is full of other' men's money.
Proverb
That is done soon enough which is well done.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
Proverb, (Dutch)
That is not in the looking-glass which is seen in the looking-glass.
Proverb, (German)
That is pleasant to remember which was hard to endure.
Proverb, (Italian)
That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.
Proverb, (Danish)
That is true which all men say.
Proverb
That is well spoken that is well taken.
Proverb
That is with difficulty preserved which all hanker after.
Proverb, (Latin)
That land fares ill where the king's but a babe.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
That may be soon done, which brings long repentance.
Proverb, (Danish)
That miller is honest who has hair on his teeth.
Proverb, (German)
That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of
consequences).
Proverb, (Dutch)
That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years.
Proverb, (French)
That priest is a fool who decries his relics.
Proverb, (Italian)
That suit is best that best fits me.
Proverb
That suit is best that best suits me.
Proverb
That that comes of a cat will catch mice.
Proverb
That usury is a sin some hold, but take for granted they've no gold.
Proverb, (German)
That which burns thee not, cool not.
Proverb, (Dutch)
That which comes with sin, goes with sorrow.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which covers thee discovers thee.
Proverb, (Spanish)
That which doth blossom in the spring will bring forth fruit in the autumn.
Proverb
That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which has been thrown away has often to be begged for again.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which I receive, that I return.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is beyond our reach is nothing to us.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is cheap is dear.
Proverb, (Spanish)
That which is customary requires no excuse.
Proverb, (Italian)
That which is deferred is not abandoned.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is despised is often most useful.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is easily done is soon believed.
Proverb
That which is evil is soon learned.
Proverb
That which is good for the back is bad for the head.
Proverb
That which is his lot to-day may be yours to-morrow.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is not understood is always marvellous.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is stamped a penny will never be a pound.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which is sweet to some is bitter to others.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is unsaid, may be spoken; that which is said, cannot be unsaid.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which is violent never lasts long.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which is wanting in some respects, may be made up for in others.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which must be, will be.
Proverb, (Danish)
That which one most forehets soonest comes to pass.
Proverb
That which proves too much proves nothing.
Proverb
That which satisfies is enough.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which should feed our children ought not to be given to dogs.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which two will takes effect.
Proverb, (Latin)
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
Proverb
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Proverb
That which we really require not is dear at a farthing.
Proverb, (Latin)
That's all well and good, but gold is better.
Proverb, (Dutch)
That's but an empty purse which is full of other men's money.
Proverb, (Danish)
That's quickly done which is long repented.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Thatch your roof before rainy weather, dig your well before you become
parched with thirst.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Thaw reveals what has been hidden by snow.
Proverb, (Danish)
The abbey does not fail for want on one monk.
Proverb, (French)
The absent always bear the blame.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The absent are always in the wrong.
Proverb, (Congolese, French)
The absent are always to blame.
Proverb, (Danish)
The absent get further off every day.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The absent one will not be the heir.
[Lat., Absens haeres non erit.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The absent were never in the right.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The accomplice is as bad as the thief.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The account is correct, but not a sixpense appears.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The account of the donkey is different from that of the donkey-man.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The act itself does not constitute a crime, unless the intent be criminal.
Proverb, (Latin)
The act of treachery is liked, but not he that does it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The adult looks to deeds, the child to love.
Proverb, (Hindustani)
The advice of the aged will not mislead you.
Proverb, (Welsh)
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Proverb, (Swedish)
The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horses with.
Proverb, (English)
The afterthought is good, but forethought is better.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
The age of miracles is past.
Proverb
The aged in council--the young in action.
Proverb, (Danish)
The ant gets wings that she may perish sooner.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ant has its ire.
Proverb, (French and Spain)
The antidote before the poison. [To offer excuses before an accusation.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The anvil does not fear a good sledge-hammer.
Proverb, (Danish)
The anvil fears no blows.
Proverb, (Romanian)
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.
Proverb, (German)
The anvil is used to noise.
Proverb, (German)
The anvil lasts longer than the hammer.
Proverb, (Italian)
The applause of the people is a blast of air.
Proverb
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Proverb
The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The arguments of the strongest have always the most weight.
Proverb, (French)
The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The ass and his driver do not think alike.
Proverb, (German)
The ass and the driver never think alike.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The ass carries corn to the mill, and gets thistles.
Proverb, (German)
The ass dead, the barley at his tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ass dead, the corn at his tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass does not know the value of his tail till he has lost it.
Proverb
The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.
Proverb, (Italian)
The ass embraced the thistle, and they found themselves relations.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass knows well in whose face be brays.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ass of many owners is eaten by wolves.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass of many owners is food for wolves.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ass that brays most eats least.
Proverb
The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.
Proverb, (French)
The ass that is hungry eats thistles.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with
wood (i.e. cudgelled).
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass well knows in whose house he brays.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ass went seeking for horns and lost his ears.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The ass's hide is used to the stick.
Proverb, (Italian)
The ass's son brays one hour daily.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The assistance of fools only brings injury.
Proverb, (Latin)
The autumn of beauty is still beautiful.
Proverb, (Latin)
The avenging gods have their feet clothed in wool.
Proverb, (Latin)
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
Proverb
The axe goes to the wood where it borrowed its helve.
Proverb
The back door is the one that robs the home.
Proverb, (Italian)
The back door robbeth the house.
Proverb
The bacon of paradise for the married man that does not repent.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.
Proverb, (American)
The bad man always suspects knavery.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The bad neighbour gives a needle without thread.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Galician)
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.
Proverb, (Korean)
The bad refrain from sin from fear of punishment.
Proverb, (Latin)
The bad workman blames his tools.
Proverb, (American)
The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly is full.
Proverb, (French)
The bailiff's cow and another's cow are two different cows.
Proverb, (German)
The bait hides the hook.
Proverb, (English)
The baker's child goes hungry.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The balance in doing its office knows neither gold nor lead.
Proverb, (French)
The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel.
Proverb, (Egyptian)
The barking of dogs does not reach heaven.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The beadle of the parish is always of the vicar's opinion.
Proverb, (French)
The beadle's cow may graze in the churchyard.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
The bear wants a tail and cannot be a lion.
Proverb, (Latin)
The bear, he never can prevail
To lion it for want of tail.
Proverb
The beard does not make the philosopher.
Proverb, (Italian)
The beast dead, the venom is dead.
Proverb, (French)
The beast once dead, the venom is dead.
Proverb, (Italian)
The beast that goes well is never without some one to try his paces.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The beast that goes well never wants a rider to try its paces.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The beaten pay the fine.
Proverb, (French)
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
Proverb, (Belgian)
The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter.
Proverb
The beggar may sing before the thief.
Proverb
The beggar's bag is bottomless.
Proverb, (German)
The beggar's wallet has no bottom.
Proverb, (Italian)
The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold.
Proverb, (German)
The beginning is half of the whole.
Proverb, (Latin)
The beginning is the half of every action.
Proverb, (Greek)
The beginning of health is sleep.
Proverb, (Irish)
The beginning of health is to know the disease.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
Proverb, (Hungarian)
The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The belly does not accept bail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The belly gives no credit.
Proverb, (Danish)
The belly hates a long sermon.
Proverb
The belly is a bad adviser.
Proverb, (German)
The belly is not filled with fair words.
Proverb
The belly overrules the head.
Proverb, (French)
The belly robs the back.
Proverb
The belly teaches all arts.
Proverb, (Latin)
The belly warm, the foot at rest.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The benefice must be taken with its liabilities.
Proverb, (French)
The best advice is found on the pillow.
Proverb, (Danish)
The best always goes first.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best answer to anger is silence.
Proverb, (German)
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best candle is understanding.
Proverb, (Welsh)
The best cast at dice is not to play.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The best cause requires a good pleader.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The best cloth has uneven threads.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds.
Proverb, (French)
The best cook drops a whole tomato.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a drunken person.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr, Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
Proverb
The best driver will sometimes upset.
Proverb, (French)
The best feed of a horse is his master's eye.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The best fish swim near the bottom.
Proverb
The best fodder is the mater's eye.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The best friends are in one's purse.
Proverb, (German)
The best go first, the bad remain to mend.
Proverb
The best goods are the cheapest.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The best horse can't wear two saddles.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.
Proverb
The best horse stumbles sometimes.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The best is behind.
Proverb
The best is the cheapest.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
The best is the enemy of the good.
Proverb
The best is what one has in his hand.
Proverb, (German)
The best manure is under the farmer's shoe.
Proverb, (Danish)
The best memory is not so firm as faded ink.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness
in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Proverb, (Persian)
The best mirror is an old friend.
Proverb
The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach.
Proverb
The best of friends must part.
Proverb
The best of men are but men at best.
Proverb
The best of the mill is that the sacks can't speak.
Proverb, (German)
The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing.
Proverb
The best patch is off the same cloth.
Proverb
The best pears fall into the pigs' mouths.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
Proverb, (Latin)
The best pilots are ashore.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Proverb, (Swedish)
The best soldiers are not warlike.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The best spices are in small bags.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best swimmer is the first to drown himself.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best thing about a man is his dog.
Proverb, (French)
The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse.
Proverb
The best things are the first to perish.
Proverb, (Latin)
The best things are worst to come by.
Proverb
The best things come in small packages.
Proverb
The best things in life are free.
Proverb
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
Proverb
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is
today.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The best trees are the most beaten.
Proverb, (Italian)
The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.
Proverb, (Irish)
The best wine has its lees.
Proverb, (French)
The best you get is an even break.
Proverb
The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.
Proverb
The better day the better deed.
Proverb, (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
The better lawyer, the worse Christian.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The better the day the better the deed.
Proverb
The better the day, the better the deed.
Proverb
The better workman, the worse husband.
Proverb
The big fish eat the little ones.
Proverb, (French)
The big fish eat the little.
Proverb, (Italian)
The big fish is caught with big bait.
Proverb, (Sierra Leonean)
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Proverb, (Czech)
The bigger the river the bigger the fish.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Proverb
The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him.
Proverb
The bird once out of hand is hard to recover.
Proverb, (Danish)
The bird ought not to soil its own nest.
Proverb, (French)
The bitch in her haste brings forth blind puppies.
Proverb, (Latin)
The biter is often bit.
Proverb, (French)
The biter is sometimes bit.
Proverb, (Italian)
The bites of priests and wolves are hard to heal.
Proverb, (German)
The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in
need of.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The black ox has trod on his foot.
Proverb
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice.
Proverb, (Black)
The blade wears out the sheath.
Proverb, (French)
The bleating of the lamb merely arouses the tiger.
Proverb
The blind man has picked up a coin.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The blind man is laughing at the bald head.
Proverb, (Persian)
The blind man wishes to show the way.
Proverb, (Latin)
The blind would lead the blind.
Proverb, (Latin)
The block of wood should not dictate to the carver.
Proverb, (Maaori)
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Proverb
The blossoms in the spring are the fruit in autumn.
Proverb, (Latin)
The blow falls more lightly when it is anticipated.
Proverb, (Latin)
The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The body is sooner dressed than the soul.
Proverb
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Proverb, (Malaysian)
The bones for those who come late!
Proverb, (Latin)
The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The boot is on the other leg.
Proverb
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
Proverb
The bow may be bent until it breaks.
Proverb, (Danish)
The bow must not be always bent.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The boy is father to the man.
Proverb
The brain, that sows not corn, plants thistles.
Proverb
The branch is seldom better than the stem.
Proverb, (Danish)
The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook.
Proverb, (Danish)
The brave man may die, but he will never say "die."
Proverb, (Latin)
The braying of an ass does not reach heaven.
Proverb, (Italian)
The bread eaten, the company departs.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The bread never falls but on its buttered side.
Proverb
The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.
Proverb
The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see
only the differences.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The brother had rather see the sister rich than make her so.
Proverb
The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there.
Proverb, (Italian)
The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken.
Proverb, (Italian)
The bud becomes a rose and the rose a hip.
Proverb, (French)
The busiest men have the most leisure.
Proverb
The bust of Mercury cannot be carved in every wood.
Proverb, (Latin)
The bust of Mercury cannot be cut from every wood.
Proverb, (Latin)
The busy fly is in every man's dish.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The buyer has need of a hundred eyes. the seller but one.
Proverb
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Proverb, (Italian)
The calf, the goose, the bee:
The world is ruled by these three.
Proverb
The calmer you go, the further along you will be.
Proverb, (Russian)
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
Proverb, (English)
The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we
need not, we often lose what we have.]
Proverb
The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
Proverb, (Latin)
The candle that goes before gives the best light.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after.
Proverb, (French)
The careful foot can walk anywhere.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The carriage draws the ox.
Proverb, (Latin)
The carrion which the eagle has left feeds the crow.
Proverb, (Latin)
The cask always smells of the herring.
Proverb, (French)
The cask can give no other wine that that it contains.
Proverb, (Italian)
The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The cask smells of the wine it contains.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The cat always leaves her mark upon her friend.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The cat and dog may kiss, yet are none the better friends.
Proverb
The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for
staying.
Proverb, (English)
The cat is a good friend, only she scratches.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The cat is friendly, but scratches.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The cat is hungry when a crust contents her.
Proverb
The cat knows whose lips she licks.
Proverb
The cat loves fish, but is loth to wet her feet.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
The cat well knows whose beard she licks.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The cat which did not reach the sausage said: Anyhow it is Friday.
Proverb, (Georgian)
The cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet.
Proverb
The cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet.
Proverb
The cats that drive away mice are as food as those that catch them.
Proverb, (German)
The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
The cause at an end, the effect is removed.
Proverb, (Latin)
The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn't get
along without them.
Proverb, (American)
The challenger is beaten.
Proverb, (Latin)
The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
Proverb
The chamber-bell (chamber-clapper, or curtain lecture) is the worst sound
one have in his ears.
Proverb, (Italian)
The chameleon changes color to match the earth, the earth doesn't change
color to match the chameleon.
Proverb, (Senegalese)
The chamois climbs high and yet is caught.
Proverb, (German)
The charitable gives out at the door and God puts in at the window.
Proverb
The cheese vessel will not sail merely by words.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The chickens are the country's, but the city eats them.
Proverb
The chickens have come home to roost.
Proverb, (American)
The child of a tiger is a tiger.
Proverb, (Haitian)
The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fireside.
Proverb
The child says nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
Proverb
The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.
Proverb, (Danish)
The church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.
Proverb
The church is near but the road is icy; the tavern is far away but I will
walk carefully.
Proverb, (Russian)
The church is near, but the way is icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk
carefully.
Proverb, (Ukranian)
The church, the sea, or the royal household, for whoever would thrive.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The churl knows not the worth of spurs.
Proverb, (French)
The clartier the cosier.
Proverb
The coaches won't run over him.
Proverb
The coalheaver is master at home.
Proverb, (French)
The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.
Proverb
The cobbler should not go beyond his last. [Meddle not in things which you
do not understand.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The cobbler to his last and the gunner to his linstock.
Proverb
The cobbler's gaze is on the feet.
Proverb, (Goan)
The cock is a lord on his own dunghill.
Proverb, (German)
The cock is bold on his own dunghill.
Proverb, (Italian)
The cock is king on his own dunghill.
Proverb, (German)
The cock often crows without a victory.
Proverb, (Danish)
The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he knows it by heart.
Proverb, (German)
The comforter's head never aches.
Proverb
The common horse is worst shod.
Proverb
The common soldier's blood makes the general great.
Proverb, (Italian)
The company makes the feast.
Proverb
The complete fool is half prophet.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The concealer is as bad as the thief.
Proverb, (German)
The conquered dare not open their mouths.
Proverb, (Latin)
The conqueror weeps, the conquered is ruined. [Both sides suffer in war or
litigation.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The corn falls out of a shaken sheaf.
Proverb, (French)
The corn that is taken to a bad mill. will be badly ground.
Proverb, (Danish)
The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
The corruption of the best is the worst.
[Lat., Corruptio optimi pessima.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The corruption of the best things makes the worst.
Proverb, (Latin)
The counsel of the aged is sound.
Proverb, (Latin)
The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The country rooster dows not crow in the town.
Proverb, (African Swahili)
The course of a river is not to be altered. [We cannot alter a natural bent.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Proverb
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
The court of Rome likes not sheep without wool.
Proverb, (Italian)
The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The covetous spends more than the liberal.
Proverb
The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)
The cow gives good milk, but kicks over the pail.
Proverb
The cow gives milk through her mouth.
Proverb, (German)
The cow has no owner.
Proverb, (Massai)
The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.
Proverb, (Danish)
The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
Proverb
The cow licks no strange calf.
Proverb, (German)
The cow must graze where she is tied.
Proverb, (Sierra Leonean)
The cow that does not eat with the oxen, either eats before or after them.
Proverb, (Galician)
The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.
Proverb, (British)
The coward sweats in water.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
The cowl does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus non facit monachum.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The cows that low most give the least milk.
Proverb, (German)
The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.
Proverb, (Haitian)
The crab would catch the hare!
Proverb, (Latin)
The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth comes out.
Proverb
The cross on his breast, and the devil in his acts.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The cross on his breast, and the devil in his heart.
Proverb
The crow is a pretty bird when the jackdaw is not present.
Proverb, (Latin)
The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The crow thinks her own bird fairest.
Proverb
The crow will find its mate.
Proverb, (Danish)
The cry of the hyena and the loss of the goat are one.
Proverb, (Hausa)
The cuckold is the last that knows of it.
Proverb
The cuckoo comes in April,
Sings a song in May;
Then in June another tune,
And then she flies away.
Proverb
The cunning wife makes her husband her apron.
Proverb
The cure is worse that the disease.
Proverb
The curse on the hearth wounds the deepest.
Proverb, (Danish)
The customer is always right.
Proverb
The customers are known to the shopkeepers.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)
The danger past, and God forgotten.
Proverb
The danger past, the saint cheated.
Proverb, (Italian)
The darkest hour is just before dawn.
Proverb
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
Proverb, (English)
The day has eyes and the night has ears.
Proverb
The day has eyes, the night has ears.
Proverb, (Scottish)
The day I did not make my toilette, there came to my house one I did not
expect.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The day I did not sweep the house, there came to it one I did not expect.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil.
Proverb, (Danish)
The day is short and the work is long.
Proverb
The day is sure to come when the cow will want her tail.
Proverb, (Danish)
The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.
Proverb, (African)
The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.
Proverb, (Irish)
The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The day you marry 'tis either kill or cure.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The day your horse dies and your money's lost, your relatives change to
strangers.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The days follow each other and are not alike.
Proverb, (French)
The dead and the absent have no friends.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The dead are soon forgotten.
Proverb, (French)
The dead are the best counsellors.
Proverb, (Latin)
The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The dead have few friends.
Proverb
The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve for indignities to his corpse; the
dead in hell has too much else to grieve for.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The dead open the eyes of the living.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.
Proverb, (Danish)
The dearest child of all is the dead one.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The debts go to the next heir.
Proverb, (German)
The deceived sheep that went for wool and came back shorn.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Proverb, (Korean)
The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The devil always leaves a stink behind him.
Proverb
The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends.
Proverb
The devil catches most souls in a golden net.
Proverb, (German)
The devil dances in an empty pocket.
Proverb
The devil dies brooding in the miser's chest.
Proverb
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
Proverb
The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
Proverb
The devil gets into the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Proverb
The devil has his martyrs among men.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese.
Proverb
The devil is bad because he is old.
Proverb, (Italian)
The devil is civil when he is flattered.
Proverb, (German)
The devil is fond of his own.
Proverb, (Galician)
The devil is good when he is pleased.
Proverb
The devil is in the details.
Proverb, (German)
The devil is in the dice.
Proverb
The devil is kind to his own.
Proverb
The devil is never so black as he is painted.
Proverb, (German)
The devil is not always at a poor man's door.
Proverb, (French)
The devil is not so black as he is painted.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eye.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The devil leads him by the nose who the dice too often throws.
Proverb, (French)
The devil likes to souse what is already wet.
Proverb, (German)
The devil looks after his own.
Proverb
The devil lurks behind the cross.
Proverb, (German, Spanish)
The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers' tongues and clerk's fingers.
Proverb
The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.
Proverb, (French)
The devil never grants long leases.
Proverb, (Irish)
The devil often lurks behind the cross.
Proverb, (French)
The devil rebukes sin.
Proverb
The devil sits behind the cross.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The devil take the hindmost.
Proverb
The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.
Proverb, (Kurdish)
The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The devil turns away from a closed door.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The devil was handsome when he was young.
Proverb, (French)
The devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be; the Devil was well, the
devil a saint was he.
Proverb
The devil was so fond of his children that he plucked out their eyes.
Proverb
The devil will tempt Lucifer.
Proverb, (Italian)
The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's pride.
Proverb
The devil's boots don't creak.
Proverb, (Scottish)
The Devil's children have the Devil's luck.
Proverb, (English)
The devil's in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The devil's meal is all bran.
Proverb
The devil's meal turns half to bran.
Proverb, (French)
The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected
without trials.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.
Proverb, (English)
The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
Proverb, (Arabian)
The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
Proverb
The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.
Proverb, (Italian)
The diligent spinner has a large shift.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The diseases of the mind are either caused or cured by the power of music.
Proverb, (Latin)
The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.
Proverb, (Polish)
The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
Proverb, (French)
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
Proverb, (Latin)
The doctor must heal his own bald head.
Proverb, (Persian)
The doctor seldom takes physic.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog barks and the ox feeds.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail.
Proverb, (German)
The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass.
Proverb, (French)
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
Proverb, (French)
The dog rages at the stone, not at him that throws it.
Proverb, (German)
The dog returns to its vomit.
Proverb
The dog that barks much is never good for hunting.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The dog that barks much, bites little.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The dog that bites does not bark in vain.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog that has its bitch in town never barks well.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The dog that is forced into the woods will not hunt many deer.
Proverb, (Danish)
The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog that kills wolves, is killed by wolves.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog that means to bite don't bark.
Proverb, (Italian)
The dog that quits barking can get some sleep.
Proverb
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it.
Proverb, (German)
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
The dog will not get free by biting his chain.
Proverb, (Danish)
The dog's bark is not might but fright.
Proverb, (Madagascari)
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
Proverb, (Danish)
The dogs bite the last.
Proverb, (German)
The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The donkey sweats so the horse can be decorated with lace.
Proverb, (Haitian)
The dress does not make the friar.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Proverb
The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man
with rags.
Proverb
The drunken man's joy is often the sober man's sorrow.
Proverb, (Danish)
The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.
Proverb, (German)
The eagle does not catch flies.
Proverb, (Latin, German)
The eagle does not hunt flies.
Proverb, (French)
The eagle does not war against frogs.
Proverb, (Italian)
The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.
Proverb, (Native American Indian)
The ear is the road to the heart.
Proverb, (French)
The early bird catches the early worm.
Proverb
The early bird catches the worm.
Proverb
The early bird catcheth the worm.
Proverb
The early man never borrows from the late man.
Proverb
The early morn favours study.
Proverb, (Latin)
The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious.
Proverb, (French)
The earth covers the errors of the physician.
Proverb, (Italian)
The earth hides as it takes, the physician's mistakes.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different
cells.
Proverb, (Bantu)
The earth is always frozen to lazy swine.
Proverb, (Danish)
The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.
Proverb, (Danish)
The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass vessel.
Proverb
The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in.
Proverb
The egg shows the hen where to hatch.
Proverb, (African)
The egg will be more knowing than the hen.
Proverb, (German)
The election of the abbot is not stopped for want of a monk.
Proverb, (Italian)
The elephant does not feel a flea-bite.
Proverb, (Italian)
The elephant does not get tired of its tusks.
Proverb, (Massai)
The elephant will reach to the roof of the house.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)
The elephant's head is no load for a child.
Proverb, (Sierra Leonean)
The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The Emperor of Germany is the king of kings, the King of Spain king of men,
the King of France king of asses, the King of England king of devils.
Proverb, (French)
The empty gives way to the full.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
The empty waggon must make room for the full one.
Proverb, (German)
The end crowns all.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The end crowns the work.
[Lat., Finis coronat opus.]
Proverb, (Latin, French, Portuguese)
The end justifies the means.
Proverb
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief.
Proverb, (African)
The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance.
Proverb
The end of the corsair is to drown.
Proverb, (Italian)
The end of wrath is the beginning of repentance.
Proverb, (German)
The end praises the work.
Proverb, (Italian)
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Proverb, (Arab)
The English are a nation of shopkeepers.
Proverb
The English never know when they are beaten.
Proverb
The Englishman weeps, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotchman gangs while he
gets it.
Proverb
The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The envious man shall never want woe.
Proverb
The envious man's face grows lean and his eye swells.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The epicure puts his purse into his belly.
Proverb
The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The evening crowns the day.
Proverb
The evil is lessened when it is seen beforehand.
Proverb, (Latin)
The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.
Proverb
The evils we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear.
Proverb
The exception proves the rule.
[Lat., Exceptio probat regulam.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The exception which proves the rule.
Proverb
The excess of mirth leads to tears.
Proverb, (Latin)
The executioner is a keen shaver.
Proverb, (German)
The existence of the sea means the existence of pirates.
Proverb, (Malay)
The eye cannot rise above the eyebrow.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
The eye is bigger than the belly.
Proverb, (German)
The eye is blind if the mind is absent.
Proverb, (Italian)
The eye is never satiated with seeing.
Proverb, (German)
The eye is the one that eats.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
The eye is the pearl of the face.
Proverb
The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.
Proverb
The eye of the master fattens the horse.
Proverb, (Italian)
The eye of the master fattens the steed.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)
The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the
chambers neat.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The eye of the master makes the horse fat.
Proverb, (Danish)
The eye of the master will do more than both his hands.
Proverb
The eye sees, but the hand can't reach.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
Proverb
The eye will often wander
The road that love has taught.
Proverb
The eyeless ant asked God: Give me eye-lashes.
Proverb, (Georgian)
The eyes are bigger than the belly.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The eyes are the window of the soul.
Proverb, (English)
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
Proverb, (German)
The face is no index to the heart.
Proverb, (English)
The face is the index to the mind.
Proverb, (Latin)
The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.
Proverb, (Latin)
The faded rose
No suitor knows.
Proverb
The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.
Proverb
The fairer the hostess, the heavier the reckoning.
Proverb, (German)
The fairer the paper the fouler the blot.
Proverb
The fairest rose at last is withered.
Proverb
The fairest silk is soonest stained.
Proverb
The falcon does not struggle when he is caught.
Proverb, (Moroccan)
The fall is nobody's sire.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)
The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.
Proverb, (Russian)
The fall of the leaf; is a whisper to the living.
Proverb
The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-dial.
Proverb, (French)
The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are
inside, you see that each tree has its own position.
Proverb, (Akan)
The farther from Rome the nearer to God.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The farthest way about is the nearest way home.
Proverb, (German)
The fast faggot is not easily broken.
Proverb
The fat is in the fire.
Proverb
The fat sow knows not what the hungry sow
suffers.
Proverb, (Danish)
The Fates will not permit it.
Proverb, (Latin)
The father a saint the son a devil.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese)
The father in praising the son extols himself.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The father of a saint, the son of a sinner.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The father to the bough, the son to the plough.
Proverb
The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
Proverb, (German)
The fault is as great as he that commits it.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fault is great in proportion to him who commits it.
Proverb, (French)
The fault of another is a good teacher.
Proverb, (German)
The favour of the great is not lasting.
Proverb, (Latin)
The fear of death is worse than death itself.
Proverb, (Latin)
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
Proverb, (Italian)
The feast passes and the fool remains.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The feet of the deities are shod with wool.
Proverb
The fellow roasts his fish in the flames of a fire.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Proverb
The fertile field becomes sterile without rest.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fewer his years, the fewer his tears.
Proverb
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Proverb, (German)
The field should be poorer than the farmer. [It is useless for a man to
attempt farming without capital.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The fierce ox becomes tame on strange ground.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fingers of the same hand are not alike.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The fire burns brightest on one's own hearth.
Proverb, (Danish)
The fire heeds little whose cloak it burns.
Proverb, (Danish)
The fire is welcome within, when icicles hang without.
Proverb, (Danish)
The fire well knows whose cloak burns.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fire which lights us at a distance will burn us when near.
Proverb
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The first at the mill grinds first.
Proverb, (Italian)
The first bird get the first grain.
Proverb, (Danish)
The first blow is as good as two.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
The first blow is half the battle.
Proverb
The first blow makes the wrong, but the second makes the fray.
Proverb
The first breath is the beginning of death.
Proverb
The first comer grinds first.
Proverb, (French)
The first dish pleases every one.
Proverb, (Italian)
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The first duty of a soldier is obedience.
Proverb
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit
them.
Proverb
The first glass for thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for
pleasure, and the fourth for madness.
Proverb
The first half of the night, think of your own faults; the second half, the
faults of others.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The first hen that cackles is the one that laid the egg.
Proverb
The first in the boat has the choice of oars.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst
forsake.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The first step binds one to the second.
Proverb, (French)
The first step is all the difficulty.
Proverb, (French)
The first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.
Proverb
The first wife is a broom, and the second a lady.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.
Proverb, (Italian)
The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the
third, live in it yourself.
Proverb
The first [cup of vodka] goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the
third as a little bird.
Proverb, (Russian)
The fish always stinks from the head downwards.
Proverb
The fish lead a pleasant life, they drink when they like.
Proverb, (German)
The fish requires salt! [Derisively, the sea abounding with salt.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The fisherman fishes in troubled water.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The fist loss is the best.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The flame is not far from the smoke.
Proverb, (Danish)
The flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre.
Proverb, (Italian)
The flawed pot lasts longest.
Proverb, (French)
The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone.
Proverb, (Danish)
The fly flutters about the candle till at last it gets burnt.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel and said What a dust do I
raise!
Proverb, (Greek)
The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak.
Proverb, (Italian)
The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it.
Proverb
The fool cuts himself with his own knife.
Proverb, (French)
The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The fool hunts for misfortune.
Proverb, (French)
The fool is busy in everyone's business but his own.
Proverb
The fool knows more in his own house than the sage in other men's.
Proverb, (Italian)
The fool passes for wise if he is silent.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The fool saith, Who would have thought it?
Proverb
The fool speaks, the wise man listens.
Proverb, (African)
The fool sucks wisdom, as he porter sups,
And cobblers grow fine speakers in their cups.
Proverb
The fool wanders, the wise man travels.
Proverb
The fool who is silent passes for wise.
Proverb, (French)
The fool would teach the learned!
Proverb, (Latin)
The foot of the farmer manures the field.
Proverb, (Danish)
The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land.
Proverb
The foot on the cradle and hand on the distaff is the sign of a good
housewife.
Proverb
The force of anger is broken by a soft answer.
Proverb, (Latin)
The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon
it. [Stolid immobility or masterly inactivity.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The forest can't be without its jackals.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)
The forest has ears, and field has eyes.
Proverb, (Danish)
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
Proverb, (New England)
The forest will answer you in the way you call to it.
Proverb, (Finnish)
The fortress that parleys soon surrenders.
Proverb, (Italian)
The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his
own in the trap.
Proverb, (Italian)
The fox changes his skin, but keeps the rogue.
Proverb, (German)
The fox does not do as much mischief in a year as it pays for in an hour.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fox does not go twice into the same trap.
Proverb, (Danish)
The fox does not prey near his hole.
Proverb, (German)
The fox fares best when he is cursed.
Proverb
The fox goes through the corn and does not eat, but brushes it down with his
tail.
Proverb, (Galician)
The fox is knowing, but more knowing he who catches him.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fox loves cunning, the wolf covets the lamb, and a woman longs for
praise.
Proverb, (Latin)
The fox may grow gray, but never good.
Proverb
The fox may lose his hair, but not his cunning.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The fox never fares better than when he's bann'd.
Proverb
The fox preys farthest from his hole.
Proverb
The fox said the grapes were sour.
Proverb, (Italian)
The fox says of the mulberries when he cannot get at them; they are not good
at all.
Proverb, (French)
The fox that sleeps in the morning has not his tongue feathered.
Proverb, (French)
The fox that tarries long is on the watch for prey.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself.
Proverb, (French)
The fox thrives best when he is most cursed.
Proverb
The Fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
Proverb
The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The friar preached against stealing, and had a goose up his sleeve.
Proverb
The friar who begs for God begs for two.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.
Proverb, (French)
The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.
Proverb, (Italian)
The frog cannot out of her bog.
Proverb
The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The frog likes water, but not boiling water.
Proverb, (Senegalese)
The frog said to the harrow, Cursed be so many lords.
Proverb
The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
The frog will jump back into the pool, although it sits on a golden stool.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The frost hurts not weeds.
Proverb
The fruit falls not far from the stem.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The fruit of silence is tranquility.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt, black brows!"
Proverb
The fugitive finds everything impede him.
Proverb, (Italian)
The full belly does not believe in hunger.
Proverb, (Italian)
The full cask makes no noise.
Proverb, (Italian)
The full moon brings fair weather.
Proverb
The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
Proverb, (Irish)
The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The full-fed sheep is frightened at its own tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The fuller the cask, the duller its sound.
Proverb, (German)
The fun is in the search, not the finding.
Proverb
The further you go, the further behind.
Proverb
The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
Proverb
The gallows takes its own.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The gallows was made for the unlucky.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The gallows will have its own at last.
Proverb
The game is not worth the candle.
[Fr., Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.]
Proverb,
(French), quoted by Lord Chesterfield
The gardener had not yet dug out the radish, when the beggar held the
alms-bowl in front of him.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)
The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.
Proverb, (Italian)
The gardener's dog neither eats greens not lets any one else eat them.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The gardener's dog, neither full nor hungry.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The gardener's feet do no harm to the garden.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without
trials.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking.
Proverb, (Danish)
The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The gentle hawk mans herself.
Proverb, (French)
The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks
neither its own nor another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The German's wit is in his fingers.
Proverb
The Germans carry their wit in their fingers.
Proverb, (French)
The gifts of fortune (windfalls) do not always benefit us.
Proverb, (Latin)
The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The girl is more inviting who smells of wild thyme than she who smells of
musk.
Proverb, (Latin)
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The glaciers didn't freeze overnight.
Proverb
The gladiator seeks advice, when in the very lists.
Proverb, (Latin)
The glass-dealer's horses fell out, and he looked on to see which kicked
hardest.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself.
Proverb, (Serbian)
The gnat trusting itself to the flame is singed.
Proverb, (Latin)
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The goat can't well cover herself with her tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The goat must browse where she is tied.
Proverb, (Romanian)
The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun.
Proverb, (Haitian)
The gods assist the industrious.
Proverb, (Latin)
The gods sell all things for labour.
Proverb, (Latin)
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
Proverb
The golden age never was the present age.
Proverb, (English)
The golden ass passes everywhere.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The golden key opens every door.
Proverb, (Italian)
The good cow gets sold in its own country.
Proverb, (Maltese)
The good die first:
And those, whose hearts are dry as summer dust,
Burn to the socket.
Proverb
The good die young.
Proverb
The good fortunes of life fall to the lot even of the base.
Proverb, (Latin)
The good is the enemy of the best.
Proverb
The good mother says not, Will you? but gives.
Proverb
The good or ill hap of a good or ill life
Is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.
Proverb
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Proverb, (Italian)
The good shepherd shears, not flays.
Proverb, (Italian)
The good time comes but once.
Proverb, (Italian)
The goodman is the last who knows what's amiss at home.
Proverb
The goodwill accompanying the gift is the best portion of it.
Proverb, (Latin)
The goose goes so often into the kitchen, till at last she sticks to the
spit.
Proverb, (Danish)
The goose hisses, but does not bite.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly.
Proverb, (Danish)
The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles.
Proverb, (Danish)
The goslings would lead the geese out to grass.
Proverb, (French)
The gossips fall out and tell each other truths.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The gown does not make the friar.
Proverb, (Italian)
The gown does not make the monk.
Proverb, (French)
The gown is hers that wears it; and the world is his who enjoys it.
Proverb
The gown is his that wears it, and the world his that enjoys it.
Proverb
The grace of God is gear enough.
Proverb
The grape is not ripened by the rays of the moon.
Proverb, (Latin)
The grapes are sour, said the fox, when he could not get at them.
Proverb, (Dutch, Spanish)
The grapes are sour.
Proverb, (Greek)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Proverb
The grasshopper is dear to the grasshopper, the ant loves the ant.
Proverb, (Latin)
The great and the little have need of one another.
Proverb
The great elephant of India cares not for a gnat.
Proverb, (Latin)
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content with failure.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The great would have none great, and the little all little.
Proverb
The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
Proverb, (Polish)
The greater the fear the nearer the danger.
Proverb, (Danish)
The greater the fool, the greater his insolence.
Proverb, (Latin)
The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.
Proverb, (English)
The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
Proverb
The greatest barkers bite not sorest.
Proverb
The greatest burdens are not the gainfullest.
Proverb, (French)
The greatest clerks are not the wisest men.
Proverb, (Latin)
The greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.
Proverb, (German)
The greatest consideration is due to the innocence of youth.
Proverb, (Latin)
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Proverb, (French)
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth.
Proverb, (French)
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.
Proverb
The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel.
Proverb
The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.
Proverb, (Polish)
The greatest oaks have been little acorns.
Proverb
The greatest respect is due to children.
Proverb, (Latin)
The greatest step is out of doors.
Proverb, (German)
The greatest talkers are always the least doers.
Proverb
The greatest things are done by the help of small ones.
Proverb
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.
Proverb
The green burns for the dry, and the righteous pay for sinners.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The grey mare is the better horse.
Proverb
The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The groat is ill saved that shames the master.
Proverb
The grounded speaks not, save what it heard of the hinges.
Proverb
The guests will go away, and we will eat the pasty.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The gull comes against the rain.
Proverb
The gutter by dropping wears the stone.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age.
Proverb, (Latin)
The half is better than the whole.
Proverb
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
Proverb, (Russian)
The hand of God is with the group.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The hand often travels to the part where the pain is.
Proverb, (Latin)
The hand that gives gathers.
Proverb
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Proverb
The handsomest flower is not the sweetest.
Proverb
The handsomest snuffs the candle.
Proverb, (German)
The handsomest woman can only give what she has.
Proverb, (French)
The hanging fruit is never too heavy for the creeper to bear.
Proverb, (Goan)
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes.
Proverb, (Latin)
The happiness in your pocket, don't spend it all.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Proverb
The hardest step is over the threshold.
Proverb
The hardest step is that over the threshold.
Proverb, (Italian)
The hare starts from where it is least expected.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The hare starts when a man least expects it.
Proverb
The harp dispels care.
Proverb, (Latin)
The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.
Proverb, (Arabian)
The hasty angler loses the fish.
Proverb
The hasty hand catches frogs for fish.
Proverb
The hasty man never wants woe.
Proverb
The hasty man was never a traitor.
Proverb, (German)
The hatred of knaves is to be preferred to their company.
Proverb, (Latin)
The have always returns to her form.
Proverb, (French)
The head and feet keep warm,
The rest will take no harm.
Proverb, (French)
The headache is mine and the cows are ours.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick.
Proverb
The healthy die first.
Proverb, (Italian)
The heart does not lie.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The heart does not think all the mouth says.
Proverb, (Italian)
The heart is no traitor.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The heart leads whither it goes.
Proverb, (French)
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)
The heart that loves is always young.
Proverb, (Greek)
The heart's letter is read in the eyes.
Proverb
The hedge is trodden down where it seems to lean. [Vis., at its weakest
point.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her.
Proverb, (Danish)
The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.
Proverb, (Danish)
The hen lays upon an egg.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already.
Proverb, (German)
The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey.
Proverb, (Danish)
The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.
Proverb, (French)
The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The hen's eyes are where her eggs are.
Proverb, (Galician)
The hen's eyes are with her chickens.
Proverb, (French)
The hen's eyes turn to where she has her eggs.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The herb patience does not grow in every man's garden.
Proverb, (Danish)
The herb that can't be got is the one that heals.
Proverb, (Irish)
The heron blames the water because he cannot swim.
Proverb, (Danish)
The higher a monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.
Proverb, (German)
The higher flood hath always the lower ebb.
Proverb
The higher the ape climbs the more he shows his rump.
Proverb, (French, German)
The higher the bell is hung, the shriller it sounds.
Proverb, (German)
The higher the monkey climbs the more he shows his tail.
Proverb
The higher the monkey goes the more he shows his tail.
Proverb
The higher the mountain the lower the vale, the taller the tree the harder
the fall.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The higher the plum tree, the riper the plum;
The richer the cobbler, the blacker his thumb.
Proverb
The higher the rise the greater the fall.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Spanish)
The higher up, the greater fall.
Proverb
The highest branch is not the safest roost.
Proverb
The highest flood has the lowest ebb.
Proverb
The highest seat will not hold more than one.
Proverb, (Latin)
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest.
Proverb
The highest tree hath the greatest fall.
Proverb
The highway is never about.
Proverb
The hindmost dog may catch the hare.
Proverb
The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns.
Proverb
The hole invites the thief.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The hole is more honorable than the patch.
Proverb, (Irish)
The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.
Proverb
The honest man enjoys the theft.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The horse is not judged of by the saddle.
Proverb, (German)
The horse may run quickly, but it can't escape its own tail.
Proverb, (Russian)
The horse must go to the manger, and not the manger to the horse.
Proverb, (Danish)
The horse that draws best is the most whipped.
Proverb, (German)
The horse that draws his halter is not quite escaped.
Proverb
The horse that draws most is most whipped.
Proverb, (French)
The horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.
Proverb
The horse thinks one thing, and his rider another.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The horse's best allowance is his master's eye.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The hour is passing.
Proverb, (Latin)
The house completed, possession defeated.
Proverb, (Italian)
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
Proverb, (Mexican)
The house goes mad when women gad.
Proverb
The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The house shows the owner.
Proverb
The house sweeper's buttock is never at one direction.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The hunchback does not see his own hump, but he sees his brother's.
Proverb, (French)
The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds.
Proverb, (Ugandan)
The husband is always the last to know.
Proverb
The husband's mother is the wife's devil.
Proverb, (German)
The hyena does not forget where it has hidden its kill.
Proverb, (Thonga)
The hyena of your own country does not break your bones.
Proverb, (Giryama)
The ignorant is his own enemy.
Proverb, (Palestinian)
The ill year comes in swimming.
Proverb, (French)
The inarticulate speak longest.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
Proverb, (Zen)
The injurer never forgets.
Proverb, (Italian)
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
Proverb, (Jewish)
The intemperate die young, and rarely en joy old age.
Proverb, (Latin)
The interested friend is a swallow on the roof. (Prepared to leave at the
approach of winter.)
Proverb, (French)
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.
Proverb, (Irish)
The iron entered into his house.
Proverb, (Latin)
The is worthy of sweets, who has tasted bitters.
Proverb, (Danish)
The issue of all contention is uncertain. [Witness the glorious uncertainty
of the law, and of the turf.]
Proverb
The Italian seemes wise, and is wise; the Spaniard seemes wise, and is a
foole; the French seems a foole, and is wise; and the English seemes a foole
and is a foole.
Proverb,
quoted as a common proverb by Thomas Scott in "The Highwaies of God and the
King", p. 8
The Italianised Englishman is a devil incarnate.
Proverb, (Italian)
The Italians are wise before the act, the Germans in the act, the French
after the act.
Proverb, (Italian)
The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing.
Proverb, (French)
The jay bird don't rob his own nest.
Proverb, (West Indian)
The Jew ruins himself with passovers, the Moor with wedding feasts, and the
Christian with lawsuits.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The Jews spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in suits.
Proverb
The journey is the reward.
Proverb, (Taoist)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The just man may sin with an open chest of gold before him.
Proverb, (Italian)
The kettle smuts the frying-pan.
Proverb, (French)
The key at the girdle keeps me good and my neighbour too.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The key that is used grows bright.
Proverb, (German)
The keys at the girdle, the dog in the larder.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The kick of a mare never hurt a colt.
Proverb, (Italian)
The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
The king can do no wrong.
Proverb
The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman.
Proverb
The king cannot rule as he wishes.
Proverb, (German)
The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The king likes the treachery, but not the traitor.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The king of the bees has no sting.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The king's chaff is better than other folk's corn.
Proverb, (German)
The king's cheese goes half away in parings.
Proverb
The king's word is more than another man's oath.
Proverb
The kite's malady, its wings broken and its beak sound.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The knife of the family does not cut.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Proverb, (Latin)
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
Proverb
The labour is in itself a pleasure.
Proverb, (Latin)
The laggard cow gets the sour grass.
Proverb, (Danish)
The lame goat does not take a siesta.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The lame man runs if he has to.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
The lame post brings the truest news.
Proverb
The lame tongue gets nothing.
Proverb
The land a man knows is his mother.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The land is a mother that never dies.
Proverb, (Maori)
The lapwing cries farthest from her nest.
Proverb
The larks fall there ready roasted.
Proverb, (French)
The last come is the best liked.
Proverb, (French)
The last comer shuts the door.
Proverb, (Italian)
The last comers are often the masters.
Proverb, (French)
The last drop makes the cup run over.
Proverb
The last drop maketh the cup run over.
Proverb
The last shuts the door.
Proverb, (German)
The last stole the sack.
Proverb, (German)
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
Proverb
The last suitor wins the maid.
Proverb
The late comer is ill lodged.
Proverb
The later comer is ill lodged.
Proverb, (Italian)
The later the evening, the fairer the company.
Proverb, (German)
The laugh is always on the loser.
Proverb, (German)
The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive.
Proverb, (Latin)
The law devised, its evasion contrived.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The law does not concern itself about trifles.
[Lat., De minimis non curat lex.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The law of requital of injury by injury.
Proverb, (Latin)
The law says what the king pleases.
Proverb, (French)
The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.
Proverb, (French)
The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one."
Proverb, (Madagasy)
The lazy pig does not eat ripe pears.
Proverb, (Italian)
The lazy servant takes eight steps to avoid one.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The lazy servant to save one step takes eight.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The leader follows in front.
Proverb
The lean dog is all fleas.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The learned are apt to be taciturn.
Proverb, (Myanmar)
The least and weakest man can do some hurt.
Proverb
The least boy always carries the biggest fiddle.
Proverb
The least foolish wise.
Proverb
The leaves fall before the tree dies.
Proverb, (French)
The Lehua blossom unfolds when the rains tread on it.
Proverb, (Hawaiian)
The leopard does not change his spots.
Proverb
The less one thinks, the more one speaks.
Proverb, (French)
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The less said the sooner mended.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it.
Proverb
The letter enters with blood.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
Proverb, (Italian)
The liar is sooner caught than the cripple.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The life of man is a winter's day and a winter's way.
Proverb
The light is painful to sore eyes.
Proverb, (Italian)
The lion and the lamb shall lie down together, but the lamb won't get much
sleep.
Proverb
The lion dies and even the hares insult him.
[Lat., Mortuo leoni et lepores insultant.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The lion does not turn around when a small dog barks.
Proverb, (African)
The lion had need of the mouse.
Proverb, (Italian)
The lion is known by his claws.
Proverb, (Italian)
The lion is known by the scratch of his claws.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The lion's not half so fierce as he's painted.
Proverb
The list is worse than the cloth.
Proverb, (French)
The listener makes the backbiter.
Proverb, (French)
The little alms are the good alms.
Proverb, (French)
The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are
in great danger.
Proverb, (Italian)
The living who is absent is like a dead man.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree said he would praise himself
if no one else did.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The loftiest towers rise from the ground.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf.
Proverb
The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The longest day must have an end.
Proverb
The longest road out is the shortest road home.
Proverb, (Irish)
The longest way around is the shortest way home.
Proverb
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
Proverb, (Italian)
The loquacity of fools is a lecture to the wise.
Proverb
The Lord will not fail to come, though he may not come on horseback.
Proverb, (Danish)
The loss which your neighbour does not know is no real loss.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The loudest bark rids not a dog of his fleas.
Proverb
The love of the wicked is more dangerous than their hatred.
Proverb
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with
the eye and half with the fancy.
Proverb, (Persian)
The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper.
Proverb
The lowest fence is the easiest to get across.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
The loyal man lives no longer than the traitor pleases.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The lucky man has a daughter for his first-born.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The mad dog bites its master.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The madness of one makes many mad.
Proverb, (Latin)
The magician mutters, and knows not what he mutters.
Proverb
The magistrate's son gets out of every scrape.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The magpie cannot leave her hopping.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The magpie is competing with the nightingale!
Proverb, (Latin)
The malady that is more incurable is folly.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The man has neither sense nor reason who leaves a young wife at home.
Proverb, (French)
The man in the moon stole the wood.
Proverb, (German)
The man of sense does not hang up his knowledge.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The man of your own trade is your enemy.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The man on his feet carries off the share of the man sitting down.
Proverb, (Guinean)
The man shall have his mare again.
Proverb
The man who builds his own throne rules over a desert.
Proverb
The man who can't dance says the band can't play.
Proverb
The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other
things as well.
Proverb, (Amish)
The man who comes with a talk about others has himself an ax to grind.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The man who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Proverb, (Danish)
The man who is born in a stable is not a horse.
Proverb
The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
Proverb, (Italian)
The man who loves is easy of belief.
Proverb
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
Proverb
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.
Proverb
The man will surely fail, who dares delay,
And lose to-morrow that has lost to-day.
Proverb
The mare's kick does not harm the colt.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The mare's kicks are caresses to the colt.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The mare's kicks are caresses to the horse.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard.
Proverb, (Irish)
The master absent and the house dead.
Proverb
The master derives from his art.
Proverb, (Danish)
The master of the people is their servant.
Proverb, (Yemen)
The master orders the man, the man orders the cat, and the cat orders her
tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The master's eye and foot are the best manure for the field.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The master's eye does more than both his hands.
Proverb, (German)
The master's eye makes the horse fat.
Proverb, (Greek, Latin, Portuguese)
The master's foot is manure for the estate.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The master's footsteps fatten the soil.
Proverb
The maw costs much.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The maxims of men disclose their hearts.
Proverb, (French)
The meaning is best known to the speaker.
Proverb, (French)
The means were wanting, not the will.
Proverb, (Latin)
The memory of a benefit vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh
fast in the heart.
Proverb
The memory of happiness makes misery woeful.
Proverb
The merchant that loses cannot laugh.
Proverb, (French)
The merchant who gains not, loseth.
Proverb
The mice have taken themselves off.
Proverb, (Latin)
The middle path is the safe path.
Proverb, (German)
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Proverb, (Latin)
The mill does not grind with water that is past.
Proverb, (French, Portuguese, Spanish)
The mill does not grind without water.
Proverb, (Italian)
The mill gains by gong, and not by standing still.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The miller is never so drunk that he forgets to take his dues.
Proverb, (Danish)
The miller sees not every wave that flows.
Proverb, (Latin)
The miller's hen and widower's maid, of want need never be afraid.
Proverb, (German)
The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
Proverb
The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind finely.
Proverb, (Irish)
The millstone that lies undermost also helps to grind.
Proverb, (Danish)
The mind is best taught with a sharp whip.
Proverb, (Latin)
The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The mind is the emperor of the body.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The mind is the man.
Proverb
The mind when unoccupied knows not what it wants.
Proverb, (Latin)
The miser and the pig are of no use till dead.
Proverb, (French)
The miser's bag is never full.
Proverb, (Danish)
The misfortune of the foolish is a warning to the wise.
Proverb, (Latin)
The misfortunes to which we are accustomed affect us less deeply.
Proverb, (Latin)
The mob has many heads, but no brains.
Proverb
The money paid, the workman's arm is broken.
Proverb, (French)
The money you refuse will never do you good.
Proverb
The monk preached against stealing, and had the good in his larder.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The monk responds as the abbot chants.
Proverb, (French, German)
The monk that begs for God's sake begs for two.
Proverb, (French)
The monkey knows the tree it climbs.
Proverb, (Puerto Rican)
The month loses its own, but not the year.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
Proverb, (Latin)
The moon does not heed the baying of dogs.
Proverb, (Italian)
The moon is a moon still, whether it shine or not.
Proverb
The moon is made of a green cheese.
Proverb
The more a man exposes his nakedness the colder he is.
Proverb, (French)
The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The more acquaintance, the more danger.
Proverb, (English)
The more by law, the less by right.
Proverb, (Danish)
The more cooks, the worse broth.
Proverb, (Danish)
The more cost the more honour.
Proverb
The more danger, the more honour.
Proverb
The more fools, the more laughter.
Proverb, (French)
The more haste the worse speed.
Proverb, (French)
The more haste, the less speed.
Proverb, (Dutch, German, Spanish)
The more knave, the better luck.
Proverb, (Danish)
The more law, the less justice.
Proverb, (German)
The more laws the less justice.
Proverb, (German)
The more laws, the more offenders.
Proverb, (Latin)
The more light a torch gives the shorter it lasts.
Proverb
The more mischief the better sport.
Proverb
The more noble, the more humble.
Proverb
The more one has the more one wants.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.
Proverb
The more servants the worse service.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The more shepherds the less care.
Proverb, (Danish)
The more shoots, the more leaves.
Proverb, (Malay)
The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain.
Proverb
The more the fox is cursed, the more prey he catches.
Proverb, (Italian)
The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
Proverb
The more the merrier.
Proverb
The more the well is used, the more water it yields.
Proverb, (German)
The more they have, the more they want.
Proverb, (Latin)
The more thy years, the nearer thy grave.
Proverb
The more we have, the more we want.
Proverb
The more wit the less courage.
Proverb
The more you add, the worse it gets.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems.
Proverb, (Maaori)
The more you court a clown the statelier he grows.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The more you get the more you want.
Proverb
The more you give in, the more you have to give in.
Proverb, (Latin)
The more you know, the more you know you ought to know.
Proverb
The more you stir a turd, the more it stinks.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The more you stir filth the worse it stinks.
Proverb, (Danish)
The more you stir it the more it stinks.
Proverb, (French)
The more you stir it the worse it stinks.
Proverb
The more you stir the mire, the more it stinks.
Proverb, (German)
The more you stir, the worse it will stink.
Proverb
The more you stroke the cat's back the more set sets up her tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, German)
The morning is wiser than the evening.
Proverb, (Russian)
The morning sun never lasts a day.
Proverb
The mortar always smells of garlic.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
The most cautious passes for the most chaste.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The most covered fire is always the most glowing.
Proverb, (French)
The most cunning are the first caught.
Proverb, (French)
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake.
Proverb, (American)
The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold.
Proverb, (Danish)
The most disorderly students make the most pious preachers.
Proverb, (German)
The most friendly fortune trips up your heels.
Proverb, (French)
The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.
Proverb
The most learned are not the wisest.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The most noble dog can only bark.
Proverb
The most pleasant cruise is near the land; the most inviting walk near the
sea.
Proverb, (Latin)
The most prudent yields to the strongest.
Proverb, (Italian)
The moth does most mischief to the finest garment.
Proverb, (Italian)
The Mother of God appears to fools.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.
Proverb
The mother of mischief is not bigger than a midge's wing.
Proverb
The mother of the coward does not worry about him.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mother-in-law does not remember that she was once a daughter-in-law.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.
Proverb
The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse.
Proverb
The mountaineer's ass carries wine and drinks water.
Proverb, (French)
The mountains are in labour, and bring forth a mouse.
Proverb, (Italian)
The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.
Proverb, (American)
The mouse does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
The mouse has but one hole is soon caught.
Proverb, (French)
The mouse in the wall may look at a cat, but he is wise not to squeak about
it.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The mouse is caught in the trap.
Proverb, (Latin)
The mouse is knowing, but the cat more knowing.
Proverb, (Danish)
The mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
Proverb, (Danish)
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken.
Proverb
The mouse that hath but one hold is soon caught.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The mouse that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mouse that only trusts to one poor hole,
Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Proverb
The mouth and the purse, shut.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mouth is the door of evil.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The mouth often utters that which the head must answer for.
Proverb, (Danish)
The mouth that says "Yes," can say "No."
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The mouth that says yes says no.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The mud of one country is the medicine of another.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The mule long keeps a kick in reserve for its master.
Proverb, (French)
The myrtle is always a myrtle, though it be among nettles.
Proverb, (Italian)
The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The names of fools are always written on walls.
Proverb, (Latin)
The narrower the cage, the sweeter the liberty.
Proverb, (German)
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
Proverb, (English)
The nearer the church the farther from God.
Proverb, (French, German)
The nearer the inn, the longer the road.
Proverb, (German)
The nearer the minster the later to mass.
Proverb, (French)
The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when the calf lies in the ditch.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The nearest the dearest.
Proverb, (German)
The nest made, the bird dead.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The net of heaven is large and wide, but it lets nothing through.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The net of the sleeper catches fish.
Proverb, (Greek)
The new is always liked, though the old is often better.
Proverb, (Danish)
The niggard spends as much as he who is liberal, and in the end more.
Proverb, (French)
The night brings counsel.
Proverb, (French)
The nightingale and cuckoo sing both in one month.
Proverb
The nimblest footman is a false tale.
Proverb
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
Proverb, (Danish)
The nobler the tree, the more pliant the twig.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
Proverb
The noise is so great one cannot hear God thunder.
Proverb, (French)
The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.
Proverb, (English)
The noisy fowler catches no birds.
Proverb
The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.
Proverb
The nurse is valued till the child has done suckling.
Proverb
The nurse's tongue is privileged to talk.
Proverb
The oaths of one who loves a woman are not to be believed.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The obscure explained by the more obscure.
[Lat., Obscurum per obscurius.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes longer.
Proverb
The offender never forgives.
Proverb, (Russian)
The office teaches the man.
Proverb, (German)
The official who can't lie may as well be out of the world.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The offspring of those that are very young or very old last not.
Proverb
The oft-moved stone gathers no moss.
Proverb, (Danish)
The old branch breaks when it is bent.
Proverb, (Danish)
The old cask tastes of what the new cask held.
Proverb, (Latin)
The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things
be lost.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The old forget, the young don't know.
Proverb, (German)
The old man at home, and the young abroad, lie after the same fashion.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The old monkey gets the apple.
Proverb, (French)
The old monkey is caught last.
Proverb, (Latin)
The old ones sing, the young ones pipe.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The old ox plows a straight furrow.
Proverb, (English)
The old parrot does not mind the stick.
Proverb, (Latin)
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
Proverb, (Irish)
The old saints are forgotten in the new.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The old wife, if she does not serve for a pot, serves for a cover.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The older a fool, the worse he is.
Proverb, (German)
The older one grows the more one learns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
Proverb, (Irish)
The older the ginger, the more it bites.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The older, the colder; the more avaricious, the more vicious.
Proverb, (German)
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit.
Proverb, (German)
The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is.
Proverb, (Nigerian)
The one who draws a cart is urged on.
Proverb, (Russian)
The one who first resorts to violence shows that he has no more arguments.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The one who loves you will make you weep.
Proverb, (Argentine)
The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The one who pulls a cart is urged on.
Proverb, (Russian)
The one who understands does not speak, the one who speaks does not
understand.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The one-eyed are kings in the land of the blind.
Proverb, (French)
The one-eyed is a king among the blind.
Proverb, (German)
The one-eyed man is a king in the country of the blind.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The one-eyes is a king in the land of the blind.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The only good Indian is a dead Indian.
Proverb
The only real equality is in the cemetery.
Proverb, (German)
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Proverb, (Jewish)
The only victory over love is flight.
Proverb, (French)
The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing.
Proverb, (French)
The only way to treat a Prussian is to step on his toes until he apologies.
Proverb, (French)
The open door invites the thief.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The open door tempts a saint.
Proverb
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
Proverb
The owl does not praise the light, nor the wolf the dog.
Proverb, (Danish)
The owl has one note, the crow another.
Proverb, (Latin)
The owl sings to the nightingale.
Proverb, (Latin)
The owl thinks her children the fairest.
Proverb, (Danish)
The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ox in a strange stall often casts a longing look towards the door.
Proverb, (Latin)
The ox spoke and said "Moo."
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The ox that tossed me threw me into a good place.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ox when most weary is most surefooted.
Proverb, (Latin)
The ox without a bell is soon lost.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.
Proverb, (Philippine)
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The pan says to the pot: Keep off, or you'll smutch me.
Proverb, (Italian)
The pardon arrives after the man was hung.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
The parings of a pippin are better than the whole crab.
Proverb
The parrot utters one cry, the quail another.
Proverb, (Latin)
The parson always christens his own child first.
Proverb
The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.
Proverb, (African Wolof)
The passing hour is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.
Proverb, (Latin)
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what
is remote.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The peacock hath fair feathers but foul feet.
Proverb
The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.
Proverb, (Russian)
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.
Proverb
The penalty attaching to evil deeds should be thought of in time.
Proverb, (Latin)
The pencil of God has no eraser.
Proverb, (Haitian)
The penny is well spent that saves a groat.
Proverb
The peony is beautiful, yet it is supported by a stalk.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The people want to be deceived.
Proverb, (Latin)
The people's voice is God's voice.
Proverb, (German)
The people's voice, God's voice.
Proverb, (French, German, Italian)
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
Proverb
The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best
cook.
Proverb, (Ugandan)
The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is
already half hanged.
Proverb, (English)
The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs.
Proverb, (Samoan)
The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful.
Proverb
The pig prefers mud to clean water.
Proverb, (Latin)
The pike grows big on small fry.
Proverb, (Danish)
The pine stays green in winter, wisdom in hardship.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe is at her root.
Proverb
The pitcher doth not go so often to the well, but it comes home broken at
last.
Proverb
The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.
Proverb, (French)
The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last.
Proverb
The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it gets broken at last.
Proverb, (German)
The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it leaves its handle or its
mouth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The pitcher that goes often to the fountain leaves there either its handle
or its spout.
Proverb, (Italian)
The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or its
spout there.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.
Proverb, (English)
The pitcher will go to the well once too often.
Proverb
The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
The plan executed, reason comes to our assistance!
Proverb, (Latin)
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
Proverb
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
Proverb
The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries.
Proverb, (Latin)
The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.
Proverb
The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting more.
Proverb
The plough goes not well if the ploughman hold it not.
Proverb
The plumber's house always leaks.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The point in question is yet undecided.
Proverb
The point of the thorn is small, but hw who has felt it does not forget it.
Proverb, (Italian)
The poison of asps is under their lips.
Proverb
The poor is hated by his neighbour, but the rich hath many friends.
Proverb
The poor lack much, but the greedy more.
Proverb, (Swiss)
The poor man eats at double cost.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The poor man pays for all.
Proverb
The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite.
Proverb, (Danish)
The poor man seeks only a crumb, then finds he still hungers.
Proverb
The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
Proverb, (Danish)
The poor man's corm always grows thin.
Proverb, (Danish)
The poor man's shilling is but a penny.
Proverb
The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
Proverb, (German)
The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The pope and a peasant know more than the pope together.
Proverb, (Italian)
The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.
Proverb, (German)
The position in which we were before the war.
Proverb, (Latin)
The post of honor is the post of danger.
Proverb
The postern door makes thief and whore.
Proverb
The pot boils best on your own hearth.
Proverb, (Danish)
The pot calls the kettle black.
Proverb
The pot that boils too much loses its flavour.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The potter drinks water from a broken cup.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The praise of fools is censure in disguise.
Proverb
The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another.
Proverb
The pride of the poor does not endure.
Proverb, (Danish)
The pride of the rich makes the labours of the poor.
Proverb
The priest errs at the altar.
Proverb, (Italian)
The priest forgets that he was clerk.
Proverb
The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.
Proverb, (German)
The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.
Proverb, (Danish)
The prodigal robs his heir, the miser himself.
Proverb
The prolonged visit of no guest is pleasant.
Proverb, (Latin)
The properer man, the worse luck.
Proverb
The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.
Proverb, (Hasidic)
The provoking pertinacity of a fly.
Proverb, (Latin)
The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble.
Proverb, (Moroccan)
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
Proverb
The quoit attracts them more than philosophy.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rabble is not influenced by reason, but blind impulse.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and hates a favourite in
disgrace.
Proverb, (Latin)
The race is not always to the swift.
Proverb
The rack can extort a false confession from the innocent.
Proverb, (Latin)
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
Proverb, (Irish)
The rain can only drown the mud-rabbit if he hasn't the wits to keep his
mouth shut.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The rain does not all fall on one roof.
Proverb
The rain follows after the forest.
Proverb, (Hawaiian)
The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.
Proverb, (Akan)
The rat betrayed by his own track perishes.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rat does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The rat which has but one hole is soon caught.
Proverb
The raven always thinks that her young ones are the whitest.
Proverb, (Danish)
The raven chides blackness.
Proverb
The raven is fair when the rook is not by.
Proverb, (Danish)
The raven sees its chickens as falcons.
Proverb, (Turkish)
The razor against the grindstone.
Proverb, (Latin)
The real essence of work is concentration.
Proverb
The real nettle will sting early.
Proverb, (Latin)
The real world is a special case.
Proverb
The reason some people are stingy is also the reason they are rich.
Proverb, (American)
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
Proverb
The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
Proverb, (Italian)
The remedy for love is--land between.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The remembrance of past pleasures adds to present sorrows.
Proverb, (Latin)
The repeated stroke will fell the oak.
Proverb, (German)
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and
sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than
his natural size.
Proverb, (French)
The reserve are engaged.
Proverb, (Latin)
The revenge of an idiot is without mercy.
Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it.
Proverb, (Latin)
The reward of silence is certain.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are
devoured.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The rich have many friends.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the
winter.
Proverb
The rich man has more relations than he knows.
Proverb, (French)
The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.
Proverb, (Italian)
The rich never want for kindred.
Proverb
The rich widow's tears soon dry.
Proverb, (Danish)
The rich worry over their money, the poor over their bread.
Proverb, (Vietnamese)
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Proverb, (Russian)
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Proverb, (Russian)
The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud.
Proverb, (French)
The richest man, whatever his lot, is he who's content with what he has got.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The right answer to a fool is silence.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The right hand is slave to the left.
Proverb, (Italian)
The right man comes at the right time.
Proverb, (Italian)
The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the
poor, when he has something to eat.
Proverb, (Mexican)
The righteous man sins before an open chest.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The righteous pays for the sinner.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The ripest fruit will not fall into your mouth.
Proverb
The river does not swell with clear water.
Proverb, (Italian)
The river passed the saint forgotten.
Proverb, (Italian)
The river past and God forgotten.
Proverb
The road to a friend's house is never long.
Proverb, (Danish)
The road to heaven is equally short, where'er we die.
Proverb, (Danish)
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Proverb
The road to ruin is paved with good intentions.
Proverb, (German)
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Proverb
The roaring lion kills no game.
Proverb, (Tanzanian)
The robin and the wren are God's cock and hen; the martin and the swallow
are God's mate and marrow.
Proverb
The Roman conquered by delay. [Fabius Cunctator.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The rooster said, "I shall cry but whether the sun rises God knows."
Proverb, (Georgian)
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The roses fall, and the thorns remain.
Proverb, (Italian)
The roses fall, the thorns remain.
Proverb
The rotten apple injures its neighbour.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rotten apple spoils its companion.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The rough manners of the vulgar are contagious.
Proverb, (Latin)
The rough net is not the best catcher of birds.
Proverb
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)
The ruling passion strong in death.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.
Proverb, (German)
The sacrifice of an ox will not bring us all we want.
Proverb, (Latin)
The safety of the people is the highest law.
[Lat., Salus populi suprema est lex.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The saint has no believers unless he works miracles.
Proverb, (Italian)
The saint who works no cures has few pilgrims to his shrine.
Proverb, (French)
The saint's-day over, farewell the saint.
Proverb, (French)
The same failings attach not to all.
Proverb, (Latin)
The same fire purifies gold and consumes straw.
Proverb, (Italian)
The same fire which purifies gold consumes straw.
Proverb, (Italian)
The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.
Proverb
The same heat that melts the wax will harden the clay.
Proverb
The same knife cuts bread and fingers.
Proverb
The same shoe does not fit every foot.
Proverb, (Latin, Italian)
The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
Proverb
The savage ox grows tame on strange ground.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The saving man becomes the free man.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The scalded cat dreads cold water.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The scalded dog fears cold water.
Proverb, (Italian)
The scalded dog fears hot water, and afterwards, cold.
Proverb, (Italian)
The schlemiel lands on his back and bruises his nose.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The scholar may waur the master.
Proverb
The scoffer's own house is often on fire.
Proverb, (Danish)
The Scot will not fight till he sees his own blood.
Proverb
The scraping hen will get something; the crouching hen nothing.
Proverb
The scythe ran into a stone.
Proverb, (Russian)
The sea and the gallows refuse none.
Proverb
The sea complains it wants water.
Proverb
The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
Proverb, (French)
The sea refuses no river.
Proverb
The sea that fish for every man.
Proverb
The seagull sees farthest who flies highest.
Proverb
The second blow makes the fray.
Proverb
The secret in swimming is to know how to take care of your clothes.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime.
Proverb
The secret of two is God's secret, the secret of three is everybody's
secret.
Proverb, (French)
The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The seeker is the finder.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The seeking for one thing will find another.
Proverb, (Irish)
The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The sex of a cralmac is of interest only to another cralmac.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The shadow for the substance.
Proverb, (Latin)
The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.
Proverb, (Italian)
The shadow should be the same length as the body.
Proverb, (Indonesian)
The shallower the brook, the more it babbles.
Proverb
The shame you can't lift away, you had better let lie.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
The sharper is the berry, the sweeter is the wine.
Proverb
The sharper soon cheats the covetous man.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The sharper the storm, the sooner it's over.
Proverb
The she-bear thinks her cubs pretty.
Proverb, (Italian)
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain.
Proverb, (French)
The sheep that bleat the most give the least milk.
Proverb, (Danish)
The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
Proverb,
(French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
The sheep that is too tame is sucked by too many lambs.
Proverb, (French)
The ship does not go without the boat.
Proverb, (Italian)
The shirt is nearer than the coat.
Proverb, (Latin)
The shirt is nearer than the doublet.
Proverb, (Italian)
The shirt is nearer than the frock.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The shirt is nearer to the body than the coat.
Proverb, (Danish)
The shoe will hold with the sole.
Proverb
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
Proverb
The shoemakers children go barefoot.
Proverb
The shovel scouts the poker.
Proverb, (French)
The show must go on.
Proverb, (American)
The sick man is free to say all.
Proverb, (Italian)
The sick man is vexed with the flies on the wall.
Proverb, (German)
The sick man sleeps when the debtor cannot.
Proverb, (Italian)
The sickness of the body may prove the health of the soul.
Proverb
The sign invites you in, but your money must get you out.
Proverb
The silence of the people is a warning for the king.
Proverb, (French)
The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship.
Proverb, (Latin)
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb, (German)
The silent man is most trusted.
Proverb, (Danish)
The silver is become dross.
Proverb, (Latin)
The singing man keeps his shop in his throat.
Proverb
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The skin is nearer than the shirt.
Proverb, (French)
The skin of a lion covering some mongrel beast.
Proverb, (Latin)
The sky is not the less blue because the blind man does not see it.
Proverb, (Danish)
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Proverb
The slothful man is the beggar's brother.
Proverb
The slow horse reaches the mill.
Proverb, (Irish)
The slower you go, the farther you will be.
Proverb, (Russian)
The sluggard makes his night till noon.
Proverb
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg
in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverb
The sluggard's convenient season never comes.
Proverb
The smaller the margin, the greater the turnover.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Proverb
The smell of profits is good whatever it comes from.
[Lat., Lucri bonus odor ex re qualibet.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The smith hath always a spark in his throat.
Proverb
The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding
of teeth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The smoke of a man's own house is better that the fire of another.
Proverb, (Latin)
The smoke of my own house is better than another man's fire.
Proverb, (Italian)
The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire abroad.
Proverb, (Latin)
The snail slides up the tower at last, though the swallow mounteth it not.
Proverb
The snail, to be rid of annoyances, bartered its eyes for horns.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The soldier is well paid for doing mischief.
Proverb, (Italian)
The soldier's blood exalts the captain.
Proverb, (Italian)
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The son of an ass brays twice a day.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The son-in-law's sack is never full.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The sooner begun, the sooner done.
Proverb
The sooty oven mocks the black chimney.
Proverb
The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
Proverb
The soul needs few things, the body many.
Proverb
The sound of the bell does not drive away rooks.
Proverb, (Italian)
The sow has been greeted with music.
Proverb, (Latin)
The sow prefers the mire.
Proverb, (Danish)
The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire.
Proverb
The spider's web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Proverb, (Latin)
The spot will come out in the washing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The squeaking wheel gets the grease.
Proverb
The stable wears out a horse more than the road.
Proverb, (French)
The stain appears greater according to the brilliancy of what it touches.
Proverb
The stars make no noise.
Proverb, (Irish)
The steps at court are slippery.
Proverb, (Danish)
The stew mixed by many is ill-seasoned and worse cooked.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The stew that boils much loses flavour.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The still sow eats up all the draff.
Proverb
The still swine eat the mash. the wind ones run past it.
Proverb, (Danish)
The sting is in the tail.
Proverb
The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.
Proverb
The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted.
Proverb, (Italian)
The stomach is easier filled than the eye.
Proverb, (German)
The stone is hard and the drop is small, but a hole is made by the constant
fall.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The stone that everybody spits upon will be wet at the last.
Proverb, (Danish)
The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you.
Proverb
The stones of my river are as soft as a pillow.
Proverb, (Tadjik)
The stream cannot rise above its course.
Proverb
The strong man's sport is the sickly man's death.
Proverb, (German)
The stronger the seam the worse the rent.
Proverb, (French)
The strongest is always in the right.
Proverb, (Italian)
The subject's love is the king's lifeguard.
Proverb, (Latin)
The submitting to one wrong brings on another.
Proverb, (Latin)
The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light.
Proverb
The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill.
Proverb
The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set.
Proverb
The sun loses nothing by shining into a puddle.
Proverb
The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.
Proverb, (Italian)
The sun shines for all the world.
Proverb, (French)
The sun shines upon all alike.
Proverb
The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow.
Proverb, (German)
The sun will shine into our yard too.
Proverb
The sun-dial counts only the bright hours.
Proverb, (German)
The swan sings before death.
Proverb, (Latin)
The swans will not sing till the jackdaws are quiet.
Proverb, (Latin)
The sweetest grapes hang highest.
Proverb, (German)
The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.
Proverb
The swift are overtaken by the slow.
Proverb, (Latin)
The swindler readily cheats the covetous man.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The sword and the ring according to the hand that bears them.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The sword keeps the peace of the land.
Proverb, (Danish)
The table robs more than the thief.
Proverb
The tail is always the hardest part to flay.
Proverb, (Italian)
The tail is the hardest to scourge.
Proverb, (French)
The tailor ill-dressed, the shoemaker ill-shod.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The tailor makes the man.
Proverb
The tale is marred in the telling.
Proverb, (Latin)
The tale runs are is pleases to the teller.
Proverb
The talker talks and causes death in his family.
Proverb, (Haya)
The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.
Proverb, (Bugandan)
The talkers sows, the listener reaps.
Proverb, (Italian)
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
Proverb, (Russian)
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground.
Proverb
The tar of my country is better than the honey of others.
Proverb, (Moroccan)
The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
Proverb
The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.
Proverb, (Latin)
The teeth of the puppy are growing, while the old dog is gnawing bones.
Proverb, (Danish)
The tender surgeon makes the wound gangrene.
Proverb, (Italian)
The test of merit is success.
Proverb, (Latin)
The that creepeth falleth not.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The thief becomes the gallows well.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The thief cannot find any tree that suits him for a gallows.
Proverb, (German)
The thief is frightened even by a mouse.
Proverb, (Italian)
The thief is no danger to the beggar.
Proverb, (Irish)
The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief.
Proverb
The thief proceeds from a needle to gold, and from gold to the gallows.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The thief thinks that all are like himself.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The thief's wife does not always laugh.
Proverb, (Italian)
The thin end of the wedge is to be feared.
Proverb
The things of friends are in common.
Proverb, (Greek)
The third person makes good company.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The third time pays for all.
Proverb
The thirteenth man brings death.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The thorn comes into the world point foremost.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The thoughts close and the countenance open.
[It., I pensieri stretti ed il viso sciolto.]
Proverb, (Italian)
The thread breaks where it is thinnest.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The thread breaks where it is weakest.
Proverb
The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The threatener sometimes gets a beating.
Proverb, (French)
The threshold says nothing but what it hears of the hinge.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The thunderbolt hath but his clap.
Proverb
The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again.
Proverb
The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings.
Proverb
The tiger that has once tasted blood is never sated with the taste of it.
Proverb
The times are changing; we too are changing with them.
Proverb, (Latin)
The tired mare goes willingly to grass.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The tired ox plants his foot firmly.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The tired ox treads surest.
Proverb, (Latin)
The title is one thing, the contents another.
Proverb, (Latin)
The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed.
Proverb, (Russian)
The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.
Proverb
The tongue breaks bone, though itself has none.
Proverb
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
Proverb, (English)
The tongue goes to the aching tooth.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The tongue goes to where the tooth aches.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Spanish)
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.
Proverb, (Greek)
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.
Proverb
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
Proverb, (Japanese)
The tongue of a bad friend cuts more than a knife.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
Proverb
The tongue wounds more than a lance.
Proverb, (French)
The tooth often bites the tongue, and yet they keep together.
Proverb, (Danish)
The toothless man envies those who can eat well.
Proverb, (Latin)
The town that parleys is half surrendered.
Proverb, (French)
The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The treason approved, the traitor abhorred.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The treason is loved but the traitor is hated.
Proverb
The treason is loved, the traitor hated.
Proverb, (German)
The tree does not fall at the first stroke.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian)
The tree falls not at the first stroke.
Proverb
The tree is known by its fruit.
Proverb
The tree is not felled at one blow.
Proverb, (Italian)
The tree is not to be judged of by its bark.
Proverb, (Italian)
The tree is sure to be pruned before it reaches the skies.
Proverb, (Danish)
The tree must be bent while it is young.
Proverb, (German)
The tree will not sway without a trace of wind.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The Trojans were wise too late.
Proverb, (Italian)
The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears.
Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The two make a pair.
Proverb, (French)
The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
Proverb, (Egyptian)
The unbidden guest is ever a pest.
Proverb, (German)
The unexpected always happens.
Proverb, (Latin)
The unfortunate know who are their real friends.
Proverb, (Italian)
The unknown is ever imagined.
Proverb, (Greek)
The unrighteous penny consumes the righteous dollar.
Proverb, (German)
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous pound.
Proverb
The upright never grow rich in a hurry.
Proverb, (Danish)
The used key is always bright.
Proverb
The used plough shines, standing water stinks.
Proverb
The vale discovereth the hill.
Proverb
The venom is in the tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
Proverb
The virtue of parents is in itself a great legacy.
Proverb, (Italian)
The virtue of silence is a great piece of knowledge.
Proverb, (Italian)
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Lat., Vox populi vox Dei.]
Proverb, (Spanish, Latin)
The wages of sin is death.
Proverb
The waggon must go whither the horses draw it.
Proverb, (Danish)
The wallet of the timid man neither increases nor decreases.
Proverb, (Maltese)
The war is lost for too much advice.
Proverb, (Sicilian)
The warnings of age are the weapons of youth.
Proverb, (Latin)
The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it.
Proverb, (Danish)
The water breaks out where it is not expected.
Proverb, (Italian)
The water is the same on both sides of the boat.
Proverb, (Finnish)
The water runs while the miller sleeps.
Proverb, (Danish)
The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The way of a slothful man is as a hedge of thorns.
Proverb
The way one eats is the way one works.
Proverb, (Czechoslovakian)
The way to an Englishman's heart is through his stomach.
Proverb
The way to be safe is never to feel secure.
Proverb
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
Proverb
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with
goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
Proverb, (Indian)
The weakest go to the wall.
Proverb
The weakest must hold the candle.
Proverb, (French)
The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
Proverb, (Irish)
The weasel comes to say "Happy New Year!" to the chickens.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The wedding feast is not made with mushrooms only.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The weeping bride makes a laughing wife.
Proverb, (German)
The well-bred hound, if he does not hunt to-day will hunt to-morrow.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The well-dressed woman draws her husband away from another woman's door.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The well-fed man does not believe in hunger.
Proverb, (Italian)
The well-fed sheep makes a cloak of its tail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The Welshman keeps nothing till he has lost it.
Proverb
The wet branch burns better than the dry stone.
Proverb, (Danish)
The wheel turns round.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, (Arab)
The whisperer's tongue is worse than serpent's venom.
Proverb, (Latin)
The white coat does not make the miller.
Proverb, (Italian)
The whole hog or none.
Proverb
The whole ocean is made up of single drops.
Proverb
The wholesomest meat is at another man's cost.
Proverb
The wicked even hate vice in others.
Proverb
The wicked shun the light as the devil does the cross.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.
Proverb, (Hungarian)
The wife spends and the servants steal.
Proverb
The will gives the work its name.
Proverb, (German)
The will is taken for the deed.
Proverb, (French)
The will is the soul of the work.
Proverb, (German)
The wind does not always blow from the same quarter.
Proverb, (German)
The wind keeps not always in one quarter.
Proverb
The wind will let us neither sail nor stay.
Proverb, (Latin)
The windy day is not a day for scallops [thatching].
Proverb, (Irish)
The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid.
Proverb, (French)
The wine has been poured and must be drunk.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
Proverb
The wine is not known by the hoops.
Proverb, (French)
The wine will taste of the cask.
Proverb
The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fly for those who us good have
done.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wise drunkard is a sober fool.
Proverb, (German)
The wise hand does not all that the tongue says.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, (German)
The wise man looks inside his heart and finds eternal peace.
Proverb, (Hindu)
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
Proverb, (Persian)
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he
speaks.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.
Proverb, (German)
The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others.
Proverb, (Tibetan)
The wish is father to the thought.
Proverb, (Latin)
The wish is the father of the deed.
Proverb, (American)
The wit one wants spoils what one has.
Proverb, (French)
The witness of a rat is another rat.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)
The wolf and the fox are both in one story.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it.
Proverb, (Italian)
The wolf changes his hair, but not his nature.
Proverb, (Latin)
The wolf changes his teeth but not his disposition.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wolf commits no mischief at home.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wolf dances round the well. [Longing for the water he cannot reach.]
Proverb, (Latin)
The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to
mass on Sunday.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wolf eats of what is counted.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The wolf eats oft of the sheep that have been warned.
Proverb
The wolf is always left out of the reckoning.
Proverb, (Italian)
The wolf is always said to be bigger than he is.
Proverb, (Italian)
The wolf is always said to be more terrible than he is.
Proverb
The wolf is not always a wolf.
Proverb, (Italian)
The wolf is not as big as people make him.
Proverb, (French)
The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclination.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb.
Proverb
The wolf picks up the ass's fleas by moonlight.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wolf preys not in his own field.
Proverb, (Danish)
The wolf will die in his skin.
Proverb, (French)
The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
Proverb, (Polish)
The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of
the giver.
Proverb, (Italian)
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or
too old to have anything to gain.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The wood has ears, the field has eyes.
Proverb, (German)
The wood is burnt, but the ashes are a nuisance.
Proverb, (Afghan)
The word of honour of a gentleman--another pledge would be better.
Proverb, (French)
The words are fair, said the wolf, but I will not come into the village.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The work praises the man.
Proverb, (Irish)
The work praises the workman.
Proverb, (German)
The work tests the workman.
Proverb, (Latin)
The work will teach you how to do it.
Proverb, (Estonian)
The workman is known by his work.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian)
The workman is worthy of his hire.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The workmanship surpassed the material.
Proverb, (Latin)
The world belongs to the phlegmatic.
Proverb, (Italian)
The world goes as it will and not as you or I would want it.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The world goes as men make it go; and men are free to make it go otherwise,
if they have the courage.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
Proverb
The world is for him who has patience.
Proverb, (Italian)
The world is governed with little brains.
Proverb, (Italian)
The world is his who enjoys it.
Proverb
The world is like a staircase; some go up, others go down.
Proverb, (Italian)
The world likes to be cheated.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The world likes to have night-owls, that it may have matter for wonder.
Proverb, (German)
The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.
Proverb, (Italian)
The world's a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worm turns.
Proverb, (American)
The worse for the rider, the better for the bider.
Proverb
The worse luck now, the better another time.
Proverb
The worse service, the better luck.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worse the carpenter the more the chips.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worse the dun, the worst the paymaster.
Proverb, (German)
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
Proverb, (English)
The worse the wheel, the more it creaks.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worst ache is the present ache.
Proverb, (Lebanese)
The worst clothed go to windward.
Proverb, (French)
The worst ewe dungs in the milking-pail.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The worst jests are those that are true.
Proverb, (French)
The worst of a lawsuit is that out of one there grow a hundred.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The worst pig eats the best acorn.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The worst pig gets the best acorn.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The worst pig gets the best pear.
Proverb, (Italian)
The worst pig often gets the best pear.
Proverb
The worst the carpenter, the more the chips.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worst wheel always creaks most.
Proverb, (French)
The worst wheel creaks most.
Proverb, (German, Italian)
The worst wheel makes most noise.
Proverb, (Dutch)
The worst wheel of a cart creaks most.
Proverb
The worth of a thing
Is what it will bring.
Proverb
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.
Proverb
The worth of a thing is best known by the want.
Proverb
The worth of a thing is what it will bring.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The wound that bleedeth inwardly is the most dangerous.
Proverb
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.
Proverb
The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
The written letter remains.
[Lat., Littera scripta manet.]
Proverb
The wrong doer is never without a pretext.
Proverb, (Spanish)
The wrong-doer never lacks excuses.
Proverb, (Italian)
The Yangtze never runs backwards; man recaptures not his youth.
Proverb, (Chinese)
The year has a wide mouth and a big belly.
Proverb, (Danish)
The young cannot teach tradition to the old.
Proverb, (Yoruban)
The young cock crows as he hears the old one.
Proverb
The young goose is a good swimmer.
Proverb, (Arabic)
The young may die, the old must die.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
The young pig grunts like the old sow.
Proverb
The young pig must often suffer for what the old sow did.
Proverb, (Danish)
The young ravens are beaked like the old.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Their dogs don't hunt in couples.
Proverb, (French)
Their harms, our arms.
Proverb
Them that has, gets.
Proverb
Then happy those, beloved of heaven,
To whom the mingled cup is given;
Whose lenient sorrow find relief,
Whose joys are chastened by their grief.
Proverb
There are black sheep in every flock.
Proverb
There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There are fagots and fagots (all are not alike).
Proverb, (French)
There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.
Proverb, (Irish)
There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.
Proverb, (Irish)
There are good and bad everywhere.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are good dogs of all sizes.
Proverb, (French)
There are ills that happen for good.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There are many days in the year, and still more meals.
Proverb, (Danish)
There are many languages on earth, but one in heaven.
Proverb, (Latin)
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the
same.
Proverb, (Chinese)
There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.
Proverb, (German)
There are many roads to Rome.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are many ways to fame.
Proverb
There are more asses than carry sacks.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
Proverb, (French)
There are more hands than heads.
Proverb, (German)
There are more maids than Malkin, and more men than Michael.
Proverb
There are more men threatened than struck.
Proverb
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
Proverb, (French)
There are more old tipplers than old doctors.
Proverb, (German)
There are more thieves than are hanged.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There are more thieves than gibbets.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are more threatened than hurt.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There are more threatened than slain.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are more threatened than struck.
Proverb, (German)
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
Proverb
There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter.
Proverb
There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it.
Proverb
There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging.
Proverb
There are more ways to the wood than one.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are no birds in last year's nest.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There are no children now-a-days.
Proverb, (French)
There are no fans in hell.
Proverb, (Arabic)
There are no foolish trades, there are only foolish people.
Proverb, (French)
There are only two good women in the world; the one is dead, the other not
to be found.
Proverb, (German)
There are some who despise pride with a greater pride.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are some who see ill, and would like to see worse.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are spots even on the sun.
Proverb
There are three bad neighbours: great rivers, great lords, and great roads.
Proverb, (Danish)
There are three things from which no good can be got without a beating: a
walnut-tree, a donkey, and a shrew.
Proverb, (Danish)
There are toys for all ages.
Proverb, (French)
There are tricks in all trades.
Proverb, (Italian)
There are tricks in every trade.
Proverb
There are twenty-five uncaught sparrows for a penny.
Proverb, (Afghan)
There are two great pleasures in gambling: winning and losing.
Proverb, (French)
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.
Proverb, (Chinese)
There are two sides to every question.
Proverb
There are wheels within wheels.
Proverb
There belongs more than whistling to going to plough.
Proverb
There came nothing out of the sack but what was in it.
Proverb
There come as many calf-skins to market as ox-skins.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There come just as many calf-skins as cow-skins to market.
Proverb, (German)
There die as many lambs as wethers.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There goes more than one ass to market.
Proverb, (Italian)
There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
Proverb
There grows not the herb, which can protect against the power of death.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is a black sheep in every flock.
Proverb
There is a cause for all things.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is a difference between staring and stark blind.
Proverb
There is a fool at every feast.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There is a good time coming.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is a measure in all things.
Proverb
There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
Proverb, (French)
There is a remedy for all things save death.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There is a remedy for everything but death.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)
There is a remedy for everything except death.
Proverb
There is a salve for every sore.
Proverb
There is a season for all things.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is a skeleton in every house.
Proverb
There is a snake concealed in the grass.
[Lat., Latet anguis in herba.]
Proverb, (Latin)
There is a time and place for everything.
Proverb
There is a time for all things.
Proverb
There is a time for everything.
Proverb
There is a time when nothing should be said, there is a time when some
things may be said. but there is indeed no time in which everything can be
said.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is a witness everywhere.
Proverb
There is always a first time.
Proverb
There is always a Pharaoh who does not know Joseph.
Proverb, (German)
There is always a something.
Proverb
There is always room at the top.
Proverb
There is an exception to every rule.
Proverb
There is but an hour in a day between a good housewife and a bad.
Proverb
There is but one good wife in the world, and every man thinks he has her.
Proverb
There is danger when a dog has once tasted flesh.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is falsehood in fellowship.
Proverb
There is help for everything, except death.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is honor among thieves.
Proverb
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Proverb, (Irish)
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Proverb
There is little for the rake after the besom.
Proverb
There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is
mute.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is little use in watching a bad woman.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is luck in leisure.
Proverb
There is luck in odd numbers.
Proverb
There is many a fair thing found false.
Proverb
There is measure in all things.
Proverb
There is mony a true tale tauld in jest.
Proverb
There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel.
Proverb, (German)
There is more to be feared from the doctor than the disease.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is neither wisdom nor courage in an empty belly.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
There is never a cry of "Wolf!" but the wolf is in the district.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is never enmity between the cook and the butler.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is never enough where nought is left.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is never wanting a dog to bark at you.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There is no accounting for tastes.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no answer for God out of my house, and What have you to do with my
wife?
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no appeal from time past.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no beard so well shaven but another barber will find something more
to shave from it.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no beast so savage but sports with its mate.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no better patch than one off the same cloth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no bush so small but casts its shadow.
Proverb, (French)
There is no chapel so small but has its saint.
Proverb, (French)
There is no choicer morsel than that which is stolen.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no cure against a slanderer's bite.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no day without its night.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There is no departing from the words of the law.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no disinterested gift.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no disputing about tastes.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no disputing tastes.
[Lat., De gustibus non est disputandum.]
Proverb
There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is
twins.
Proverb, (Chinese)
There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.
Proverb, (German)
There is no fire without smoke.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no fire without some smoke.
Proverb
There is no fishing for trout in dry breeches.
Proverb
There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel.
Proverb, (French)
There is no flying without wings.
Proverb, (French)
There is no fool like a learned fool.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no fool like an old fool.
Proverb, (German)
There is no general rule without some exception.
Proverb
There is no getting blood from a turnip.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no going to heaven in a sedan.
Proverb, (Romanian)
There is no good but contains some evil; no evil but contains some good.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no good in preaching to the hungry.
Proverb, (German)
There is no helping him who will not be advised.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no house without its hush! hush!
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no hunting but with old hounds.
Proverb, (French)
There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly in it.
Proverb
There is no joy without alloy.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There is no law but has a hole in it, for those who can find it out.
Proverb, (German)
There is no little enemy.
Proverb
There is no lock, if the pick is of gold.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no love lost between them.
Proverb
There is no love without jealousy.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Proverb, (Irish)
There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no medicine against death.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no medicine for fear.
Proverb
There is no mother like the mother that bore us.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no need to blow what does not burn you.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own
tale.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no occasion for priests to marry, while peasants have wives.
Proverb, (German)
There is no off switch on a tiger.
Proverb
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.
Proverb, (German)
There is no pack of cards without a knave.
Proverb
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Proverb, (French)
There is no place like home.
Proverb
There is no pleasure but palls, and the more so if it costs nothing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no pleasure that does not pall, the more so if it costs nothing.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There is no pot so bad but finds it cover.
Proverb, (French)
There is no pot so ugly but finds its cover.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.
Proverb, (French)
There is no reason to keep a dog and bark yourself.
Proverb
There is no remedy against the bite of a secret slanderer.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence.
Proverb, (Turkish)
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Proverb
There is no royal road to learning.
Proverb
There is no saint so petty but claims his own candle.
Proverb, (German)
There is no spite like that of a proud beggar.
Proverb, (French)
There is no strength without unity.
Proverb, (Irish)
There is no stripping a naked man.
Proverb, (German)
There is no such flatterer as a man's self.
Proverb
There is no such thing as a pretty good omelet.
Proverb, (French)
There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
Proverb, (French)
There is no such witness as a good measure of wine.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no tax upon lying.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no thief without a receiver.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no tree but bears some fruit.
Proverb
There is no use in blowing a fire that burns well.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of such a
water.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no venom to that of the tongue.
Proverb
There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept.
Proverb, (Danish)
There is no way to make money so certain as to save what you have.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no way to teach a machine wisdom after folly.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
There is no wheat without chaff.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is no wise response to a foolish remark.
Proverb
There is no wool so white but a dyer can make it black.
Proverb
There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no worse joke than a true one.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no worse thief than a bad book.
Proverb, (Italian)
There is no worse water than still water.
Proverb, (French)
There is no worse water than that which sleeps.
Proverb, (French)
There is nobody will go to hell for company.
Proverb
There is not a pair of ears for every Jew.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is not enough room for two elephants to sit in the same shade.
Proverb, (African Ovambo)
There is nothing for which the boors pray so much to God as that the horses
of the squirearchy may not die, for otherwise they would ride the boors with
spurs.
Proverb, (German)
There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.
Proverb, (Venezuelan)
There is nothing like leather.
Proverb
There is nothing lost by civility.
Proverb
There is nothing more telling than wit.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is nothing new under the sun.
Proverb, (Latin, Danish)
There is nothing so bad but may be of some use.
Proverb, (German)
There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.
Proverb, (Darkovan)
There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
Proverb
There is nothing so intolerable as a fortunate fool.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is nothing so secret but it transpires.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There is nothing so well done but may be mended.
Proverb, (French)
There is nothing to be gained by buying inferior goods.
Proverb, (Latin)
There is one who kisses, and the other who offers a cheek.
Proverb, (French)
There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There is reason in roasting of eggs.
Proverb
There is reason in the roasting of eggs.
Proverb
There is some distance between Peter and Peter.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There is truth in wine.
Proverb
There is who despises pride with a greater pride.
Proverb, (Greek)
There may be blue and better blue.
Proverb
There may be deep bottoms in still waters.
Proverb, (Russian)
There may be snow on the roof, but there's fire in the belly.
Proverb
There never came ill of good advisement.
Proverb, (Scottish)
There never was a banquet so sumptuous but some one dined ill at it.
Proverb, (French)
There never was a looking-glass that told a woman she was ugly.
Proverb, (French)
There never was a scabby sheep in a flock that didn't like to have a
comrade.
Proverb, (Irish)
There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.
Proverb, (Italian)
There never was an old slipper but there was an old stocking to match it.
Proverb, (Irish)
There the hedge is lowest, men leap over.
Proverb, (German)
There was never a slut, but had a slit, there was never a daw but had twa.
Proverb
There were never fewer nobles than when all would be so.
Proverb, (Danish)
There will be no bread from that flour.
Proverb, (Polish)
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Proverb
There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies.
Proverb, (Russian)
There would be no ill word if it were not ill taken.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real
gold somewhere.
Proverb, (Sufi)
There's always a shot in the locker.
Proverb
There's cunning in a pointed chin.
Proverb, (German)
There's death in the pot.
Proverb, (Latin)
There's many a good cock come out of a tattered bag.
Proverb, (English)
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Proverb
There's many a knave concealed under a surplice.
Proverb, (Danish)
There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
Proverb
There's many a slip,
'Twixt the cup and the lip.
Proverb
There's neither rhyme nor reason.
Proverb, (French)
There's no argument like that of the stick.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There's no catching trouts with dry breeches.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There's no compassion like the penny.
Proverb
There's no disputing about tastes.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's no getting to heaven in a coach.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's no great loss without some gain.
Proverb
There's no guarding against the privy thief.
Proverb, (French)
There's no handsome woman on the wedding day, except the bride.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There's no harm in wine; it's drunkenness that is at fault.
Proverb, (Russian)
There's no living without friends.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
There's no making a donkey drink against his will.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There's no making a good cloak of bad cloth.
Proverb, (Spanish)
There's no making a silk purse of a sow's ear.
Proverb, (Dutch)
There's no making apples of plums.
Proverb, (German)
There's no making the ass drink when his is not thirsty.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's no mischief in the world done,
But a woman is always one.
Proverb
There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
Proverb, (Irish)
There's no need to grease the fat pig's rump.
Proverb, (French)
There's no putting off a lie upon the belly.
Proverb, (German)
There's no rest for the wicked.
Proverb
There's no shame in clothing you haven't cut yourself.
Proverb, (Norwegian)
There's no showing the wolf to a bad dog.
Proverb, (French)
There's no smoke with fire.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's no smoke without fire.
[Lat., Non est fumus absque igne.]
Proverb, (Latin)
There's no thief like a bad book.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows.
Proverb, (Italian)
There's none so blind as those who will not see.
Proverb
There's not enough if there's not too much.
Proverb, (French)
There's nothing like being bespattered for making a man defy the gutter.
Proverb, (French)
There's nothing like having the key of the fields.
Proverb, (French)
There's nothing new under the sun.
Proverb, (German)
There's nowt so queer as folk.
Proverb
There's one born every minute.
Proverb
There's seldom a cake but there's more of the make.
Proverb
There's virtue in a man's face (i.e., presence carries weight).
Proverb, (French)
These three are the marks of a Jew--a tender heart, self-respect, and
charity.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
These three take crooked ways: carts, boats, and musicians.
Proverb, (Hindu)
They agree like bells; they want nothing but hanging.
Proverb
They agree like cats and dogs.
Proverb, (Dutch)
They are all honest men, but my cloak is not to be found.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They are far behind that may not follow.
Proverb
They are fools whose sheep run away twice.
Proverb
They are good that are away.
Proverb, (Scottish)
They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
Proverb, (German)
They are not all friends who laugh with you.
Proverb, (German)
They are not all hunters who blow horns.
Proverb, (German)
They are rich who have friends.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
They attend a funeral robed in white, and a wedding in mourning.
Proverb, (Latin)
They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.
Proverb, (Danish)
They build houses but shall not inhabit them.
Proverb, (Latin)
They buy good cheap that bring nothing home.
Proverb
They can do least who boast loudest.
Proverb, (Latin)
They cease to be friends who dwell afar off.
Proverb, (Latin)
They cleave together like burrs.
Proverb
They die well that live well.
Proverb
They fight with tweezers, not swords.
Proverb, (Latin)
They fought with varying success.
Proverb, (Latin)
They found no fault with Time, save that he fled.
Proverb
They give, to find a pretext for asking.
Proverb, (Latin)
They laugh best that laugh last.
Proverb
They laugh till they cry.
Proverb
They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of
that of which they should be sparing.
Proverb, (Latin)
They look at the greens, but steal the bacon.
Proverb, (Latin)
They love dancing well that dance among thorns.
Proverb
They love me for little that hate me for naught.
Proverb
They love the old that do not know the new.
Proverb, (German)
They love too much that die for love.
Proverb
They marry under bad auspices who marry in the month of May.
Proverb, (Latin)
They may whip me in the market-place, so it be not known at home.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They must be strong legs that can support prosperous days.
Proverb, (German)
They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.
Proverb, (German)
They must hunger in frost who will not work in heat.
Proverb
They need much whom nothing will content.
Proverb
They play till they quarrel.
Proverb
They say so, is half a lie.
Proverb, (Italian)
"They say" is a fool.
Proverb, (French)
They say, is a liar.
Proverb, (Italian)
They take a long day that never pay.
Proverb
They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
Proverb, (Scottish)
They that are bound must obey.
Proverb
They that be in hell ween there is none other heaven.
Proverb
They that bourd wi' cats maun counts on scarts.
Proverb
They that dance must pay the fiddler.
Proverb
They that have got good store of butter may lay it thick on their bread.
Proverb
They that have no other meat
Bread and butter are glad to eat.
Proverb
They that live longest, see most.
Proverb
They that love longest must die at last.
Proverb
They that smell least, smell best.
Proverb
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
Proverb
They that think none ill are soonest beguiled.
Proverb
They that walk much in the sun will be tanned at last.
Proverb
They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
Proverb
They think a calf a muckle beast that never saw a cow.
Proverb
They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the
blind woman.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They turn night into day.
Proverb
They two agreed like two cats in a gutter.
Proverb
They understand each other, like thieves at a fair.
Proverb, (Latin)
They understand one another like thieves in a fair.
Proverb, (Dutch)
They whip the cat, if our mistress does not spin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.
Proverb, (Dutch)
They who are thirsty drink in silence.
Proverb, (Latin)
They who come from afar are prone to lie.
Proverb, (German)
They who come from afar have leave to lie.
Proverb, (Dutch)
They who deserve honour, fail of it; and they who obtain it, do not deserve
it.
Proverb, (German)
They who do not wash well, do not bleach well.
Proverb, (Danish)
They who don't keep goats and yet sell kids, where do they get them?
Proverb, (Spanish)
They who don't kill pigs must not expect black-puddings.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They who eat cherries with the great, are like to have the stones and stalks
flung in their face.
Proverb, (German)
They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove their right.
Proverb, (Dutch)
They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
Proverb, (Hindu)
They who live longest will see most.
Proverb, (Spanish)
They who love most are least set by.
Proverb
They who shun the smoke often fall into the fire.
Proverb, (Italian)
They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.
Proverb
They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young.
Proverb
They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.
Proverb, (French)
They wrangle about an egg, and let the hens fly away.
Proverb, (German)
Thick wine is better than clear water.
Proverb, (Italian)
Thief knows thief, and wolf knows wolf.
Proverb, (Latin)
Thieves dread a commotion.
Proverb, (Latin)
Things are as they be taken.
Proverb
Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded.
Proverb, (Italian)
Things at the worst will mend.
Proverb
Things beyond our reach are not worth our consideration.
Proverb, (Latin)
Things coming from afar are most esteemed.
Proverb, (Latin)
Things done cannot be undone.
Proverb
Things hardly attained are longer retained.
Proverb
Things hardly attained are the longer retained.
Proverb
Things hatched in discord are not speedily terminated.
Proverb, (Latin)
Things past cannot be recalled.
Proverb
Things present are judged by things past.
Proverb
Things rumoured lessen in importance as they assume reality.
Proverb, (Latin)
Think first and speak afterwards.
Proverb
Think late, suffer soon.
Proverb
Think long, think wrong.
Proverb
Think much, say little, and write less.
Proverb, (French)
Think much, say little, write less.
Proverb, (French)
Think much, speak little and write less.
Proverb, (Italian)
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.
Proverb, (Greek)
Think of ease, but work on.
Proverb, (English)
Think of many things, do one.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Think of the going out before you enter.
Proverb, (Arabic)
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and
the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Think to-day and speak of to-morrow.
Proverb
Think well of all men.
Proverb
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
Proverb, (Greek)
Thinking is not knowing.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Thinking is the essence of wisdom.
Proverb, (Persian)
Thinking is very far from knowing.
Proverb
Thinking of where you are going, you forget whence you came.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
This grief will prove a blessing.
Proverb, (Latin)
This is the milkmaid's tale.
Proverb, (Spanish)
This rule in gardening never forget,
To sow dry and to set wet.
Proverb
This world is a harsh place, this world. [Sulu, Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba.]
Proverb, (African Zulu)
This, too, shall pass.
Proverb
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Those above are going down, those below are going up.
Proverb, (Hawaiian)
Those bosoms can be sold cheapest which are stolen ready made.
Proverb, (German)
Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted
out with the stones.
Proverb
Those who are conscious of their own iniquity, suspect others.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who are nourished by hope live ever in suspense, and enjoy not life.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed to be so for ever.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who attack, though they die in the attempt.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who can't dance say the music is no good.
Proverb, (Jamaican)
Those who climb high, often have a fall.
Proverb, (Danish)
Those who despise money will eventually sponge on their friends.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Those who do a thing are consenting parties.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either.
Proverb, (German)
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.
Proverb
Those who hide can find.
Proverb
Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Proverb
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Proverb, (Australian Aboriginal)
Those who play at bowls must look out for rubbers.
Proverb
Those who see the faults of others, and see not their own, are wise for
others and fools for themselves.
Proverb, (Latin)
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Proverb, (Italian)
Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please.
Proverb, (German)
Those who wade in unknown waters will be sure to be drowned.
Proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Proverb, (Swedish)
Thou are a bitter bird, said the raven to the starling.
Proverb
Thou hast a head and so hath a pin.
Proverb
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Proverb
Thou too art mortal.
Proverb, (Roman)
Though a lie be swift, truth overtakes it.
Proverb, (Italian)
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Proverb, (Malayan)
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
Proverb, (Malayan)
Though change be no robbery.
Proverb
Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar.
Proverb, (Irish)
Though I say it that should not.
Proverb
Though living, dead for all useful purposes.
Proverb, (Latin)
Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes.
Proverb
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
Proverb
Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice.
Proverb
Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though physician to others, yet himself full of sores.
Proverb, (Latin)
Though the ass may carry a sack of gold, it nevertheless feeds on thistles.
Proverb, (Danish)
Though the bird may fly over your head, let it not make its nest in your
hair.
Proverb, (Danish)
Though the bird's in the net
It may get away yet.
Proverb
Though the fool waits, the day does not.
Proverb, (French)
Though the fox runs, the pullets have wings.
Proverb, (Italian)
Though the heron flied high the falcon kills it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip.
Proverb
Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain.
Proverb
Though the speaker be a fool, let the hearer be wise.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though we are negroes, we are men, and have souls.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Though we may pluck flowers by the way we may not sleep among flowers.
Proverb
Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
Proverb, (Chinese)
Though you seat the frog on a golden stool, he'll soon jump off again into
the pool.
Proverb, (German)
Though you see me with this coat, I have another up the mountain.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though you teach a wolf the paternoster, he will say "Lamb! Lamb!"
Proverb, (Danish)
Though your bloodhound be gentle, don't bite him on the lip.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, regard him as an elephant.
Proverb, (Danish)
Though your mastiff be gentle, do not bite his lip.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Thought breaks the heart.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)
Thought is free.
Proverb
Thought when sober, said when drunk.
Proverb, (German)
Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free.
Proverb, (German)
Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.
Proverb, (German)
Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Threatened folks eat bread.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Threatened men eat bread.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Threatened men live long.
Proverb
Threats are arms for the threatened.
Proverb, (Italian)
Threats don't kill.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Proverb
Three are too many to keep a secret, and too few to be merry.
Proverb
Three brothers, three castles.
Proverb, (French, Italian)
Three brothers, three fortresses.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Three failures and a fire make a Scotsman's fortune.
Proverb
Three great evils come out of the North, a cold wind, a cunning knave, and a
shrinking cloth.
Proverb
Three know it, all know it.
Proverb, (Italian)
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Proverb
Three may keep counsel if two be away.
Proverb
Three men helping one another will do as much as six men singly.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Three or four daily will bring you to the bottom of the sack.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Three remedies of the physicians of Myddfal: water, honey, and labour.
Proverb, (Welsh)
Three removals are as bad as a fire.
Proverb, (French, German)
Three removes are as bad as a fire.
Proverb
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Three strikes and you are out.
Proverb
Three things are not to be trusted; a cow's horn, a dog's tooth, and a
horse's hoof.
Proverb
Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew.
Proverb, (Italian)
Three things drive a man out of his house--smoke, rain, and a scolding wife.
Proverb
Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who
thinks he is wise.
Proverb, (Welsh)
Three things kill a man: a scorching son, suppers, and cares.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all,
A sting, and honey, and a body small.
Proverb
Three who held each other are as good as six.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Three women and a goose make a market.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, Italian)
Three women will make as much noise as a market.
Proverb, (Latin)
Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair.
Proverb, (German)
Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six.
Proverb
Thrift is a great revenue.
Proverb
Thrift is better than an annuity.
Proverb, (French)
Thrift is good revenue.
Proverb, (Latin)
Thrift is the philosopher's stone.
Proverb
Thrive by honesty or remain poor.
Proverb
Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)
Through dangers to distinction.
Proverb, (Latin)
Through not spending enough we spend too much.
Proverb, (Spanish)
Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
Proverb, (Arabian)
Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.
Proverb
Throw no stones at a sleeping dog.
Proverb, (Danish)
Throw not the child out with the bath.
Proverb, (Danish)
Throw not thy hatchet at the Lord, He will turn the sharp edge against thee.
Proverb, (Danish)
Throw that bone to another dog.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
Throwing your cap at a bird is not the way to catch it.
Proverb
Thrust not thy finger in a fool's mouth.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Thunder clouds do not always give rain.
Proverb, (Armenian)
Thundershowers and great men's favour are always partial.
Proverb, (Danish)
Thus years glide by.
Proverb, (Latin)
Tide and time wait for no man.
Proverb
Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.
Proverb, (Italian)
Tied to the sowre apple-tree.
Proverb
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.
Proverb, (Japanese)
Time and chance reveal all secrets.
Proverb
Time and hour run through the roughest day.
Proverb, (German)
Time and opportunity are in no man's sleeve.
Proverb, (German)
Time and place make the thief.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
Time and straw make medlars ripe.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time and the hour are not to be tied with a rope.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
Proverb
Time and tide wait for no man.
Proverb, (German)
Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
Time betrays and hangs the thief.
Proverb, (German)
Time brings everything, to those who can wait for it.
Proverb, (German)
Time brings roses.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
Time covers and discovers everything.
Proverb, (German)
Time destroys all things.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time fleeth away without delay.
Proverb
Time flies with hasty step.
Proverb, (Latin)
Time flies.
Proverb, (Latin)
Time gained, much gained.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time gives good advice.
Proverb, (Maltese)
Time goes, death comes.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time has a forelock, but is bald behind.
Proverb, (Latin)
Time heals all wounds.
Proverb, (American)
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Proverb, (Hebrew)
Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
Proverb, (Italian)
Time is a great healer.
Proverb
Time is an inaudible file.
Proverb, (Italian)
Time is anger's medicine.
Proverb, (German)
Time is God's and ours.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time is money.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time is not tied to a post, like a horse to the manger.
Proverb, (Danish)
Time is the best counsellor.
Proverb, (German)
Time is the best preacher.
Proverb, (German)
Time is the herald of truth.
Proverb, (German)
Time lost cannot be won again.
Proverb
Time makes hay.
Proverb, (German)
Time past never returns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
Time reveals all things.
Proverb, (Latin)
Time softens animosity.
Proverb, (Latin)
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Proverb, (Japanese)
Time tries a'.
Proverb
Time tries all things.
Proverb
Time trieth truth.
Proverb
Time waits for no man.
Proverb, (Danish)
Time waits for no one.
Proverb
Time will tell.
Proverb
Time works wonders.
Proverb
Time, wine, women, and fortune, are ever changing.
Proverb, (German)
Times change and we with time.
Proverb
Times flies.
[Lat., Tempus fugit.]
Proverb
Times passes like the wind.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
Times tries a'.
Proverb
Timid dogs bark most.
Proverb, (German)
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
Proverb, (Cowboy)
Tired folks are quarrelsome.
Proverb, (French)
Tired oxen must tread hard.
Proverb, (German)
'Tis a fat bird that bastes itself.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis a good farthing that saves a penny.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis a good horse that has no fault.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis a hard winter when one wolf eats another.
Proverb, (Russian)
'Tis a long day a day without bread.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis a silly sheep that confesses to the wolf.
Proverb, (Italian)
'Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis a wise child that knows its own father.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly.
Proverb
'Tis an easy thing to find a staff to beat a dog.
Proverb
'Tis an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
Proverb
'Tis as necessary to him as gold weights are to a beggar.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis best woo where a man can see the smoke.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Proverb
'Tis day still, while the sun shines.
Proverb
'Tis easier to hurt than heal.
Proverb, (German)
'Tis either a hare or a brake-bush.
Proverb
'Tis everywhere the same as here.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis folly to love fetters, though they be of gold.
Proverb, (Latin)
'Tis gold
Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief;
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what
Can it not do, and undo?
Proverb
'Tis good feasting in other men's houses.
Proverb, (Italian)
'Tis hard to hold a conger by the tail.
Proverb, (Gaelic)
'Tis hard to swim against the stream.
Proverb, (German)
'Tis his turn to-day, it will be mine to-morrow.
Proverb
'Tis never too late to mend.
Proverb
'Tis not for everyone to catch a salmon.
Proverb
'Tis one beggar's woe, to see another by the door go.
Proverb
'Tis possible if true.
Proverb, (French)
'Tis sweet at certain times to drop the sage.
Proverb
'Tis the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
Proverb
'Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood.
Proverb, (German)
'Tis too late to spare when the cask is bare.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis too late to spare when the pocket is bare.
Proverb, (German)
'Tis too late to spare,
When the bottom is bare.
Proverb
'Tis well that wicked cows have short horns.
Proverb, (Dutch)
'Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
Proverb, (Latin)
'Tis written, "What's not your own, that let alone."
Proverb, (German)
Tit for tat.
Proverb
To a bold man fortune holds out her hand.
Proverb, (French)
To a crazy ship every wind is contrary.
Proverb, (Italian)
To a depraved taste sweet is bitter.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To a friend's house the road is never long.
Proverb, (Danish)
To a good cat a good rat.
Proverb, (French)
To a hard knot a hard wedge.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To a hasty demand a leisure reply.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To a hasty question a leisurely answer.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To a quick ear half a word.
Proverb, (German)
To a quick question give a slow answer.
Proverb, (Italian)
To a red man read thy rede,
With a brown man break thy bread,
At a pale man draw thy knife,
From a black man keep thy wife.
The red is wise, the brown trusty,
The pale envious, and the black lusty.
Proverb
To a rogue a rogue and a half.
Proverb, (French)
To a son-in-law and a hog you need show the way but once.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To a woman and a magpie tell your secrets in the marketplace.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To a young heart everything is sport.
Proverb, (Italian)
To act sincerely with the insincere is dangerous.
Proverb, (Taoist)
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old
pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by
writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To bait and to grease does not retard a journey.
Proverb, (Danish)
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
Proverb
To be a good spender God is the treasurer.
Proverb
To be a merchant, the art consists more in getting paid than in making
sales.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be beloved is above all bargains.
Proverb
To be in love and act wisely is scarcely granted to a god.
Proverb, (Latin)
To be like the esquire of Guadalaxara, who knew nothing in the morning of
what he said at night.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be like the tailor of Campillo, who worked for nothing, and found thread.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To be loved, be loveable.
Proverb, (Latin)
To be slow in giving ant to refuse, are alike.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To be willing is to be able.
Proverb, (French)
To beards with money cavaliers pay respect.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To become rich in this world, it needs only to turn one's back on God.
Proverb, (Italian)
To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the sea.
Proverb, (Turkish)
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so.
Proverb
To believe a thing impossible is to make it so.
Proverb, (French)
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
Proverb, (Malay)
To censure princes is perilous, and to praise them is lying.
Proverb, (Italian)
To change and change for the better are two different things.
Proverb, (German)
To change and to do better are two different things.
Proverb, (German)
To change one's habits smacks of death.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To change one's mind is rather a sign of prudence than ignorance.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To circumstances and custom the law must yield.
Proverb, (Danish)
To compare is not to prove.
Proverb, (French)
To conceal disease is fatal.
Proverb, (Latin)
To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily to all.
Proverb, (Latin)
To cut into another's man's ear is like cutting into a felt hat.
Proverb, (Danish)
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Proverb, (Greek)
To do a favour slowly is to begrudge it; to consent slowly shows
unwillingness.
Proverb, (Latin)
To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rose-water into the sea.
Proverb
To do like the monkey, get the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.
Proverb, (French)
To do nothing teacheth to do evil.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To do, one must be doing.
Proverb, (French)
To eat and drink, and sleep together, is marriage, methinks.
Proverb, (French)
To eat and to scratch one has but to begin.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Proverb
To every answer you can find a new question.
Proverb, (Yiddish)
To every bird its nest seems fair.
Proverb, (French)
To every evil doer his evil day.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To every fool his cap.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To every lord every honour.
Proverb, (French)
To every one his own is not too much.
Proverb, (German)
To every one who doth ask, but not everything he doth ask.
Proverb, (Latin)
To every saint his candle.
Proverb, (French)
To every saint his torch.
Proverb, (Italian)
To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not sleep, to serve well and
not be advanced, are three things to die of.
Proverb, (Italian)
To fall out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Proverb, (Italian)
To find oneself in tight breeches. (Ill at ease--we say in tight boots.)
Proverb, (Spanish)
To flee and to run are not all one.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
Proverb
To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without
root.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To get eggs there must be some cackling.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To get the chicks one must coax the hen.
Proverb, (French)
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but
we must keep on stepping.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose.
Proverb, (Danish)
To give is honour, to beg is dishonour.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To give is honour, to love is grief.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To give quickly is to give doubly.
Proverb, (German)
To give tardily is to refuse.
Proverb, (French)
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.
Proverb
To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To go safely through the world you must have the eye of a falcon, the ear of
an ass, the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the shoulders of a camel,
and the legs of a deer.
Proverb, (Italian)
To God's council-chamber there is no key.
Proverb, (Danish)
To good eating belongs good drinking.
Proverb, (German)
To grow rich one has only to turn his back on God.
Proverb, (French)
To hang your sickle on another man's corn.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To have "Heard say" is half a lie.
Proverb, (Italian)
To have been silent never does harm, but to have spoken does.
Proverb, (Latin)
To have eye one on the cat and another on the frying-pan.
Proverb, (Italian)
To have luck needs little wit.
Proverb, (Italian)
To have no wants, is money.
Proverb, (Latin)
To him that hath much, shall much be given.
Proverb, (Latin)
To him that watches, everything is revealed.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To him who can take what thou hast, give what he asks.
Proverb, (Italian)
To him who gives you a capon you may spare a leg and a wing.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To him who gives you a pig you may well give a rasher.
Proverb, (Italian)
To him who is determined it remains only to act.
Proverb, (Italian)
To him who watches, everything reveals itself.
Proverb, (Italian)
To know a man well one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.
Proverb, (French)
To know all is to forgive all.
Proverb
To know and to act are one and the same.
Proverb, (Samurai)
To know everything is to know nothing.
Proverb, (Italian)
To know is easier than to do.
Proverb, (German)
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Proverb, (Latin)
To know the law and do the right are two things.
Proverb, (Danish)
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To lather an ass's head is only wasting soap.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)
To leave a place is to die a little.
Proverb, (French)
To lie about a far country is easy.
Proverb, (Amharic)
To listen well is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well and is as
essential to all true conversation.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To live long is to suffer long.
Proverb, (Danish)
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog.
Proverb, (German)
To love and be wise is impossible.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To love and be wise is incompatible.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To love and to be wise are two different things.
Proverb, (French)
To love is to choose.
Proverb, (French)
To mad words deaf ears.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind.
Proverb, (French)
To make the cart go you must grease the wheels.
Proverb, (Italian)
To marry one is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness.
Proverb, (Dutch)
To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after
a long drought.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To obtain that which is just we must ask that which is unjust.
Proverb, (Latin)
To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake.
Proverb, (French)
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To own is to fear.
[Sp., Tener es temer.]
Proverb, (Spanish)
To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a
well.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To preserve friendship one must build walls.
Proverb, (Italian)
To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.
Proverb
To promise is easy, to keep is troublesome.
Proverb, (Danish)
To promise much means giving little.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.
Proverb, (Italian)
To rebel in season is not to rebel.
Proverb, (Greek)
To relax the mind is to lose it.
Proverb, (Latin)
To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.
Proverb, (German)
To remove the hairs from a horse's tail, one by one must be plucked out.
[Small persevering efforts succeed, when violent measures would fail.]
Proverb, (Latin)
To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man
live to ninety-nine.
Proverb, (French)
To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live
years ten times ten.
Proverb, (French)
To rob a robber is not robbing.
Proverb, (French)
To rude words deaf ears.
Proverb, (French)
To rule the mountains is to rule the river.
Proverb
To run away is not glorious, but very healthy.
Proverb, (Russian)
To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
Proverb, (French)
To see it rain is better than to be in it.
Proverb
To sell honey to one who keeps hives.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To separate the men from the boys.
Proverb
To silence another, first be silent yourself.
Proverb, (Latin)
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
Proverb
To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.
Proverb, (German)
To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.
Proverb, (French)
To swim and swim more, and be drowned on shore.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To take ambition from a soldier, is to rob him of his spurs.
Proverb
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a
fish.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To teach is also to learn.
Proverb, (Japanese)
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
Proverb, (Latin)
To the bold man fortune gives her hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To the bold man Fortune holds out her hand.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To the devil with so many masters, said the toad to the harrow.
Proverb, (French)
To the fallen tree, hatchets! hatchets!
Proverb, (Italian)
To the good listener, half a word is enough.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To the grateful man give more than he asks.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To the jaundiced all things seem yellow.
Proverb, (French)
To the lean pig a fat acorn.
Proverb, (Portuguese)
To the looker-on no work is too hard.
Proverb, (German)
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.
Proverb, (Indian)
To the pure all things are pure.
Proverb, (Latin)
To try and to fail is not laziness.
Proverb, (African)
To understand a stammerer, you ought to stammer yourself.
Proverb, (Latin)
To understand your parents' love bear your own children.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
Proverb, (Chinese)
To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
Proverb, (Danish)
To wait for luck is the same as waiting for death.
Proverb, (Japanese)
To want to forget something is to remember it.
Proverb, (French)
To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is
but lost labour.)
Proverb, (French)
To whom do you offer your shells for sale? To people who come from Saint
Michel (where shells abound).
Proverb, (French)
To whom is he any good, if he is no good to himself?
Proverb, (Latin)
To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
Proverb, (Italian)
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
Proverb, (Latin)
To withhold truth is to bury gold.
Proverb, (Danish)
To work is to pray.
[Lat., Laborare est orare.]
Proverb, (Latin)
To you your religion and to me my religion.
Proverb, (Islamic)
To your son give a good name and a trade.
Proverb, (Spanish)
To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse.
Proverb
To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)
To-day in finery, to-morrow in filth.
Proverb, (German)
To-day in gold, to-morrow in the mould.
Proverb, (Danish)
To-day is Yesterday's pupil.
Proverb, (Latin)
To-day me, to-morrow thee.
Proverb
To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrows.
Proverb, (German)
