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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - Y -

Year of snow fruit will grow.
Proverb, (English)

Years and sins are always more than owned.
Proverb, (Italian)

Years know more than books.
Proverb

Years roll on.
Proverb, (Latin)

Yellow gold is plentiful compared to white-haired friends.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Yelping curs will raise mastiffs.
Proverb

Yesterday a cowherd, to-day a cavalier.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Proverb, (Sanskrit)

Yesterday will not be called again.
Proverb

Yield to divine power.
Proverb, (Latin)

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.
Proverb, (Italian)

Yielding stays war.
Proverb, (German)

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.
Proverb

You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow out of doors?
Proverb, (Galician)

You anoint the dead man with salve.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are a fool to steal if you can't conceal.
Proverb

You are a man among the geese when the gander is away.
Proverb

You are as many a person as languages you know.
Proverb, (Armenian)

You are but sowing in sand.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are carrying owls to Athens.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are come of a blood and so is a pudding.
Proverb

You are comparing a rose to an anemone.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are good to fetch the devil a priest.
Proverb

You are like a tree, giving your shade to the outside.
Proverb, (Arabic)

You are looking for wings in a wolf. [You hunt for impossibilities.]
Proverb, (Latin)

You are more shifting than a potter's wheel.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are needlessly alarmed.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail, and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.
Proverb, (Irish)

You are of so many minds, you'll never be married.
Proverb

You are permitted in times of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)

You are talking to a stone.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are teaching a dolphin to swim.
[Lat., Dolphinum natare doces.]
Proverb

You are teaching a fish to swim.
Proverb, (Latin)

You are teaching iron to swim!
Proverb, (Latin)

You are what you eat.
Proverb

You ask the path when the high road is before your eyes.
Proverb, (Latin)

You attack a horned animal.
Proverb, (Latin)

You bring your own evil deeds to light.
Proverb, (Latin)

You burn incense before the god, and then topple him.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.
Proverb

You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

You cackle in our place but you lay your eggs at someone else's place.
Proverb, (Georgian)

You cackle often, but never lay an egg.
Proverb

You can buy 'em but they don't stay bought.
Proverb

You can call a man no worse than unthankful.
Proverb

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Proverb, (German)

You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.
Proverb

You can give a piece of advice, but not good luck along with that.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You can have no more of a cat than his skin.
Proverb

You can have no more of the fox than his skin.
Proverb, (Danish)

You can have too much of a good thing.
Proverb

You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
Proverb

You can never consider that as your own which can be changed.
Proverb, (Latin)

You can never enter the same river twice.
Proverb, (Indian)

You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.
Proverb

You can only lean against that which resists.
Proverb

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
Proverb, (Rwandan)

You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Proverb

You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
Proverb

You can tell ripe corn by its look.
Proverb, (African)

You can throw a cat whoever you want, it always falls on its feet.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

You can't buy heaven with money.
Proverb, (Maltese)

You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You can't chew with somebody else's teeth.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

You can't clap with one hand only.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You can't fare well, but you must cry roast meat.
Proverb

You can't fill your belly painting pictures of bread.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
Proverb, (American)

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
Proverb, (Jewish)

You can't get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark.
Proverb, (Malay)

You can't get blood out of a stone.
Proverb, (English)

You can't get blood out of a turnip.
Proverb, (English)

You can't have meat without the bone.
Proverb, (Sicilian)

You can't have more bed-bugs than a blanket-full.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You can't hide the sun with two fingers.
Proverb, (Afghan)

You can't judge a book by its cover.
Proverb

You can't love Thetis and Galatea at the same time.
Proverb, (Latin)

You can't make a good shaft of a pig's tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Proverb

You can't make horn of a pig's tail.
Proverb

You can't make pancakes without breaking eggs.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

You can't pick up two melons with one hand.
Proverb, (Persian)

You can't please everyone.
Proverb

You can't polish a turd.
Proverb

You can't push on a rope.
Proverb

You can't put an old head on young shoulders.
Proverb

You can't put new wine in old bottles.
Proverb

You can't squeeze blood from a rock.
Proverb

You can't take blood from a stone.
Proverb

You can't teach an old dog how to gnaw a bone.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Proverb

You can't tell a book by its cover.
Proverb

You can't unscramble an egg.
Proverb, (American)

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Proverb, (Native American Navajo)

You can't win them all.
Proverb

You cannot avoid what lies in ambush for you.
Proverb, (Ovambo)

You cannot break through a wall with your forehead.
Proverb, (Russian)

You cannot build a house for last year's summer.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

You cannot catch a fox with a bait.
Proverb, (Latin)

You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
Proverb

You cannot compare the living with the dead.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

You cannot damage a wrecked whip.
Proverb, (Italian)

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Proverb

You cannot draw blood from a turnip.
Proverb, (Italian)

You cannot draw white cloth from a dying vat.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You cannot drink and whistle at the same time.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.
Proverb

You cannot eat nuts without breaking some shells.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

You cannot eat your cake and have it.
Proverb

You cannot forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.
Proverb

You cannot get blood from a stone.
Proverb

You cannot get blood out of a stone.
Proverb, (Latin)

You cannot get oil out of a wall.
Proverb, (French)

You cannot have all you wish for.
Proverb, (Latin)

You cannot have peace longer than your neighbour chooses.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Proverb

You cannot hook trout? Try digging clams.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You cannot lose what you never had.
Proverb

You cannot make a good archbishop out of a rogue.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot make a good hunting-horn of a pig's tail.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard.
Proverb, (French)

You cannot make a sieve of an ass's tail.
Proverb, (German)

You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
Proverb

You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty.
Proverb, (French)

You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Proverb, (French)

You cannot make bricks without straw.
Proverb

You cannot make people honest by Act of Parliament.
Proverb

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Proverb

You cannot pull a fish out of the pond without work.
Proverb, (Russian)

You cannot pull hard with a broken rope.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
Proverb, (Greek)

You cannot ride two horses with one ass.
Proverb, (Russian)

You cannot roast corn with two eyes.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
Proverb

You cannot sail as you would, but as the wind blows.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot see the city for the houses.
Proverb

You cannot see the wood for the trees.
Proverb

You cannot serve God and mammon.
Proverb

You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.
Proverb

You cannot swallow hot milk, nor can you throw it away.
Proverb, (Goan)

You cannot take a cow from a man who has none.
Proverb, (Danish)

You cannot take a shirt from a naked man.
Proverb

You cannot take hawks without climbing some cliffs.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
Proverb

You cannot tickle a hungry person.
Proverb, (Massai)

You cannot unscramble eggs.
Proverb, (North American)

You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
Proverb

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.
Proverb, (Russian)

You come with a cat and call it a rabbit.
Proverb, (Cameroonian)

You compare the bee to the grasshopper!
Proverb, (Latin)

You compare the moorhen to the I swan.
Proverb, (Latin)

You compare the tortoise to the hare.
Proverb

You count the sand.
Proverb, (Latin)

You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.
Proverb, (Russian)

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Proverb

You don't get something for nothing.
Proverb

You don't have to put out the fire when all is burnt out.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

You don't put robbers to work in a bank.
Proverb, (American)

You don't show a fool a job half done.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

You give hay to the dog and bones to the ass.
Proverb, (Latin)

You give the wolf the wether to keep.
Proverb

You have a head and so has a pin.
Proverb

You have broken my head and now you bring plaister.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You have come too late for the feast.
Proverb, (Latin)

You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You have got your feet out of the mire.
Proverb, (Latin)

You have hit the nail on the head.
Proverb

You have hit the point exactly.
Proverb, (Latin)

You have left the sheep with the wolf for safe custody.
Proverb, (Latin)

You have lent and not recovered; and if recovered, not so much; and if so much, not such; and if such, a mortal enemy.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

You have many strings to your bow.
Proverb

You have married a beauty? So much the worse for you.
Proverb, (Italian)

You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.
Proverb

You have spoilt the wine by adding water to it.
Proverb, (Latin)

You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Proverb

You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
Proverb, (German)

You hold an eel by the tail. [You are dealing with a slippery fellow.]
Proverb, (Latin)

You keep making that face and it'll stay that way.
Proverb

You know good manners, but you use but few.
Proverb

You know not what the evening may bring with it.
Proverb, (Latin)

You let the cat out of the bag.
Proverb

You look for the horse you ride on.
Proverb, (Russian)

You made your bed, now lie in it.
Proverb, (American)

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Proverb

You make an elephant of a mouse.
Proverb, (Latin)

You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you like.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
Proverb

You may as well give a good beating as a bad one.
Proverb, (French)

You may as well talk to the sea-shore.
Proverb, (Latin)

You may be a wise man though you can't make a watch.
Proverb

You may call that your own which no one can take from you.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may cook in small pots aw well as in large ones.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may ding the deil into a wife, but you'll never ding him out of her.
Proverb

You may force a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may force a man to shut his eyes, but not to sleep.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may force an ox to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may gain by fair words what may fail you by angry ones.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may get something off a bone, but nothing off a stone.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may go and shake your ears.
Proverb

You may judge a man by his countenance.
Proverb, (Latin)

You may judge of a man by his remarks.
Proverb, (Latin)

You may keep yourself safe from fire, but not from a bad man.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

You may know a lion by his claw.
Proverb, (Latin)

You may know by a handful the whole sack.
Proverb

You may know by a penny how a shilling spends.
Proverb

You may know the lion by his claw.
Proverb, (French)

You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
Proverb, (Kenyan)

You may light another's candle at your own without loss.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may often feel that heavily on your back which you took lightly on your conscience.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may poke a man's fire after you have known him seven years, but not before.
Proverb

You may preach ever so long to the wolf, he will nevertheless call for the lamb before night.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may shut your doors against a thief, but not against a liar.
Proverb, (Danish)

You may speak with your gold and make other tongues silent.
Proverb

You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.
Proverb

You may trust him with untold gold.
Proverb

You might have knocked me down with a feather.
Proverb

You must ask your neighbour if you shall live in peace.
Proverb

You must be strong to pull a rope against a stronger.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must contrive to bake with the flour you have.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must crack the nuts before you can eat the kernel.
Proverb, (Irish)

You must cut your coat according to your cloth.
Proverb

You must go into the country to hear what news at London.
Proverb

You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run.
Proverb, (Italian)

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile he has bad breath.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You must have good luck to catch hares with a drum.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must howl with the wolves when you are among them.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must howl with wolves if you wish to be one of their herd.
Proverb, (Latin)

You must judge a maiden at the kneading trough, and not in a dance.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
Proverb, (African)

You must kill the spider to get rid of the cobweb.
Proverb, (Maltese)

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.
Proverb, (Danish)

You must look where it is not, as well as where it is.
Proverb

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
Proverb

You must lose a fly, to catch a trout.
Proverb

You must not let your mouse-trap smell of blood.
Proverb

You must not pledge your own health.
Proverb

You must not throw stones into your neighbor's garden.
Proverb, (French)

You must rave with the insane, unless you would be left alone.
Proverb, (Latin)

You must scale the mountains if you would view the plain.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You must shift your sail with the wind.
Proverb, (Italian)

You must take the fat with the lean.
Proverb

You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather.
Proverb, (Danish)

You need a sharp axe for a tough bough.
Proverb, (Russian)

You need not find a shelter for an old ox.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

You never know a man until you live with him.
Proverb, (Eastern European)

You never know how a cow catches a rabbit.
Proverb, (Dutch)

You never know what you can do till you try.
Proverb

You never miss a slice from a cut loaf.
Proverb, (English)

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
Proverb

You never speak but your mouth opens.
Proverb

You notice what I drink, and not the thirst I feel.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Proverb, (French)

You pay more for your schooling than your learning is worth.
Proverb

You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Proverb

You play with edged tools.
Proverb

You reap the crop of another.
Proverb, (Latin)

You reap what you sow.
Proverb

You sail in the same boat. [You are in the same danger.]
Proverb, (Latin)

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
Proverb

You see what we must all come to, if we live.
Proverb

You seek for fruit in the garden of Tantalus.
Proverb, (Latin)

You seek water from a stone.
Proverb, (Latin)

You seek wool from a donkey!
Proverb, (Latin)

You shake man's hand, you no shake his heart.
Proverb, (Jamaican)

You should eat plentifully of the flesh of the turtle or not at all.
Proverb, (Latin)

You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.
Proverb

You should never rub your eyes but with your elbow.
Proverb

You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear.
Proverb

You surrender your freedom where you deposit your secret.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You talk to a deaf man.
Proverb, (Latin)

You talk to a wall!
Proverb, (Latin)

You teach the dolphin to swim!
Proverb, (Latin)

You think all is lost that goes beside your own mouth.
Proverb

You think you are strong like the corn plant, yet the bean vine is already choking you.
Proverb, (Madagasy)

You think you've lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You trust the guard to a naked or unarmed man.
Proverb, (Latin)

You use a lantern at noonday.
Proverb, (Latin)

You used to be a baker, though now you wear gloves.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You want better bread than wheaten.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You want no one to know it? Then don't do it.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You war against heaven.
Proverb, (Latin)

You were born when wit was scant.
Proverb

You were bred in Brazen-Nose College.
Proverb

You will break the bow if you keep it always bent.
Proverb, (Greek)

You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
Proverb, (Korean)

You will learn by teaching.
Proverb, (Latin)

You will mix what is sacred with what is profane.
Proverb, (Latin)

You will never be mad, you are of so many minds.
Proverb

You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself.
Proverb, (Spanish)

You will not be loved if you think of yourself alone.
Proverb, (Italian)

You will not dare mistreat the face you see in the morning.
Proverb, (Palestinian)

You will not see many with green eyes.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

You will scratch a beggar one day before you die.
Proverb

You will wear the ivy wreath, the victor's meed.
Proverb, (Latin)

You win a few, you lose a few.
Proverb

You won't help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.
Proverb, (Chinese)

You would be over the stile ere you come at it.
Proverb

You would do little for God if the devil were dead.
Proverb

You would frighten a lion with a mask!
Proverb, (Latin)

You would spy faults if your eyes were out.
Proverb

You would weave a rope of sand.
Proverb, (Latin)

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Proverb, (Irish)

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Proverb, (Irish)

You've got to stare the cat down out of the tree.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Young angel, old devil.
Proverb, (German)

Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Young cocks love no coops.
Proverb

Young dogs have sharp teeth.
Proverb, (Danish)

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.
Proverb

Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Young gambler, old beggar.
Proverb, (German)

Young gamblers, old beggars.
Proverb, (German)

Young men may die, but old men must die.
Proverb

Young men may die, old men must.
Proverb, (English)

Young men's knocks old men feel.
Proverb

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.
Proverb

Young people must be taught, old ones be honoured.
Proverb, (Danish)

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do.
Proverb, (French)

Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.
Proverb, (Danish)

Young pigs grunt as old swine grunted before them.
Proverb, (Danish)

Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar barefoot.
Proverb

Young saint, old devil.
Proverb, (German)

Young soldiers, old beggars.
Proverb, (German)

Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Young wood makes a hot fire.
Proverb, (Greek)

Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
Proverb, (Palestinian)

Your cracked jug seems better to me than my sound one.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Your enemy makes you wiser.
Proverb, (Italian)

"Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing," said the pig to the horse.
Proverb, (Russian)

Your fingers can't be of the same length.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work.
Proverb, (Welsh)

Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Your lips hang in your light.
Proverb

Your mind is chasing mice.
Proverb

Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Your pot broken seems better than my whole one.
Proverb

Your son is your son until he marries, but your daughter is your daughter until you die.
Proverb, (Irish)

Your soul to God, your body to dust, your property to your relatives, because thus it has been found written.
Proverb, (Maltese)

Your tongue is like a horse--if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you treat it badly, it treats you badly.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Your trumpeter is dead.
Proverb

Your wife and sheep early at home.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Your windmill dwindles into a nutcrack.
Proverb

"Your words are fair," said the wolf, "but I will not come into the village."
Proverb, (German)

Youth and age will never agree.
Proverb

Youth and white paper take any impression.
Proverb

Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
Proverb, (Irish)

Youth has a small head.
Proverb, (Irish)

Youth is wasted on the young.
Proverb

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
Proverb, (French)

Youth may stray afar yet return at last.
Proverb, (French)

Youth must be served.
Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
Proverb, (Irish)

Youth will be served.
Proverb

Youth will have its course.
Proverb

Yule is come, and Yule is gone,
And we have feasted well;
So Jack must to his flail again,
And Jenny to her wheel.
Proverb

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