Proverbs From All the World Over
More proverbs for your reading pleasure! Gathered from nearly every country on Earth.
A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles. – Chinese Proverbs
A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverbs
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river. – Chinese Proverbs
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverbs
A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. – Chinese Proverbs
A book holds a house of gold. – Chinese Proverbs
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. – Chinese Proverbs
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. – Chinese Proverbs
A careful foot can step anywhere. – Chinese Proverbs
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. – Chinese Proverbs
A clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. – Chinese Proverbs
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. – Chinese Proverbs
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood. – Chinese Proverbs
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. – Chinese Proverbs
A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. – Chinese Proverbs
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. – Chinese Proverbs
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. – Chinese Proverbs
A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. – Chinese Proverbs
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. – Chinese Proverbs
A fool judges people by the presents they give him. – Chinese Proverbs
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. – Chinese Proverbs
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverbs
A good book is a good friend. – Chinese Proverbs
A good heart influences Heaven and Earth. – Chinese Proverbs
A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful of books. – Chinese Proverbs
A hobbling cat is better than a fast horse when rats swarm the palace. – Chinese Proverbs
A hundred foot bamboo can progress yet another step. – Chinese Proverbs
A hundred no’s are less agonizing than one insincere yes. – Chinese Proverbs
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverbs
A king’s riches cannot buy an extra year. – Chinese Proverbs
A little impatience will spoil great plans. – Chinese Proverbs
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends. – Chinese Proverbs
A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things. – Chinese Proverbs
A man who chases two rabbits catches neither. – Chinese Proverbs
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. – Chinese Proverbs
A man’s conversation is the mirror of his thoughts. – Chinese Proverbs
A nation’s treasure is in its scholars. – Chinese Proverbs
A needle is not sharp at both ends. – Chinese Proverbs
A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment. – Chinese Proverbs
A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it. – Chinese Proverbs
A pure heart has few desires. – Chinese Proverbs
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths. – Chinese Proverbs
A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife. – Chinese Proverbs
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese Proverbs
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese Proverbs
A smile will gain you ten more years of life. – Chinese Proverbs
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe. – Chinese Proverbs
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. – Chinese Proverbs
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. – Chinese Proverbs
A whitewashed crow soon shows black again – Chinese Proverbs
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself according to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverbs
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. – Chinese Proverbs
A book holds a house of gold. – Chinese Proverbs
A wise man makes his own decisions, but an ignorant man mindlessly follows the crowd. – Chinese Proverbs
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. – Chinese Proverbs
After you is good manners. – Chinese Proverbs
All language is not in books, nor all thoughts in language. – Chinese Proverbs
All things are difficult before they are easy. – Chinese Proverbs
All things change, and we change with them. – Chinese Proverbs
An accidental meeting is more pleasant than a planned one. – Chinese Proverbs
An hour may destroy the work of a hundred years. – Chinese Proverbs
An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time. – Chinese Proverbs
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverbs
An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverbs
Arrogance costs a fortune. – Chinese Proverbs
As tao raises a foot, the demon raises ten. [Where truth/tao is prominent, persecution arises.] – Chinese Proverbs
At birth we bring our nothing; at death we leave with the same. – Chinese Proverbs
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream. – Lao Tzu
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. – Chinese Proverbs
Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding. – Chinese Proverbs
Be the first to the field and the last to the couch. – Chinese Proverbs
Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors. – Chinese Proverbs
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. – Chinese Proverbs
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes. – Chinese Proverbs
Before the thought has arisen, the gods know it. – Chinese Proverbs
Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest. – Chinese Proverbs
Behind an able man there are always other able men. – Chinese Proverbs
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. – Chinese Proverbs
Better lean and good than fat and evil. – Chinese Proverbs
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. – Chinese Proverbs
Better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. – Chinese Proverbs
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese Proverbs
Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat. – Chinese Proverbs
Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you forgive yourself. – Chinese Proverbs
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius
Cheat your conscience, and a whole life’s happiness is destroyed. – Chinese Proverbs
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Chinese Proverbs
Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverbs
Close to a blacksmith, learn to hammer out nails; close to a carpenter, learn how to use a saw. – Chinese Proverbs
Coming events cast their shadows before them. – Chinese Proverbs
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. – Chinese Proverbs
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. – Chinese Proverbs
Determination tempers the sword of your character. – Chinese Proverbs
Dig the well before you are thirsty. – Chinese Proverbs
Distance tests a horse’s strength. Time reveals a person’s character. – Chinese Proverbs
Distant water does not put out a nearby fire. – Chinese Proverbs
Divide an orange–it tastes just as good. – Chinese Proverbs
Do everything at the right time, and one day will seem like three. – Chinese Proverbs
Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not afraid of moving slowly. Be afraid of standing still. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not believe that you will reach your destination without leaving the shore. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not do all you can, do not spend all that you have, do not believe all that you hear, and do not tell all that you know. – Chinese Proverb
Do not employ handsome servants. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not impose others what yourself do not desire. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead. – Chinese Proverbs
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways. – Chinese Proverbs
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Lao Tzu
Dogs have no prejudice against the poor. – Chinese Proverbs
Doing good gives the greatest happiness; study gives the greatest good. – Chinese Proverbs
Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you. – Chinese Proverbs
Don’t go thirty miles to sell firewood, or three hundred miles to purchase grain. – Chinese Proverbs
Don’t waste your hour–the sun sets soon. – Chinese Proverbs
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown. – Chinese Proverbs
Easier to rule a nation than a child. – Chinese Proverbs
Easy to open a shop, hard to keep it open. – Chinese Proverbs
Embrace every chance of laying up merit, and your daily wants will be regularly supplied. – Chinese Proverbs
Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. – Chinese Proverbs
Enough shovels of earth make a mountain, enough pails of water a river. – Chinese Proverbs
Entire sincerity moves spiritual beings. – Chinese Proverbs
Even a hare will bite when it is cornered. – Chinese Proverbs
Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food. – Chinese Proverbs
Everyone pushes a falling fence. – Chinese Proverbs
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. – Chinese Proverbs
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. – Chinese Proverbs
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up. – Chinese Proverbs
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. – Chinese Proverbs
Forget the favors given; remember those received. – Chinese Proverbs
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity. – Chinese Proverbs
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Chinese Proverbs
Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever. – Chinese Proverbs
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. – Chinese Proverbs
Give me a fish and I eat for a day. Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime. – Chinese Proverbs
Give me liberty, or give me death! – Chinese Proverbs
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. – Chinese Proverbs
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. – Chinese Proverbs
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish – very gently. – Chinese Proverbs
Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts, little wisdom – Chinese Proverbs
Great profits, great risks. – Chinese Proverbs
Great truths cannot penetrate rustic ears. – Chinese Proverbs
Guessing is cheap, but guessing wrong can be expensive. – Chinese Proverbs
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. – Chinese Proverbs
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. – Chinese Proverbs
Have but few friends, though much acquaintance. – Chinese Proverbs
He prayed for rain and received fire instead. – Chinese Proverbs
He vainly lived among people; to no purpose he walked across the plain. – Chinese Proverbs
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. – Chinese Proverbs
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. – Chinese Proverbs
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. – Chinese Proverbs
He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth. – Chinese Proverbs
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. – Chinese Proverbs
He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness. – Chinese Proverbs
He who has never been cheated cannot be a good businessman. – Chinese Proverbs
He who has seen little is astonished at much. – Chinese Proverbs
He who hurries can not walk with dignity. – Chinese Proverbs
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain. – Chinese Proverbs
He who is foolish finds disaster. – Chinese Proverbs
He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left. – Chinese Proverbs
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. – Chinese Proverbs
He who stores up evil, although still living, is dead; he who stores up goodness, although dead, is still living. – Chinese Proverbs
He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg. – Chinese Proverbs
He who waits for a roast duck to fly in his mouth must wait a very long time. – Chinese Proverbs
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. – Chinese Proverbs
Heaven and Earth will not be angry with one who will correct his faults. – Chinese Proverbs
Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate, but people bore into it. – Chinese Proverbs
Heaven knows and Earth knows—how can I alone know? – Chinese Proverbs
Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. – Chinese Proverbs
Heaven, having let me be born as a man, requires me to follow its doctrines. – Chinese Proverbs
His virtues exceed his talents–a superior man – Chinese Proverbs
Honest scales and full measure hurt no one – Chinese Proverbs
How can a tiger or leopard [i.e. a superior person] put up with the insults of a dog or sheep [i.e. a lesser person]? – Chinese Proverbs
I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. – Chinese Proverbs
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. – Chinese Proverbs
I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet. – Chinese Proverbs
I’d rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent. – Chinese Proverbs
If a girl seems as shy as a mouse, you still have to look out for the tiger within her. – Chinese Proverbs
If a man keeps his mouth shut, his words become proverbial. – Chinese Proverbs
If for one day one does not meditate upon goodness, all [kinds of] wickedness will spring up of themselves. – Chinese Proverbs
If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. – Chinese Proverbs
If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius
If one plants in the springtime, one will harvest in the fall. – Chinese Proverbs
If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail – Chinese Proverbs
If the mirror is highly polished, the dust will not stain it; if the heart is enlightened, evil desires will not arise in it. – Chinese Proverbs
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. – Chinese Proverbs
If there were no gods or demons in the world, man would do all kinds of things [Without the fear of the gods, man would be uncontrollable]. – Chinese Proverbs
If you always give You will always have. – Chinese Proverbs
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverbs
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. – Chinese Proverbs
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. – Chinese Proverbs
If you are standing upright, don’t worry if your shadow is crooked. – Chinese Proverbs
If you ask for directions rudely, you might end up many miles from your destination. – Chinese Proverbs
If you bow at all bow low. – Chinese Proverbs
If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain. – Chinese Proverbs
If you don’t want anyone to know it, don’t do it. – Chinese Proverbs
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. – Chinese Proverbs
If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short years. – Chinese Proverbs
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. – Chinese Proverbs
If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees, If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind. – Chinese Proverbs
If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don’t drink it. – Chinese Proverbs
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. – Confucius
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. – Chinese Proverbs
If you survived a storm, you won’t be bothered by the rain. – Chinese Proverbs
If you suspect a man, don’t employ him, and if you employ him, don’t suspect him. – Chinese Proverbs
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. – Confucius
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want an audience, start a fight. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want no one to know, don’t do it. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want to avoid being cheated, ask for prices at three different stores. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want your dinner, don’t insult the cook. – Chinese Proverbs
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Chinese Proverbs
If you wrangle over things of little importance, then you lose the great Tao. – Chinese Proverbs
If your fate is not propitious, you should nevertheless cultivate virtue. The sleeping dragon will someday ascend to Heaven. [If your time of fortune has not come, cultivate virtue and wait for your time of fortune]. – Chinese Proverbs
If your mind is strong, all difficult things will become easy. If your mind is weak, all easy things will become difficult. – Chinese Proverbs
If your principles are not good, you sin against Heaven and Earth; if your words and actions are good, you leave an example for sons and grandsons. – Chinese Proverbs
If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice. – Chinese Proverbs
In a flood of words, surely some mistakes. – Chinese Proverbs
In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake. – Chinese Proverbs
In a group of many words, there is bound to be a mistake somewhere in them. – Chinese Proverbs
In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other’s honored guest. – Chinese Proverbs
In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. – Chinese Proverbs
In the midst of great joy, do not promise to give a man anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer a man’s letter. – Chinese Proverbs
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. – Chinese Proverbs
It is after a hundred battles that heroes are produced. – Chinese Proverbs
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. – Chinese Proverbs
It is easy to open a store – the hard part is keeping it open.
It is for me to put forth the utmost effort; it rests with Heaven to give success to my plans. – Chinese Proverbs
It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing. – Chinese Proverbs
It’s better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. – Chinese Proverbs
Joy is not a horse. You cannot harness it. – Chinese Proverbs
Judge not the horse by his saddle. – Chinese Proverbs
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. – Chinese Proverbs
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. – Chinese Proverbs
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverbs
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverbs
Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily. – Chinese Proverbs
Let each one go his own Tao. – Chinese Proverbs
Let people despise me [as they like]—but if Heaven does not spurn me, then loss is gain. – Chinese Proverbs
Let us fulfill our own parts, and await the will of Heaven. – Chinese Proverbs
Let’s put our heads together for the benefit of all. – Chinese Proverbs
Life is finite, while knowledge is infinite. – Zhuang Zi
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Like Weather, one’s fortune may change by the evening. – Lueng Meng Zheng
Limitations are but boundaries in our minds. – Chinese Proverbs
Listen to all, pluck a feather from every passing goose, but follow no one absolutely. – Chinese Proverbs
Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation. – Chinese Proverbs
Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere. – Chinese Proverbs
love at first sight. It’s generally used for people, but you can also use it for other physical objects.
Love is not about possession, it’s all about appreciation. – Chinese Proverbs
Love your neighbors, but don’t pull down the fence. – Chinese Proverbs
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. – Chinese Proverbs
Make My Home Everywhere within the Four Seas. The World Is My Home. – Xiao He
Man combs his hair every morning. Why not his heart? – Chinese Proverbs
Man reasons in a thousand ways; the spirits only in [the right] one. – Chinese Proverbs
Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. – Chinese Proverbs
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. – Chinese Proverbs
Many a good face under a ragged hat. – Chinese Proverbs
Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. – Chinese Proverbs
May your every wish be granted. – Ancient Chinese Curse
Men trip not on mountains they trip on molehills. – Chinese Proverbs
My life–a candle in the wind. . . frost on the leaves. – Chinese Proverbs
Near putrid fish you’ll stink; near the epidendrum you’ll be fragrant [One takes the color and odor of one’s company.] – Chinese Proverbs
Near vermilion one gets stained pink; near ink one gets stained black. – Chinese Proverbs
Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever. – Chinese Proverbs
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. – Chinese Proverbs
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. – Chinese Proverbs
Never write a letter while you are angry. – Chinese Proverbs
No guests at home, no hosts abroad. – Chinese Proverbs
No horse can wear two saddles. – Chinese Proverbs
No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. – Chinese Proverbs
Nobody should neglect to cultivate secret virtues. – Chinese Proverbs
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. – Chinese Proverbs
Not wine…men intoxicate themselves; Not vice…men entice themselves. – Chinese Proverbs
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. – Lao Tzu
Nowadays, people are shortsighted—they regard the outward appearance as important, but not the virtue. – Chinese Proverbs
Nurture the plant one year–ten days of flowers. – Chinese Proverbs
O eggs, don’t fight with rocks. – Chinese Proverbs
Of all female qualities, a warm heart is the most valuable. – Chinese Proverbs
One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own. – Chinese Proverbs
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. – Chinese Proverbs
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. – Chinese Proverbs
One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. – Chinese Proverbs
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverbs
One man spreads a false report, and a hundred report it as truth. – Chinese Proverbs
One should be just as careful in choosing one’s pleasures as in avoiding calamities. – Chinese Proverbs
One sincere thought can influence Heaven and Earth. – Chinese Proverbs
Only one who can swallow an insult is a man. – Chinese Proverbs
Opportunities don’t just happen, you create them. – Chinese Proverbs
Opportunity knocks at the door only once. – Chinese Proverbs
Outside noisy, inside empty. – Chinese Proverbs
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. – Chinese Proverbs
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today’s scholars study to impress others. – Chinese Proverbs
Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet. – Chinese Proverbs
People doing the same things might have different motives. – Chinese Proverbs
Practice no vice because it’s trivial… Neglect no virtue because it’s so. – Chinese Proverbs
Public before private and country before family. – Chinese Proverbs
Putting aside virtuous deeds and not doing them—this may be styled “self-robbery.” – Chinese Proverbs
Quickly do works of repentance, and you will be upon the conscious shore. Butchers drop your knives, and become Buddhas as a result. – Chinese Proverbs
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. – Chinese Proverbs
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. – Lao Tzu
Ripe fruit falls by itself, but it doesn’t fall in your mouth. – Chinese Proverbs
Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens. – Chinese Proverbs
Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times. – Chinese Proverbs
Set yourself as the standard. – Chinese Proverbs
Show compassion to others’ misfortunes, and rejoice in their excellences. – Chinese Proverbs
Silence is a source of great strength. – Chinese Proverbs
Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open. – Chinese Proverbs
Slow work–fine work. – Chinese Proverbs
Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. – Chinese Proverbs
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away. – Chinese Proverbs
Some people want to be praised for the rest of their lives for what they did well for one day. – Chinese Proverbs
Some study shows the need for more. – Chinese Proverbs
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. – Chinese Proverbs
Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall. – Chinese Proverbs
Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city. – Chinese Proverbs
Take a second look… It costs you nothing. – Chinese Proverbs
Take merit and [use it to] mend sin. – Chinese Proverbs
Talk does not cook rice. – Chinese Proverbs
Tao can be delicate or strong, soft or hard, yin or yang, obscure or clear. It can wrap up Heaven and Earth. It is sufficient for all things.- Chinese Proverbs
Tao does not act in vain. – Chinese Proverbs
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. – Chinese Proverbs
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involves me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverbs
Tenacity and adversity are old foes. – Chinese Proverbs
Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. – Chinese Proverbs
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. – Chinese Proverbs
The best fighter is never angry. – Chinese Proverbs
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. – Chinese Proverbs
The Chun Tzu conquers himself; the Hsiao Jen is envious and overbearing. – Chinese Proverbs
The door of good works is difficult to open—but when opened, it is difficult to close. – Chinese Proverbs
The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life. – Chinese Proverbs
The evil sea [i.e. the world] is vast. Turn the head [i.e. repent] and you are at the shore. – Chinese Proverbs
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverbs
The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. – Chinese Proverbs
The gods are in his skill. – Chinese Proverbs
The hearts of the people are the only legitimate foundations of the Empire. – Chinese Proverbs
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – Chinese Proverbs
The judge with seven reasons states only one in court. – Chinese Proverbs
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. – Chinese Proverbs
The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night. – Chinese Proverbs
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverbs
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. – Chinese Proverbs
The melon seller does not announce, “Bitter melons.” – Chinese Proverbs
The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.
The palest ink is better than the best memory. – Chinese Proverbs
The people sitting in the free theatre seats are the first ones to boo. – Chinese Proverbs
The people who talk the best are not the only ones who can tell you the most interesting things. – Chinese Proverbs
The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. – Chinese Proverbs
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverbs
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. – Chinese Proverbs
The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it. – Chinese Proverbs
The pine stays green in winter…Wisdom in hardship. – Chinese Proverbs
The ripest fruit falls by itself. – Chinese Proverbs
The smallest desire to do good is—though not seen by man—certainly known to Heaven. – Chinese Proverbs
The swiftest horse can’t overtake a word once spoken. – Chinese Proverbs
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. – Chinese Proverbs
The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood. – Chinese Proverbs
The way to close the mouth of a slanderer is to treat him with contempt. – Chinese Proverbs
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher. – Chinese Proverbs
The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to the mob. – Chinese Proverbs
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. – Chinese Proverbs
There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet. – Chinese Proverbs
There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn. – Chinese Proverbs
There is a road to Paradise, but you choose not to go. There is no door to Hell, and yet you force your way to woe. [Used of one unwilling do right] – Chinese Proverbs
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. – Chinese Proverbs
Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half. – Chinese Proverbs
Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot. – Chinese Proverbs
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. – Chinese Proverbs
Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day. – Chinese Proverbs
Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows where it will fall? – Chinese Proverbs
Time is money, and it is difficult for one to use money to get time. – Chinese Proverbs
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. – Chinese Proverbs
To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop – Chinese Proverbs
To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day. – Chinese Proverbs
To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep. – Chinese Proverbs
To believe in Tao is easy; to keep Tao is difficult. – Chinese Proverbs
To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day. – Chinese Proverbs
To do evil is to transgress the laws of Heaven. – Chinese Proverbs
To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root. – Chinese Proverbs
To have principles first have courage. – Chinese Proverbs
To know and know that you know, not to know and know that you don’t know, that is to know. – Chinese Proverbs
To know another is not to know that person’s face, but to know that person’s heart. – Chinese Proverbs
To know others, know yourself first. – Chinese Proverbs
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. – Chinese Proverbs
To know the road ahead, ask those returning. – Chinese Proverbs
To make a man of yourself you must toil. – Chinese Proverbs
To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober. – Chinese Proverbs
To succeed, consult three old people. – Chinese Proverbs
To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. – Chinese Proverbs
Touch black paint, have black fingers. – Chinese Proverbs
Two good talkers are not worth one good listener. – Chinese Proverbs
Unless we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. – Chinese Proverbs
Use power to curb power. – Chinese Proverbs
Want a thing long enough and you don’t. – Chinese Proverbs
Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals. – Chinese Proverbs
Watching chess games in silence. . .a superior person. – Chinese Proverbs
We can study until old age. . . and still not finish. – Chinese Proverbs
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. – Confucius
What you cannot avoid, welcome. – Chinese Proverbs
What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others. – Chinese Proverbs
What you don’t see, you don’t desire. – Chinese Proverbs
When anger arises, think of the consequences. – Chinese Proverbs
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. – Chinese Proverbs
When economy goes south, people get political. – Chinese Proverbs
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius
When the waters drop, the rocks appear. – Chinese Proverbs
When the winds of change blows, some people build walls and others build windmills. – Chinese Proverbs
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. – Chinese Proverbs
When you believe in them [Kuei and Shen], they exist. When you do not believe in them, they do not exist. – Chinese Proverbs
When you converse, let it be with the wise; when you give food, let it be to the hungry. – Chinese Proverbs
When you drink the water, remember the spring. – Chinese Proverbs
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverbs
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three. – Chinese Proverbs
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don’t use both feet. – Chinese Proverbs
While you are bargaining, conceal your coin. – Chinese Proverbs
Who is the greatest liar? Who talks most of himself. – Chinese Proverbs
Whoever undertakes a task cannot repudiate the responsibility. – Chinese Proverbs
Why so anxiously and busily manage so many evil matters? Drop them all and become a good man. – Chinese Proverbs
With a helmsman [i.e. leader] that is not nervous, the passengers [i.e. followers] [will feel] secure. – Chinese Proverbs
With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm. – Chinese Proverbs
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. – Chinese Proverbs
With true friends… even water drunk together is sweet enough. – Chinese Proverbs
With virtue you can’t be completely poor; without it you can’t be truly rich. – Chinese Proverbs
Without sorrows no one becomes a saint. – Chinese Proverbs
Worship the gods as if they were present; if you don’t worship them, they are but pieces of mud. – Chinese Proverbs
You can’t talk of the ocean to a well-frog. – Chinese Proverbs
You may deceive people. You cannot deceive Heaven. – Chinese Proverbs
Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself. – Chinese Proverbs
[Even] with half of the Lun Yu [put into use], the country can be [well] ruled. – Chinese Proverbs
‘Tis foolish to seek/want credit for your ancestor’s achievements. – Chinese Proverbs
“Bad company,” said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
A beggar’s estate lies in all lands. – Dutch Proverb
A beggar’s hand is a bottomless basket. – Dutch Proverb
A bird in the cage is worth a hundred at large. – Dutch Proverb
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. – Dutch Proverb
A bird never flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. – Dutch Proverb
A blind man is not judge of colours. – Dutch Proverb
A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow. – Dutch Proverb
A book whos sale’s forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three. – Dutch Proverb
A bow that is bent too far will break. – Dutch Proverb
A braying ass eats little hay. – Dutch Proverb
A brilliant daughter make a brittle wife. – Dutch Proverb
A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife. – Dutch Proverb
A burden that one chooses is not felt. – Dutch Proverb
A burden which one chooses is not felt. – Dutch Proverb
A burnt child dreads the fire. – Dutch Proverb
A cage made of gold does not feed the bird inside of it. – Dutch Proverb
A cat may look at a king. – Dutch Proverb
A cat that meweth much catcheth but few mice. – Dutch Proverb
A cheeky person owns half the world. – Dutch Proverb
A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. – Dutch Proverb
A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year. – Dutch Proverb
A crown is no cure for the headache. – Dutch Proverb
A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen. – Dutch Proverb
A dog with a bone knows no friends. – Dutch Proverb
A flag on a mud barge. – Dutch Proverb
A flying crow always catches something. – Dutch Proverb
A fool and his money are soon parted. – Dutch Proverb
A fool by chance may say a wise thing. – Dutch Proverb
A fool may chance to say a wise thing. – Dutch Proverb
A fool may give a wise man counsel. – Dutch Proverb
A fool may meet with good fortune, but the wise only profits by it. – Dutch Proverb
A friend at one’s back is a safe bridge. – Dutch Proverb
A friend is better than money in the purse. – Dutch Proverb
A friend’s dinner is soon dressed. – Dutch Proverb
A good deed is worth gold. – Dutch Proverb
A good fire makes a quick cook. – Dutch Proverb
A good friend is better than silver and gold. – Dutch Proverb
A good horse is worth his fodder. – Dutch Proverb
A good name is better than oil. – Dutch Proverb
A good start is half the job done. – Dutch Proverb
A great book is a great evil. – Dutch Proverb
A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day. – Dutch Proverb
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. – Dutch Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. – Dutch Proverb
A handful of trade, a handful of gold. – Dutch Proverb
A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains. – Dutch Proverb
A hired horse and one’s own spurs make short miles. – Dutch Proverb
A hog in armor is still a hog. – Dutch Proverb
A honey tongue, a heart of gall. – Dutch Proverb
A horse may stumble, though he has four feet. – Dutch Proverb
A house full of daughters is a cellar full of sour beer. – Dutch Proverb
A hundred bakers, a hundred millers, and a hundred tailors are three hundred thieves. – Dutch Proverb
A hundred men can make an encampment, but it requires a woman to make a home. – Dutch Proverb
A hungry belly has no ears. – Dutch Proverb
A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt. – Dutch Proverb
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. – Dutch Proverb
A liar must have a good memory. – Dutch Proverb
A liar ought to have a good memory. – Dutch Proverb
A liar should have a good memory. – Dutch Proverb
A little pot boils easily. – Dutch Proverb
A little pot is soon hot. – Dutch Proverb
A little too late is much too late. – Dutch Proverb
A man in not known till he cometh to honour. – Dutch Proverb
A man must eat, though every tree were a gallows. – Dutch Proverb
A man overboard, a mouth less to feed. – Dutch Proverb
A man overboard, a mouth the less. – Dutch Proverb
A man without money is like a ship without sails. – Dutch Proverb
A merry host makes merry guests. – Dutch Proverb
A miser’s money takes the place of wisdom. – Dutch Proverb
A penny saved is better than a florin earned. – Dutch Proverb
A penny spared is better than a florin gained. – Dutch Proverb
A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. – Dutch Proverb
A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all mere glass. – Dutch Proverb
A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks. – Dutch Proverb
A praying pirate is definitely a sign of danger. – Dutch Proverb
A runaway monk never speaks well of his convent. – Dutch Proverb
A sad bride makes a glad wife. – Dutch Proverb
A scabby head fears the comb. – Dutch Proverb
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. – Dutch Proverb
A single day grants what a whole hear denies. – Dutch Proverb
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction. – Dutch Proverb
A soft answer turneth away wrath. – Dutch Proverb
A still sow eats up all the draff. – Dutch Proverb
A still tongue makes a wise head. – Dutch Proverb
A still tongue maketh a wise head. – Dutch Proverb
A stout heart tempers adversity. – Dutch Proverb
A thief makes opportunity. – Dutch Proverb
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. – Dutch Proverb
A threatened man lives seven years. – Dutch Proverb
A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four evangelists of Lucifer. – Dutch Proverb
A wise husband and a patient wife equal a peaceful home and a happy life. – Dutch Proverb
A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp. – Dutch Proverb
A wolf in sheep’s clothing. – Dutch Proverb
A word is enough to the wise. – Dutch Proverb
A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea. – Dutch Proverb
A young ewe and an old ram, every year bring forth a lamb. – Dutch Proverb
A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house. – Dutch Proverb
Advisers are not givers. – Dutch Proverb
After ebb comes flood, and friends with good. – Dutch Proverb
After great droughts come great rains. – Dutch Proverb
After high floods come low ebbs. – Dutch Proverb
After honor and state follow envy and hate. – Dutch Proverb
After honour and state follow envy and hate. – Dutch Proverb
After meat comes mustard. – Dutch Proverb
After rain comes fair weather. – Dutch Proverb
After rain comes sunshine. – Dutch Proverb
After the sour comes the sweet. – Dutch Proverb
After the storm comes a calm. – Dutch Proverb
Agree, agree, for the law is costly. – Dutch Proverb
All are not cooks who wear long knives. – Dutch Proverb
All are not friends who smile on you. – Dutch Proverb
All are not princes who ride with the emperor. – Dutch Proverb
All are not saints that go to church. – Dutch Proverb
All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil. – Dutch Proverb
All clouds do not rain. – Dutch Proverb
All cocks must have a comb. – Dutch Proverb
All do not bite that show their teeth. – Dutch Proverb
All feet tread not in one shoe. – Dutch Proverb
All flowers are not fit for nosegays. – Dutch Proverb
All is fish that comes to the net. – Dutch Proverb
All is not gold that glitters. – Dutch Proverb
All is well: for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin. – Dutch Proverb
All my goods are of silver and gold, even my copper kettle, says the boaster. – Dutch Proverb
All offices are greasy. – Dutch Proverb
All threateners don’t fight. – Dutch Proverb
All too good is every man’s fool. – Dutch Proverb
All too good is neighbours fool. – Dutch Proverb
All women are good Lutherans — they would rather preach than hear mass. – Dutch Proverb
All’s well that ends well. – Dutch Proverb
An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house. – Dutch Proverb
An ape’s an ape, though he wear a gold ring. – Dutch Proverb
An egg is an egg, said the boor, and took the goose’s egg. – Dutch Proverb
An ennobled peasant does not know his own father. – Dutch Proverb
An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbour. – Dutch Proverb – Dutch Proverb
An honest man’s word is his bond. – Dutch Proverb
An hour in the morning is worth two at night. – Dutch Proverb
An idle man is the devil’s pillow. – Dutch Proverb
An inch too short is as bad as a yard. – Dutch Proverb
An inch too short is as bad as an ell. – Dutch Proverb
An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter. – Dutch Proverb
An old coachman loves the crack of the whip. – Dutch Proverb
An old ewe dressed lamb-fashion. – Dutch Proverb
An old fox doesn’t go twice into the trap. – Dutch Proverb
An old mule with a golden bridle. – Dutch Proverb
An old rat easily finds a hole. – Dutch Proverb
An old rat won’t go into the trap. – Dutch Proverb
An old wolf is used to be shouted at. – Dutch Proverb
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. – Dutch Proverb
An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept. – Dutch Proverb
An ox and an ass don’t yoke well to the same plough. – Dutch Proverb
An understanding person needs only half a word. – Dutch Proverb
Anger is a short madness. – Dutch Proverb
Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily. – Dutch Proverb
As ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone. – Dutch Proverb
As long as there’s life, there is hope. – Dutch Proverb
As stupid as a pig’s behind. – Dutch Proverb
As the old cock crows, the young cock learns. – Dutch Proverb
As you began the dance you may pay the piper. – Dutch Proverb
As you brew so shall you bake. – Dutch Proverb
As you brew, so you shall bake. – Dutch Proverb
As you sow, you shall reap. – Dutch Proverb
Asses carry the oats and horses eat them. – Dutch Proverb
Away from the eye, out of the heart. – Dutch Proverb
Bad egg, bad chick. – Dutch Proverb
Barking dogs don’t bite. – Dutch Proverb
Barking dogs seldom bite. – Dutch Proverb
Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night. – Dutch Proverb
Barren corn makes bitter bread. – Dutch Proverb
Bashfulness is of no use to the needy. – Dutch Proverb
Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault. – Dutch Proverb
Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault. – Dutch Proverb
Beauty is but dross it honesty be lost. – Dutch Proverb
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. – Dutch Proverb
Beauty is only skin deep. – Dutch Proverb
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent. – Dutch Proverb
Before you make a friend, eat a pack of salt with him. – Dutch Proverb
Before you mount, look to the girth. – Dutch Proverb
Beggars breed and rich men feed. – Dutch Proverb
Beggars can never be bankrupts. – Dutch Proverb
Beggars can’t be choosers. – Dutch Proverb
Beggars fear no rebellion. – Dutch Proverb
Beggars mounted ride their horses to death. – Dutch Proverb
Behind every mountain lies a valley. – Dutch Proverb
Behind the cross stands the devil. – Dutch Proverb
Being able to feel it on wooden shoes. – Dutch Proverb
Being quiet is agreeing. – Dutch Proverb
Being someones right hand. – Dutch Proverb
Better a bird in the hand than ten in the air. – Dutch Proverb
Better a blind horse than an empty halter. – Dutch Proverb
Better a blush in the face than a spot in the heart. – Dutch Proverb
Better a dog fawn on you than bite you. – Dutch Proverb
Better a friend than money to spend. – Dutch Proverb
Better a good neighbour than a distant friend. – Dutch Proverb
Better a leg broken than the neck. – Dutch Proverb
Better a ruined than a lost land. – Dutch Proverb
Better a slap from your friend than a kiss from your enemy. – Dutch Proverb
Better afield with the birds than hanging on lords. – Dutch Proverb
Better alone than in bad company. – Dutch Proverb
Better be carried by an ass than thrown by a horse. – Dutch Proverb
Better be envied than pitied. – Dutch Proverb
Better beg than steal. – Dutch Proverb
Better belly burst than good victuals spoil. – Dutch Proverb
Better half an egg than empty shells. – Dutch Proverb
Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy. – Dutch Proverb
Better keep peace than make peace. – Dutch Proverb
Better late than never. – Dutch Proverb
Better lose the anchor than the whole ship. – Dutch Proverb
Better lose your labour than your time in idleness. – Dutch Proverb
Better on the heath with an old cart that at sea in a new ship. – Dutch Proverb
Better once in heaven than ten times at the gate. – Dutch Proverb
Better one bird in the hand than ten in the sky. – Dutch Proverb
Better one eye-witness than ten hearsay witnesses. – Dutch Proverb
Better poor on land than rich at sea. – Dutch Proverb
Better poor on land that rich at sea. – Dutch Proverb
Better poor with honor than rich with shame. – Dutch Proverb
Better poor with honour than rich with shame. – Dutch Proverb
Better reap two day too soon than one too late. – Dutch Proverb
Better reap two days early than one day late. – Dutch Proverb
Better reap two days too soon than one too late. – Dutch Proverb
Better return half way than lose yourself. – Dutch Proverb
Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life. – Dutch Proverb
Better squinting than blind. – Dutch Proverb
Better stretch your hand than your neck. – Dutch Proverb
Better to be squinting than blind. – Dutch Proverb
Better to lose the anchor than the whole ship. – Dutch Proverb
Better twice remembered than once forgotten. – Dutch Proverb
Better when birds sing than where irons ring. – Dutch Proverb
Between two stools the breech comes to the ground. – Dutch Proverb
Between two stools you come to the ground. – Dutch Proverb
Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman. – Dutch Proverb
Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm. – Dutch Proverb
Beware of the man of two faces. – Dutch Proverb
Beware of the person with two faces. – Dutch Proverb
Biding makes thriving. – Dutch Proverb
Big fish devour the little ones. – Dutch Proverb
Big fish eat little fish. – Dutch Proverb
Big fish spring out of the kettle. – Dutch Proverb
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. – Dutch Proverb
Birds of a feather flock together. – Dutch Proverb
Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a little tail I should be a little lion. – Dutch Proverb
Black hens lays white eggs. – Dutch Proverb
Black will take no other hue. – Dutch Proverb
Blossoms are not fruits. – Dutch Proverb
Blow first, and sip afterwards. – Dutch Proverb
Borrowing brings care. – Dutch Proverb
Break a pot, pay for a pot. – Dutch Proverb
Butter with the fish. – Dutch Proverb
Buying a cat in a bag. – Dutch Proverb
By falling we earn to go safely. – Dutch Proverb
By falling we learn to go safely. – Dutch Proverb
By labor fire is got out of stone. – Dutch Proverb
By labour fire is got out of a stone. – Dutch Proverb
By night all cats are grey. – Dutch Proverb
By slow degrees the bird builds his nest. – Dutch Proverb
By the living we bury the dead. – Dutch Proverb
Care is the mother of the porcelain cabinet. – Dutch Proverb
Caress your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes. – Dutch Proverb
Carrying water to the sea. – Dutch Proverb
Cast no roses before swine. – Dutch Proverb
Casting the iron whilst it is hot. – Dutch Proverb
Cats don’t catch the old birds. – Dutch Proverb
Caution is the parent of delicate beer-glasses. – Dutch Proverb
Cent-wisdom and dollar-folly. – Dutch Proverb
Claw me and I’ll claw thee. – Dutch Proverb
Clothes make the man. – Dutch Proverb
Coffee has two virtues, it’s wet and it’s warm. – Dutch Proverb
Coin a phrase. – Dutch Proverb
Cold broth hot again, that loved I never; Old love renew’d again, that loved I ever. – Dutch Proverb
Common fame seldom lies. – Dutch Proverb
Common Goods, no goods. – Dutch Proverb
Comparing apples with pears. – Dutch Proverb
Correction bringeth fruit. – Dutch Proverb
Counsel before action. – Dutch Proverb
Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. – Dutch Proverb
Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. – Dutch Proverb
Coupled sheep drown one another. – Dutch Proverb
Cover up the pot, there’s an eel in it. – Dutch Proverb
Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel. – Dutch Proverb
Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. – Dutch Proverb
Creaking carts last the longest. – Dutch Proverb
Cream doesn’t rise to the top, it works its way up. – Dutch Proverb
Cut your coat according to your cloth. – Dutch Proverb
Cut your coat to suit your cloth. – Dutch Proverb
Darkness and night are mothers of thought. – Dutch Proverb
Daughters are brittle ware. – Dutch Proverb
Daughters may be seen but not heard. – Dutch Proverb
Dead dogs don’t bite. – Dutch Proverb
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour. – Dutch Proverb
Death is in the pot. – Dutch Proverb
Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down. – Dutch Proverb
Death keeps no almanack. – Dutch Proverb
Death pays all debts. – Dutch Proverb
Deep swimmers and high climbers usually don’t die in their beds. – Dutch Proverb
Do not wake sleeping dogs. – Dutch Proverb
Do you speak English? – Dutch Proverb
Dogs have teeth in all countries. – Dutch Proverb
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand. – Dutch Proverb
Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t buy a cat in a sack. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t buy a pig in a poke. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t cry herrings till they are in the net. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t cry holloa! till you’re out of the bush. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t overstrain your bow — it may break. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t postpone until tomorrow, what you can do today. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t sell the skin till you’ve caught the bear. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t throw away your old shoes until you have got new ones. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t throw away your own shoes till you have got new ones. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t throw the handle after the bill. – Dutch Proverb
Don’t yoke the plough before the horses. – Dutch Proverb
Dropping a stitch. – Dutch Proverb
Eagles catch no flies. – Dutch Proverb
Eagles do not breed doves. – Dutch Proverb
Eagles don’t catch flies. – Dutch Proverb
East or west, home is best. – Dutch Proverb
East West, home best. – Dutch Proverb
East, west, home’s best. – Dutch Proverb
Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight. – Dutch Proverb
Economy is a great revenue. – Dutch Proverb
Empty vessels make the most sound. – Dutch Proverb
Enough is better than too much. – Dutch Proverb
Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth. – Dutch Proverb
Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire. – Dutch Proverb
Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead. – Dutch Proverb
Even if a monkey wears a golden ring, it is and remains an ugly thing. – Dutch Proverb
Every bird sings as it is beaked. – Dutch Proverb
Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. – Dutch Proverb
Every day is not a holiday. – Dutch Proverb
Every flail on the oats. – Dutch Proverb
Every flood has it ebb. – Dutch Proverb
Every flood has its ebb. – Dutch Proverb
Every house has its cross. – Dutch Proverb
Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard. – Dutch Proverb
Every little pot has a fitting lid. – Dutch Proverb
Every man his own is not too much. – Dutch Proverb
Every man is master in his own house. – Dutch Proverb
Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. – Dutch Proverb
Every man’s friend is every man’s fool. – Dutch Proverb
Every one for himself, and God for us all. – Dutch Proverb
Every one is a preacher under the gallows. – Dutch Proverb
Every one is a thief in his own craft. – Dutch Proverb
Every one must row with the oars he has. – Dutch Proverb
Every shot does not bring down a bird. – Dutch Proverb
Every why has its wherefore. – Dutch Proverb
Everything has a wherefore. – Dutch Proverb
Everything has an end except God. – Dutch Proverb
Everything has an end with the exception of God. – Dutch Proverb
Everything has two handles. – Dutch Proverb
Evil words corrupt good manners. – Dutch Proverb
Fair money can cover much that’s foul. – Dutch Proverb
Fair money can cover mush that’s foul. – Dutch Proverb
Fair play’s a jewel. – Dutch Proverb
Fair words won’t fill the sack. – Dutch Proverb
Falling teaches us to walk safely. – Dutch Proverb
Falling with the door into the house. – Dutch Proverb
Far fetched and dear bought is meat for ladies. – Dutch Proverb
Feeling it from his water. – Dutch Proverb
Fine feathers make fine birds. – Dutch Proverb
Fine words don’t fill the belly. – Dutch Proverb
First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows. – Dutch Proverb
First catch your hare, then cook it. – Dutch Proverb
Folly hath eagle’s wings, but the eyes of an owl. – Dutch Proverb
Fools are free all the world over. – Dutch Proverb
Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer. – Dutch Proverb
Fools ask what’s o’clock, but wise men know their time. – Dutch Proverb
Fools build house and wise men live in them. – Dutch Proverb
For a flying enemy make a silver bridge. – Dutch Proverb
For a good appetite there is no hard bread. – Dutch Proverb
For an apple and an egg. – Dutch Proverb
For great evils strong remedies. – Dutch Proverb
For the cat’s violin. – Dutch Proverb
For the concert of life, no one receives a program. – Dutch Proverb
Forbear a quarrel with a friend to move: anger breeds hatred; concord sweetens love. – Dutch Proverb
Forced love does not last. – Dutch Proverb
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – Dutch Proverb
Fortune and glass break easily. – Dutch Proverb
Fortune and glass break soon, alas. – Dutch Proverb
Fortune does not stand waiting at any one’s door. – Dutch Proverb
Fortune is round; it makes one a king, another a dunghill. – Dutch Proverb
Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. – Dutch Proverb
Friends are known in time of need. – Dutch Proverb
Friends are like fiddle-strings; they must not be screwed too tight. – Dutch Proverb
From a spark the house is burnt. – Dutch Proverb
From little things men go on to great. – Dutch Proverb
From small beginning come great things. – Dutch Proverb
From small beginnings come great things. – Dutch Proverb
From the boat we get to the ship. – Dutch Proverb
From the cradle to the tomb, Not all gladness, not all gloom. – Dutch Proverb
From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort. – Dutch Proverb
From trivial things great arguments often arise. – Dutch Proverb
Froth is no beer. – Dutch Proverb
Full bottles and glasses make swearers and asses. – Dutch Proverb
Full cup, steady hand. – Dutch Proverb
Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers. – Dutch Proverb
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. – Dutch Proverb
Gentility, sent to market, will not buy a peck of meal. – Dutch Proverb
Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds. – Dutch Proverb
Give an ass oats and he runs after thistles. – Dutch Proverb
Give and take is fair play. – Dutch Proverb
Give at first asking what you safely can; ’tis certain gain to help an honest man. – Dutch Proverb
Give credit where credit is due. – Dutch Proverb
Give him an inch and he’ll take an ell. – Dutch Proverb
Give him an inch, he’ll take an ell. – Dutch Proverb
Give him your finger and he will seize your hand. – Dutch Proverb
Go softly and look afar. – Dutch Proverb
God cures, and the doctor gets the money. – Dutch Proverb
God deliver me from a man of one book. – Dutch Proverb
God deliver us from a gentleman by day and a friar by night. – Dutch Proverb
God does not pay weekly, but He pays at the end. – Dutch Proverb
God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. – Dutch Proverb
God helps the strongest. – Dutch Proverb
God sells knowledge for labour, honour for risk. – Dutch Proverb
God sent him meat, but the devil cooked it. – Dutch Proverb
Going around with the hat. – Dutch Proverb
Good company makes short miles. – Dutch Proverb
Good company on a journey is worth a coach. – Dutch Proverb
Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen. – Dutch Proverb
Good drink drives out bad thoughts. – Dutch Proverb
Good hunters track narrowly. – Dutch Proverb
Good leading makes good following. – Dutch Proverb
Good looking apples are sometimes sour. – Dutch Proverb
Good right needs good help. – Dutch Proverb
Good seed makes a good crop. – Dutch Proverb
Good things require time. – Dutch Proverb
Good tree, good fruit. – Dutch Proverb
Good wine needs no bush. – Dutch Proverb
Good wine praises itself. – Dutch Proverb
Grass grows not upon the highway. – Dutch Proverb
Grass is greener in other pastures. – Dutch Proverb
Great boast. little roast. – Dutch Proverb
Great cry and little wool, quoth the devil, when he sheared his hogs. – Dutch Proverb
Great fishes break the net. – Dutch Proverb
Great fools must have great bells. – Dutch Proverb
Great gaps may be filled with small stones. – Dutch Proverb
Great greediness to reap, helps not the money-heap. – Dutch Proverb
Great promisers, bad paymasters. – Dutch Proverb
Great talkers are little doers. – Dutch Proverb
Great thieves hang little thieves. – Dutch Proverb
Great wealth, great care. – Dutch Proverb
Great weights may hang on small wires. – Dutch Proverb
Guessing is missing. – Dutch Proverb
Half a word to the wise is enough. – Dutch Proverb
Half an egg is better than an empty shell. – Dutch Proverb
Handsome apples are sometimes sour. – Dutch Proverb
Handsome is as handsome does. – Dutch Proverb
Hannibal is at the gate. – Dutch Proverb
Hares are not caught with drums. – Dutch Proverb
Haste and speed are rarely good. – Dutch Proverb
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. – Dutch Proverb
Hasty questions require slow answers. – Dutch Proverb
Hasty speed don’t oft succeed. – Dutch Proverb
Hasty speed is rarely good. – Dutch Proverb
Having something on your liver. – Dutch Proverb
Having two left hands. – Dutch Proverb
He burns the candle at both ends. – Dutch Proverb
He buys honey dear who has to lick it off thorns. – Dutch Proverb
He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. – Dutch Proverb
He counts his chickens before they are hatched. – Dutch Proverb
He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill. – Dutch Proverb
He did hear the sound of the bell, but doesn’t know where the clapper hangs. – Dutch Proverb
He earns a farthing and has a penn’orth of thirst. – Dutch Proverb
He feels like a cat in an strange warehouse. – Dutch Proverb
He fell with his nose in the butter. – Dutch Proverb
He gapes like a clown at a fair. – Dutch Proverb
He has a ton of knowledge, but the bottom is out. – Dutch Proverb
He has a wolf-conscience. – Dutch Proverb
He has him under his thumb. – Dutch Proverb
He has lost the nest-egg. – Dutch Proverb
He has seen the wolf. – Dutch Proverb
He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart. – Dutch Proverb
He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none. – Dutch Proverb
He heed have plenty of meal who would stop every man’s mouth. – Dutch Proverb
He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep. – Dutch Proverb
He invites future injuries who rewards past ones. – Dutch Proverb
He is a man as a book. – Dutch Proverb
He is an aristocrat in folio. – Dutch Proverb
He is an essence of scoundrels. – Dutch Proverb
He is as easily caught as a hare with drums. – Dutch Proverb
He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva’s dog; who ate flesh in Lent. – Dutch Proverb
He is as good a divine as Judas was an apostle. – Dutch Proverb
He is as poor as Job. – Dutch Proverb
He is as sharp as a leaden dagger. – Dutch Proverb
He is as welcome as the first day in Lent. – Dutch Proverb
He is no merchant who always gains. – Dutch Proverb
He is noble who performs noble deeds. – Dutch Proverb
He is nobody’s enemy but his own. – Dutch Proverb
He is of the race of Johnny Van Cleeve; who would always much rather have than give. – Dutch Proverb
He is so wise, that he goes upon the ice three days before it freezes. – Dutch Proverb
He is too idle to fetch his breath. – Dutch Proverb
He is too stupid to be trusted alone by the fire. – Dutch Proverb
He keeps his word, as the sun keeps butter. – Dutch Proverb
He lays his eggs beside his nest. – Dutch Proverb
He lives in the land of promise. – Dutch Proverb
He lives long who lives well. – Dutch Proverb
He lords it like an eel in a tub. – Dutch Proverb
He means well, but has a bad way of showing it. – Dutch Proverb
He measures others by his own standard. – Dutch Proverb
He must gape wide who would gape against an oven. – Dutch Proverb
He must have crept out of hell while the devil was asleep. – Dutch Proverb
He must indeed be a good master who never does wrong. – Dutch Proverb
He must rise betimes who would please everybody. – Dutch Proverb
He must shoot well who always hits the mark. – Dutch Proverb
He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes. – Dutch Proverb
He said devil, but meant you. – Dutch Proverb
He studies the Bible of fifty-two leaves. – Dutch Proverb
He swims on his own bullrush. – Dutch Proverb
He talks like a sausage without the fat. – Dutch Proverb
He that abideth low cannot fall hard. – Dutch Proverb
He that buildeth upon the highway hath many advisers. – Dutch Proverb
He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet. – Dutch Proverb
He that can reply to an angry man is too hard for him. – Dutch Proverb
He that chases another does not sit still himself. – Dutch Proverb
He that comes unbidden goes unthanked. – Dutch Proverb
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Dutch Proverb
He that despises the little is not worthy of the great. – Dutch Proverb
He that despises the small is not worthy of the great. – Dutch Proverb
He that finds something before it is lost, will die before he is sick. – Dutch Proverb
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. – Dutch Proverb
He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. – Dutch Proverb
He that has a choice has trouble. – Dutch Proverb
He that has the devil on his neck must find him work. – Dutch Proverb
He that has the luck leads the bride to church. – Dutch Proverb
He that hath a head of butter must not come near the oven. – Dutch Proverb
He that hath an ill name is half hanged. – Dutch Proverb
He that hath been bitten by a serpent is afraid of a rope. – Dutch Proverb
He that hath many irons in the fire, some of them will cool. – Dutch Proverb
He that hath no honey in his pot, let him have it in his mouth. – Dutch Proverb
He that hears much and speaks not at all Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.” – Dutch Proverb
He that hears much, hears many lies. – Dutch Proverb
He that is at sea has not the wind in his hands. – Dutch Proverb
He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair. – Dutch Proverb
He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him. – Dutch Proverb
He that lives with cripples learns to limp. – Dutch Proverb
He that lives with wolves, must howl with wolves. – Dutch Proverb
He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery already with her in his heart. – Dutch Proverb
He that loves his child chastises him. – Dutch Proverb
He that makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolf. – Dutch Proverb
He that plays at racket must watch the ball. – Dutch Proverb
He that pryeth into the clouds, may be struck with a thunderbolt. – Dutch Proverb
He that saves something today will have something tomorrow. – Dutch Proverb
He that spares something to-day will have something to-morrow. – Dutch Proverb
He that tickles himself, may laugh when he will. – Dutch Proverb
He that well considers the world, must own he has never seen a better. – Dutch Proverb
He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way. – Dutch Proverb
He that will conquer must fight. – Dutch Proverb
He that will have eggs, must bear with cackling. – Dutch Proverb
He that will have fire must bear with smoke. – Dutch Proverb
He that will have no trouble in this world must not be born in it. – Dutch Proverb
He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell. – Dutch Proverb
He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. – Dutch Proverb
He that would have the kernel must crack the shell. – Dutch Proverb
He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best. – Dutch Proverb
He that would make a golden gate, must bring a nail to it daily. – Dutch Proverb
He that would please all, and himself too, Undertakes what he cannot do. – Dutch Proverb
He that’s born to be hanged will never be drowned. – Dutch Proverb
He that’s long a giving, knows not how to give. – Dutch Proverb
He thinks to catch shell-fish in the trees. – Dutch Proverb
He waits long that waits for another main’s death. – Dutch Proverb
He wants for ever, who would more acquire. – Dutch Proverb
He wants to fly before he has wings. – Dutch Proverb
He wants to learn how to shave using my beard. – Dutch Proverb
He was born upon St. Galtpert’s night, three days before luck. – Dutch Proverb
He who attempts too much seldom succeeds. – Dutch Proverb
He who attempts too much seldom succeeds. – Dutch Proverb
He who burns his posteriors must sit on blisters. – Dutch Proverb
He who comes first, he who chews first. – Dutch Proverb
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, and is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days. – Dutch Proverb
He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord. – Dutch Proverb
He who goes to bed with dogs will get up with fleas. – Dutch Proverb
He who has a choice has trouble. – Dutch Proverb
He who has no thirst has no business at the fountain. – Dutch Proverb
He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither. – Dutch Proverb
He who hurts his nose, hurts his face. – Dutch Proverb
He who is afraid of the leaves must not go into the wood. – Dutch Proverb
He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him. – Dutch Proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. – Dutch Proverb
He who is surety for another, pays for him. – Dutch Proverb
He who laughs last, laughs best. – Dutch Proverb
He who makes himself honey will be eaten by the bees. – Dutch Proverb
He who mixes himself with the draff will be eaten by the swine. – Dutch Proverb
He who pays well is master of another man’s purse. – Dutch Proverb
He who plants fruit-trees, must not count upon the fruit. – Dutch Proverb
He who slanders his neighbor makes a rod for his own back. – Dutch Proverb
He who tends to his own garden does not see the weeds of his neighbours. – Dutch Proverb
He who throws the ball, must expect it back. – Dutch Proverb
He who undertakes too many things at once seldom does any of them well. – Dutch Proverb
He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. – Dutch Proverb
He who wants a new world must first buy the old. – Dutch Proverb
He who would catch a rogue must watch behind the door. – Dutch Proverb
He who would cheat a peasant, must take one with him. – Dutch Proverb
He who would gather honey must brave the sting of bees. – Dutch Proverb
He who would gather roses, must not fear thorns. – Dutch Proverb
He who would travel through the land, must go with open purse in hand. – Dutch Proverb
He whom the shoe fits should put it on. – Dutch Proverb
He would be wise who knew all things beforehand. – Dutch Proverb
He would bite a cent in two. – Dutch Proverb
He would rather have a bumper in hand than a Bible. – Dutch Proverb
He wriggles like an ell. – Dutch Proverb
Hearsay is half lies. – Dutch Proverb
Heaven preserve me from my friends. – Dutch Proverb
Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men. – Dutch Proverb
Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. – Dutch Proverb
Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much. – Dutch Proverb
Help yourself, and God will help you. – Dutch Proverb
Hens like to lay when they see an egg. – Dutch Proverb
Hens like to lay where they see an egg. – Dutch Proverb
Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand. – Dutch Proverb
Hew not too high, lest a chip fall in thine eye. – Dutch Proverb
High trees catch lots of wind. – Dutch Proverb
High trees give more shadow than fruit. – Dutch Proverb
High winds blow on high hills. – Dutch Proverb
Hired horses make short miles. – Dutch Proverb
His money takes the place of wisdom. – Dutch Proverb
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. – Dutch Proverb
Honour once lost never returns. – Dutch Proverb
Honours change manners. – Dutch Proverb
How we apples swim! said the horse-turd. – Dutch Proverb
Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. – Dutch Proverb
Hunger eats through stone walls. – Dutch Proverb
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. – Dutch Proverb
Hunger gives a relish even to raw beans. – Dutch Proverb
Hunger is the best sauce. – Dutch Proverb
Hungry flies bite sore. – Dutch Proverb
I am not here to catch flies. – Dutch Proverb
I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak what I please. – Dutch Proverb
I may go over my reckoning, but not over my time. – Dutch Proverb
I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years. – Dutch Proverb
I wot well how the world wags, He is most loved that hath most bags. – Dutch Proverb
Idleness is hunger’s mother, and of theft it is bull brother. – Dutch Proverb
If fools ate no bread, corn would be cheap. – Dutch Proverb
If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. – Dutch Proverb
If he waits long enough the world will be his own. – Dutch Proverb
If he won’t carry the sack, give him a whack. – Dutch Proverb
If one won’t another will. – Dutch Proverb
If one, two and three say you are an ass, put on the ears. – Dutch Proverb
If the rope is weak, pull gently. – Dutch Proverb
If thou touchest pitch thou shalt be defiled. – Dutch Proverb
If you eat someone’s cake, you must also eat his lentils. – Dutch Proverb
If you hear a lot of things, you will hear a lot of lies. – Dutch Proverb
If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak. – Dutch Proverb
Ill begun, ill done. – Dutch Proverb
I’ll sleep on it. – Dutch Proverb
Ill tidings come soon enough. – Dutch Proverb
Ill vessels seldom miscarry. – Dutch Proverb
Ill weed grows fast. – Dutch Proverb
Ill weeds grow apace. – Dutch Proverb
Ill-matched horses draw badly. – Dutch Proverb
In eating ’tis good to begin, one morsel helps the other in. – Dutch Proverb
In prosperity caution, in adversity patience. – Dutch Proverb
In prosperity think of adversity. – Dutch Proverb
In small boxes the best spice. – Dutch Proverb
In small woods may be caught large hares. – Dutch Proverb
In the company of the good we become good. – Dutch Proverb
In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress. – Dutch Proverb
In the division of inheritance, friendship standeth still. – Dutch Proverb
In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. – Dutch Proverb
In the land of the blind, one-eye is king. – Dutch Proverb
In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable. – Dutch Proverb
It flows like a fountain from a broomstick. – Dutch Proverb
It grieveth one dog that another goeth into the kitchen. – Dutch Proverb
It hangs upon a silken thread. – Dutch Proverb
It hits like a grip on a pig. – Dutch Proverb
It is a bad well into which one must put water. – Dutch Proverb
It is a bad well that you have to fill with water. – Dutch Proverb
It is a grief to one beggar that another stands at the door. – Dutch Proverb
It is a hard morsel that chokes. – Dutch Proverb
It is a poor mouse that has but one hole. – Dutch Proverb
It is bad marketing with empty pockets. – Dutch Proverb
It is better to blow than burn your mouth. – Dutch Proverb
It is better to ride for half a year on a good horse than to spend your entire life riding on a mule. – Dutch Proverb
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. – Dutch Proverb
It is easier to prevent ill habits than to break them. – Dutch Proverb
It is easy to be liberal out of another man’s purse. – Dutch Proverb
It is easy to cut thongs form other men’s leather. – Dutch Proverb
It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog. – Dutch Proverb
It is good fishing in troubled waters. – Dutch Proverb
It is good rowing with set sail. – Dutch Proverb
It is good rowing with the sail set. – Dutch Proverb
It is good sailing with wind and tide. – Dutch Proverb
It is good speaking that improves good silence. – Dutch Proverb
It is good spinning from another’s yarn. – Dutch Proverb
It is good to go afoot when one is tired of riding. – Dutch Proverb
It is good to sleep in a whole skin. – Dutch Proverb
It is good to warm oneself by another’s fire. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to blow with a full mouth. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to find a pin in the dark. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to please every one. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to steal where the host is a thief. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to swim against the current. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to swim against the stream. – Dutch Proverb
It is hard to teach old dogs to bark. – Dutch Proverb
It is hasty speed that doesn’t succeed. – Dutch Proverb
It is ill catching hares with drums. – Dutch Proverb
It is ill sailing against wind and tide. – Dutch Proverb
It is ill sitting at Rome and striving with the Pope. – Dutch Proverb
It is ill takin’ the breeks off a highlandman. – Dutch Proverb
It is not the cowl that makes the friar. – Dutch Proverb
It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs. – Dutch Proverb
It is pleasant to cut thongs on another man’s leather. – Dutch Proverb
It is prophet-drink. – Dutch Proverb
It is safest sailing within reach of the shore. – Dutch Proverb
It is safest to sail within reach of the shore. – Dutch Proverb
It is too late to cry “Hold hard!” when the arrow has left the bow. – Dutch Proverb
It is too late to lock the stable door when the horses have already been stolen. – Dutch Proverb
It needs a cunning hand to shave a fool’s head. – Dutch Proverb
It sticks to his fingers, like the charity-money to the matron. – Dutch Proverb
It’s a long lane that has no turning. – Dutch Proverb
It’s a poor heart that never rejoices. – Dutch Proverb
It’s bad combing where there is no hair. – Dutch Proverb
It’s better that the bakers are on horseback than the doctors. – Dutch Proverb
It’s good dancing on another man’s floor. – Dutch Proverb
It’s good feasting in another’s hall. – Dutch Proverb
It’s good steering with wind and tide. – Dutch Proverb
It’s good to be off wi’ the old love Before ye be on wi’ the new. – Dutch Proverb
It’s good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint. – Dutch Proverb
It’s hard to catch hawks with empty hands. – Dutch Proverb
It’s ill jesting with edged tools. – Dutch Proverb
It’s ill speaking between a full man and a fasting. – Dutch Proverb
It’s ill waiting for dead men’s shoes. – Dutch Proverb
It’s never too late. – Dutch Proverb
It’s no crime to steal from a thief. – Dutch Proverb
It’s pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry. – Dutch Proverb
It’s raining pipestems. – Dutch Proverb
It’s the empty can that makes the most noise. – Dutch Proverb
It’s the little things in life that count. – Dutch Proverb
It’s vain to learn wisdom yet live foolishly. – Dutch Proverb
Just toss it in my hat and I’ll sort it tomorrow. – Dutch Proverb
Keeping an eye on the sail. – Dutch Proverb
Keeping the finger on the wrist. – Dutch Proverb
Kicking in an open door. – Dutch Proverb
Know what you say, but don’t say all that you know. – Dutch Proverb
Knowing of the hat and the brim. – Dutch Proverb
Knowing where Abraham gets the mustard. – Dutch Proverb
Labour warms, sloth harms. – Dutch Proverb
Lead for old iron. – Dutch Proverb
Learn thou of learned men, th’ unlearned of thee; for thus must knowledge propagated be. – Dutch Proverb
Learn to creep before you run. – Dutch Proverb
Learn who are your friends when you are in need. – Dutch Proverb
Learned young is done old. – Dutch Proverb
Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost. – Dutch Proverb
Let God’s waters run over God’s acres. – Dutch Proverb
Let it roll; it will right itself. – Dutch Proverb
Let lie what is too heavy to lift. – Dutch Proverb
Let me get over the lake, and I have no fear of the brook. – Dutch Proverb
Let me get over the lake, and I will have no fear of the brook. – Dutch Proverb
Life does not always go over roses. – Dutch Proverb
Light gains make a heavy purse. – Dutch Proverb
Lightly come, lightly go. – Dutch Proverb
Lightning never strikes the same place twice. – Dutch Proverb
Like a chicken without a head. – Dutch Proverb
Like a snail on a barrel of tar. – Dutch Proverb
Like master, like man. – Dutch Proverb
Like pot, like cover. – Dutch Proverb
Like to like, Jack to Gill, a penny a pair. – Dutch Proverb
Like will to like, be they poor or rich. – Dutch Proverb
Little fish are sweet. – Dutch Proverb
Little is done where many command. – Dutch Proverb
Little leaks sink the ship. – Dutch Proverb
Little pitchers have large ears. – Dutch Proverb
Little pots soon run over. – Dutch Proverb
Little pots soon run over. – Dutch Proverb
Little strokes fell great oaks. – Dutch Proverb
Little thieves are hanged by the neck, great ones by the purse. – Dutch Proverb
Little thieves have iron chains, and great thieves gold ones. – Dutch Proverb
Little things are pretty. – Dutch Proverb
Little things attract light minds. – Dutch Proverb
Little things please little minds. – Dutch Proverb
Little wood, much fruit. – Dutch Proverb
Live and let live. – Dutch Proverb
Long fasting doesn’t save bread. – Dutch Proverb
Long fasting is no bread sparing. – Dutch Proverb
Long looked for comes at last. – Dutch Proverb
Look not a gift horse in the mouth. – Dutch Proverb
Look not out for dead men’s shoes. – Dutch Proverb
Looking down at one’s nose. – Dutch Proverb
Looking for nails at low tide. – Dutch Proverb
Love makes labor light. – Dutch Proverb
Love makes labour light. – Dutch Proverb
Love makes the world go round. – Dutch Proverb
Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost. – Dutch Proverb
Making a long nose. – Dutch Proverb
Man proposes, God disposes. – Dutch Proverb
Man punishes the action, but God the intention. – Dutch Proverb
Many hands make light work. – Dutch Proverb
Many heads, many minds. – Dutch Proverb
Many hounds are the death of the hare. – Dutch Proverb
Many hounds mean the death of the hare. – Dutch Proverb
Many open a door to shut a window. – Dutch Proverb
Many seek good nights and lose good days. – Dutch Proverb
Many seek good nights and waste good days. – Dutch Proverb
Many words don’t fill the sack. – Dutch Proverb
Many words go to a sackful. – Dutch Proverb
Many words will not fill a bushel. – Dutch Proverb
Marry in haste and repent at leisure. – Dutch Proverb
Marry in haste repent at leisure. – Dutch Proverb
Marry in May, rue for aye. – Dutch Proverb
Measure thrice before you cut once. – Dutch Proverb
Measure twice, cut once. – Dutch Proverb
Men can bear all things except good days. – Dutch Proverb
Men dig their graves with their teeth. – Dutch Proverb
Men don’t die of threats. – Dutch Proverb
Men go not laughing to heaven. – Dutch Proverb
Men must sail while the wind serveth. – Dutch Proverb
Men that crawl, never fall. – Dutch Proverb
Merchant’s goods are ebb and flood. – Dutch Proverb
Might is not right. – Dutch Proverb
Might is right. – Dutch Proverb
Milk the cow, but don’t pull off the udder. – Dutch Proverb
Misery loves company. – Dutch Proverb
Misfortunes never come single. – Dutch Proverb
Misfortunes that can’t be avoided must be sweetened. – Dutch Proverb
Misfortunes, when asleep, are not to be awakened. – Dutch Proverb
Money is power. – Dutch Proverb
Money is the sinew of war. – Dutch Proverb
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. – Dutch Proverb
Money isn’t everything, but it’s way ahead of whatever is in second place. – Dutch Proverb
Money rules the world. – Dutch Proverb
More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing-shoes. – Dutch Proverb
More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a barrel full of vinegar. – Dutch Proverb
More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar. – Dutch Proverb
More luck than wit. – Dutch Proverb
Much talk, little work. – Dutch Proverb
Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man’s head. – Dutch Proverb
Mustard after the meal. – Dutch Proverb
My shirt is closer to me than my cloak. – Dutch Proverb
My shirt is nearer than my cloak. – Dutch Proverb
Necessity breaks iron. – Dutch Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention. – Dutch Proverb
Necessity knows no law. – Dutch Proverb
Need makes the old wife trot. – Dutch Proverb
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it. – Dutch Proverb
Never was hood so holy but the devil could get his head into it. – Dutch Proverb
Never wear a brown hat in Friesland. – Dutch Proverb
New brooms sweep clean. – Dutch Proverb
No better masters than poverty and want. – Dutch Proverb
No corn without chaff. – Dutch Proverb
No cross, no crown. – Dutch Proverb
No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give. – Dutch Proverb
No house without its cross. – Dutch Proverb
No mad dog runs seven years. – Dutch Proverb
No man knoweth fortune till he dies. – Dutch Proverb
No man learneth but by pain or shame. – Dutch Proverb
No money, no Swiss. – Dutch Proverb
No news is good news. – Dutch Proverb
No office so humble but it is better than nothing. – Dutch Proverb
No one can have peace longer than his neighbour pleases. – Dutch Proverb
No one is wise in his own affairs. – Dutch Proverb
No one knows where another’s shoe pinches. – Dutch Proverb
No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it. – Dutch Proverb
No one so sure but he may miss. – Dutch Proverb
No rose without a thorn. – Dutch Proverb
No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf. – Dutch Proverb
No wheat without chaff. – Dutch Proverb
Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth. – Dutch Proverb
Nobody’s sweetheart is ugly. – Dutch Proverb
Not being able to reach it with your hat. – Dutch Proverb
Not having all of them in a row. – Dutch Proverb
Not shooting means always missing. – Dutch Proverb
Not turning his hand around for it. – Dutch Proverb
Not wearing a high cap of someone. – Dutch Proverb
Not wrapping it in cloth. – Dutch Proverb
Nothing in haste but catching fleas. – Dutch Proverb
Nothing is haste but catching flies. – Dutch Proverb
Nothing so bad but it finds its master. – Dutch Proverb
Nothing so bad but it might have been worse. – Dutch Proverb
Nothing so bold as a blind mare. – Dutch Proverb
Of hasty counsel take good heed, for haste is very rarely speed. – Dutch Proverb
Of listening children have your fears, for little pitchers have great ears. – Dutch Proverb
Offer a clown your finger, and he’ll take your fist. – Dutch Proverb
Oil is best at the beginning, honey at the end, and wine in the middle. – Dutch Proverb
Old birds are not caught with cats. – Dutch Proverb
Old foxes are hard to catch. – Dutch Proverb
On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep. – Dutch Proverb
Once a thief, always a thief. – Dutch Proverb
Once a whore, always a whore. – Dutch Proverb
Once bit, twice shy. – Dutch Proverb
Once is no custom. – Dutch Proverb
One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. – Dutch Proverb
One bird in the hand is better than two flying. – Dutch Proverb
One cannot shoe a running horse. – Dutch Proverb
One can’t shoe a running horse. – Dutch Proverb
One crow does not make a winter. – Dutch Proverb
One crow does not peck out another’s eyes. – Dutch Proverb
One does it for love, another for honour, a third for money. – Dutch Proverb
One fool makes many. – Dutch Proverb
One God, one wife, but many friends. – Dutch Proverb
One good turn deserves another. – Dutch Proverb
One hand washes the other, and both the face. – Dutch Proverb
One lost, two found. – Dutch Proverb
One misfortune brings on another. – Dutch Proverb
One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil. – Dutch Proverb
One nail drives in another. – Dutch Proverb
One penny in the pot makes more noise than when it is full. – Dutch Proverb
One quill is better in the hand than seven geese upon the strand. – Dutch Proverb
One rotten apple in the basket infects the whole. – Dutch Proverb
One scabby sheep infects the whole flock. – Dutch Proverb
One should not think about it too much when marrying or taking pills. – Dutch Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burned. – Dutch Proverb
One swallow does not make a summer. – Dutch Proverb
One swallow doesn’t make summer. – Dutch Proverb
One take-this, is better than two thou-shalt-haves. – Dutch Proverb
One tale is good till another is told. – Dutch Proverb
One’s own hearth is worth gold. – Dutch Proverb
Opportunity creates desire. – Dutch Proverb
Opportunity makes desire. – Dutch Proverb
Opportunity makes the thief. – Dutch Proverb
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man’s door. – Dutch Proverb
Opportunity only knocks once. – Dutch Proverb
Our time runs on like a stream; first fall the leaves and then the tree. – Dutch Proverb
Our wisdom is no less at Fortune’s mercy than our wealth. – Dutch Proverb
Out before day, in before night. – Dutch Proverb
Out of sight out of mind. – Dutch Proverb
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. – Dutch Proverb
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks. – Dutch Proverb
Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh. – Dutch Proverb
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. – Dutch Proverb
Painted flowers have no odour. – Dutch Proverb
Pastors come for your wine and officers for your daughters. – Dutch Proverb
Patience surpasses learning. – Dutch Proverb
Penny wise, and pound foolish. – Dutch Proverb
Perseverance brings success. – Dutch Proverb
Pleasures steal away the mind. – Dutch Proverb
Pleasures, while they flatter, sting. – Dutch Proverb
Poor folk’s wisdom goes for little. – Dutch Proverb
Postponement is cancellation. – Dutch Proverb
Poverty is the reward of idleness. – Dutch Proverb
Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you’re laid to sleep. – Dutch Proverb
Precious things are mostly in small compass. – Dutch Proverb
Proffered service is little valued. – Dutch Proverb
Proffered service stinks. – Dutch Proverb
Profit by the folly of others. – Dutch Proverb
Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb
Promises make debts, and debts make promises. – Dutch Proverb
Promising and performing are two things. – Dutch Proverb
Promising is one thing, performing another. – Dutch Proverb
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. – Dutch Proverb
Pull gently at a weak rope. – Dutch Proverb
Put not all your eggs into one basket. – Dutch Proverb
Put not your trust in princes. – Dutch Proverb
Put your hand in your conscience and see if it does not come out as black as pitch. – Dutch Proverb
Putting salt on every snail. – Dutch Proverb
Rejoice in little, shun what is extreme; the ship rides safest in a little stream. – Dutch Proverb
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. – Dutch Proverb
Rest makes rusty. – Dutch Proverb
Reward sweetens labor. – Dutch Proverb
Reward sweetens labour. – Dutch Proverb
Reynard is still Reynard, though he put on a cowl. – Dutch Proverb
Ride on, but look before you. – Dutch Proverb
Ridicule is the test of truth. – Dutch Proverb
Roast geese don’t come flying into your mouth. – Dutch Proverb
Roast pigeons don’t fly through the air. – Dutch Proverb
Roasted pigeons will not fly into one’s mouth. – Dutch Proverb
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. – Dutch Proverb
Rowing with the oars you posess. – Dutch Proverb
Self-love is blind. – Dutch Proverb
Self-love nobody else’s love. – Dutch Proverb
sell beets/apples as lemons. – Dutch Proverb
Set a beggar on horseback, and he don’t trot, but gallops. – Dutch Proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief. – Dutch Proverb
Set hard heart against hard hap. – Dutch Proverb
Set thy expense according to thy trade. – Dutch Proverb
Set your expense according to your trade. – Dutch Proverb
Shame lasts longer than poverty. – Dutch Proverb
Shared grief is half grief. – Dutch Proverb
She hangs out the broom. – Dutch Proverb
Shear the sheep but don’t flay them. – Dutch Proverb
Shoemaker stick to your last. – Dutch Proverb
Short reckonings make long friends. – Dutch Proverb
Show me a liar, and I’ll show you a thief. – Dutch Proverb
Showing off other people’s feathers. – Dutch Proverb
Sickness comes on horseback, but goes away on foot. – Dutch Proverb
Silence answers much. – Dutch Proverb
Silence is the answer to many things. – Dutch Proverb
Sitting down beside the boxes. – Dutch Proverb
Sitting securely in the saddle. – Dutch Proverb
Sitting with the hands in the hair. – Dutch Proverb
Skill and assurance form an invincible combination. – Dutch Proverb
Skill and assurance make an invincible combination. – Dutch Proverb
Sloth is the beginning of vice. – Dutch Proverb
Slowly but surely, the bird builds its nest. – Dutch Proverb
Small gains bring great wealth. – Dutch Proverb
Small pots have big ears/handles. – Dutch Proverb
Smoke, stench, and a troublesome wife are what drive men from home. – Dutch Proverb
So got, so gone. – Dutch Proverb
Soft and fair goeth far. – Dutch Proverb
Soon fire, soon ashes. – Dutch Proverb
Soon grass, soon hay. – Dutch Proverb
Soon ripe, soon rotten; soon wise, soon foolish. – Dutch Proverb
Sooner or later the truth comes to light. – Dutch Proverb
Sorrow will pay no debts. – Dutch Proverb
Sow not money on the sea, lest it sink. – Dutch Proverb
Spare at the spigot, and let out the bunghole. – Dutch Proverb
Spare the rod and spoil the child. – Dutch Proverb
Spare the rod, spoil the child. – Dutch Proverb
Speaking is silver, being silent is gold. – Dutch Proverb
Speaking is silver, silence is gold. – Dutch Proverb
Standing with the mouth full of teeth. – Dutch Proverb
Starved lice bite the hardest. – Dutch Proverb
Stay a while, and lose a mile. – Dutch Proverb
Step by step one goes far. – Dutch Proverb
Still waters are deep. – Dutch Proverb
Stock-fish are made tender by much beating. – Dutch Proverb
storm in a glass of water. – Dutch Proverb
Strain not your bow beyond its bent, lest it break. – Dutch Proverb
Stretch your legs no farther than your coverlet. – Dutch Proverb
Strew no roses before swine. – Dutch Proverb
Strike while the iron is hot. – Dutch Proverb
Stroke your dog, and he’ll spoil your clothes. – Dutch Proverb
Supple as a glove. – Dutch Proverb
Surfeits slay mae than swords. – Dutch Proverb
Sweep before your own door before you look after your neighbour’s. – Dutch Proverb
Sweep in front of your own door before you look after your neighbor’s. – Dutch Proverb
Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word. – Dutch Proverb
Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse. – Dutch Proverb
Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance. – Dutch Proverb
Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows. – Dutch Proverb
Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle. – Dutch Proverb
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear. – Dutch Proverb
Talk of the wolf and his tail appears. – Dutch Proverb
Tall trees catch much wind. – Dutch Proverb
Tastes differ. – Dutch Proverb
Teachers die, but books live on. – Dutch Proverb
Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are. – Dutch Proverb
Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself. – Dutch Proverb
Tender surgeons make foul wounds. – Dutch Proverb
That beer’s of your own brewing, and you must drink it. – Dutch Proverb
That is beggar’s fare, said the dame, when she fried eggs with the sausages. – Dutch Proverb
That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end. – Dutch Proverb
That mouse will have a tail. – Dutch Proverb
That which burns thee not, cool not. – Dutch Proverb
That’s all well and good, but gold is better. – Dutch Proverb
That’s quickly done which is long repented. – Dutch Proverb
The absent always bear the blame. – Dutch Proverb
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. – Dutch Proverb
The arms of Bruges: an ass in an arm-chair. – Dutch Proverb
The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. – Dutch Proverb
The ass and the driver never think alike. – Dutch Proverb
The beadle’s cow may graze in the churchyard. – Dutch Proverb
The best cause requires a good champion. – Dutch Proverb
The best fodder is the mater’s eye. – Dutch Proverb
The best goods are the cheapest. – Dutch Proverb
The best helmsmen stand on shore. – Dutch Proverb
The best horse stumbles sometimes. – Dutch Proverb
The best pilots are ashore. – Dutch Proverb
The better lawyer, the worse Christian. – Dutch Proverb
The better the day, the better the deed. – Dutch Proverb
The blood creeps where it can’t go. – Dutch Proverb
The boor looks after a cent as the devil after a soul. – Dutch Proverb
The bow must not be always bent. – Dutch Proverb
The candle that goes before gives the best light. – Dutch Proverb
The clock ticks nowhere else the way it does at home. – Dutch Proverb
The cost is high of the honey that must be licked from thorns. – Dutch Proverb
The counterfeit image of a pot with two ears. – Dutch Proverb
The cow does not know the value of her tail till she has lost it. – Dutch Proverb
The cow gives good milk, but kicks over the pail. – Dutch Proverb
The death of one person means bread for another. – Dutch Proverb
The desire is the father of the thought. – Dutch Proverb
The devil has his martyrs among men. – Dutch Proverb
The devil is not so black as he is painted. – Dutch Proverb
The devil sits behind the cross. – Dutch Proverb
The devil take the hindmost. – Dutch Proverb
The devil’s in the cards, said Sam, four aces and not a single trump. – Dutch Proverb
The end crowns all. – Dutch Proverb
The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow. – Dutch Proverb
The end of passion is the beginning of repentance. – Dutch Proverb
The eye of the master makes the horse fat, and that of the mistress the chambers neat. – Dutch Proverb
The eyes are bigger than the belly. – Dutch Proverb
The farther from Rome the nearer to God. – Dutch Proverb
The first in the boat has the choice of oars. – Dutch Proverb
The first occasion offered quickly take, lest thou repine at what thou didst forsake. – Dutch Proverb
The fly flutters about the candle till at last it gets burnt. – Dutch Proverb
The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt. – Dutch Proverb
The fox may lose his hair, but not his cunning. – Dutch Proverb
The fox never fares better than when he’s bann’d. – Dutch Proverb
The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve. – Dutch Proverb
The frog will jump back into the pool, although it sits on a golden stool. – Dutch Proverb
The frost hurts not weeds. – Dutch Proverb
The fruit falls not far from the stem. – Dutch Proverb
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor. – Dutch Proverb
The goose hisses, but does not bite. – Dutch Proverb
The grapes are sour, said the fox, when he could not get at them. – Dutch Proverb
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. – Dutch Proverb
The heart does not lie. – Dutch Proverb
The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall. – Dutch Proverb
The innkeeper trusts his guests like he is himself. – Dutch Proverb
The less said the sooner mended. – Dutch Proverb
The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it. – Dutch Proverb
The magpie cannot leave her hopping. – Dutch Proverb
The master’s eye and foot are the best manure for the field. – Dutch Proverb
The maw costs much. – Dutch Proverb
The monk preached against stealing, and had the good in his larder. – Dutch Proverb
The more haste, the less speed. – Dutch Proverb
The more servants the worse service. – Dutch Proverb
The more you stir a turd, the more it stinks. – Dutch Proverb
The morning hour has gold in its mouth. – Dutch Proverb
The most learned are not the wisest. – Dutch Proverb
The most noble dog can only bark. – Dutch Proverb
The mouse that hath but one hold is soon caught. – Dutch Proverb
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh. – Dutch Proverb
The nearest boor is the nearest kinsman when the calf lies in the ditch. – Dutch Proverb
The nobler the tree, the more pliant the twig. – Dutch Proverb
The noblest vengeance is to forgive. – Dutch Proverb
The old ones sing, the young ones pipe. – Dutch Proverb
The older one grows the more one learns. – Dutch Proverb
The one who digs a hole for another will fall in it himself. – Dutch Proverb
The only free cheese is in the mousetrap. – Dutch Proverb
The open door invites the thief. – Dutch Proverb
The pen is mightier than the sword. – Dutch Proverb
The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last. – Dutch Proverb
The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black. – Dutch Proverb
The praise of fools is censure in disguise. – Dutch Proverb
The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another. – Dutch Proverb
The purpose sanctifies the means. – Dutch Proverb
The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured. – Dutch Proverb
The rich have many friends. – Dutch Proverb
The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter. – Dutch Proverb
The richest man, whate’er his lot, is the one content with what he’s got. – Dutch Proverb
The richest man, whatever his lot, is he who is content with what he has got.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. – Dutch Proverb
The ruling passion strong in death. – Dutch Proverb
The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats. – Dutch Proverb
The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. – Dutch Proverb
The strength of a tree lies in its roots — not in its branches. – Dutch Proverb
The that creepeth falleth not. – Dutch Proverb
The third person makes good company. – Dutch Proverb
The third time pays for all. – Dutch Proverb
The thirteenth man brings death. – Dutch Proverb
The trade of thick-headed Michael: eating, drinking, and idling. – Dutch Proverb
The tree does not fall at the first stroke. – Dutch Proverb
The tree is known by its fruit. – Dutch Proverb
The truth is lost when there is too much debating. – Dutch Proverb
The wicked shun the light as the devil does the cross. – Dutch Proverb
The words are fair, said the wolf, but I will not come into the village. – Dutch Proverb
The workman is known by his work. – Dutch Proverb
The workman is worthy of his hire. – Dutch Proverb
The world likes to be cheated. – Dutch Proverb
The world’s a stage; each plays his part, and takes his share. – Dutch Proverb
The worse service, the better luck. – Dutch Proverb
The worse the carpenter, the more the chips. – Dutch Proverb
The worse the wheel, the more it creaks. – Dutch Proverb
The worst wheel makes most noise. – Dutch Proverb
The worth of a thing is best known by the want. – Dutch Proverb
The worth of a thing Is what it will bring. – Dutch Proverb
The young may die, the old must die. – Dutch Proverb
The young ravens are beaked like the old. – Dutch Proverb
There are more thieves than are hanged. – Dutch Proverb
There are no better masters than poverty and wants. – Dutch Proverb
There come as many calf-skins to market as ox-skins. – Dutch Proverb
There is a fool at every feast. – Dutch Proverb
There is a loose stitch with him. – Dutch Proverb
There is a remedy for all things save death. – Dutch Proverb
There is more to dancing than a pair of dancing shoes. – Dutch Proverb
There is no joy without alloy. – Dutch Proverb
There is no point in combing where there is no hair. – Dutch Proverb
There is nothing so secret but it transpires. – Dutch Proverb
There’s more to dancing than a pair of dancing shoes. – Dutch Proverb
There’s no making a donkey drink against his will. – Dutch Proverb
There’s no making a silk purse of a sow’s ear. – Dutch Proverb
They agree like cats and dogs. – Dutch Proverb
They are fools whose sheep run away twice. – Dutch Proverb
They are two hands on one belly. – Dutch Proverb
They understand one another like thieves in a fair. – Dutch Proverb
They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin. – Dutch Proverb
They who come from afar have leave to lie. – Dutch Proverb
They who fight with golden weapons are pretty sure to prove they are right. – Dutch Proverb
Think before acting and whilst acting still think. – Dutch Proverb
Think before you begin. – Dutch Proverb
Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick even more. – Dutch Proverb
Those that dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. – Dutch Proverb
Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones. – Dutch Proverb
Those who dislike cats will be carried to the cemetery in the rain. – Dutch Proverb
Threats don’t kill. – Dutch Proverb
Three women and a goose make a market. – Dutch Proverb
Throwing the hat at something. – Dutch Proverb
Thrust not thy finger in a fool’s mouth. – Dutch Proverb
Time and place make the thief. – Dutch Proverb
Time and straw make medlars ripe. – Dutch Proverb
Time brings roses. – Dutch Proverb
Time destroys all things. – Dutch Proverb
Time fleeth away without delay. – Dutch Proverb
Time gained, much gained. – Dutch Proverb
Time goes, death comes. – Dutch Proverb
Time is God’s and ours. – Dutch Proverb
Time is money. – Dutch Proverb
Time past never returns. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis a fat bird that bastes itself. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis a wise child that knows its own father. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis as necessary to him as gold weights are to a beggar. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis best woo where a man can see the smoke. – Dutch Proverb
Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis day still, while the sun shines. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis too late to spare when the cask is bare. – Dutch Proverb
‘Tis well that wicked cows have short horns. – Dutch Proverb
To do nothing teaches evil. – Dutch Proverb
To do nothing teacheth to do evil. – Dutch Proverb
To every fool his cap. – Dutch Proverb
To find the dog in the pot. – Dutch Proverb
To fish behind the net. – Dutch Proverb
To get eggs there must be some cackling. – Dutch Proverb
To get the lid on the nose. – Dutch Proverb
To hang your sickle on another man’s corn. – Dutch Proverb
To hit the nail on the head. – Dutch Proverb
To make an elephant out of a mosquito. – Dutch Proverb
To marry once is a duty, twice a folly, and three times — madness. – Dutch Proverb
To marry one is a duty; twice a folly; thrice is madness. – Dutch Proverb
To put the horse behind the cart. – Dutch Proverb
To resist with hand and tooth. – Dutch Proverb
To want the last from the pot. – Dutch Proverb
To-day for money, to-morrow for nothing. – Dutch Proverb
To-day red, to-morrow dead. – Dutch Proverb
To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave. – Dutch Proverb
To-day’s sorrow brings nought to-morrow. – Dutch Proverb
Too err is human. – Dutch Proverb
Too many cooks oversalt the porridge. – Dutch Proverb
Too much of one thing is good for nothing. – Dutch Proverb
Touch a galled horse and he’ll wince. – Dutch Proverb
Travel east or travel west, a man’s own house is still the best. – Dutch Proverb
Trees often transplanted seldom prosper. – Dutch Proverb
Trees that are frequently transplanted rarely thrive. – Dutch Proverb
Trust arrives on foot and departs on horseback. – Dutch Proverb
Truth is lost with too much debating. – Dutch Proverb
Truth is stranger than fiction. – Dutch Proverb
Truth is the daughter of time. – Dutch Proverb
‘Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip. – Dutch Proverb
Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife. – Dutch Proverb
Two dogs seldom agree over one bone. – Dutch Proverb
Union is strength. – Dutch Proverb
Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. – Dutch Proverb
Using a cannon to shoot a mosquito. – Dutch Proverb
Virtue consists in action. – Dutch Proverb
Virtue consists of action. – Dutch Proverb
Virtue is its own reward. – Dutch Proverb
Wake not a sleeping dog. – Dutch Proverb
Walking over corpses. – Dutch Proverb
Walls have ears. – Dutch Proverb
Was, flax, and tin; much in and little in. – Dutch Proverb
Wasting is a bad habit, saving is a sure income. – Dutch Proverb
We hang little thieves, and let great ones escape. – Dutch Proverb
Well begun is half done. – Dutch Proverb
Well started is half won. – Dutch Proverb
Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean. – Dutch Proverb
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own house, every street would be clean. – Dutch Proverb
Were fools silent, they would pass for wise. – Dutch Proverb
Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole. – Dutch Proverb
What costs nothing is worth nothing. – Dutch Proverb
What good serve candle and glasses, if the owl does not want to see. – Dutch Proverb
What has horns will gore. – Dutch Proverb
What is bred in the bone won’t out of the flesh. – Dutch Proverb
What is long spoken of happens at last. – Dutch Proverb
What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes. – Dutch Proverb
What is wrong today won’t be right tomorrow. – Dutch Proverb
What is wrong to-day won’t be right to-morrow. – Dutch Proverb
What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last. – Dutch Proverb
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. – Dutch Proverb
What the farmer doesn’t recognize, he doesn’t eat. – Dutch Proverb
What the heart is full of, the mouth runs over with. – Dutch Proverb
What the old ones sing, the young ones whistle. – Dutch Proverb
What the sober man thinks, the drunkard tells. – Dutch Proverb
What the soldier said isn’t evidence. – Dutch Proverb
When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself. – Dutch Proverb
When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? – Dutch Proverb
When an old dog barks, look out. – Dutch Proverb
When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps. – Dutch Proverb
When bale is hext, boot is next. – Dutch Proverb
When cats are mousing they don’t mew. – Dutch Proverb
When every one sees that you are a pig, why don’t you go into the sty? – Dutch Proverb
When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death. – Dutch Proverb
When fools go to market, pedlars make money. – Dutch Proverb
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar. – Dutch Proverb
When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom. – Dutch Proverb
When God pleases, it rains with every wind. – Dutch Proverb
When God will not, the saints cannot. – Dutch Proverb
When had comes, have is too late. – Dutch Proverb
When hard work goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. – Dutch Proverb
When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. – Dutch Proverb
When it is God’s will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death. – Dutch Proverb
When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep. – Dutch Proverb
When misery is highest help is nighest. – Dutch Proverb
When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself. – Dutch Proverb
When one hand washes another, both become clean. – Dutch Proverb
When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow. – Dutch Proverb
When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles. – Dutch Proverb
When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice. – Dutch Proverb
When the calf is drowned they cover the well. – Dutch Proverb
When the cat is not home, the mice dance on the table. – Dutch Proverb
When the cat sleeps, the mice play. – Dutch Proverb
When the cat’s away, it is jubilee with the mice. – Dutch Proverb
When the cook and the steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter. – Dutch Proverb
When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar. – Dutch Proverb
When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him. – Dutch Proverb
When the head is sick the whole body is sick. – Dutch Proverb
When the husband earns well, the wife spends well. – Dutch Proverb
When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter. – Dutch Proverb
When the old dog barks, he gives counsel. – Dutch Proverb
When the ox falls, there are many that will help to kill him. – Dutch Proverb
When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough. – Dutch Proverb
When the pirate prays, there is great danger. – Dutch Proverb
When the pot boils over it cooleth itself. – Dutch Proverb
When the sack is full, it pricks up its ears. – Dutch Proverb
When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray. – Dutch Proverb
When the stomach is full the heart is glad. – Dutch Proverb
When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches. – Dutch Proverb
When the water level decreases, the ice will crack. – Dutch Proverb
When the wine goes in the wit goes out. – Dutch Proverb
When the wine is in the man, the wit is in the can. – Dutch Proverb
When the wolf grows old the crows ride him. – Dutch Proverb
When thieves fall out, honest men get their goods back. – Dutch Proverb
When thine enemy retreateth, make him a golden bridge. – Dutch Proverb
When things are at the worst they begin to mend. – Dutch Proverb
When things go well it is easy to advise. – Dutch Proverb
When thy neighbour’s house is on fire it’s time to look about thee. – Dutch Proverb
When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it. – Dutch Proverb
When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away. – Dutch Proverb
When two quarrel both are in the wrong. – Dutch Proverb
When two quarrel, both are to blame. – Dutch Proverb
When Want comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window. – Dutch Proverb
When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch. – Dutch Proverb
Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. – Dutch Proverb
Where poverty comes in at the door, loves flies out at the window. – Dutch Proverb
Where the bee sucks honey the spider sucks poison. – Dutch Proverb
Where the bird was hatched it haunts. – Dutch Proverb
Where the dike is lowest the water first runs over. – Dutch Proverb
Where the hedge is lowest every one goes over. – Dutch Proverb
Where there is nothing, the Emperor loses his right. – Dutch Proverb
Where there’s a will, there is a way. – Dutch Proverb
Where there’s no good within, no good comes out. – Dutch Proverb
While the grass grows, the steed starves. – Dutch Proverb
Whilst doing one learns. – Dutch Proverb
Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one. – Dutch Proverb
Who can escape envy and blame, that speaks or writes for public fame? – Dutch Proverb
Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed. – Dutch Proverb
Who comes first, grinds first. – Dutch Proverb
Who does well, meets goodwill. – Dutch Proverb
Who doesn’t keep faith with God won’t keep it with men. – Dutch Proverb
Who don’t keep faith with God won’t keep it with man. – Dutch Proverb
Who excuses, accuses. – Dutch Proverb
Who fears no shame comes to no honour. – Dutch Proverb
Who gives to me, teaches me to give. – Dutch Proverb
Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly. – Dutch Proverb
Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth. – Dutch Proverb
Who has but one eye must take good care of it. – Dutch Proverb
Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself? – Dutch Proverb
Who has many servants has many thieves. – Dutch Proverb
Who has no thirst has no business at the foundation. – Dutch Proverb
Who has only one eye must take good care of it. – Dutch Proverb
Who has plenty of pepper may pepper his beans. – Dutch Proverb
Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for the Old One. – Dutch Proverb
Who is tired of happy days, let him take a wife. – Dutch Proverb
Who knows the language is at home everywhere. – Dutch Proverb
Who knows the tongues is at home everywhere. – Dutch Proverb
Who reckons without his host must reckon again. – Dutch Proverb
Who runs is followed. – Dutch Proverb
Who seeds wind, shall harvest storm. – Dutch Proverb
Who serves the public serves a fickle master. – Dutch Proverb
Who spits against the wind, fouls his beard. – Dutch Proverb
Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a pennyless wight. – Dutch Proverb
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. – Dutch Proverb
Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well. – Dutch Proverb
Who undertakes too much, succeeds but little. – Dutch Proverb
Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend. – Dutch Proverb
Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes. – Dutch Proverb
Who wants to beat a dog, soon finds a stick. – Dutch Proverb
Who watches not catches not. – Dutch Proverb
Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the sot. – Dutch Proverb
Who would regard all things complacently must wick at a great many. – Dutch Proverb
Who writes love letters grows thin; who carries them, fat. – Dutch Proverb
Whoever gossips about his relatives has no luck and no blessing. – Dutch Proverb
Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats. – Dutch Proverb
Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a wife. – Dutch Proverb
Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house, and a happy life. – Dutch Proverb
Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. – Dutch Proverb
Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them. – Dutch Proverb
Wise people can’t answer the most foolish questions. – Dutch Proverb
Wise rats run from a falling house. – Dutch Proverb
Wishes are the echo of a lazy will. – Dutch Proverb
With a French sweep. – Dutch Proverb
With a friend behind you, you have a safe bridge. – Dutch Proverb
With a good name one may easily sin. – Dutch Proverb
With a good name one may sin easily. – Dutch Proverb
With hard work, you can get fire out of a stone. – Dutch Proverb
With honour and store, what would you more. – Dutch Proverb
With the good we become good. – Dutch Proverb
With your hat in your hand you can travel the entire country. – Dutch Proverb
Women who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin. – Dutch Proverb
Woods have ears and fields have eyes. – Dutch Proverb
Worldly good is ebb and flood. – Dutch Proverb
You cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. – Dutch Proverb
You can’t hatch chickens from fried eggs. – Dutch Proverb
You can’t shoe a horse while it is running. – Dutch Proverb
You never know how a cow catches a rabbit. – Dutch Proverb
You never know what you can do till you try. – Dutch Proverb
Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse. – Dutch Proverb
Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. – Dutch Proverb
Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools. – Dutch Proverb
Young fools think that the old are dotards, but the old have forgotten more than the young fools know. – Dutch Proverb
Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees. – Dutch Proverb
Your friend lends and your enemy asks for payment. – Dutch Proverb
You’ve got to stare the cat down out of the tree. – Dutch Proverb
A bad dog gets the mange but he doesn’t die of it. – Greek Proverb
A bad master quarrels even with his broom. – Greek Proverb
A bad year has thirteen months. – Greek Proverb
A beard signifies lice, not brains. – Greek Proverb
A beautiful girl’s cheeks are the foes of her chastity. – Greek Proverb
A beggar never becomes a giver. – Greek Proverb
A bride has no place at her inlaws’ without the groom. – Greek Proverb
A cap sewn with pearls is not for a sore head. – Greek Proverb
A cat with gloves never catches mice. – Greek Proverb
A crow does not lay dove’s eggs. – Greek Proverbs
A curse spoken is like a donkey; it always follows its master. – Greek Proverb
A different man, a different taste. – Greek Proverb
A donkey is asked to a wedding either to carry water or to bring wood. – Greek Proverb
A dove has no place amongst the crows. – Greek Proverb
A drop of wisdom is better than a sea of gold. – Greek Proverb
A drowning man takes hold of his own hair. – Greek Proverb
A fat belly did not invent gun powder. – Greek Proverb
A favor ages sooner than anything else. – Greek Proverb
A fly can drive away horses. – Greek Proverb
A fool throws a stone into the well and a thousand wise men cannot take it out. – Greek Proverb
A fox is not caught twice in the same snare. – Greek Proverb
A fox knows much; a hedgehog one great thing. – Greek Proverb
A friend is better than a thousand silver pieces. – Greek Proverb
A friend who leads one astray is an enemy. – Greek Proverb
A gift, though small, is welcome. – Greek Proverbs
A goat thief came along and they put him in jail. – Greek Proverb
A good anvil is not afraid of the hammer. – Greek Proverb
A good bird begins chirping while in the egg. – Greek Proverb
A good man says no slowly; a wise man says no at once. – Greek Proverb
A good youth, a good old man. – Greek Proverb
A guest unwanted comes at meal time. – Greek Proverb
A heart that loves is always young. – Greek Proverb
A hungry bear does not perform. – Greek Proverb
A kiss must last long to be enjoyed. – Greek Proverb
A late marriage, orphaned children. – Greek Proverb
A lazy tailor finds his thread too long. – Greek Proverb
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind. – Greek Proverb
A little bait catches a large fish. – Greek Proverb
A lucky man fares better than a brave man. – Greek Proverb
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. – Greek Proverb
A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread. – Greek Proverb
A man who does not demand his rights is buried alive. – Greek Proverb
A man who throws stones at himself is not to be pitied. – Greek Proverb
A man with a skinny wife is a deceitful man. – Greek Proverb
A man without patience is like a lamp without oil. – Greek Proverb
A master speaks but few words. – Greek Proverb
A meal for the priest, a mouthful for the deacon. – Greek Proverb
A merry life ends in a poor man’s will. – Greek Proverb
A miser and a liar bargain quickly. – Greek Proverb
A miser and a liar come to terms quickly. – Greek Proverb
A miser is ever in want. – Greek Proverb
A newlywed girl takes pride in her pregnancy. – Greek Proverb
A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel. – Greek Proverbs
A pitcher is taken to the fountain many times, but one time it is not. – Greek Proverb
A pomegranate never tastes like a fig. – Greek Proverb
A poor man buys what he can afford; a rich man what he wants. – Greek Proverb
A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife. – Greek Proverb
A poor man with intelligence is wealthy. – Greek Proverb
A priest blesses his own bread first. – Greek Proverb
A priest does not accept another priest. – Greek Proverb
A real scoundrel turned up and they took off their hats to him. – Greek Proverb
A secret stays long in darkness but it will see the light. – Greek Proverb
A small evil may be a great good. – Greek Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. – Greek Proverb
A son-in-law never becomes a son and a daughter-in-law never quite becomes a daughter. – Greek Proverb
A starving donkey does not count the blows. – Greek Proverb
A stout bearded woman always bears something malicious. – Greek Proverb
A thousand blows on another man’s back don’t hurt. – Greek Proverb
A thousand people cannot undress a naked person. – Greek Proverb
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous. – Greek Proverb
A turning wheel does not get rusty. – Greek Proverb
A vineless vineyard and smooth-running love hold out no charm. – Greek Proverb
A well-fed man does not believe the hungry one. – Greek Proverb
A wheel doesn’t turn if it isn’t greased. – Greek Proverb
A wheel that turns gathers no rust. – Greek Proverb
A white dog is like a black dog. – Greek Proverb
A wise man would rather die than close his ears to the voice of reason. – Greek Proverb
A wolf and a sheep never agree. – Greek Proverb
A wolf is happy during a storm. – Greek Proverb
A wolf may grow old and his hair turn gray, but his mind doesn’t change to his dying day. – Greek Proverb
A wolf selects its prey from what has been accounted for. – Greek Proverb
A woman prefers a man without money to money without a man. – Greek Proverb
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. – Greek Proverb
A wounded horse trembles when he sees the saddle. – Greek Proverb
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all. – Greek Proverb
Act quickly, think slowly. – Greek Proverb
Add not fire to fire. – Greek Proverb
Advising a fool is like striking cold iron. – Greek Proverb
Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present. – Greek Proverb
After the war, aid. – Greek Proverb
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Alexander the Great was not very tall. – Greek Proverb
Alexander the Great wasn’t tall. – Greek Proverb
All evil deeds are repaid on earth. – Greek Proverb
All evils save death may be amended. – Greek Proverb
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it. All receive advice. – Greek Proverb
All the old things seem beautiful, and the rich men wise. – Greek Proverb
All things good to know are difficult to learn. – Greek Proverb
An eagle’s old age is worth a sparrow’s youth. – Greek Proverb
An empty belly knows no songs. – Greek Proverb
An hour brings what a year does not. – Greek Proverb
An iron rod bends while it is hot. – Greek Proverb
An old cat likes young mice. – Greek Proverb
An old enemy never becomes a friend. – Greek Proverb
An old fox is not caught in a trap. – Greek Proverb
An open enemy is better than a false friend. – Greek Proverb
An uninvited donkey has no place at a wedding. – Greek Proverb
Any wood will do to make a signpost. – Greek Proverb
Appear always what you are and a little less. – Greek Proverb
As mother and father, so daughter and son. – Greek Proverb
Ask for advice but do what you think is best. – Greek Proverb
At the deaf man’s door, knock as much as you like. – Greek Proverb
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant. – Greek Proverb
Before you can score, you must first have a goal. – Greek Proverb
Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold. – Greek Proverb
Better a light stomach than a heavy conscience. – Greek Proverb
Better a sick body than an ignorant mind. – Greek Proverb
Better a snake’s tongue to sting you than a man’s. – Greek Proverb
Better be a nobleman’s servant than a poor man’s wife. – Greek Proverb
Better brains in the head than riches and confusion. – Greek Proverb
Better cabbage and peace than dainties and fretting. – Greek Proverb
Better five coins in hand than ten in prospect. – Greek Proverb
Better luck than knowledge. – Greek Proverb
Better ten stabs than ten bad words. – Greek Proverb
Better the first of its kind than the last. – Greek Proverb
Better the friend we can see than the money we cannot. – Greek Proverb
Better to keep silent than to talk too much. – Greek Proverb
Better today’s egg than tomorrow’s chicken. – Greek Proverb
Birth, ancestry, and that which you yourself have not achieved can hardly be called your own. – Greek Proverb
But mortal bliss will never come sincere Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear. – Greek Proverb
By labor are good things obtained. – Greek Proverb
Call no one blessed before his end. – Greek Proverb
Careless merchant, future beggar. – Greek Proverb
Careless mind, double work. – Greek Proverb
Cats and monks like fish; married women, kisses; and young girls. – Greek Proverb
Character is habit long continued. – Greek Proverb
Cherish what you have and struggle for better. – Greek Proverb
Citizens’ sins are a city’s disgrace. – Greek Proverb
Constant dripping will wear away a stone. – Greek Proverb
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost. – Greek Proverb
Cut the thread in the middle to find an end. – Greek Proverb
Dance alone and you can jump all you wish. – Greek Proverbs
Death is never at a loss for occasions. – Greek Proverb
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves. – Greek Proverb
Do not compare a fly with an elephant. – Greek Proverb
Do not lean on a worm-eaten staff. – Greek Proverb
Do not marry your superior. – Greek Proverb
Don’t be afraid of a dog that barks. – Greek Proverb
Don’t keep any secrets of yourself from yourself. – Greek Proverb
Donkey tied, master tranquil. – Greek Proverb
Don’t be afraid of a dog that barks. – Greek Proverb
Don’t dangle by one slim hope. – Greek Proverb
Don’t hear one and judge two. – Greek Proverbs
Don’t keep any secrets of yourself from yourself. – Greek Proverb
Don’t put water into somebody else’s wine. – Greek Proverb
Don’t sprout up where you have not been planted. – Greek Proverb
Don’t step even on an ant. – Greek Proverb
Don’t trouble a quiet snake. – Greek Proverb
Drop by drop the jug is filled. – Greek Proverb
Drops of water eat up stones. – Greek Proverb
Ducks always know where a lake can be found. – Greek Proverb
Each shameful deed carries with it its excuse. – Greek Proverb
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. – Greek Proverb
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. – Greek Proverb
Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at the dinner table. – Greek Proverb
Either dance well or quit the ballroom. – Greek Proverb
Either remain quiet, or say things that improve the silence. – Greek Proverb
Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise. – Greek Proverb
Endeavor to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience. – Greek Proverb
Envy accomplishes nothing. – Greek Proverb
Even a wolf will not stay – Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey. – Greek Proverb
Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Even from an enemy a man can learn wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Every argument has its answer. – Greek Proverb
Every country is a fatherland. – Greek Proverb
Every liar has another liar as a witness. – Greek Proverb
Every obstacle is for the best. – Greek Proverb
Every story can be told in different ways. – Greek Proverb
Every tale can be told in a different way. – Greek Proverb
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Greek Proverb
Everyone is his own doctor. – Greek Proverb
Everything ancient is to be respected. – Greek Proverb
Everything in its proper time; even fertilizer for the cabbages. – Greek Proverb
Excess mars perfection. – Greek Proverb
Fear of the law gives safety. – Greek Proverb
Feed a wolf in the winter and he will devour you in the summer. – Greek Proverb
Fence your own vineyard, and keep your eyes from those of others. – Greek Proverb
Fire and straw do not go together. – Greek Proverb
Fire straightens a crooked bar. – Greek Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue. – Greek Proverb
Fish is not caught without a bait. – Greek Proverb
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. – Greek Proverb
For lazy people it is always party time. – Greek Proverb
For mortals vanished from the day’s sweet light I shed no tear rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death’s fear. – Greek Proverb
Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils. – Greek Proverb
From a broken violin do not expect fine music. – Greek Proverb
From a crow’s beak comes a crow’s voice. – Greek Proverb
From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. – Greek Proverb
From fools and children you will learn the truth. – Greek Proverb
From the lips starts the word and reaches thousands. – Greek Proverb
Gain does not give as much pleasure as loss gives grief. – Greek Proverb
Give me today and you may keep tomorrow. – Greek Proverb
God delays, but never forgets. – Greek Proverb
God gave us teeth to hold back our tongue. – Greek Proverb
God pursues sinners. – Greek Proverb
Golden coins make our crooked windows look straight. – Greek Proverb
Good accounts make good friends. – Greek Proverb
Good scales bring good customers. – Greek Proverb
Grass does not grow on stones. – Greek Proverb
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues. – Greek Proverb
Great birth is a very poor dish at table. – Greek Proverb
Great dangers lead to great honors. – Greek Proverb
Great talent takes time to ripen. – Greek Proverb
Greeks only agree with each other about going to the toilet. – Greek Proverb
Hand washes hand, and finger, finger. – Greek Proverb
Haste and careful work never go together. – Greek Proverb
Have a clean heart and you may walk near the altar. – Greek Proverb
He who becomes a sheep is eaten by the wolf. – Greek Proverb
He who begrudges the cat’s food finds his clothes eaten by the mice. – Greek Proverb
He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate. – Greek Proverb
He who does not esteem silver is not worthy to have silver. – Greek Proverb
He who doesn’t want to make bread sifts the flour the whole day. – Greek Proverb
He who eats and drinks with the rich leaves the table hungry. – Greek Proverb
He who finds a thing rejoices and he who owns a thing brags. – Greek Proverb
He who has a beard has a comb. – Greek Proverb
He who has been angry becomes cool again. – Greek Proverb
He who has money does what he pleases. – Greek Proverb
He who has nothing else to hold on to, will even grasp at a drawn sword. – Greek Proverb
He who has patience gets what he wants. – Greek Proverb
He who is born in jail loves jail. – Greek Proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. – Greek Proverb
He who owns vineyards admires them and he who sees them covets them. – Greek Proverb
He who plies many trades remains without a house. – Greek Proverb
He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror. – Greek Proverb
He who respects his parents never dies. – Greek Proverb
He who revealeth his secret maketh himself a slave. – Greek Proverb
He who seeks many things loses even a few. – Greek Proverb
He who speaks much is sure to talk nonsense. – Greek Proverb
He who strains himself grows old quickly. – Greek Proverb
He who suffers much will know much. – Greek Proverb
He who thinks the worst usually is right. – Greek Proverb
He who wants to be happy must stay at home. – Greek Proverb
He who was born in a prison remembers a prison. – Greek Proverb
He who would be happy should stay at home. – Greek Proverb
Heed not all the words of the doctor nor yet of the confessor. – Greek Proverb
Hostile and envious are the eyes of neighbors. – Greek Proverb
How you make your bed is how you are going to sleep. – Greek Proverb
Hunger is the teacher of many. – Greek Proverbs
Hunger makes forts surrender. – Greek Proverb
Hunger teaches many things. – Greek Proverb
I feel pain that envy is exchanged for beautiful deeds. – Greek Proverb
I hate a jovial table companion with a good memory. – Greek Proverb
I have found it. [Eureka.] – Greek Proverb
I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee. – Greek Proverb
Idleness is the mother of all evil. – Greek Proverb
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. – Greek Proverb
If all men were just, there would be no need of valour. – Greek Proverb
If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat. – Greek Proverb
If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness. – Greek Proverb
If envy were a rash the whole village would be ill. – Greek Proverb
If it were not for hope, the heart would break. – Greek Proverb
If the baby doesn’t cry, they don’t give it the breast. – Greek Proverb
If the wind is not on your road, let it blow. – Greek Proverb
If the wolf feared rain, he would wear a cloak. – Greek Proverb
If wishes were granted, even beggars would grow rich. – Greek Proverb
If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea. – Greek Proverb
If you cannot say something good, don’t say something bad. – Greek Proverb
If you haven’t spanked a little bottom, don’t threaten a big one. – Greek Proverb
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society. – Greek Proverb
If you touch a hot coal you burn yourself; a cold one, you blacken yourself. – Greek Proverb
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. – Greek Proverb
Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain. – Greek Proverb
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. – Greek Proverb
Ill beef ne’er made gude broo. – Greek Proverb
Ill-gotten gain is scattered by the devil. – Greek Proverb
Ill-timed laughter is a dangerous evil. – Greek Proverb
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. – Greek Proverb
In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian. – Greek Proverb
In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will. – Greek Proverb
In the far off field the cabbages are fine. – Greek Proverb
In the young, silence is better than speech. – Greek Proverb
In time of drought even hail is welcome. – Greek Proverb
In times of difficulty, friendship is on trial. – Greek Proverb
Insult gives birth to insult. – Greek Proverb
It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. – Greek Proverb
It is better to be a soldier than a priest. – Greek Proverb
It is better to be envied than pitied. – Greek Proverb
It is better to be the best of a low family than the worst of a noble one – Greek Proverb
It is easier to talk than to hold one’s tongue. – Greek Proverb
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. – Greek Proverb
It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good. – Greek Proverb
It is useless to knock at the door of a deaf man. – Greek Proverb
It takes both millstones to grind the flour. – Greek Proverb
Joy and sorrow are sisters. – Greek Proverb
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself. – Greek Proverb
Kindheartedness and honesty can be expected only from the poor. – Greek Proverb
Kindness begets kindness. – Greek Proverb
Know all and you will pardon all. – Greek Proverb
Know yourself. – Greek Proverb
Large families bring poverty. – Greek Proverb
Lazy and silly women marry well. – Greek Proverb
Learn to obey before you command. – Greek Proverb
Learn to walk before you run. – Greek Proverb
Lentils boil against their will. – Greek Proverb
Lentils without onions are like a dance without music. – Greek Proverb
Lies are the salt of truth. – Greek Proverb
Light your lamp before night overtakes you. – Greek Proverb
Like seeks like and cabbages fertilizer. – Greek Proverb
Listen to that which is well said even if it is from the mouth of an enemy. – Greek Proverb
Listen to valuable statements even if they come from your enemy’s mouth. – Greek Proverb
Live today, forget the past. – Greek Proverb
Madness does not go to the mountains, it goes to people. – Greek Proverb
Make haste slowly. – Greek Proverb
Make your bed as well as you can. – Greek Proverb
Man is the measure of all things. – Greek Proverb
Man plans many things; God alters his plans. – Greek Proverb
Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master. – Greek Proverb
Many captains sink the ship. – Greek Proverb
Many hands at the carding but few at the dining. – Greek Proverb
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. – Greek Proverb
Many men, many minds. Many men, many minds. – Greek Proverb
Many people know how to flatter; few know how to praise. – Greek Proverb
Many pupils have gained more wealth than their masters. – Greek Proverbs
Many stones will bring down the walnut. – Greek Proverb
Marriage and cooking call for forethought. – Greek Proverb
Meat is sold with bones. – Greek Proverb
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. – Greek Proverb
Men prone to tears are good. – Greek Proverb
Men who have lost heart never yet won a trophy. – Greek Proverb
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. – Greek Proverb
Mountains are used to snow. – Greek Proverb
My donkey is dead; let no more grass grow. – Greek Proverb
My first wedding makes me proud in front of people. – Greek Proverb
Nature follows its course and a cat the mouse. – Greek Proverb
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak. – Greek Proverb
Needle and thread do the work well. – Greek Proverb
Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to the child. – Greek Proverb
Never consult a doctor who has never been ill himself. – Greek Proverb
Never give a sword to a fool or power to an unjust man. – Greek Proverb
No mill, no meal. – Greek Proverb
No need to teach an eagle to fly. – Greek Proverb
No one loathes the smell of himself. – Greek Proverb
nor a deacon another deacon. – Greek Proverb
Not speech, but facts, convince. – Greek Proverb
Nothing in excess. – Greek Proverb
Nothing is so reckless as a blind horse. – Greek Proverb
Nothing will content him who is not content with a little. – Greek Proverb
O Strangers by Anacreon’s tomb who pass, Shed o’er it wine, in life he lov’d his glass – Greek Proverb
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults. – Greek Proverb
Old age and poverty are wounds that can’t be healed. – Greek Proverb
Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill. – Greek Proverb
Old men are twice children. – Greek Proverb
Old people’s words are weighed with scales. – Greek Proverb
Once you learn something it is hard to unlearn. – Greek Proverb
One cuckoo doesn’t make the spring. – Greek Proverb
One hand washes the other and both wash the face. – Greek Proverb
One has the name and another the worth. – Greek Proverb
One lights the fire, the other fans it. – Greek Proverb
One minute of patience can mean ten years of peace. – Greek Proverb
One minute of patience, ten years of peace. – Greek Proverb
One mouse eats the clothes and all the mice get into trouble. – Greek Proverb
One who goes into a mill comes out covered with flour. – Greek Proverb
One who hurries stumbles. – Greek Proverb
One who stays not before the other’s eyes is soon forgotten. – Greek Proverb
One wise man is worth more than a million fools. – Greek Proverb
One witness one liar; more witnesses, all liars. – Greek Proverb
One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life. – Greek Proverb
Other days, other ways. – Greek Proverb
Outside a sheep, inside a wolf. – Greek Proverb
Outwardly a lamb, inwardly a wolf. – Greek Proverb
Outwardly, a doll; within, the plague. – Greek Proverb
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth. – Greek Proverb
People’s mouths can’t be sewn up liks sacks. – Greek Proverb
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice. – Greek Proverb
Pleasures are transient — honors immortal. – Greek Proverb
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. – Greek Proverb
Point out your friend to me and I will tell you what you are.
Poor in my youth, and in life’s later scenes – Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power – Greek Proverb
Poor men’s words have little weight. – Greek Proverb
Poverty brings nagging. – Greek Proverb
Poverty passes by an industrious man’s door. – Greek Proverb
Presence does more than the written word. – Greek Proverb
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect. – Greek Proverb
Rank does not make the man. – Greek Proverb
Receive an old man’s counsel and a learned man’s knowledge. – Greek Proverb
Remorse is worse than a beating. – Greek Proverb
Sail when the weather is fair; you do not know what the morrow will bring. – Greek Proverb
Say little and listen much. – Greek Proverb
Sharing the figs can leave you with none at all. – Greek Proverb
She who laughs not in the morning, laughs not at noon. – Greek Proverb
Sickness comes in by the bagful and goes out stitch by stitch. – Greek Proverb
Skill wins over noble birth. – Greek Proverb
Sleep is better than food. – Greek Proverb
Small children, small worries; older children, greater worries. – Greek Proverb
Some like the priest and some like the priest’s wife. – Greek Proverb
Some plant and harvest and others eat and give blessings. – Greek Proverb
Someone with an unrelenting heart is his own executioner. – Greek Proverb
Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the smoke. – Greek Proverb
Son of a priest, grandson of the devil. – Greek Proverb
Sour vinegar taints the jar. – Greek Proverb
Stagnant water has an evil smell. – Greek Proverb
Stir a fire with the poker and not with your hands. – Greek Proverb
Stubbornness gets a black eye. – Greek Proverb
Success has many friends. – Greek Proverb
Success is doing what you like and making a living at it. – Greek Proverb
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. – Greek Proverb
Sweet is the memory of past labor. – Greek Proverb
Swift gratitude is the sweetest. – Greek Proverb
Take a young woman for the pleasure of possessing her until she is old. – Greek Proverb
Take good care of the bull if you wish him to plough well for you. – Greek Proverb
Terrifying are the weaknesses of power. – Greek Proverb
The apple will fall under the apple tree. – Greek Proverb
The beginning is half of every action – Greek Proverb
The beginning is the half of every action. – Greek Proverb
The believer is happy, the doubter is wise. – Greek Proverb
The best fish hook cannot catch limp cheese. – Greek Proverb
The best of intentions is not always enough. – Greek Proverb
The camel can’t see her own hump. – Greek Proverbs
The camel does not see her own hump. – Greek Proverb
The dog does not eat hay, but he doesn’t let the donkey eat it either. – Greek Proverb
The dog survives the winter but only his skin knows how. – Greek Proverb
The donkey called the rooster big-headed. – Greek Proverbs
The drowning man grips to his own hair. – Greek Proverb
The duck knows where the lake is. – Greek Proverb
The excess of a virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb
The eye sees; the hand performs. – Greek Proverb
The eyes of the hare are not the same as the eyes of the owl. – Greek Proverb
The fiddle sings one tune and the bow another. – Greek Proverb
The first man’s steps become a bridge for the second one. – Greek Proverb
The first mistake is a lesson and teacher for those that follow. – Greek Proverb
The fly sat upon the axle of the chariot-wheel and said ‘What a lot of dust I raise!’ – Greek Proverb
The fool and the clown grow old worrying over others. – Greek Proverb
The fool rejoices over his memories. – Greek Proverb
The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger. – Greek Proverb
The frog wanted to be an ox and swelled up until he burst. – Greek Proverb
The fruit of a good tree is also good. – Greek Proverb
The good skipper proves himself during a storm. – Greek Proverb
The green log is burned with the dry ones. – Greek Proverb
The grumbling mother-in-law forgets that she once was a bride. – Greek Proverb
The hard worker toiled and the lazy man rejoiced. – Greek Proverb
The heart that loves is always young. – Greek Proverb
The house of envy lies in the lowest hollows, golden, sunless, breathed upon by no wind, grim and filled full of inert chill, and lacking warmth, is always roiled in fog. – Greek Proverb
The king has many treasures but he will still take whatever you give him. – Greek Proverb
The knee is closer than the calf. – Greek Proverb
The later comer gets the bones. – Greek Proverb
The law of the city is the citizen’s honor. – Greek Proverb
The man in pain suffers while his neighbors sleep. – Greek Proverb
The man who controls his wrath conquers his foe. – Greek Proverb
The man who eavesdrops hears himself discussed. – Greek Proverb
The man who lives in a glass house does not throw stones at his neighbors. – Greek Proverb
The mill does not grind without water. – Greek Proverb
The mind of the bird is on the millet. – Greek Proverb
The miser’s riches fall into the spendthrift’s hands. – Greek Proverb
The more the mother-in-law drinks the more friendly is her greeting. – Greek Proverb
The net of the sleeper catches fish. – Greek Proverb
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow. – Greek Proverb
The old hen is worth forty chickens. – Greek Proverb
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. – Greek Proverb
The pear falls from the pear tree. – Greek Proverb
The people make the town. – Greek Proverb
The potter knows where to place the handle. – Greek Proverb
The purse of the dead man is turned inside out. – Greek Proverb
The rest of the world does not know what newlyweds know. – Greek Proverb
The rich man displays his wealth and the poor one his children. – Greek Proverb
The rich man’s wealth is enjoyed by crafty tradesmen. – Greek Proverb
The rude man shall be rudely treated. – Greek Proverb
The shepherd smells of sheep even when he becomes a nobleman. – Greek Proverb
The shoe should fit the foot and not the foot the shoe. – Greek Proverb
The sins we often regret are the sins we never commit. – Greek Proverb
The sling will burst somewhere. – Greek Proverb
The style is the man himself. – Greek Proverb
The talk of many can shake the strongest mind. – Greek Proverb
The talk of the many can cripple a man. – Greek Proverb
The thief and the liar fare well the first year. – Greek Proverb
The timid man loses many good things. – Greek Proverb
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones. – Greek Proverb
The treasures turned out to be charcoal. – Greek Proverb
The unknown is ever imagined. – Greek Proverb
The unwed matchmaker looks for himself. – Greek Proverb
The whims of the living become the bequests of the dead. – Greek Proverb
The wolf doesn’t devour his prey near his den. – Greek Proverb
The world is a wheel. – Greek Proverb
The wound that a friend gives you hurts. – Greek Proverb
There is no difference between blackness and blindness. – Greek Proverb
There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. – Greek Proverb
They sowed the seed of an “if’ but it didn’t germinate. – Greek Proverb
They throw stones at the walnut trees, but not at the maple. – Greek Proverb
Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have. – Greek Proverb
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. – Greek Proverb
Thinking evil is much the same as doing it. – Greek Proverb
Those who fight with silver spears are sure of their victory. – Greek Proverb
Time is a river of passing events — a rushing torrent. – Greek Proverb
Time is the best adviser. – Greek Proverb
Time is the soul of everything. – Greek Proverb
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. – Greek Proverb
To have five drachmas in the hand is better than ten drachmas on paper. – Greek Proverb
To rebel in season is not to rebel. – Greek Proverb
To whom a little is not enough, nothing is enough. – Greek Proverb
Too many captains run the ship aground. – Greek Proverb
Too much talk is poverty. – Greek Proverb
Truth holds though it is bitterly taken. – Greek Proverb
Truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. – Greek Proverb
Truth lies at the bottom of a well. – Greek Proverb
Truth reigns. – Greek Proverb
Two heads don’t fit into the same cap. – Greek Proverb
Unbeaten clay cannot be made into bricks. – Greek Proverb
Under every stone sleeps a scorpion. – Greek Proverb
Unless one suffers one does not learn. – Greek Proverb
Until the crickets sing it is not summer. – Greek Proverb
Vinegar offered free is as sweet as honey. – Greek Proverb
Violent rages are soon over. – Greek Proverb
Virtue means sweat. – Greek Proverb
We became gravediggers but nobody dies anymore. – Greek Proverb
We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and talk the less – Greek Proverb
We measure others with our own yardstick. – Greek Proverb
We must endure what fortune sends. – Greek Proverb
Wealth bequeathed to the children might never reach the grandchildren. – Greek Proverb
Wealth counts not so much as good will nor as knowledge and pleasant speech. – Greek Proverb
Wealth is cautious. – Greek Proverb
Welcome is the best cheer. – Greek Proverb
What becomes a habit does not change easily. – Greek Proverb
What is good to know is difficult to learn. – Greek Proverb
What is true is no more sure than the probable. – Greek Proverb
What the fox can’t reach he leaves hanging. – Greek Proverb
What you learn in youth you do not unlearn in old age. – Greek Proverb
Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. – Greek Proverb
Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear. – Greek Proverb
Whatever the priest tells you to do, do it; what you see him do, do not. – Greek Proverb
When at a loss about how to go on, cough. – Greek Proverb
When at a loss how to go on, cough. – Greek Proverb
When God throws the dice are loaded. – Greek Proverb
When God throws the dice, they are loaded. – Greek Proverb
When the baby cries, it is either hungry or in pain. – Greek Proverb
When the crows sing the nightingales fly away. – Greek Proverb
When the devil grows old he becomes a monk. – Greek Proverb
When the devil grows poor he becomes a tax collector. – Greek Proverb
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe. – Greek Proverb
When the fox grows old it becomes a nun. – Greek Proverb
When the fox is hungry he feigns sickness. – Greek Proverb
When the fox is hungry he pretends to be asleep. – Greek Proverb
When the gods are angry with a man, they give him what he asks for. – Greek Proverb
When they offer you a horse don’t look at its teeth. – Greek Proverb
When you don’t like someone you find his breath offensive. – Greek Proverb
When you go to bed with a clear head, you will not get up with a headache. – Greek Proverb
Where rage seeds, repentance reaps. – Greek Proverb
Where there is a sea there are pirates. – Greek Proverb
Where there is envy, there is meanness. – Greek Proverb
Where there is fear, there is shame. – Greek Proverb
Where there is intelligence there is knowledge. – Greek Proverb
Where there is love there is no darkness. – Greek Proverb
Where words fail beating succeeds. – Greek Proverb
Who ceases to be a friend never was one. – Greek Proverb
Who hunts two hares will catch neither. – Greek Proverb
Who wouldn’t lick his fingers when they have been dipped in honey? – Greek Proverb
Whoever feeds the wolf in the winter will be eaten by him in the spring. – Greek Proverb
Wine and children speak the truth. – Greek Proverb
Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it. – Greek Proverb
With money a donkey was ordained a priest. – Greek Proverb
With patience all is done. – Greek Proverb
Without a general an army is lost. – Greek Proverb
Women are as changeable as the sea. – Greek Proverb
Women have long hair and short wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Greek Proverb
Wonders will never cease. – Greek Proverb
Words can turn the course of a river. – Greek Proverb
Work done quickly gives pleasure. – Greek Proverb
You can tell a bird by its song and a man by his manner of speaking. – Greek Proverb
You can tell a lion by his claws. – Greek Proverb
You can tell who the good seamen are during a storm. – Greek Proverb
You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears. – Greek Proverb
You can’t build a wall with just one stone. – Greek Proverb
You can’t hide behind your finger. – Greek Proverb
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Greek Proverb
You easily forget the eyes that don’t see you any more. – Greek Proverb
You have to put a young girl onto an old man. – Greek Proverb
You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes. – Greek Proverb
You learn to limp if you live with cripples. – Greek Proverb
You must keep quiet or say only things that improve silence. – Greek Proverb
You will break the bow if you keep it always bent. – Greek Proverb
Young wood makes a hot fire. – Greek Proverb
Know yourself! – Socrates
Well begun is half done. – Aristotle
Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates
Life is short, the art long. – Hippocrates
Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly. – Aristotle
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. – Sophocles
Success is dependent on effort. – Sophocles
Man is the measure of all things. – Protagoras
The wildest colts make the best horses. – Plutarch
Like that of leaves is a generation of men. – Homer
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time. – Pericles
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – Plato
Better learn late, than not at all. – Cleobulus
Many hands make light work. – Homer
Win by persuasion, not by force. – Bias of Priene
One swallow does not make a Spring. – Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. – Epicurus
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. – Pericles
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. – Plutarch
The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master. – Diogenes of Sinope
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. – Theophrastu
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous. – Aristotle
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. – Aristotle
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. – Epicurus
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. – Euripides
In order to please others, we lose our hold on our life’s purpose. – Epictetus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. – Demosthenes
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom. – Socrates
It is difficult to argue with the belly, as it has no ears. – Plutarch
Milk the cows that is nearby, why chase the one that runs away? – Theocritus
Grey hairs are proof of age, but not of wisdom. – Menander
It will not always be summer: gather the harvest while you can. – Hesiod
The crowd is the most unreliable and witless thing in the world. – Demosthenes.
Old things become new with the passage of time. – Nicostratus
War is sweet to those who never tried it. – Pindar
When the wine is in, the words flow out. – Herodotus
Time is a doctor who heals all griefs. – Diphilus
Better to do a little than a great deal badly. – Socrates
The prosperity of a fool is a heavy burden to put up with. – Aeschylus
We know nothing for sure: truth is hidden at the bottom of a well. – Diogenes Laertius
If all the laws were to be abolished, it would not make much difference to our way of life. – Aristippus
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. – Aristotle
Misfortunes are less sharp when shared with others. – Dio Chrysotom
In an honourable enterprise, there must be no delay. – Nigrinus
In a moment, we got from the sublime to the ridiculous. – Longrinus
Give me leverage and I will move the Earth. -Archimedes
When in ape’s company, one must play the ape. – Apollodorus
A rolling stone gathers no moss. – Anonymous
In great attempts, even to fail is glorious. – Anonymous
Nature creates nothing without a purpose. – Aristotle
Man is the measure of the universe. – Protagoras
Life is short, art is long. – Hippocrates
Action achieves more than words. – Euripides
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. – Antisthenes
Well being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. – Citium Zeno
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. – Hypatia
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. – Anaxagoras
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. – Heraclitus
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour. – Aristotle
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. – Diogenes
Be careful to leave your sons well-instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. – Epictetus
Written laws are like spider’s webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. – Anacharsis
A fool went to fish, but lost his fishing-basket. – Hindi Proverbs
A scalded cat dreads cold water. – Hindi Proverbs
A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber. – Hindi Proverbs
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. – Hindi Proverbs
Can your hands do what your tongue does? – Hindi Proverbs
Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water. – Hindi Proverbs
God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it into the nest. – Hindi Proverbs
God takes care of a blind cow. – Hindi Proverbs
He who will not climb will not fall. – Hindi Proverbs
I am king, you a king: who is to fetch the water? – Hindi Proverbs
In a treeless country, the castor-oil plant is a big tree. – Hindi Proverbs
Man is his own devil. – Hindi Proverbs
On a green tree there are many parrots. – Hindi Proverbs
One who cannot dance blames the floor. – Hindi Proverbs
Self Praise is no praise. – Hindi Proverbs
The eyes do not see what the mind does not want. – Hindi Proverbs
The washerman never tears his father’s clothes. – Hindi Proverbs
The young crow is wiser than its mother. – Hindi Proverbs
To lend is to buy a quarrel. – Hindi Proverbs
To lose is to learn. – Hindi Proverbs
What is play to one is death to another. – Hindi Proverbs
When anger comes, wisdom goes. – Hindi Proverbs
A Figure among ciphers. – अंधों में काना राजा |
All is well that ends well. – अंत भला सो भला |
He that is warm thinks all are so. – आप सुखी तो जग सुखी |
Out of the frying pan into the fire. – आम से टपका बगल में अटका |
Self praise is no recommendation. – अपने मुहं मियां मिट्ठू मत बनो |
Haste makes waste/Hurry spoils curry. – आगे दौड़ पीछे चौड |
Out of sight, out of mind. – आँख ओझल पहाड़ ओझल |
Necessity is the mother of invention. – आवश्यकता अविष्कार की जननी है |
A blind man is no judge of colours. – अन्धा क्या जाने बसंत की बहार |
Blood is thicker than water. – अपना अपना, पराया पराया |
Handsome is that handsome does. – अच्छा वही जो अच्छा कार्य करे |
Prevention is batter than cure. – इलाज से परहेज अच्छा |
A drop of the ocean. – ऊंट के मुहं में जीरा |
Example is better than precept. – उपदेश देने से स्वयं उपदेशों पर चलना बेहतर है |
It takes two make a row/quarrel. – एक हाथ से ताली नहीं बजती |
Two kill two birds with one stone. – एक पंथ दो काज |
17- Union is Strength. – एकता में बल |
Silence is the best. – एक चुप सौ सुख |
A single sheep infects the whole flock. – एक गंदी मछली सारे तालाब को गंदा कर देती है |
Much cry, little wool. – ऊँची दुकान फीका पकवान |
Goodness never goes unrewarded. – कर भला हो भला |
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. – कोठी वाला रोये, छप्पर वाला सोये |
Two of a trade seldom agree. – कुत्ते का कुत्ता बैरी |
Familiarity breeds contempt. – कद्र खोद देता है रोज का आना जाना |
practice makes a man perfect. – करत करत अभ्यास से जड्मुती होत सुजान |
An idle man’s brain is a devil’s workshop. – खाली बैठे सैतानी सूझे |
Much ado about nothing. – खोदा पहाड़ निकली चुहिया |
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. – कानी के ब्याह में नौ सौ जोखिम |
What cannot be cured must be endured. – गले पड़ा ढ़ोल बजाना ही पड़ता है |
To build castles in the air. – घर घोडा नकास मोल |
When the cat is away, the mice will play. – घर वाला घर नहीं हमें किसी का दर नहीं |
A nine day’s wonder. – चार दिन की चांदनी फिर अँधेरी रात |
Birds of a feather flock together. – चोर-चोर मौसेरे भाई |
Nothing succeeds like success. – चलती का नाम गाढ़ी |
Forbidden fruit is sweet. – चोरी का गुड मीठा होता है |
As you sow, so shall you reap. – जैसा करोगे वैसा भरोगे |
Barking dog seldom bite. – जो गरजते हैं वो बरसते नहीं |
Evil gotten, evil spent. – जैसा आया वैसा गया |
Might is right. – जिसकी लाठी उसकी भैंस |
No one knows the weight of another’s burden. – जाके पांव न फटी बुवाई सो क्या जाने पीर पराई |
Tit for tat. – जैसे तो तैसा |
Hope sustains life. – जब तक सांस तब तक आस |
The deeper the well, the sweeter the water. – जितना गुड डालोगे उतना ही मीठा होगा |
Where there is a flower, there is a thorn. – जहाँ फूल वहां काँटा |
So many man, so many minds. – जितने मुहं उतनी ही बात |
A liar has no legs to stand upon. – झूठ के पांव नही होते |
A drowning man catches at a straw. – डूबते को तिनके का सहारा |
Cowards die so many times before their death. – डरे सो मरे |
Cut you coat according to your cloth. – तेते पावं पसारिये जेती लम्बी सौर |
Your visits are few and far between. – तुम तो ईद के चाँद हो गये |
You are chips of the same block. – तुम एक ही थैली के चट्टे-बट्टे हो |
Good health is above wealth. – तंदरुस्ती हजार नियामत|
An empty vessel sounds high. – थोथा चना बाजे घना |
A burnt child dreads the fire. – दूध का जला छाछ को भी फूंक कर पीता है |
Poverty breeds strife. – दरिद्रता कहल की जड़ है |
Let us see which way the wind blows. – तेल देखो तेल की धार देखो |
Money makes the mare go. – दाम बनाये काम |
Distance lands charm the viewer. – दूर के ढ़ोल सुहावने |
There is something wrong at the bottom. – डाल में कुछ काला है |
Money begets money. – धन से धन कमाया जाता है |
A rolling stone gathers no mass. – धोबी का कुत्ता घर का न घाट का |
A bad workman quarrels with his tools. – नाच न जाने अगन टेढ़ा |
A bird in hand is batter than two in the bush. – नौ नकद न तेरह उधार |
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. – नीम हकीम खतरे जान |
Do good and cast it into the river – नेकी कर दलिया में डाल |
Adversity tries friends. – निर्धनता में मित्रों की पहचान होती है |
It is hard to live in Rome and fight with the pope. – नदी में रहना और मगरमच्छ से बैर |
A light purse is a heavy curse. – निर्धन की पत्नी सबकी भाबी |
Every dark clouds has a silver lining. – निराशा में भी आसा की झलक होती है |
Ill got, ill spent. – पाप का धन प्रायश्चित में जाता है |
Think before you speak. – पहले तोलो फिर बोलो |
When God wills all winds bring rain. – परमात्मा देता है तो छप्पर फाड़ के देता है |
Curst cows have short horns. – परमात्मा गंजे को नाख़ून न दे |
Charity begins at home. – पहले अपना फिर पराया |
A bad man is batter than a bad name. – बद अच्छा बदनाम बुरा |
Let bygones by bygones. – बीती सो बीती |
Make the best of every chance. – बहती गंगा में हाथ धोना |
Many a little makes a mickle. – बूंद-बूंद करके घड़ा भरता है |
No pains, no gains. – बिना सेवा मेवा नहीं |
To cast pearls before swine. – बन्दर क्या जाने अदरक का स्वाद |
Too many cooks spoil the broth. – बहुत से जोगी मठ उजाड़ |
Better alone than in a bad company. – बुरी संगत से अकेला भला |
It is batter to wear out than to rust out. – बेकार से बेगार भली |
A nod to the wise and a rod to the foolish. – बुद्धिमान को संकेत और मुर्ख के लिए फटकार |
When the purse is full friends are plenty. – बनी के सभी मित्र बिगड़ी का कोई नहीं |
Time once passed/gone can never be recalled. – बीता हुआ समय कभी हाथ नहीं आता |
A closed mouth catches no fly. – बिना रोये माँ भी दूध नहीं देती |
Nip the evil in the bud. – बुराई को आरंभ में ही दबा दो |
Crying in wilderness. – भैंस के आगे बीन बजाना |
Something is better than nothing. – भागते चोर की लंगोटी ही सही |
Chance of fortune is the lot of life. – भगवान की माया , कहीं धूप कहीं छाया |
A wolf in lamb’s clothing. – मुख में राम ,बगल में छुरी |
Man process, God disposes. – मेरे मन में कुछ और है ,करता कें कुछ और |
Misfortunes never come alone/singly. – मुसीबत कभी अकेले नहीं आती |
Death keeps no calendar. – म्रत्यु का कोई समय नहीं |
A constant guest is never welcome. – मेहमान एक या दो दिन का होता है |
Man is known by the company he keeps. – मनुष्य अपनी संगति से पहचाना जाता है |
An open door tempts even a saint. – मुफ्त की शराब काजी को भी हलाल |
To err is human; to forgive divine. – मनुष्य गलती का पुतला है और भगवान का काम माफ़ करना है |
To make mountain of the mole hill. – राई का पर्वत बनाना |
Wolves may lose their teeth but not their nature.- रस्सी जल गई पर बल न गया |. –
Diamond cuts diamond. – लोहे को लोहा काटता है|
Riches have wings. – लक्ष्मी चंचला होती है |
Voice of the people is the voice of God. -लोगों की वाणी , इश्वर की वाणी |
Rod is the logic of fools. – लातों के भूत बातों से नहीं मानते |
Truth is always bitter. – सच्ची बात चुभती है |
It is very too late to mend. – सुबह का भुला यदि शाम को घर लोट आए तो उसे भूला नहीं कहते |
Slow and steady wins the race. – सहज पके सो मीठा होए |
Beauty need no ornaments. – सुन्दरता को आभूषण की आवस्यकता नहीं |
Truth fears no test. – सांच को आंच नहीं |
Everything looks pale to the jaundiced eye. – सावन के अंधे को हरा ही हरा दिखाई देता है |
Time is a great healer. – समय सब घावों का मरहम है |
Coming events cast their shadows before. – होनहार बिरवान के होत चिकने पात |
Measure for measure. – हत्या के बदले फासीं |
Rome was not built in a day. – हथेली पर दही नहीं जमती |
To build castes in the air. – हवाई किले बनाना |
All that glitters is not gold. – हाथी के दांत खाने के और दिखाने के और |
It’s no use to cry over spilt milk. – अब पछताए होत क्या जब चिडिया चुग गयी खेत |
Every cock fights best on its own dunghill. – अपनी गली में कुत्ता भी शेर होता है |
Death’s day is doom’s day. – आप मरे जग प्रलय |
Out of sight, out of mind. – आँख ओझल पहाड़ ओझल |
Do not put off till tomorrow. – आज का कार्य कल पर मत छोडो |
Better alone than in bad company. – कुसंगत से अकेला भला |
To carry coal to new castle. – उल्टे बांस बरेली को |
Sweep before your own door. – दुसरे के फटे में पांव नहीं देते |
Where there is well, there is a way. – जहाँ चाहा वहां राह |
Nearer the church farther from God. – दिये तले अँधेरा |
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. – चोर की दाढ़ी में तिनका |
Little drops make the ocean. – बूँद बूँद करके तालाब भरता है |
God helps those who help themselves. – ईस्वर उसकी सहायता करता है जो अपनी सहायता स्वेम करते हैं |
Love begets love and hate begets hate. – घर्णा से घ्रणा पैदा होती है |
A friends in need is a friend indeed. – मित्र वही है जो मुसीबत मैं काम आता है |
Nothing venture, nothing have. – बिना खतरे लाभ नहीं |
Honesty is the best policy. – इमानदारी अच्छी नीति है |
Spend and God will send. – शक्कर खोर को परमात्मा शक्कर देता है |
A good name is batter than riches. – नाम बड़ा या दाम |
If the sky falls, we shall catch larks. – न नौ मन तेल होगा न राधा नाचेगी |
Evil pursuits bring bad reputation. – कोयले की दलाली में मुहं काला |
Time blunts the edge of grief. – समय सब घावों का इलाज है |
Death with friends is a festival. – दोस्तों के साथ नरक भी स्वर्ग है |
A prophet is seldom honoured in his own land. – घर को जोगी जोगडा बहार का जोगी सिद्ध |
Evil can bot prosper for ever. – सौ दिन चोर के एक दिन साध का |
Pride goeth before a fall. – घमंडी का मुहं काला |
east or west, home is the best. – अपने घर जैसा सुख कहीं भी नहीं |
He who hoards takes pains for others. – जोड़-जोड़ मर जाएँगे माल जमाई खायेगा |
Harping on the same string. – वही तुम वही तुम्हारा राग |
Virtue survives the grave. – नेकी करने के बाद याद आती है |
Even walls have ears. – दीवार के भी कान होते हैं |
It is a far cry. – अभी दिल्ली दूर है |
Grapes are sour. – हाथ न पहुंचे थूकौडी |
Do unto others as you wish to be done by them. – दुसरे के साथ वैसा ही व्यवहार करो जैसा तुम चाहते हो की वो तुमसे करें |
Brain is better than brawn Wisdom is better than Strength. – अक्ल बड़ी के भैंस |
Business is business. – व्यवसाय में लज्जा कैसी |
Every tide has its ebb, he who rises, must fall. – हर उन्नति के उपरांत अवनति |
A traitor is the worst enemy. – घर का भेदी लंका ढाए |
When the two bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers. – गेहूं के साथ घुन भी पिस जाता है |
Let the sleeping dogs lie. – भिडों के छते को मत छेड़ो |
Greed is a curse. – लालच बुरी बात है |
Pen is mightier than the sword. – तलवार से कलम बड़ी है |
Money saved, is money earned. – जो बचाया सो कमाया |
Knowledge is power. – विद्या सबसे बड़ा धन है |
An upstart always grows haughty. – कुत्ते को घी हजम नहीं होता |
A talk of chalk and you talk of cheese. – सवाल गंदम जबाब चना |
A leopard can not change it’s spots – लकीर का फकीर
Herd Race, Mob Mentality – भेड़ चाल
While In Rome Do As Romans Do – जहाँ का पीवे पानी, वहां की बोले वाणी
Beggars Can’t Be Choosers – दान की बछिया के दांत नहीं देखे जाते
A thing is valued where it belongs. – जंगल में मोती की कदर नहीं होती
To The Good The World Appears Good – आप भला तो जग भला
An Empty Vessel Makes Much Noise – थोथा चना बाजे घना
Heath Is Wealth – तंदरुस्ती हजार नियामत है
No Pain, No Gain – काया को दुःख दिए बिना कोई काम नहीं सुधरता
Time Once Lost Cannot Be Regained – गया वक्त फिर हाथ नहीं आता
Society Molds Man – खरबूजे को देखकर खरबूजा रंग नही बदलता है
Union Is Strength- एक और एक ग्यारह होते हैं
Fools Praise Fools – गधे को गधा खुजलाता है
Many Heads Many Minds – अपनी अपनी डफली, अपना अपना राग
Be satisfied which what is available – जितनी चादर उतने ही पैर पसारो
It Is No Use Building Castles In The Air – मन के लड्डुओं से भूक नहीं मिटती
Penny Wise Pound Foolish – गवांर गत्रा न दे, भेली दे
Give Loan, Enemy Own – उधार दीजे, दुश्मन कीजे
Birds Of a Feather Flock Together – एक थैली के चट्टे बट्टे
Where There is a Will, There Is a Way – जहाँ चाह-वहां राह
A Bad Carpenter Quarrels With Hi tool – नाच न जाने आँगन टेढा
Silence Is Half Consent – चुप माने, आधी मर्जी
As you sow, so you shall reap. – कर बुरा तो होय बुरा / जैसी करनी वैसी भरनी
A Man Is a Slave to His Stomach – आदमी पेट का दास
The More Haste, The Worse Speed – आगे दौड़, पीछे छोड़
A Brunt Child Dreads The Fire./Once Bitten Twice Shy – दूध का जला छाछ फूंक-फूंक कर पीता है
A Honey tongue, a Heart Of Gall – मुहं में राम, बगल में छुरी
Things owned by other people look good – दूर के ढोल सुहावने
All’s Well That Ends Well – अंत भला तो सब भला
Style Makes The Man – कपडे देखर इज्जत मिलती है
One Nail Drivers Another – कांटे से कांटा निकलता है
Truth Lies At The Bottom of a Well – मोती गहरे पानी मैं होता है
There Is a Time For Everything – हर चीज का वक्त होता है
One Lie leads to Another – झूठ का अंत नहीं
It Takes All Sorts To Make The World – इ संसार में हर तरह के लोग होते हैं
It Takes To Make A Quarrel – ताली दोनों हाथों से बजती है
A Friend In Need Is a Friend Indeed – मित्र वही जी मुसीबत में काम आये
सौ सुनार की, एक लोहार की [एक महत्वपूर्ण कार्य कई अनर्गल कार्यों से ज्यादा सटीक होता है]- Hundred times more furious counter blast
जान है तो जहान है – If you have life, you have the world
नौ सौ चूहे खाके बिल्ली हज को चली [धूर्त व्यक्ति द्वारा धिकावे का किया गया अच्छा कार्य] – After eating 900 mice, the cat move on to a pilgrimage.
हाध कंगन को आरसी क्या / प्रत्यक्ष को प्रमाण की जरूरत नही – Evidence doesn’t require proof.
राई का पहाड़ मत बनाओ – Don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill
अन्धों में काना राजा – A big fish in a little pond
जब लक्ष्मी तिलक करती हो, तब मुंह धोने नहीं जाना चाहिए – Never turn down an opportunity for wealth gains
शक का इलाज तो हकीम लुक़्मान के पास भी नहीं था – There is no cure for doubt
लातों के भूत बातों से नहीं मानते! – Persuasion will not persuade fools
आप हारे और बहू कॊ मारे – To blame others for your failures
आ बैल मुझे मार – To ask for trouble
आया है सॊ जायेगा, राजा रंक फकीर – He who is born will die one day, whether a king, a pauper or a hermit
इस हाथ दे उस हाथ ले – Early sow , early mow
ना उधॊ कॊ देना ना माधॊ से लेना – neither a borrower, nor a lender
जिनके घर शीशे के होते हैं, वे दूसरों पर पत्थर नहीं फ़ेंका करते – Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones at others
आमदनी अठन्नी और खर्चा रुपैया – When expenditures exceed income
काला अक्षर भैंस बराबर – Illiterate
अंधेरे में तीर चलाना – Dance in the dark
अपनी-अपनी ढपली अपना-अपना राग – Their Dpli their own passion
आँख का अन्धा नाम नैनसुख – Name nainsook blind eye
अँधेरे घर का उजाला – Darkness, the light of the house
ओखली में सिर दिया तो मूसली से क्या डर – Pestle in a mortar, then head of the fear
अपना उल्लू सीधा करना – Straighten your owl
ऊँची दुकान फीका पकवान – More of the show but less in quality
एक पंथ दो काज / आम के आम गुठलियों के दाम – Kill two birds with one stone / mango mango kernels prices
एक मछली सारे तालाब को गन्दा कर देती है : एक बुरा व्यक्ति सारे कुटुम्ब, समाज या साथियों को बुरा बनाता है – There is a fish pond messy: a bad person in the family, society or colleagues creates bad
काठ की हांडी एक बार ही चढ़ती है : छल-कपट से एक बार तो काम बन जाता है, पर सदा नहीं – Wooden pot climbs once: once the fraud becomes work, but not always
आस पराई जो तके जीवित ही मर जाए : जो दूसरों पर निर्भर रहता है वह जीवित रहते हुए भी मृतप्राय होता है – The alive who die around strange: who is dependent on others even while he was alive is dead
आए की खुशी न गए का गम (हर हालत में संतोष होना) – The gum was not happy: to be satisfied at all costs
धोबी का कुत्ता न घर का न घाट का – Out of greed if you run after two things, you will get none
न नॊ मन तेल होगा, न राधा नाचेगी – Putting almost impossible condition for some task.
“That smells bad,” said the cat about meat that it cannot reach. – Persian Proverbs
A bad event had a good sequel. – Persian Proverbs
A bad wound heals, but a bad word doesn’t. – Persian Proverbs
A bee is always behind the flower. – Persian Proverbs
A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift. – Persian Proverbs
A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind. – Persian Proverbs
A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. – Persian Proverbs
A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back. – Persian Proverbs
A camel does not drink with a spoon. – Persian Proverbs
A camel that wants fodder stretches out its neck. – Persian Proverbs
A child is a bridge to heaven. – Persian Proverbs
A coquettish woman is like a shadow — as you chase her she runs away, and if you run away, she chases after you. – Persian Proverbs
A coquettish woman is like a shadow — as you chase her she runs away, and if you run away, she chases after you. – Persian Proverbs
A crazy person enjoys meeting another one. – Persian Proverbs
A dog by your side is better than a brother miles away. – Persian Proverbs
A drop is ocean only when it is in the ocean. – Persian Proverbs
A drop of rain makes no impression on a hard stone. – Persian Proverbs
A drowning man is not bothered by rain. – Persian Proverbs
A ewer and a hose do the same thing, but their real values show when they are pawned. – Persian Proverbs
A flower is beautiful from all sides. – Persian Proverbs
A fool and his money are soon parted. – Persian Proverbs
A fool’s excuse is bigger than his mistake. – Persian Proverbs
A friend is like a poem. – Persian Proverbs
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair. – Persian Proverbs
A good appetite needs no sauce. – Persian Proverbs
A good year is apparent from the spring. – Persian Proverbs
A good year is evident in its Spring. – Persian Proverbs
A hasty man does things twice – Persian Proverbs
A hungry man dreams of sangak bread. – Persian Proverbs
A hungry person dreams of sangak bread. – Persian Proverbs
A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. – Persian Proverbs
A leopard cannot change its spots. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t make it a lady. – Persian Proverbs
A liar is forgetful. – Persian Proverbs
A liar should have a good memory. – Persian Proverbs
A man can pose as a wise when searching for wisdom, but if he believes to have find it, is a fool. – Persian Proverbs
A man without a child is a king without sorrows. – Persian Proverbs
A man without passion is no son of Adam. – Persian Proverbs
A man’s servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months. – Persian Proverbs
A mirror does not reflect a broken heart. – Persian Proverbs
A mountain never meets a mountain, but a man meets a man. – Persian Proverbs
A person is trying to benefit from being close to opposing parties. – Persian Proverbs
A quality statement often gets no answer. – Persian Proverbs
A renter becomes a comfortable dweller. – Persian Proverbs
A rolling stone gathers no moss. – Persian Proverbs
A sharp tongue will cut off its own head. – Persian Proverbs
A single flower makes not Spring. – Persian Proverbs
A single rose does not mean that it is spring. – Persian Proverbs
A slap in the face now is better than promised candy later. – Persian Proverbs
A sluggard claims the wisdom of forty viziers. – Persian Proverbs
A snake can change its skin but not its disposition. – Persian Proverbs
A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time. – Persian Proverbs
A stone thrown at the right time is better than gold given at the wrong time. – Persian Proverbs
A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the immoral. – Persian Proverbs
A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous. – Persian Proverbs
A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile. – Persian Proverbs
A thief is a king until he is caught. – Persian Proverbs
A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. – Persian Proverbs
A timely tear is better than a misplaced smile. – Persian Proverbs
A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine. – Persian Proverbs
A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. – Persian Proverbs
A wise man can laugh at his jokes. – Persian Proverbs
A wolf’s repentance died a long time ago. – Persian Proverbs
Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light. – Persian Proverbs
All fur coat and no knickers – Persian Proverbs
All that glitters is not gold. – Persian Proverbs
All that is round is not walnut. – Persian Proverbs
All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. – Persian Proverbs
Amongst the genus of Jasminum, a single jasmine does not stand out. – Persian Proverbs
An alive person needs life. – Persian Proverbs
An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart. – Persian Proverbs
An ass is the most pleasing to another ass. – Persian Proverbs
An egg thief becomes a camel thief. – Persian Proverbs
An event is so improbable that its occurrence is akin to cacophony sounding mellifluous. – Persian Proverbs
An honest broker shares in people’s wealth. – Persian Proverbs
An infidel believes of everybody being of his own faith.
An infidel believes of everybody being of his own faith. – Persian Proverbs
An ungrateful son is a wart on his father’s nose – he leaves it, it’s ugly, he removes it, it hurts. – Persian Proverbs
Appearances can be deceptive. – Persian Proverbs
Applied when a person mentions the problems of another without seeing his own bigger problems. – Persian Proverbs
Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art. – Persian Proverbs
As long as the clouds dolt weep, the pasture cannot laugh. – Persian Proverbs
As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen. – Persian Proverbs
As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife. – Persian Proverbs
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy. – Persian Proverbs
As the wise man looks for a bridge the fool crosses the river. – Persian Proverbs
Asked for an eye-witness, the fox offered his tail. – Persian Proverbs
Aspiration is not a defect for youngsters. – Persian Proverbs
Bake the bread while the oven is hot. – Persian Proverbs
Bam’s eggplant doesn’t have a defect. – Persian Proverbs
Be a lion at home and a fox abroad. – Persian Proverbs
Be careful. People could be listening. – Persian Proverbs
Be in league with the headman; pillage the village. – Persian Proverbs
Be it a bread given to the beggar, be it one taken from him. – Persian Proverbs
Be kind to the debtor and he becomes the creditor. – Persian Proverbs
Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow you up; be not all wormwood, or the world will spit you out. – Persian Proverbs
Beggars can’t be choosers. – Persian Proverbs
Being tricky (untruthful) won’t get you to your goal. – Persian Proverbs
Better safe than sorry. – Persian Proverbs
Between two cooks, the soup becomes either salty or bland. – Persian Proverbs
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person. – Persian Proverbs
Birds of a feather flock together. – Persian Proverbs
Blood cannot be washed out with blood. – Persian Proverbs
Bravery without foresight is like a blind horse. – Persian Proverbs
Bribery makes both parties happy. – Persian Proverbs
Bugbear took it all. – Persian Proverbs
Bugbear took that pacifier. – Persian Proverbs
Buy cheap, buy a heap. – Persian Proverbs
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair. – Persian Proverbs
Children are the bridge to heaven. – Persian Proverbs
Claim to virginity, after seven moppets! – Persian Proverbs
Closing the barn door after the horses get out. – Persian Proverbs
Cloud, wind, moon, and sky are at work. And when you earn a piece of bread, do not eat it in ignorance. – Persian Proverbs
Come what may. – Persian Proverbs
Comfortable is he who doesn’t have a donkey — Doesn’t know of its straw and barley. – Persian Proverbs
Comfortable is he who doesn’t have a donkey — He who doesn’t know of its straw and barley. – Persian Proverbs
Contrarily, they call the Negro Camphor. – Persian Proverbs
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous. – Persian Proverbs
Courtesy is cumbersome to them that ken it not. – Persian Proverbs
Courtesy on just one side can never last long. – Persian Proverbs
Courtesy on one side can never last long. – Persian Proverbs
Credit is better than wealth. – Persian Proverbs
Crooked load will not get to the destination. – Persian Proverbs
Curiosity is the key to knowledge. – Persian Proverbs
Death is a camel that lies down at every door. – Persian Proverbs
Death is a camel that lies down at everyone’s door. – Persian Proverbs
Debts are like women, once you have them you can’t get rid of them. – Persian Proverbs
Did you see the camel? No you did not! – Persian Proverbs
Do a good thing and throw it in the river. God will reward you in the desert. – Persian Proverbs
Do little things now; and big things will come to you. – Persian Proverbs
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Persian Proverbs
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? – Persian Proverbs
Do men gather grapes of thorns? – Persian Proverbs
Do not be critical of what has been given to you for free. – Persian Proverbs
Do not choose for anyone what you do not choose for yourself. – Persian Proverbs
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. – Persian Proverbs
Do not let the cat watch over the bacon. – Persian Proverbs
Do not use words that are too big for your mouth. – Persian Proverbs
Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t just take love—experience it. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t be afraid of he who raises a hue and cry; be afraid of he who holds his head down. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t be afraid of he who’s loud and noisy, be afraid of he who’s head is down. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t borrow from a baby-boomer, if you borrow, don’t spend it. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t borrow from a parvenu; if you do, don’t spend it. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t despise pepper because it is so small; eat, and see how pungent it is. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t have too many irons in the fire. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t judge a book by its cover – Persian Proverbs
Don’t just take love, experience it. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. – Persian Proverbs
Don’t rock the boat. Don’t make waves. – Persian Proverbs
Doubt is the key to knowledge. – Persian Proverbs
Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move. – Persian Proverbs
Doubtful the die, and dire the cast. – Persian Proverbs
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed. – Persian Proverbs
Drawn wells have sweetest water. – Persian Proverbs
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Persian Proverbs
Easy come, easy go. – Persian Proverbs
Eat bread and leek for one year, eat bread and butter for a hundred years. – Persian Proverbs
Eat drink and make merry, for tomorrow you might die – Persian Proverbs
Eating and sleeping is my profession, God Almighty is my protection. – Persian Proverbs
Either God, or date – Persian Proverbs
Empty vessels make the most noise. Barking dogs seldom bite. – Persian Proverbs
Epigrams might succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverbs
Epigrams succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverbs
Even a hair off the bear is serendipitous. – Persian Proverbs
Even if she had seven blind daughters, she’d marry them off in an hour. – Persian Proverbs
Every fault that a Sultan pleases can be a quality. – Persian Proverbs
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. – Persian Proverbs
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. – Persian Proverbs
Every man is the king of his own beard. – Persian Proverbs
Every man is the smith of his own fortune. – Persian Proverbs
Every rock strikes the feet of the poor. – Persian Proverbs
Every tear has a smile behind it. – Persian Proverbs
Every time something turns out missing. – Persian Proverbs
Every tree is known by its fruit. – Persian Proverbs
Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good. – Persian Proverbs
Excessive praise is like an insult. – Persian Proverbs
Expect trust from a dog but not from a woman. – Persian Proverbs
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. – Persian Proverbs
Fear those who do not fear God. – Persian Proverbs
Fine words butter no parsnips. – Persian Proverbs
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. – Persian Proverbs
First dig a well, then steal the minaret. – Persian Proverbs
First goblet and then drunkenness. – Persian Proverbs
First goblet is still full, but you are sodden (or drunk). – Persian Proverbs
First prove your brotherhood, then claim inheritance. – Persian Proverbs
Five fingers are brothers, not equals. – Persian Proverbs
Flies will easily fly into the honey — their problem is how to get out. – Persian Proverbs
Flies will never leave the shop of a sweetmaker. – Persian Proverbs
For a single guest, the host can a slaughter a cow. – Persian Proverbs
For an ant to have wings would be his undoing. – Persian Proverbs
For crystal rain falls from black clouds. – Persian Proverbs
For his master the dog is a lion. – Persian Proverbs
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge. – Persian Proverbs
Four walls make a man free. – Persian Proverbs
Friendship with a fool may turn into the hug of a bear. – Persian Proverbs
From afar he takes the heart, from nearby the gall-bladder. – Persian Proverbs
From sudden desire of halim he fell in the pot. – Persian Proverbs
From this column to that column may be a relief. – Persian Proverbs
From truth to falsehood there’s a four-finger distance. – Persian Proverbs
From you motion, from God blessing. – Persian Proverbs
From you, action, from God, benediction. – Persian Proverbs
Get along with the village headman, plunder the village. – Persian Proverbs
Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile. – Persian Proverbs
Give nine, save ten. – Persian Proverbs
Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground. – Persian Proverbs
Go and wake up your luck. – Persian Proverbs
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you’ll see further. – Persian Proverbs
Go further and fare worse. – Persian Proverbs
Go slowly and come slowly so that the cat won’t gore you. – Persian Proverbs
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts. – Persian Proverbs
God provides, but He needs a nudge. – Persian Proverbs
Goes in one ear comes out the other. – Persian Proverbs
Gold bears more gold. – Persian Proverbs
Good deeds return to the house of their author. – Persian Proverbs
Good grape becomes fox’s possession. – Persian Proverbs
Good poets are like angels of Heaven. – Persian Proverbs
Goods have value only to those who desire them. – Persian Proverbs
Great boast, small roast. – Persian Proverbs
Great needs grow from great possessions. – Persian Proverbs
Great talkers are little doers. – Persian Proverbs
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. – Persian Proverbs
Had the crow been a surgeon, it would have stitched its own rear. – Persian Proverbs
He doesn’t see any water; otherwise, he is a skilled swimmer. – Persian Proverbs
He doesn’t see water, otherwise he is a skilled swimmer. – Persian Proverbs
He eats sheep-tail with the wold, and cries with the shepherd. – Persian Proverbs
He escaped the thief, and fell in fortune-teller’s trap. – Persian Proverbs
He gives a party with bath-water. – Persian Proverbs
He gives from caliph’s bag. – Persian Proverbs
He gives him roast meat and beats him with the spit. – Persian Proverbs
He has dealt with so many scoundrels that he himself has become the chief rogue. – Persian Proverbs
He has eaten so many snakes that he has become a viper. – Persian Proverbs
He has fallen off the donkey, but has found a date. – Persian Proverbs
He has lost the horse, but is looking for the horseshoe. – Persian Proverbs
He is still alive because he cannot afford a funeral. – Persian Proverbs
He is still wet behind the ears. – Persian Proverbs
He keeps her/his face red with slaps. – Persian Proverbs
He makes the water muddy to fish. – Persian Proverbs
He never tells the truth. – Persian Proverbs
He pushes it away with the hand, but pulls it forward with the foot. – Persian Proverbs
He pushes it back with his hand and pulls it in with his feet. – Persian Proverbs
He runs with the hare and hunst with the hound. – Persian Proverbs
He takes from one ear, and lets it out from the other ear. – Persian Proverbs
He that sows shall also reap. – Persian Proverbs
he tried to pluck under her/his eyebrow, but blinded the eye. – Persian Proverbs
He wants the God and the date both. – Persian Proverbs
He wants to have his cake and eat it too. – Persian Proverbs
He wants to have it both ways. – Persian Proverbs
He wants to let it go and still have it. – Persian Proverbs
He who doesn’t go to war roars like a lion. – Persian Proverbs
He who eats alone is Satan’s brother. – Persian Proverbs
He who has a clean account, what fear of calculation does he have? – Persian Proverbs
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. – Persian Proverbs
He who has had his nose in the air bites the dust in the end. – Persian Proverbs
He who has only one enemy, meets him everywhere. – Persian Proverbs
He who is honest at finance, what fear of audit will he have? – Persian Proverbs
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him. – Persian Proverbs
He who puts on lordly airs winds up hauling hay. – Persian Proverbs
He who sits waiting for his neighbor will go to bed hungry. – Persian Proverbs
He who want a rose must respect the thorn. – Persian Proverbs
He who wants content can’t find an easy chair. – Persian Proverbs
He who wants the rose must respect the thorn. – Persian Proverbs
He whose heart is aroused by love will never die. – Persian Proverbs
He would even hang himself, provided that the rope is free. – Persian Proverbs
He wouldn’t sleep where there is running water. – Persian Proverbs
He, who has only one enemy, meets him everywhere. – Persian Proverbs
He/she who blows into fire will have sparkles in his/her eyes. – Persian Proverbs
Heaven is at the feet of mothers. – Persian Proverbs
Hey sloth, don’t go into the shade, the shade would eventually come to you. – Persian Proverbs
His mouth still smells of his mother’s milk. – Persian Proverbs
His options are so limited that he has to settle for the worst pinchbeck. – Persian Proverbs
History is a mirror of the past, and a lesson for the present. – Persian Proverbs
Hitch a horse and an ass to the same post; if they don’t smell the same, they’ll behave the same. – Persian Proverbs
Human beings need meaningful lives. – Persian Proverbs
I attempted to be benevolent, but I got burnt. – Persian Proverbs
I can only get better if I have good friends. – Persian Proverbs
I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. – Persian Proverbs
I eat what others have planted and I plant what others want to eat. – Persian Proverbs
I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue. – Persian Proverbs
I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself. – Persian Proverbs
I know entirely what kind of person you are. – Persian Proverbs
I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. – Persian Proverbs
I poured our own flour and hung our hair-sieve. – Persian Proverbs
I say: ‘It’s a bull’; he says: ‘Milk it!’
I took care of my own business. – Persian Proverbs
I took the abandoned boy to be my son, but he became my husband. – Persian Proverbs
I tried to do charity, I burned. – Persian Proverbs
I used to complain because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. – Persian Proverbs
I used to complain because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead. – Persian Proverbs
I used to feel sorry for myself because I had no shoes until I met a man who was dead. – Persian Proverbs
I was trying to help out, but I got in trouble myself. – Persian Proverbs
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. – Persian Proverbs
I would have been for seven years. – Persian Proverbs
If a fool borrows a book cut off his hand; but cut off both hands of the fool who brings it back. – Persian Proverbs
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. – Persian Proverbs
If Akbar doesn’t give, Akbar’s God gives. – Persian Proverbs
If Ali is the camel-driver, he knows where to rest his camel. – Persian Proverbs
If children’s prayer had any effect, there wouldn’t be a single teacher alive. – Persian Proverbs
If everybody said bread and cheese, you put your head down and die. – Persian Proverbs
If everyone said bread and cheese, you put your head down and desist. – Persian Proverbs
If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. – Persian Proverbs
If God wills, even males become fertile. – Persian Proverbs
If he hadn’t seen his father, he would have claimed kingship. – Persian Proverbs
If he has seven blind daughters, he will marry them in an hour. – Persian Proverbs
If he hasn’t seen her/his father, he would claim to be a king. – Persian Proverbs
If he says yogurt is white, I’ll say it’s black. – Persian Proverbs
If he was any good, his name would be Kheirollah. – Persian Proverbs
If he were a do-gooder, they’d call him Saint Do-Gooder. – Persian Proverbs
If I haven’t eaten wheat-bread, I’ve seen it in people’s hands. – Persian Proverbs
If it doesn’t have water for me, instead it has bread for you. – Persian Proverbs
If my aunt had a beard, this man would be my uncle. – Persian Proverbs
If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it. – Persian Proverbs
If regret was a horn, one’s horn would reach the sky. – Persian Proverbs
If regret was a horn, the fellow’s horn would reach the sky. – Persian Proverbs
If something is needed at home, its donation is wrong – Persian Proverbs
If the beginning is good, the end must be perfect. – Persian Proverbs
If the lantern is needed at home, donating it to the mosque is haram (forbidden). – Persian Proverbs
If the Lor doesn’t go to bazaar, everything will rot. – Persian Proverbs
If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens. – Persian Proverbs
If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt. – Persian Proverbs
If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold. – Persian Proverbs
If they had planted “if,” a tree would have grown in its place. – Persian Proverbs
If we haven’t eaten wheat bread, we’ve seen it in people’s hands. – Persian Proverbs
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. – Persian Proverbs
If you are a surgeon, set your own bones. – Persian Proverbs
If you be a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs. – Persian Proverbs
If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in? – Persian Proverbs
If you do not like your image in the mirror, do not break the mirror. Break yours. – Persian Proverbs
If you don’t crack the shell, you can’t eat the nut. – Persian Proverbs
If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes. – Persian Proverbs
If you exercise patience, you may make a sweet-meat out of the sour grape. – Persian Proverbs
If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you. – Persian Proverbs
If you go on foot, you’ll wear out your shoes; if you go on head, you’ll wear out your hat. – Persian Proverbs
If you know how to lullaby, why can’t you put yourself to sleep? – Persian Proverbs
If you know lullaby, why can’t you sleep? – Persian Proverbs
If you really have to sin, then choose a sin that you enjoy. – Persian Proverbs
If you talk Ali to him, don’t mention Omar. – Persian Proverbs
If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at – too late and you are stoned. – Persian Proverbs
If you walk with your feet your shoe will get worn, if you walk with your head, your hat. – Persian Proverbs
If you work hard and live uncomfortably today, it’ll pay off in the future. – Persian Proverbs
If you’re a reed-player, why did your father die of typhoid fever? – Persian Proverbs
If you’re a shoveler, shovel your garden first. – Persian Proverbs
In at one ear and out at the other. – Persian Proverbs
In one ear, out the other. – Persian Proverbs
In shaping one’s own fortune one should not rely on the help of others, as they are also concerned mainly about their own matters. – Persian Proverbs
In the ants’ house the dew is a flood. – Persian Proverbs
In the hotel of decisions the guests sleep well. – Persian Proverbs
In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds. – Persian Proverbs
In the hour of adversity be not without hope. – Persian Proverbs
In the hour of adversity do not give up hope for crystal rainfalls from black clouds. – Persian Proverbs
In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous. – Persian Proverbs
In winter a fire is better than a muscat blossom. – Persian Proverbs
In your neighbors’ soup there is always one fatty morsel. – Persian Proverbs
Injustice all around is justice! – Persian Proverbs
It is a real compliment that comes from an enemy. – Persian Proverbs
It is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes. – Persian Proverbs
It is better to be careful and to not risk making a big mistake. – Persian Proverbs
It is better to be in chains with friends, than to be in a garden with strangers. – Persian Proverbs
It is better to die in honor than to live in disgrace. – Persian Proverbs
It is not from the love of God that the cat catches mice. – Persian Proverbs
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. – Persian Proverbs
It is so unlikely to obtain anything from this person that even a smidgen is a win. – Persian Proverbs
It is the mountains that do not move to help one another; but one man surely comes to the help of another. – Persian Proverbs
It is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather. – Persian Proverbs
It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence. – Persian Proverbs
It is too late for you, let God give your children some intelligence. – Persian Proverbs
It seems like folly to give comfits to a cow – It can be fun anyway. – Persian Proverbs
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning. – Persian Proverbs
It takes two days to learn everything about a man; to know animals you will need more time. – Persian Proverbs
It’s better to flee and stay alive than to die and become a hero. – Persian Proverbs
It’s better to fly and stay alive than to die a hero. – Persian Proverbs
It’s from us that is on us. – Persian Proverbs
It’s from us, what’s upon us. – Persian Proverbs
It’s no use throwing good money after bad. – Persian Proverbs
It’s not possible to go to sky by a ladder. – Persian Proverbs
I’ve seen your top, I’ve seen your bottom also. – Persian Proverbs
Keep your own counsel. Watch your back. – Persian Proverbs
Kettledrum’s sound is nice when heard from afar. – Persian Proverbs
Laugh and the world laughs with you. – Persian Proverbs
Learn good manners from those who don’t have them. – Persian Proverbs
Left from there, driven from here. – Persian Proverbs
Let the manager manage. – Persian Proverbs
Let the person in responsibility take care of the matter, as is the most able. – Persian Proverbs
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains. – Persian Proverbs
Like a cow with a blaze. – Persian Proverbs
Like fault, like punishment. – Persian Proverbs
Listening to good advice is the way to wealth. – Persian Proverbs
Little by little the cotton thread becomes a turban. – Persian Proverbs
Little by little the wool becomes a carpet. – Persian Proverbs
Look at the colander telling the pierced serving spoon, “You have three holes.” – Persian Proverbs
Look at the strainer that tells the skimmer: You have three holes. – Persian Proverbs
Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond. – Persian Proverbs
Luck is infatuated with the efficient. – Persian Proverbs
Lucky are those who don’t have too many responsibilities. – Persian Proverbs
Lying in the gutter, looking at the stars. – Persian Proverbs
Make bread while the oven is hot. – Persian Proverbs
Many a little makes a Mickle. – Persian Proverbs
Marriage is an uncut watermelon. – Persian Proverbs
Maturity comes from impressions for a long time. – Persian Proverbs
Maturity comes from wisdom, not in the passing of years. – Persian Proverbs
May God strike the rich man blind by his own gold. – Persian Proverbs
Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. In for a penny, in for a pound. – Persian Proverbs
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems. – Persian Proverbs
Mountains don’t meet, but people do. – Persian Proverbs
Much coin, much care. – Persian Proverbs
My good deed was blamed or punished. – Persian Proverbs
Necessity can change a lion into a fox. – Persian Proverbs
Necessity turns lion into fox. – Persian Proverbs
Never open a door that you can’t lock again. – Persian Proverbs
No benefit has come from this individual. – Persian Proverbs
No good comes of this person. – Persian Proverbs
No good deed goes unpunished. – Persian Proverbs
No lamp burns till morning. – Persian Proverbs
Nobody sees a miracle from this shrine. – Persian Proverbs
Not everyone who sings a lullaby stays awake. – Persian Proverbs
Nothing is cheap for no reason. – Persian Proverbs
Nothing is disturbed. No waves are made. – Persian Proverbs
Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest. – Persian Proverbs
Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has. – Persian Proverbs
Oh God: Three mishaps at the same time; a limping donkey, an ugly wife, and a creditor. – Persian Proverbs
Oh peach, get into (my) throat. – Persian Proverbs
Once a friend, always a friend. – Persian Proverbs
Once I had the strength but no wisdom; now I have the wisdom but no strength. – Persian Proverbs
One crow and forty crows. – Persian Proverbs
One cuts and one sews.
One cuts and one sews. – Persian Proverbs
One doesn’t pay attention to the given advice. – Persian Proverbs
One finds money on Wednesday and one loses it. – Persian Proverbs
One finger cannot lift a pebble. – Persian Proverbs
One full stomach is better than hundred half-full stomachs. – Persian Proverbs
One good father can do more than 100 schoolmasters. – Persian Proverbs
One hurts you in a way you don’t register it. – Persian Proverbs
One idiot throws a stone in the well, and it takes a hundred wise men to (try to) get it out. – Persian Proverbs
One is very skillful. – Persian Proverbs
One pound of learning could require an army of common sense to apply it. – Persian Proverbs
One pound of learning might have required many thousand persons of common sense to acquire it. – Persian Proverbs
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. – Persian Proverbs
One scabby goat infects the flock. – Persian Proverbs
One sin is too much, a hundred prayers are not enough. – Persian Proverbs
One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life. – Persian Proverbs
One spark is enough to burn a hundred worlds. – Persian Proverbs
One who is poor at finance pays twice. – Persian Proverbs
One who’s been bitten by a snake is afraid of a black-and-white rope. – Persian Proverbs
One who’s innocent is not afraid of investigation. – Persian Proverbs
One’s children are almond hulls; one’s grandchildren are almond nuts. – Persian Proverbs
One’s very regretful. – Persian Proverbs
Only a heart can find the way to another heart. – Persian Proverbs
Oosta Alam, take this one into account. – Persian Proverbs
Our means are exiguous. (We continue to live, because we couldn’t afford the funeral cost, if we were to die.) – Persian Proverbs
Our real grave is not in the ground but in men’s hearts. – Persian Proverbs
Out of desperation, he calls donkey dame. – Persian Proverbs
Out of extreme desire for achieving something, he got in trouble. – Persian Proverbs
Out of the frying pan into the fire. – Persian Proverbs
Play, play, with the beard of the father also play? – Persian Proverbs
Pot calling the kettle black. – Persian Proverbs
Poured clear water on hither hands. – Persian Proverbs
Practice makes perfect. – Persian Proverbs
Practice what you preach. – Persian Proverbs
Praise a fair day at night. – Persian Proverbs
Pride comes before a fall – Persian Proverbs
Putting the cart before the horse. – Persian Proverbs
Putting the cart before the horse. – Persian Proverbs
Raise the one you’ve delivered. – Persian Proverbs
Raise what you’ve given birth to. – Persian Proverbs
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. – Persian Proverbs
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond. – Persian Proverbs
Seven sets of ewers and washbowls, but no dinner or lunch. – Persian Proverbs
Seven sets of ewers, but no dinner nor lunch. – Persian Proverbs
Share and share alike. – Persian Proverbs
She doles out of Caliph’s purse. – Persian Proverbs
She has become hale. Her appearance has improved. – Persian Proverbs
She is a mother to everyone, but a stepmother to us. – Persian Proverbs
She is in the pink. – Persian Proverbs
Silence betokens consent. – Persian Proverbs
Silence is the sign of agreement. – Persian Proverbs
So down-and-out, so high-and-mighty! – Persian Proverbs
So many donkeys around, yet we have to hoof it. – Persian Proverbs
Solved riddles look easy. – Persian Proverbs
Some good poets are like angels of Heaven. – Persian Proverbs
Someone is being generous at someone else’s expense. – Persian Proverbs
Sometimes the body becomes healthy by being very sick. – Persian Proverbs
Speak in the frame of reference of your audience. – Persian Proverbs
Spectators see better than actors. – Persian Proverbs
Spilled water cannot be gathered again. – Persian Proverbs
Spring doesn’t come with just a single flower. – Persian Proverbs
Spring won’t come from one flower. – Persian Proverbs
Stand so much until grass grows under your foot. – Persian Proverbs
Step by step one ascends the stairs. – Persian Proverbs
Stretch your foot to the length of your blanket. – Persian Proverbs
Take care lest your tongue should cut off your head. – Persian Proverbs
Take from the hungry, give it to the full/satisfied. – Persian Proverbs
Take it from the famished and give it to the nourished. – Persian Proverbs
Take to your aunt what you’ve brought to me. – Persian Proverbs
Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise. – Persian Proverbs
Taste it first before you say it’s saltless. – Persian Proverbs
Tell a lazy man to do something. Listen to philosophy! – Persian Proverbs
Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are! – Persian Proverbs
That smells bad, said the cat about meat that it cannot reach. – Persian Proverbs
The arrow that has left the bow never returns. – Persian Proverbs
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. – Persian Proverbs
The best mode of instruction is to practise what we preach. – Persian Proverbs
The best of friends must part. – Persian Proverbs
The best of men are but men at best. – Persian Proverbs
The big drum only sounds well from a distance. – Persian Proverbs
The bigger a man’s head, the worse his headache. – Persian Proverbs
The blind man is laughing at the bald head. – Persian Proverbs
The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground. – Persian Proverbs
The bride who wears four petticoats has a lot to hide. – Persian Proverbs
The cripple will always find a stone to kick. – Persian Proverbs
The devil looks after his own. – Persian Proverbs
The diamond fallen into the dunghill is not the less precious for it. – Persian Proverbs
The doctor must heal his own bald head. – Persian Proverbs
The dog is a lion in his own house. – Persian Proverbs
The drowning man is not troubled by rain. – Persian Proverbs
The earth is a host who kills his guests. – Persian Proverbs
The elephant dreams of one thing, and the elephant driver dreams of another. – Persian Proverbs
The ewer is cheaper than its solder. – Persian Proverbs
The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t. – Persian Proverbs
The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day. – Persian Proverbs
The fool’s excuse is bigger than the mistake he made. – Persian Proverbs
The fox uses his tale as a witness. – Persian Proverbs
The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief. – Persian Proverbs
The halfwit spoke, and the brainless believed. – Persian Proverbs
The hand that gives is also the one that receives. – Persian Proverbs
The horse is Turkmen, it eats from both the nose-bag and the manger. – Persian Proverbs
The issue is muddled at the core. – Persian Proverbs
The joy of finding something is often worth more than what is found. – Persian Proverbs
The lack of gold only a headache. – Persian Proverbs
The larger a man’s roof, the more snow it collects. – Persian Proverbs
The leek resembles its seed and little Hassan takes after his father. – Persian Proverbs
The legs of those who require proofs of God’s existence are made of wood. – Persian Proverbs
The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. – Persian Proverbs
The lover who gives you her body but not her heart is generous with thornless roses. – Persian Proverbs
The main thing is to be pretty and fair; bald spots are covered by the hair. – Persian Proverbs
The mediator in a fight gets all the blows. – Persian Proverbs
The monkey could not dance and blamed it on the floor as being crooked. – Persian Proverbs
The mud that you throw will fall on your own head. – Persian Proverbs
The needle makes clothes but stays naked. – Persian Proverbs
The neighbor’s hen is a goose to a neighbor. – Persian Proverbs
The night hides a world, but reveals a universe. – Persian Proverbs
The ostrich was asked to carry a load, it said. I’m a bird. It was asked to fly, it said, I’m a camel. – Persian Proverbs
The person is so destitute that his fortune will not change with a penny given or taken. – Persian Proverbs
The person who tells the truth is always at ease. – Persian Proverbs
The person who wants a rose must respect the thorn. – Persian Proverbs
The pitcher is cheaper than its solder. – Persian Proverbs
the place is wet and the child is missing. – Persian Proverbs
The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find. – Persian Proverbs
The pot calling the kettle black. – Persian Proverbs
The public improves the speaker’s speech. – Persian Proverbs
The reticent can be more dangerous than the boisterous. – Persian Proverbs
The rich are subjugated by their greed for more riches. – Persian Proverbs
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. – Persian Proverbs
The richer they are, the needier they are. – Persian Proverbs
The shoemaker’s shoes have no heels. – Persian Proverbs
The sky is of the same color wherever you go. – Persian Proverbs
The sky is the same color wherever you go. – Persian Proverbs
The solution is under our nose, yet we’re searching far and wide for it. – Persian Proverbs
The strictness of the teacher is better to bear than the prejudice of the father. – Persian Proverbs
The tears of the roasting meat kindle the fire even more. – Persian Proverbs
The tongue of men is the whip of God. – Persian Proverbs
The virtuous will be praised but not envied. – Persian Proverbs
The walls have mice, the mice have ears. – Persian Proverbs
The water doesn’t move. – Persian Proverbs
The water has passed his head. – Persian Proverbs
The way a house is decorated will tell much about its owner. – Persian Proverbs
The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet. – Persian Proverbs
The wise man who does not put his knowledge into practice is like a bee that gives no honey. – Persian Proverbs
The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends. – Persian Proverbs
The world is like an old building on the banks of a stream – it carries away piece by piece; in vain you stop it with a handful of earth. – Persian Proverbs
There are four things every person has more of than they know . . . – Persian Proverbs
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. – Persian Proverbs
There are four things in this life of which we have more than we think: faults, debts, years and enemies. – Persian Proverbs
There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends. – Persian Proverbs
There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter’s wedding. – Persian Proverbs
There is much hope in hopelessness; for at the end of the dark night, there is light. – Persian Proverbs
There is no need for fish in an empty pond. – Persian Proverbs
There is water in the jug, and we’re going around thirsty. – Persian Proverbs
There’s not a single straight intestine in his belly. – Persian Proverbs
These words won’t become a loose skirt for Fati. – Persian Proverbs
They asked the mule who its father was and it said its uncle was a stallion. – Persian Proverbs
They coordinate. – Persian Proverbs
They don’t count the teeth of a gift horse. – Persian Proverbs
They told the cat its stool was a cure-all, it strewed soil on it. – Persian Proverbs
Thick body, weak soul. – Persian Proverbs
Thinking is the essence of wisdom. – Persian Proverbs
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all. – Persian Proverbs
This caravan is lame until doomsday. – Persian Proverbs
This is not Kashan where the heap comes with the coolies. – Persian Proverbs
This person is perfectly suited for the job. – Persian Proverbs
This prankster doesn’t stop short of any tricks. – Persian Proverbs
This problem is not going to be solved. – Persian Proverbs
This time the situation is completely different. – Persian Proverbs
Those who are richer, are needier. – Persian Proverbs
Those with meager means dream of riches. – Persian Proverbs
Three things must be shunned: a broken wall, a ferocious dog, and a shrew. – Persian Proverbs
‘Tis the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather – Persian Proverbs
To the ant, a few drops of dew are a flood. – Persian Proverbs
To the ant, a few drops of dew is a flood. – Persian Proverbs
Too many cooks spoil the broth. – Persian Proverbs
Too many decision-makers may doom the outcome. – Persian Proverbs
Travel the highway, though it be roundabout – where shortcuts are dangerous. – Persian Proverbs
Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son. – Persian Proverbs
Trust in God — but tie your camel tight. – Persian Proverbs
Two midwives, and the baby’s head will be crooked. – Persian Proverbs
Uneaten soup and burned mouth. – Persian Proverbs
Upon arriving in paradise the wealthy man finds only a pot of oil to which he will be boiled until the flabby flesh falls from his stingy bones. – Persian Proverbs
Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake. – Persian Proverbs
Usually said to the mother of a difficult child. – Persian Proverbs
Walls have ears. – Persian Proverbs
Walls have mice and mice have ears. – Persian Proverbs
Water does not trickle out of his hand. – Persian Proverbs
Water has leaked under her/his skin. – Persian Proverbs
Water has seeped under her skin. – Persian Proverbs
Water is in the jug, yet we’re wandering around with parched lips. – Persian Proverbs
Water is muddy at the fountainhead. – Persian Proverbs
Water is past his head. – Persian Proverbs
Water long stagnant becomes putrid. – Persian Proverbs
We are all unique. – Persian Proverbs
We are not in charge of our own destiny. – Persian Proverbs
We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping. – Persian Proverbs
We might’ve fallen from the horse, but not from the honor. – Persian Proverbs
We might’ve had some misfortunes, but that doesn’t lower our class or diminish our patriciate. – Persian Proverbs
We sifted our flour and hung up our sifter. – Persian Proverbs
We’re alive from lack of a shroud. – Persian Proverbs
We’re responsible for our own misfortune. – Persian Proverbs
What can the enemy do when the friend is cordial. – Persian Proverbs
What fear has he whose account is clean? – Persian Proverbs
What goes around, comes around. – Persian Proverbs
What I wished for happened not — What God willed happened to a dot. – Persian Proverbs
What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind. – Persian Proverbs
What my heart wanted didn’t happen — What God wanted, that happened. – Persian Proverbs
What percolates out of the jug is what’s inside it. – Persian Proverbs
What the thief stole has always been called expensive. – Persian Proverbs
What you give away you keep. – Persian Proverbs
What you hear about something may not be equivalent to its qualities. – Persian Proverbs
What you’ve brought for me, take for your aunt. – Persian Proverbs
Whatever I disliked, happened to me. – Persian Proverbs
Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue. – Persian Proverbs
Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose. – Persian Proverbs
When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice. – Persian Proverbs
When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals. – Persian Proverbs
When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. – Persian Proverbs
When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks. – Persian Proverbs
When fate strikes physicians are useless. – Persian Proverbs
When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth. – Persian Proverbs
When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks. – Persian Proverbs
When I am dead the world can be an ocean or a dried up ditch. – Persian Proverbs
When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter. – Persian Proverbs
When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter. – Persian Proverbs
When one is really thirsty, one thousand pearls are not what is craved for at all. – Persian Proverbs
When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined. – Persian Proverbs
When the cat and the mouse agree, the store manager is broke. – Persian Proverbs
When the snake is old, the frog will tease him. – Persian Proverbs
When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth. – Persian Proverbs
When the water goes uphill, the frog sings AbuAta. – Persian Proverbs
When there are two cooks, the soup becomes either salty or saltless. – Persian Proverbs
When there are two cooks, the soup will be either too salty or tasteless. – Persian Proverbs
When there’s fire, dry and wet burn together. – Persian Proverbs
When water remains in one place, it spoils. – Persian Proverbs
When water stays at one place, it rots. – Persian Proverbs
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. – Persian Proverbs
When you throw an apple up, it turns a thousand times before it come down. – Persian Proverbs
Whenever you catch the fish it is fresh. – Persian Proverbs
Where is the person who has not soiled his garments? – Persian Proverbs
Where the camel is sold for a cent, the ass is worthless. – Persian Proverbs
Where there is bear, there is fear. – Persian Proverbs
Where there’s a beauty, there’s a beast also. – Persian Proverbs
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. – Persian Proverbs
Whether you were gold or satin, you’re the same acanthus-seller. – Persian Proverbs
While yearning for excess we lose the necessities. – Persian Proverbs
While you were chirping with vernal giddiness, didn’t you think of brumal harshness? – Persian Proverbs
Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast. – Persian Proverbs
Who has ever seen tomorrow? – Persian Proverbs
Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more. – Persian Proverbs
Who is in fault suspects everybody. – Persian Proverbs
Who sows barley cannot reap wheat. – Persian Proverbs
Whoever can walk on water is probably made of straw. – Persian Proverbs
Whoever challenges Ali will be doomed. – Persian Proverbs
Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes. – Persian Proverbs
Why don’t you follow your own advice? – Persian Proverbs
Why would a pool that doesn’t have water need so many frogs? – Persian Proverbs
Why would a pool with no water need so many frogs? – Persian Proverbs
Why you asking an idiot? – Persian Proverbs
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. – Persian Proverbs
With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. – Persian Proverbs
With one ear he hears, and with the other he dismisses. – Persian Proverbs
With this beard you want to go to Tajrish? – Persian Proverbs
With time and art the leaf of a mulberry-tree becomes satin. – Persian Proverbs
Woe is he who claims to have found happiness. – Persian Proverbs
Woe to being a housewife/househusband, you buy one thing, you don’t have two others. – Persian Proverbs
Woe to home-makers; you buy one thing, you don’t have two others. – Persian Proverbs
Woe to Leili’s doogh (yogurt drink with water), the yogurt was too little and the water too much. – Persian Proverbs
Woe to Leili’s doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much. – Persian Proverbs
Woe to Leili’s doogh, the yogurt was too little and the water too much. – Persian Proverbs
Women are just like cats — they always land on their feet. – Persian Proverbs
Women are just like cats, they always land on their feet. – Persian Proverbs
Work is twice done by the man in a hurry. – Persian Proverbs
Year after year we long for (what we left behind) the previous year. – Persian Proverbs
You aside, may God give your children some intelligence. – Persian Proverbs
You ask the donkey when’s Wednesday? – Persian Proverbs
You became full by eating not by licking. – Persian Proverbs
You became full by eating, it won’t happen by licking. – Persian Proverbs
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men. – Persian Proverbs
You can close the city gates, but you can’t close the people’s mouths. – Persian Proverbs
You can stay here until the cows come home. – Persian Proverbs
You can wait as much as you want, but it’s useless. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t pick up two watermelons with one hand. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t please everyone. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t push on a rope. – Persian Proverbs
You cannot applaud with one hand. – Persian Proverbs
You cannot hang everything on one nail. – Persian Proverbs
You cannot have everything at the same time. – Persian Proverbs
You cannot have your cake and eat it too. – Persian Proverbs
You cannot milk a bull. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t escape death and guests. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t pick up two melons with one hand. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t pick up two watermelons with one hand. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t please everyone. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t polish a turd. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t push on a rope. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t put an old head on young shoulders. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t put new wine in old bottles. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t squeeze blood from a rock. – Persian Proverbs
You can’t take blood from a stone. – Persian Proverbs
You don’t put a wooden pot on the fire twice. – Persian Proverbs
You name it, this imp has done it. – Persian Proverbs
You needed this like you needed a hole in the head. – Persian Proverbs
You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself. – Persian Proverbs
You see nothing, you hear nothing. – Persian Proverbs
You should grease his palm. – Persian Proverbs
You toss charity in the Tigris, and God shall return it in the desert. – Persian Proverbs
Your appearance is not appropriate for the occasion. – Persian Proverbs
You’ve grazed so much, where’s your tail-fat? – Persian Proverbs
You’ve grazed so much; where’s your tail fat? – Persian Proverbs
You’ve spent so much money on yourself; what good are you? – Persian Proverbs
A bachelor should not be a match-maker. – Jewish Proverbs
A basic rule of caution: Don’t be overly cautious. – Jewish Proverbs
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. – Jewish Proverbs
A broken nail cannot be straightened. – Jewish Proverbs
(i.e. It is useless to preach to one completely spoiled)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. – Jewish Proverbs
A dead cow gives no milk. – Jewish Proverbs
A defect – the bride is too pretty. – Jewish Proverbs
(Usually said when some one is seeking non-existent faults.)
A defendant’s confession is worth a hundred witnesses. – Jewish Proverbs
A dog can’t be a butcher, and a bachelor can’t be a matchmaker.
A dream which has not been interpreted is like an unread letter. – Jewish Proverbs
A drowning man will grab even for the point of a sword. – Jewish Proverbs
A fault-finder complains even that the bride is too pretty. – Jewish Proverbs
A fool believes everything he hears. – Jewish Proverbs
A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing. – Jewish Proverbs
A full sack stands upright. – Jewish Proverbs
A good dream is better than a bad one. – Jewish Proverbs
A good name is more valuable than a velvet garment. – Moroccan Jewish Proverbs
A good son-in-law is like the acquisition of a new son; a bad one is like the loss of your daughter. – Jewish Proverbs
A good tree bears good fruit. – Jewish Proverbs
A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth. – Jewish Proverbs
A half-truth is a whole lie. – Jewish Proverbs
A healthy person instinctively loves life. – Jewish Proverbs
A heavy purse makes a light heart. – Jewish Proverbs
A house divided against itself – its future is to be destroyed. – Jewish Proverbs
A leader is not necessarily one who knows the way but one who thinks he knows the way. – Jewish Proverbs
A little child weighs on your knee, a big one on your heart. – Estonian Jewish Proverbs
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn. – Jewish Proverbs
A man in love is a happy man. – Jewish Proverbs
A man is not allowed to eat before he feeds his animal. – Jewish Proverbs
A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity. – Jewish Proverbs
A man too good for the world is no good for his wife. – Jewish Proverbs
A man’s clothes hint at his inner character. – Jewish Proverbs
A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish Proverbs
A myrtle standing among reeds still retains the name of myrtle. – Jewish Proverbs
A nation’s future lies in its past. – Jewish Proverbs
A people’s legends reveal its character more clearly than its acts and events. – Jewish Proverbs
A person can understand things deeply through proverbs. – Jewish Proverbs
A person cannot create even a tiny worm, but he fashions thousands of idols. – Jewish Proverbs
A person is lonely until he finds himself. – Jewish Proverbs
A person should not derive pleasure from his modesty. – Jewish Proverbs
A person should walk down the middle of the path, and not veer to one side or the other. – Jewish Proverbs
A person who lives among the righteous and sins is worse than one who lives among the wicked and sins. – Jewish Proverbs
A person who travels knows a great deal. – Jewish Proverbs
A person worries about the past, distresses about the present, and fears the future. – Jewish Proverbs
A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. – Jewish Proverbs
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the hungry. – Jewish Proverbs
A raven that brings fire to its nest. – Jewish Proverbs
A shut mouth catches no flies. -Irish Jewish Proverbs
A slave shows his true character, not while he is enslaved but when he becomes a master. – Jewish Proverbs
A small hole can sink a big ship. – Jewish Proverbs
A store is a golden chain. – Jewish Proverbs
(Any business, though profitable, keeps its owner tied down.)
A time to keep silent and a time to speak. – Jewish Proverbs
A wife is like a defensive wall for her husband. – Jewish Proverbs
A wolf loses his hair, but not his nature. – Jewish Proverbs
A woman’s voice arouses lust in a man. – Jewish Proverbs
A young man has to live, an old man wishes to live. – Jewish Proverbs
A young tree bends, an old tree breaks. – Jewish Proverbs
A bad partner is worse than rain — the latter makes you go home, while the former makes you go outside. – Jewish Proverbs
A deaf man heard a dumb man recount that a blind man saw a lame one run very fast. – Jewish Proverbs
A guest and a fish start reeking on the third day. – Jewish Proverbs
A man should live at least for curiosity. – Jewish Proverbs
According to the camel is the load. – Jewish Proverbs
[Great people get bigger burdens.]
Adam was the first lucky man as he had no mother-in-law. – Jewish Proverbs
Advice often comes too late when a thing is done. – Jewish Proverbs
Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless. – Jewish Proverbs
All people are good from afar. – Jewish Proverbs
All things grow with time — except grief. – Jewish Proverbs
Always marry for love -but it’s as easy to fall in love with An angry man sleeps alone. – Jewish Proverbs
Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh. – Jewish Proverbs
An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune. – Jewish Proverbs
An intelligent mind will search for knowledge. – Jewish Proverbs
An intelligent person is like a strong oak: he rides over his misfortune. – Jewish Proverbs
Any Jew knows what’s better. – Jewish Proverbs
Anyone who teases you loves you. – Jewish Proverbs
As he thinks in his heart, so he is. – Jewish Proverbs
As long as the cow can be milked, it is not brought to the slaughterer. – Jewish Proverbs
As men age, their views change. – Jewish Proverbs
As you do, so will be done to you. – Jewish Proverbs
As you make your bed so will you lie on it. – Russian Jewish Proverbs
As you teach, you learn. – Jewish Proverbs
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. – Jewish Proverbs
Ask your enemy for counsel and do the reverse. – Jewish Proverbs
At different ages, a person feels differently. – Jewish Proverbs
At times you’ll find a people’s outlook in its proverbs. – Jewish Proverbs
Attend no auctions if you have no money. – Jewish Proverbs
Bad servants ask for advice after the deed is done. – Jewish Proverbs
Baseless hate is a serious disease. – Jewish Proverbs
Be a pauper rather than a liar. – Jewish Proverbs
Be careful not to cause woman to weep, for God counts her tears. – Jewish Proverbs
Be exceeding lowly of spirit, for the hope of man is the worm. – Jewish Proverbs
Be sure to send a lazy man for the angel of death. – Jewish Proverbs
Be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong. – Jewish Proverbs
Be not sweet, or else you’ll be eaten. Be not bitter, or else you’ll be spat out. – Jewish Proverbs
Because of money, the world became ugly. – Jewish Proverbs
Being gray of hair means you’re simply old, not wise. – Jewish Proverbs
Being too nice can cost a lot. • Too nice can cost a lot of money. – Jewish Proverbs
Benevolence does not impoverish all and sundry. – Yiddish Proverbs
Better a Jew without a beard, than a beard without a Jew. – Jewish Proverbs
Better an easy death than a hard life. – Jewish Proverbs
Better ask twice than go wrong once. – German Jewish Proverbs
Better late ripe and bear, than early blossom and blast. – Jewish Proverbs
Better to get from God by the spoonful than from Man by the bushel. – Jewish Proverbs
Better wit than wealth. – Jewish Proverbs
[Wit: Intelligence; mind, astute mental soundness and so on, including “clever and apt humour”. Cf. Merriam-Webster]
Between bad company and loneliness, the latter is preferable. – Sephardic Jewish Proverbs
Beware of the person who gives you advice according to his own interests. – Jewish Proverbs
Blick auf die Maid, und nicht aufs Kleid. – Jewish Proverbs
Cancer–schmancer! – as long as you’re healthy. – Jewish Proverbs
Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. – Jewish Proverbs
Charity is the spice of riches. – Jewish Proverbs
Chickens come home to roost. – Jewish Proverbs
Choose your companion before (taking) the road. – Arabian Jewish Proverbs
Choosing between two evils, a pessimist picks both. – Jewish Proverbs
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. – Jewish Proverbs
Consider the mother, woo the daughter. – Bulgarian Jewish Proverbs
Constant dripping eats away at a stone. – Jewish Proverbs
Das letzte Hemd soll man versetzen und ein Ojscher (reicher Mann) soll man sein. – Jewish Proverbs
Dead men usually tell no tales. – Jewish Proverbs
[Saul speaking with the dead Samuel]
Death does not knock at the door. – Jewish Proverbs
Deeds count; words not so much. – Jewish Proverbs
Deliver your words not by numbers but by weight. – Jewish Proverbs
Descend a step in choosing your wife. – Jewish Proverbs
Dieselbe Sonne bleicht die Leinewand, und bräunt das Gesicht. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not abandon us when we grow old. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not ask questions of fairy tales. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not despise an ignorant man who strives to gain knowledge, or a man of ill repute who strives to redeem his past. – Jewish Proverbs, [Midrash Proverbs 7]
Do not drain the waters of your well while other people may desire them. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not grow accustomed to uttering oaths. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not limit you children to your own learning, for they were born in a different time. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not measure the tail of a live wolf. – Bulgarian Jewish Proverbs
Do not meet troubles half-way. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not place an obstacle before a blind person. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not pour out your dirty water ere you have clean water. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not put all your cheese into one fritter. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not say, “I’ll study when I’m free” – you may never be free. Also: say not, ‘When I have leisure I will study; perchance you may not have leisure.’ – Jewish Proverbs
Do not side with the majority to do wrong. – Jewish Proverbs
Do not swallow poison because you know an antidote. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t be too sweet, or else you will be eaten up; but don’t be too bitter, or else you will be spitted out. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t trust someone who tells you all of his troubles and keeps you from all of his joys. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t ask questions of fairy tales. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t bargain when you don’t have any money. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t be choleric and you shall not sin. – Jewish Proverbs
[Getting furious may weaken our judgement.]
Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don’t be too bitter lest you be spewed out. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t be too sweet, or else you will be eaten up; but don’t be too bitter, or else you will be spitted out. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t enter the forest if you fear leaves. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t follow the majority in the wrong path, because the majority are not always wise. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t gut your fish till you get them. – Scottish Jewish Proverbs
Don’t live in a town where there are no doctors. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t make a toil of pleasure. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t pick a wasp out of a cream-jug. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t put all your money into one corner. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t sell the sun to buy a candle. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t shame an oldster, for we’ll all be counted among them. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t spit into the well – you might drink from it later. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t throw out an old friend for a new one. – Jewish Proverbs
Don’t withhold the good where it is due, if it’s in your power to do it. – Jewish Proverbs
Drive your horse with oats – not with a whip. – Jewish Proverbs
Dying men speak true. – Jewish Proverbs
Each child brings his own blessing into the world, presumably. – Jewish Proverbs
Eat to live, at least. – Jewish Proverbs
Eat your fill before you get children.Iß dich satt, bevor du Kinder kriegst. – Jewish Proverbs
Eggs may be much cleverer than chickens, but they go rotten too quickly. – Jewish Proverbs
Even butter and honey make you sick in time. – Bulgarian Jewish Proverbs
Even in this world, one can taste the joy of paradise. – Jewish Proverbs
Even the most expensive clock still shows sixty minutes in every hour. – Jewish Proverbs
Even the weather bureau is sometimes right. – Jewish Proverbs
Every man knows that he must die, but no one believes it. – Jewish Proverbs
Everyone complains about a lack of money, but none complain about a lack of brains. – Jewish Proverbs
Everything should be done within reason. – Jewish Proverbs
Experience is the mother of wisdom. – Jewish Proverbs
Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes. – Yiddish Proverbs
Experience is the word people use to call their mistakes. – Jewish Proverbs
Faith is not a whole series of axioms but a whole way of life. – Jewish Proverbs
Fear a goat in front of you, a horse behind you, and a fool all around. – Jewish Proverbs
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and morality. – Jewish Proverbs
First improve yourself, and then judge others. – Jewish Proverbs
First learn and then teach. – Jewish Proverbs
First learn, and then form opinions. – Jewish Proverbs
First mend yourself, and then mend others. – Jewish Proverbs
Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing is kicked out of doors. – Jewish Proverbs
Folly is a joy only to a person lacking in understanding. – Jewish Proverbs
Fools love to eat the wrong sorts of sweets. – German Jewish Proverbs
For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too. – Egyptian Jewish Proverbs
For the wise, old age is the harvest season. – Hassidic Jewish Proverbs
Frag’ einen Feind um Rat, und mach es umgekehrt. – Jewish Proverbs
From a foolish judge, a quick sentence. – Jewish Proverbs
From death one cannot hide. – Russian Jewish Proverbs
From one who has inherited, not from one for whom men plunder, [accept gifts]. – Jewish Proverbs
From the black earth there grows the finest grain. – Jewish Proverbs
Für die Wahrheit bekommt man Hiebe. – Jewish Proverbs
Generations come and go, but controversy lasts. – Jewish Proverbs
Gentle speech increases the number of friends. – Jewish Proverbs
Gluttony has killed more people than famine has. – Jewish Proverbs
God cannot be everywhere at once, that’s why He created mothers. – Jewish Proverbs
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. – Jewish Proverbs
God couldn’t be everywhere, so he created mothers. – Jewish Proverbs
God created man in His own image. – Jewish Proverbs
God gave man two ears and one mouth, so listen more and talk less. – Jewish Proverbs
God gives burdens also shoulders. – Jewish Proverbs
God help me rise to my feet; a fall is what I can do myself. – Jewish Proverbs
God is a father; luck is a stepfather. – Jewish Proverbs
God is closest to those with broken hearts. – Jewish Proverbs
God protect the poor — at least from expensive sins. – Jewish Proverbs
Good manners [often] supersede learning. – Jewish Proverbs
Growing old, man’s sight worsens, but this allows him to see more. – Jewish Proverbs
Habits are at first cobwebs, and at last cables. – Jewish Proverbs
Happiness is found in the heart. – Persian Jewish Proverbs
Happiness is more than gold. – Jewish Proverbs
Happy is she who conducts herself honorably. – Jewish Proverbs
Having gone into the city, conform to its laws. – Jewish Proverbs
He is at ease who has enough. – Jewish Proverbs
He that can’t endure the bad, will not live to see the good. – Jewish Proverbs
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. – Jewish Proverbs
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. – Jewish Proverbs
He that goes for wool may chance to come home shorn. – Scottish Jewish Proverbs
He that knows nothing, doubts nothing. – Jewish Proverbs
He that sows thistles shall reap prickles. – Jewish Proverbs
He who changes his location, changes his luck. – Jewish Proverbs
He who comes first, grinds first. – Jewish Proverbs
He who feels no compassion will become insane – Jewish Proverbs
He who flatters you is your enemy – who rebukes you is your friend. – Jewish Proverbs
He who has a certain nature will not sell it. – Moorish Jewish Proverbs
He who knows he is a fool is not a big fool. – Chinese Jewish Proverbs
He who marries for money earns it. – Jewish Proverbs
He who prays for his neighbor will be heard for himself. – Jewish Proverbs
He who puts up with insult invites injury. – Jewish Proverbs
He who sits at home, does not tear any boots. – Jewish Proverbs
Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain much. – Dutch Jewish Proverbs
He’s got to learn how to shave another’s beard. – Jewish Proverbs
Hospitality is one form of worship. – Jewish Proverbs
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow. – Tunisian Jewish Proverbs
However sweet love may be, you can’t make a stew out of it. – Jewish Proverbs
Humour is an important asset: it means understanding and self-criticism. Where humour is absent, you’ll find small-mindedness. – Jewish Proverbs
I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself. – Hungarian Jewish Proverbs
I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. – Jewish Proverbs
I learned much from my teachers, more from my friends, and the most from my pupils. – Jewish Proverbs
Ideas are something that usually comes like fireman- too late. – Jewish Proverbs
Idleness causes much mischief. – Jewish Proverbs
If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor. – Jewish Proverbs
If a link is broken, the whole chain breaks. • If one link has broken so has the whole chain. – Jewish Proverbs
If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two. – Jewish Proverbs
If charity cost nothing, the world could be full of philanthropists. – Jewish Proverbs
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. – Jewish Proverbs
If I am not for myself, who will be? – Jewish Proverbs
If it must always be better, it can never be good enough. – Jewish Proverbs
If not for fear, sin would be sweet. – Jewish Proverbs
If someone is coming to kill you, get up early and kill him first. – Jewish Proverbs
If the arrow-maker is killed by his arrow, he is paid out of his own work. – Jewish Proverbs
If the Creator wills it, the broom can shoot a bullet. – Jewish Proverbs
If the grandmother had a beard she would be a grandfather. – Jewish Proverbs
If the house has fallen, woe to the windows. – Jewish Proverbs
If the pupil is smart, the teacher gets the credit. – Jewish Proverbs
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. – Jewish Proverbs
If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living. – Jewish Proverbs
If the wheat of the city be rye-grass, sow of it. – Jewish Proverbs
If there is bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won’t make life sweeter. – Jewish Proverbs
If there’s a fire at your neighbor’s you, too, are in danger. – Jewish Proverbs
If you built up bundles of sins, make bundles of good deeds to offset the former. – Jewish Proverbs
If you can’t afford chicken, herring will do. – Jewish Proverbs
If you can’t bite, don’t bare your teeth. – Jewish Proverbs
If you can’t go over, you must go under. – Jewish Proverbs
If you did a good deed, don’t ask for an immediate reward. – Jewish Proverbs
If you don’t aspire to great things, you won’t attain small things. – Jewish Proverbs
If you ever need a helping hand you’ll find one at the end of your arm. – Jewish Proverbs
If you examine carefully enough, everything is tref. – Jewish Proverbs
treif, not kosher. Treif is a Yiddish word for food that does not conform with Jewish religious dietary laws, kashrut.]
If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird. – Jewish Proverbs
If you lack wisdom, what have you got? If you have got wisdom, what do you lack? – Jewish Proverbs
If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall. – Jewish Proverbs
If you quarrel with the rabbi, make peace with the bartender. – Jewish Proverbs
If you stay at home you won’t wear out your shoes. – Yiddish Proverbs
If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it. – Jewish Proverbs
(Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them.)
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. – Jewish Proverbs
If your son-in-law is good, you gained a son. If he is bad, you’ve lost a daughter. – Jewish Proverbs
If a problem can be solved with money, then it’s not a problem but a cost. – Jewish Proverbs
If charity was worth nothing, everyone would be philanthropists. – Jewish Proverbs
If life doesn’t change for the better, wait, and it will change for the worse. – Jewish Proverbs
In a large river, large fish swim. – Jewish Proverbs
In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter. – Jewish Proverbs
In choosing a friend, go up a step. – Jewish Proverbs
In every generation there is more knowledge of philosophy, and new wisdoms arise – thus new illnesses are added to every generation. – Jewish Proverbs
In the hour a man dies, the Law and his good works accompany him. – Jewish Proverbs
It is a good tongue that says no ill. – Jewish Proverbs
It is a great point of wisdom to find out one’s own folly. – Jewish Proverbs
It is best not to live in a city run by scholars. – Jewish Proverbs
It is better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors than to eat duck and hide from them. – Jewish Proverbs
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love. – Jewish Proverbs
It is good to draw the snake out of the hole with another’s hand. -Spanish -Jewish Proverbs
It is not every question that deserves an answer. – Jewish Proverbs
It is not the beard that makes the philosopher. – Jewish Proverbs
It is too late to call back yesterday. – Jewish Proverbs
It’s better to die of laughter than of fear. – Jewish Proverbs
It’s better to talk to a woman than stop living. – Jewish Proverbs
It’s easier to be a critic than an author. – Jewish Proverbs
It’s good to hope, it’s the waiting that spoils it. – Jewish Proverbs
It’s not as good with money, as it is bad without it. – Jewish Proverbs
Jealousy has teeth made of iron. – Jewish Proverbs
Judge every person with the benefit of the doubt. – Jewish Proverbs
Justice shall you pursue. – Jewish Proverbs
Keeping good silence is harder than talking good. – Jewish Proverbs
Know where you came for, where you are going, and who you are about to give account and reckoning in front of. – Jewish Proverbs
Knowledge does not take much space. – Jewish Proverbs
Koch einen Bauern süß oder sauer, er bleibt doch alleweil ein Bauer. – Jewish Proverbs
Learning is better than goods. -Moorish Jewish Proverbs
Leave the drunkard alone; he will fall by himself. – Jewish Proverbs
[Det er eit ord mot å gjere narr av og plage den fulle, eit ord som nok ikkje gjeld nemneverdig for hjelpande hender. Tanken som jødar legg i ordtaket er om lag slik: “Unngjelding kjem nok i si eiga tid. Prøv ikkje å framskynde ho.” (Jf. Cohen No. 198). Det er hyppig mange måtar å forstå ordspråk på om vi oppfattar dei figurativt, i overført meining.]
Lend your money and lose your friend. – Jewish Proverbs
Let your ears hear what your mouth says. – Jewish Proverbs
Life and misery began together. – Jewish Proverbs
Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing. – Jewish Proverbs
Life’s not as good with money as it is bad without it. – Jewish Proverbs
Locks keep out only the honest. – Jewish Proverbs
Loneliness breaks the spirit. – Jewish Proverbs
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. – Jewish Proverbs
Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. – Jewish Proverbs
Love speaks, even when the lips are closed. – Jewish Proverbs
Love which depends on some thing, when the thing ceases, the love ceases. – Jewish Proverbs
Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. • Love work; and hate lordship; and make not thyself known to the government. – Jewish Proverbs
Luck is better than wisdom. – French Jewish Proverbs
Luck makes you wise, luck makes you wealthy. – Jewish Proverbs
Lust [easily] leads to love. – Jewish Proverbs
Make no more haste than good speed. – Jewish Proverbs
Make room for the new. – Jewish Proverbs
Make sure to be in with your equals if you’re going to fall out with your superiors. – Jewish Proverbs
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death. – Jewish Proverbs
Man lives in hope. – Yiddish Jewish Proverbs
Man sees the mote in his neighbor’s eye, but does not know of the beam in his own.
May God protect you from bad people, and save yourself from good ones!
Men worry over the loss of their possessions, not over the loss of their years—which never return. – Jewish Proverbs
Mind your own business. – Jewish Proverbs
Misfortune tell us what fortune is. – Jewish Proverbs
Money rules the world. – Dutch Jewish Proverbs
Money will buy you everything but good sense. – Jewish Proverbs
Morality and beauty are essentially the same. – Jewish Proverbs
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children. – Jewish Proverbs
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. – Jewish Proverbs
My son, do as much good as you can . . . remember, there is no joy in the nether world. – Jewish Proverbs
Never be weary of doing good. – Jewish Proverbs
Never cry hallo till you are out of the woods. – Jewish Proverbs
Never make a promise you cannot keep. – Jewish Proverbs
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged. – Jewish Proverbs
Never too late to learn Latin. – Jewish Proverbs
Never trust people who tell you all their troubles but keep from you all their joys. – Jewish Proverbs
Never waste good agony. – Jewish Proverbs
Nicht jeder, der am Ehrenplatze sitzt, ist ein vornehmer Herr. – Jewish Proverbs
Nine rabbis can’t make a minyan, but ten cobblers, yes. – Jewish Proverbs
No individual can be whole without some link to the past. – Jewish Proverbs
No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. – Jewish Proverbs
No one shoe fits every foot. – Jewish Proverbs
No person is too old to learn. – French Jewish Proverbs
No rose without a thorn. – Jewish Proverbs
No use crying over spilt milk. – Jewish Proverbs
None is as deaf as the man who will not listen. – Jewish Proverbs
None should stand up to pray save in sober mood; the pious men of old used to wait an hour before they said their prayer, that they might direct their heart toward God. – Jewish Proverbs
Not everyone who is happy today will be happy tomorrow. – Jewish Proverbs
Not everyone with a good memory is intelligent. – Jewish Proverbs
Not to have felt pain is not to have been human. – Jewish Proverbs
Old people often survive the young. – Jewish Proverbs
One beggar cannot be at two fairs [at the same time]. – Jewish Proverbs
One cannot dig a well with a needle. – Turkish Jewish Proverbs
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool. – Jewish Proverbs
One lie begets another. – Jewish Proverbs
One match can set fire to a whole city. – Jewish Proverbs
One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. – Jewish Proverbs
One of life’s greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn’t good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. – Jewish Proverbs
One person’s candle furnishes light for many. – Jewish Proverbs
One should not send a cat to deliver cream. – Jewish Proverbs
One who bears false witness against his friend deserves to be thrown to the dogs. – Jewish Proverbs
One who has the reputation of an early riser may safely lie abed till noon. – Jewish Proverbs
One’s handwriting delineates his intelligence. – Jewish Proverbs
Only love gives us the taste of eternity. – Jewish Proverbs
Opinions are scanty, but differences of opinion abound. – Jewish Proverbs
Paradise exists everywhere for the true believers. – Jewish Proverbs
Parents teach their children to talk; children teach their parents silence. – Jewish Proverbs
Partnership is good only with your wife – and there are those who say this too is not certain. – Jewish Proverbs
Peace will not rise by force. – Jewish Proverbs
People are like grass in the field: some blossom, some wither. – Jewish Proverbs
People make plans and God laughs. – Jewish Proverbs
Perfection anywhere is very rare. – Jewish Proverbs
Play the flute to noblemen (and they find it pleasant; play it) to weavers and they will not accept it. [Fools criticise what the wise admire, adds Cohen. Among Jews, weavers were looked down on. – Jewish Proverbs
Poverty and old age often travel together. – Jewish Proverbs
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. – Jewish Proverbs
Praise a fair day at night. – Jewish Proverbs
Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. – Jewish Proverbs
Prepare your proof before you argue. – Jewish Proverbs
Prepare your proof before you argue. – Jewish Proverbs
Pretended holiness is double iniquity. – Jewish Proverbs
Prevention is better than cure. – Jewish Proverbs
Pride can live in the dungheap. – Jewish Proverbs
Pride is the mask of one’s own faults. – Jewish Proverbs
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. – Jewish Proverbs
Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty. – Jewish Proverbs
Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself. – Jewish Proverbs
Punishment of the sinner should not be seen as revenge. – Jewish Proverbs
Real success is success of the soul. – Jewish Proverbs
Reflection insures safety, but rashness is followed by regrets. – Jewish Proverbs
Regard not the flask, but what is in it; there is a new flask that is full of old (wine), and an old one in which there is not even new (wine). – Jewish Proverbs
Rejoice not at thine enemy’s fall – but don’t rush to pick him up either. – Jewish Proverbs
Say little and do much. – Jewish Proverbs
Say well, or be still. – Jewish Proverbs
Schickt man einen Narren einkaufen, dann freuen sich die Krämer. – Jewish Proverbs
Scholars expand peace in the world. – Jewish Proverbs
Scratching and lending help only for a while. – Jewish Proverbs
Sell the Holy Scrolls in the synagogue to give a poor girl a dowry. – Jewish Proverbs
Should the castle totter, its name is still castle; should the dunghill be raised, its name is still dunghill. – Jewish Proverbs
Should there be a case of hanging in someone’s family record, say not to him, “Hang up this fish”. – Jewish Proverbs
[Consideration and good judgement can be developed.]
Silence is the fence round wisdom. – Jewish Proverbs
Sin crouches at every door. – Jewish Proverbs
Slander is worse than idolatry. – Jewish Proverbs
Small children stamp on your lap, big ones on your heart. – Czech Jewish Proverbs
Soldiers die while the politicians receive glory.~ Jewish Proverb
Some that dance must pay the fiddler. – Jewish Proverbs
Some wispered words are heard afar. – Jewish Proverbs
Someone else’s worries don’t take away your sleep. – Jewish Proverbs
Sometimes a penny is better spent than saved. – Jewish Proverbs
Sometimes even the liar will speak the truth. – Jewish Proverbs
Sometimes it’s worthwhile for a wise man to play the role of a fool. – Jewish Proverbs
Sometimes people admit their mistakes, to mask their crimes. – Jewish Proverbs
Strike while the iron is hot. – Jewish Proverbs
Study today and don’t delay. – Jewish Proverbs
Stupid solutions that succeed are still stupid solutions. – Jewish Proverbs
Sympathy doesn’t provide food, but it makes hunger more endurable. – Jewish Proverbs
Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another’s heart. – Jewish Proverbs
Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know. – Jewish Proverbs
Teach your tongue to say “I don’t know” instead of to make up something. – Jewish Proverbs
Tell nothing to your friend that your enemy does not know. – Jewish Proverbs
The beard does not make the philosopher. – Italian Jewish Proverbs
The bigger thief is he who steals people’s minds. – Jewish Proverbs
The birds of the air despise a miser. – Jewish Proverbs
The common soldiers do the fighting, and the officers claim the victory. – Jewish Proverbs
The costliest clock can only show sixty minutes in every hour. – Jewish Proverbs
The crime itself is the punishment for crime. – Jewish Proverbs
The darkest hour of night heralds break of dawn. – Jewish Proverbs
The devil lurks behind the cross. – Jewish Proverbs
The dog follows you for the crumbs in your pocket. – Jewish Proverbs
The egg of today is better than the hen of tomorrow. – Jewish Proverbs
The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve. – Jewish Proverbs
The glory of young men is their strength. – Jewish Proverbs
The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one. – Jewish Proverbs
The greatest wisdom is that a person should not be over-wise. – Jewish Proverbs
The heart is small and embraces the whole wide world. – Jewish Proverbs
The heart of a man may be compared to a sausage; few know exactly what’s inside it. – Jewish Proverbs
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. – Jewish Proverbs
The man who cannot survive bad times will not see good times. – Jewish Proverbs
The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown. – Jewish Proverbs
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. – Jewish Proverbs
The masses are no asses. – Jewish Proverbs
The merchant’s way is first to show you junk, and then the good stuff. – Jewish Proverbs
The old lack enthusiasm, the young lack shrewdness. – Jewish Proverbs
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten. – Jewish Proverbs
The pearl is found in mud. – Latin Jewish Proverbs
The person who only accepts friends without faults will never have any real friends. – Jewish Proverbs
The place does not honour the man – it is the man who gives honour to the place. [It may be a both-end also.] – Jewish Proverbs
The poor fool is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose. – Jewish Proverbs
The rich man carries God in his pocket, the poor man in his heart. – Jewish Proverbs
The righteous say little and do much. – Jewish Proverbs
The rivalry of scholars advances science. – Jewish Proverbs
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes. – Jewish Proverbs
The soul cannot be spat out. – Jewish Proverbs
The sun will set without your assistance. – Jewish Proverbs
The talk of the child in the street is that of his father or his mother. – Jewish Proverbs
The thief on the point of breaking into (a house) calls on God (for help). – Jewish Proverbs
The thief who finds no opportunity to steal considers himself an honest man. – Jewish Proverbs
The tongue has no bone, yet it crushes. – Turkish Jewish Proverbs
The truly rich enjoy what they have. – Jewish Proverbs
The truth is not always what we want to hear. – Jewish Proverbs
The weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. – Latin Jewish Proverbs
The wine belongs to the master, but the waiter receives the thanks. – Jewish Proverbs
The wise man conceals his intelligence; the fool displays his foolishness. – Jewish Proverbs
The world exists for the sake of kindness. – Jewish Proverbs
The world is bound to no man. – Jewish Proverbs
The world resembles a collapsing bridge. – Jewish Proverbs
The world will not disappear because there are many people, but because there are too many non-people. – Jewish Proverbs
There are lots of wise cures for slanderers. One of them is to get and stick to material that brings an accurate, fairly gained picture, and take pains to be precise to that purpose. – Jewish Proverbs
There are many academic chairs but few outstanding teachers. – Jewish Proverbs
There is no book that contains absolutely nothing bad, and there is no book that contains absolutely nothing good. – Jewish Proverbs
There is no book that has not something bad in it, none that has not something good. – Jewish Proverbs
There is no chasm in nature. – Jewish Proverbs
There is no place like home. – Jewish Proverbs
There is no time like the present. – Jewish Proverbs
There is seldom any occasion to light your lamp at noontide. – Jewish Proverbs
There’s a time to throw and a time to gather stones. – Jewish Proverbs
Through Kamtsa and Bar Kamtsa was the Temple destroyed. – Jewish Proverbs, [” Kamsa and Bar Kamsa”]
Time and chance happen to everyone. – Jewish Proverbs
Time enough to bewail your misfortune when it is here. – Jewish Proverbs
To be conscious that you’re ignorant is a great step to knowledge. – Jewish Proverbs
Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting. – Jewish Proverbs
Trees were created for mankind’s companionship. – Jewish Proverbs
Truth is a tree of life – you shall eat from it all your life. – Jewish Proverbs
Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it. – Jewish Proverbs
Truth is the safest lie. – Jewish Proverbs
Uphill we always climb with caution, downhill we dash, carefree. – Jewish Proverbs
Use your noble vase today; tomorrow it may break.. – Jewish Proverbs
Verkehrt gefahren ist auch gefahren. – Jewish Proverbs
Victuals prepared by many cooks will be neither hot nor cold. – Jewish Proverbs
Vom Nichtnehmen ist noch kein Mensch reich geworden. – Jewish Proverbs
Vor dem Tod und vor dem Dalles [poverty] kann man sich nicht schützen. – Jewish Proverbs
Was nützt es, wenn die Kuh viel Milch gibt, wenn sie nachher den Milchkrug umwirft. – Jewish Proverbs
Was nutzt, daß der Bursch Sporen anhat, wenn er nicht reiten kann. – Jewish Proverbs
We are too soon old, and too late wise. – Jewish Proverbs
We do not even get death free of charge, for it costs us a life. – Russian Jewish Proverbs
Weak walls invite the burglar. – Jewish Proverbs
Well-known things do not need proof. – Jewish Proverbs
Wenn ein Kantor alt wird, bellt er wie ein Hund und frißt wie ein Schwein. – Jewish Proverbs
Wenn Gott will, schießt ein Besen. – Jewish Proverbs
Wenn man keinen Knoblauch ißt, stinkt man nicht. – Jewish Proverbs
What cannot be cured, must be endured. – Jewish Proverbs
What is the use of spurs when you cannot ride. – Jewish Proverbs
What one has, one doesn’t want, and what one wants, one doesn’t have. – Jewish Proverbs
What one wants, one doesn’t have. – Jewish Proverbs
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish Proverbs
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your mouth. – Jewish Proverbs
What you give for charity while you’re in health is gold; what you give after death is lead. – Jewish Proverbs
What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead. – Jewish Proverbs
Whatever has not happened in a thousand years may happen the next moment. – Jewish Proverbs
What’s done is done. – Jewish Proverbs
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – Jewish Proverbs
When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry. – Jewish Proverbs
When a fool is sent to market, all the merchants are happy. – Jewish Proverbs
When a habit begins to cost money, it’s called a hobby. – Jewish Proverbs
When a pauper eats a chicken, either he is ill – or the chicken was. – Jewish Proverbs
When a thief has no opportunity for stealing he considers himself an honest man. – Jewish Proverbs
When an old maiden marries, she becomes a young wife. – Jewish Proverbs
When brains are needed, brawn won’t help. – Jewish Proverbs
When con men meet a legitimately honest man, they are so bewildered that they consider him a greater con man than themselves. – Jewish Proverbs
When God is with you, fear not foe! – Jewish Proverbs
When he was a puppy, I fed him, and when he became a dog he bit me. – Jewish Proverbs, [Talmud]
When luck comes, offer him a chair. – Jewish Proverbs
When one band is broken, two are broken. – Jewish Proverbs
[A reminder of possible interconnections, as in a loom and a network.]
When one guest brings an uninvited guest, that is improper. – Jewish Proverbs
When people have nothing to do, they take up great deeds. – Jewish Proverbs
When someone claims an inheritance, he sometimes has to pay for the funeral. – Jewish Proverbs
When swindlers meet a genuinely honest man, they’re so astonished they regard him as a greater swindler than themselves. – Jewish Proverbs
When the ox falls, they sharpen their knives. – Jewish Proverbs
When the ox is down many are the butchers. – Jewish Proverbs
When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed. – Jewish Proverbs
When wood is chopped splinters fall. – Jewish Proverbs
When you have no choice, mobilise the spirit of courage. – Jewish Proverbs
When you open a door, don’t forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly. – Jewish Proverbs
When your daughter matures, marry her off! – Jewish Proverbs
When your enemy falls, don’t rejoice overtly. – Jewish Proverbs
When schnapps [‘drink’] goes in, judgment goes out. – Jewish Proverbs
Where many go, no grass will grow. – Jewish Proverbs
Where there is too much, something is missing. – Jewish Proverbs
Where two Jews, three opinions. – Jewish Proverbs
Wherever I sit, there is the front. – Jewish Proverbs
(Usually said by an important person when he declines to sit up front.)
Wherever there is a secret, smell if something is wrong. – Jewish Proverbs
Whether a person be Jew or Gentile . . . according to his acts does the Divine Spirit rest upon him. – Jewish Proverbs
While the fire is burning, slice your pumpkin and roast it. – Jewish Proverbs
[“Strike while the iron is hot” has the same main meaning.]
Who doesn’t have children brings them up best. – Jewish Proverbs
Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. – Jewish Proverbs
Who has eaten of the pot knows the taste of the broth. [About knowing things from one’s own experience. – Jewish Proverbs
Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has. – Jewish Proverbs
Who sits on the ground fears no fall. – Slovakian Jewish Proverbs
Who slanders others for what they are innocent of will be damned for his own guilt. – Jewish Proverbs
Who spends before he thrives, will beg before he thinks. – Jewish Proverbs
Whoever does not try, does not learn. – Jewish Proverbs
Whoever enjoys his life is doing the Creator’s will. – Jewish Proverbs
Whoever is crying for the past is praying in vain. – Jewish Proverbs
Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son’s son, and so on to the end of generations. – Jewish Proverbs
Wie du einen ansiehst, so sieht er aus. – Jewish Proverbs
Wie kommt die Katz übers Wasser? “Mit nasse Fuß.” – Jewish Proverbs
Wisdom by itself does not pay for groceries. – Jewish Proverbs
Wisdom goes not always by years. – Jewish Proverbs
Wisdom is a very great pedigree. – Jewish Proverbs
Wisdom is more precious than jewels. – Jewish Proverbs
With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too. – Jewish Proverbs
With money in your pocket, you are wise, handsome, and you sing well too. [i.e. – you are fawned on] – Jewish Proverbs
With much wealth comes many worries. – Jewish Proverbs
[- and easily, unless you are smart at handling such things and what each brings].
With wisdom alone you cannot go to market. – Jewish Proverbs
Without [sound] family life, no nation can be built. – Jewish Proverbs
Woe to him who is hated by all, or to him who is loved by all. – Jewish Proverbs
Words should be weighed, and not only counted. – Jewish Proverbs
Words should be weighed, not counted. – Jewish Proverbs
Work [has the capacity to] make life sweet. – Jewish Proverbs
Worries go down better with soup than without. – Jewish Proverbs
Ye wise, be guarded in your words. – Jewish Proverbs
You can’t force anyone to love you or lend you money. – Jewish Proverbs
You don’t put the cat in charge of the cream. – Jewish Proverbs
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. – Jewish Proverbs
Your enemy’s enemy is your friend. – Jewish Proverbs
Your friend also has a friend. – Jewish Proverbs
(So be wary of telling your secrets even to your friends.)
Your friend has a friend, and your friend’s friend has another friend — so know when to keep quiet. – Jewish Proverbs
Your friend has a friend; don’t tell him. – Jewish Proverbs
.נפלה האבן על הקדרה, אוי לקדרה. נפלה הקדרה על האבן, אוי לקדרה
The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the stone? Woe to the pitcher.
Esther Rabbah 7:10, quoted in Lewis Browne: The Wisdom of Israel, an Anthology
בכל החזיתות שאנו מטילים על אחרים אנחנו מדגימים את הפוטנציאל שלנו, דרך הילדים שלנו אנחנו מגלים את המציאות שלנו. – לורנס קלמן, כדי ללבות עמ ‘נשמה
In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
Lawrence Kelemen, To Kindle A Soul, p. 195
If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it.
Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them.
Talmud Bavli, Berakoth, 5b
When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.
Quoted in Forbes Magazine vol.146 (1990), p.182 as a Yiddish proverb. (It was also used in Fiddler on the Roof.)
Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh said: Be exceedingly humble in spirit, for the hope of earthly man is but decay.
Avot, Pirkei (1979). “4”. פרקי אבות. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-87306-182-7.
Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; dust yourself in the soil of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words. -Yossei ben Yoezer
Ethics Of The Fathers Text of Chapter One – Texts & Writings. Chabad.org. Retrieved on 2019-05-28.
Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. -Shmaayah
Who is wise? He who learns from all men -Ben Zoma
Ethics Of The Fathers Avot, Pirkey (1979). “4”. פרקי אבות. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-87306-182-7.
על דאטפת אטפוך וסוף מטיפייך – יטופון (Mishnah Avot 2,7)
Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
Youth is a crown of roses, old age a crown of willows.
Youth is a light burden, old age a heavy one.
Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 152a
In old men there is no taste, in young no insight.
The old lack enthusiasm, the young lack shrewdness.
Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 89b
I do not want a shoe larger than my foot.
I do not want a husband of higher rank than my own.
Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin, 49a
Don’t boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day will bring.
Whoever seeks cake loses his bread.
Whoever argues for the sake of argument is a boor.
Any home not built for hot days or rains is not a home.
“Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs”, David C. Gross
A bad father has never a good son.
A beardless boy would teach old men.
A beaten track is a safe one.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A bird is distinguished by its note.
A biting cur wears a torn skin.
A blockhead, a dolt, a donkey, a leaden-headed fellow.
A blow from a frying-pan blacks, though it may not hurt.
A bow too much bent is broken.
A busybody is always malevolent.
A captive they insult with impunity.
A carpenter is known by his chips.
A cautious man will observe the indications of character which nature reveals in others.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
A chair unsound Soon finds the ground.
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
A clear conscience is a wall of brass.
A combined defence is the safest.
A common blot is held no stain.
A common shipwreck is a consolation to all.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A contented man is always rich.
A contented mind is a continual feast.
A cough assists a musician when he hesitates.
A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats.
A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.
A crooked log is not to be straightened.
A dealer in rubbish sounds the praises of rubbish.
A delightful hallucination.
A depraved mind never comes to good.
A diligent man ever finds that something remains to be done.
A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship.
A dog as he sleeps barks as if on the track of the hare.
A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not notice them.
A dog is worthy of his food.
A dog that has once tasted the flesh cannot be kept from the skin.
A dog that will fetch a bone will carry a bone.
A dog which has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.
A donkey is known by his ears.
A door must be either shut or open.
A drop of luck is worth a cask of wisdom.
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone.
A faithless wife is shipwreck to a house.
A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won.
A fire is nourished by its own ashes. – Latin Proverbs
[Difficulties embolden rather than impede the brave.]
A fisherman once stung will be wiser.
A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve. – Latin Proverbs
[He mistakes friends for foes and foes for friends.]
A fool talks of folly.
A fox is known by this tail.
A fox is not caught twice in the same trap.
A friend that will go to the scaffold with you.
A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you.
A gadding girl is rarely coy.
A good beginning ensures a good ending.
A good dinner helps deliberation.
A good dog deserves a good bone.
A good leader makes a good follower.
A good name is like sweet smelling ointment.
A good orator, but a very bad man.
A good thing is esteemed more in its absence than in its enjoyment.
A great anvil fears not noise.
A great city, a great desert.
A great dowry, a bed full of brambles.
A greedy mind is satisfied with no amount of gain.
A guest should not remain for ever a guest.
A happy life consists in virtue.
A hard knot requires a hard wedge.
A hard life but a healthy one.
A honey-comb in the mouth of a lion.
A horse deprived of his food won’t work.
A hungry ass needs not a blow.
A hungry man will listen to nothing.
A jackdaw among the muses.
A jealous woman will set a whole house on fire.
A joke should not be carried too far.
A kindness bestowed on the good is never thrown away.
A king or a slave.
A king, a master, a parent, a judge, may fail to frighten us; but sickness coming brings with it successful reproof.
A king’s castle is his home.
A king’s chaff is worth more than other men’s corn.
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
A lengthy sermon is intolerable.
A leopard cannot change his spots.
A leopard does not change his spots.
A letter once written cannot be recalled.
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. – Latin Proverbs
[Fable of boy and wolf.]
A light supper is beneficial.
A lion may be beholden to a mouse.
A lover should be regarded as a person demented.
A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at eighty.
A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.
A man if he lives alone is either a god or a demon.
A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
A man is a king in his own house.
A man is judged by his clothes.
A man is judged of by his companions.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
A man may lose what are his clearest rights by not demanding them.
A man of few words but learned withal.
A man of good natural plain common sense.
A man of three letters, ” F U R.”
A man should be religious but not superstitious.
A middle course is the safest.
A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
A miser’s son is generally a spendthrift.
A monkey is not to be caught in a trap.
A mouse in pitch. – Latin Proverbs
[A man engaged in useless and perplexing inquiries.]
A mouse in time may bite in two a cable.
A mouse may help a lion.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.
A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow.
A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.
A perfect whipping-top for changing sides.
A pestilence follows a famine.
A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when one must pay him.
A picture is a poem wanting words.
A plank in a wreck.
A poor cask often holds good wine.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you; that is life.
A precipice is in front, a wolf behind.
A prospering man should remain at home.
A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue’s heir.
A ridiculous accident has often been the making of many.
A ring of gold in a sow’s nostril.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
A rogue says “Yes” to what a rogue says.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
A rotten egg cannot be spoiled.
A sceptre is one thing, a ladle another.
A service done to the unwilling is no service.
A sick mind cannot endure any harshness.
A silent woman is always more admired than a noisy one.
A slave yesterday, to-day a freedman.
A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed.
A small competence is best.
A small gift, but well-timed.
A snake lies concealed in the grass.
A soft answer bids a Furioso to put up his sword.
A soft-spoken compliment is honied poison.
A store-house of evil is a woman if she is depraved.
A strong remedy for evils is ignorance of them.
A surgeon tries his experiments on the heads of orphans.
A suspicious mind sees everything on the dark side.
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
A sword anointed with honey.
A sword of lead in a scabbard of ivory.
A tree often transplanted does not thrive.
A trifling pledge of no small friendship.
A triple rope is not easily broken.
A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
A troubled heart is a worm to the bones.
A useless pitcher does not get broken.
A want of pence stops all your marketing.
A weak foundation destroys the work.
A wealthy man can err with impunity.
A well which is drawn from is improved. – Latin Proverbs
[Art is improved by practice.]
A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
A wheel not greased will creak. – Latin Proverbs
[Those who are not properly paid will not work without grumbling.]
A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.
A white glove often conceals a dirty hand.
A wise man should never give his wife too much rein.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
A wolf often lies concealed in the skin of a lamb.
A wolf’s head.
A woman either loves or hates, there is no third course.
A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.
A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
A woman is to be from her house three times: when she is christened, married and buried.
A word is sufficient for the wise.
About everything and something else.
Abuse does not invalidate usefulness.
According to the nature of his sin shall a man be punished.
Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.
Acting is the forte of all their race.
Add not fire to fire.
Advice is not a popular thing to give.
After clouds sunshine.
After darkness comes light.
After the manner of Mandrabulus [i.e., going from worse to worse]. – Latin Proverbs
Again and again I beg and pray of you to live merrily: should aught distress you, dismiss it from your minds.
Aim at a certain issue.
Alas for those that get the worst of it.
Alas! how much smaller a thing it is to be with others, than to remember thee!
Alas. I suffer from self-inflicted wounds.
Alexander the Great was but of small stature.
All are not harpers, who hold the harp.
All claim kindred with the prosperous.
All clouds are not rain clouds.
All flute-players are mad; when once they begin to blow, away goes reason.
All for one and one for all.
All is in vain unless Providence is with us.
All is not false which is publicly reported.
All lay load on the willing horse.
All men grieve, and if you ask them the reason why, they cannot tell it.
All power is impatient of a partner.
All that meal comes not from your own sack.
All the hours wound you, the last one kills.
All the hours wound, the last one kills.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
All things are easy that are done willingly.
All things are not good for all.
All things are possible with God.
All things change, and we change with them. – Latin Proverbs
[Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.]
All things come not to pass which the mind has conceived.
All things come to those who wait.
Always speak well of the dead.
Among the blind a one-eyed man is a king.
An aching for wine–a wine-ache.
An ancient custom, not of to-day or yesterday.
An ape is an ape, though decked with gold.
An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet.
An ass is beautiful in the eyes of an ass; a sow in those of a sow; and every race is attractive to itself.
An eel, held by the tail, is not yet caught.
An elephant does not catch mice.
An empty vessel makes the most sound.
An evil comes from a neighbouring evil.
An evil conscience breaks many a man’s neck.
An evil doer abhors the light of day.
An evil gain is equal to a loss.
An excess of caution does no harm.
An idle youth becomes in age a beggar.
An industrious life is the best security for food in old age.
An inquisitive man is always ill-natured.
An insolent lord is not a gentleman.
An object of pity even to a foe.
An old ape hath an old eye.
An old fox is not caught in a snare.
An old fox is not to be caught in a trap.
An old fox understands the trap.
An old lion is better than a young ass.
An old woman dancing makes a great dust. – Latin Proverbs
[Anything out of season is obnoxious.]
An old woman would dance.
An onion will not produce a rose.
An opportunity is found with difficulty and easily lost.
An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
An ungrateful man is a tub full of holes.
An unguarded speech reveals the truth.
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
Anger is a transient madness.
Antiquity is entitled to respect.
Anxious about the shoe, but disregarding the foot.
Any man can steer in a calm.
Apples taste sweetest when they are going.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Arms are of little service abroad unless directed by the wisdom of counsellors at home.
Arrogance is intolerable.
Art has no enemy except ignorance.
As a man has lived, so will he die.
As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends.
As numerous as the leaves of the oak, or the waves which wash the island.
As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the wicked man by his deeds.
As to the juror or the witness, bribe both.
As to what is future, even a bird with a long neck cannot see it, but God only.
As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
As you have arranged the thread so must you weave it.
Assistance given when it is not required, is as bad as an injury.
At once a good general and a stout soldier.
At the bar of one’s own conscience.
Attempt nothing beyond your strength. – Latin Proverbs
Avoid bawling in conversation or in play.
Avoid gambling.
Avoid strife with those in power.
Away with grieving, only fit for women.
Bad beginnings lead to bad results.
Bad fowl, bad egg.
Bad head, bad heart.
Bad hen, bad egg.
Bad is want which is born of plenty.
Bashfulness will not avail a beggar.
Be angry with a murderer, but keep your compassion for his victim.
Be brave, not ferocious.
Be mine; I will be thine.
Be not unmindful of obligations conferred.
Be old betimes that thou may’st long be so.
Be old betimes, if you wish your old age to last.
Be old when young, if you would be young when old.
Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.
Be what you appear to be. – Latin Proverbs
[Act up to the reputation which you enjoy.]
Be what you would seem to be.
Beads about the neck, and the devil in his heart.
Bear no malice.
Bear with others and you shall be borne with.
Bear won’t bite bear.
Beautiful things are secured with most difficulty.
Being but a woman, raise not the sword.
Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.
Being warned, let us pursue a better course.
Believe him who speaks from experience.
Believe no man more than yourself when you are spoken of. – Latin Proverbs
[Let your own conscience be a check against the effect of the flattery of others.]
Believe not that all that shines is gold.
Believe not that the stream is shallow because its surface is smooth.
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
Believe that you have it, and it is yours.
Believe that you have it, and you will have it.
Bend the willow while it is young.
Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers.
Benefits please like flowers, when they are fresh.
Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.
Better late than never.
Better take time.
Beware of a man of one book.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
Beware of the dog.
Beware the tyranny of the minority.
Beware what you say, when, and to whom
Birds fly not into our mouths ready roasted.
Birds in their little nests agree.
Bold in design, but timid in execution.
Bold resolution is the favourite of providence.
Boldly ventured is half won.
Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing.
Bolt a door with a boiled carrot.
Bones snatched from the mouth of a hungry dog.
Both are the better for their mutual friendship.
Brag’s a good dog, but Holdfast’s a better.
Branches may be trained; not the trunk.
Brave men lived before Agamemnon.
Brevity is pleasing.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Bribes will enter without knocking.
Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Build but one nest in one tree.
But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.
By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them.
By doing nothing men learn to do evil.
By fair means or foul.
By good means or bad.
By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.
By hook or by crook.
By hook or crook.
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
By much laughter you detect the fool.
By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy.
By pleasing, while we instruct.
By repeated blows even the oak is felled.
By speedy, not by slow measures.
By submitting to an old insult you invite a new one.
By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.
By the familiarity of the master the servant is spoilt.
By the sword she seeks peaceful quiet under liberty. – Latin Proverbs
[Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.]
By what servant is his master better loved than by his dog?
By writing you learn to write.
Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion.
Calumniate strongly and some of it will stick.
Candour breeds hatred.
Carthage must be destroyed.
Catch the opportunity.
Catching’s before hanging.
Cautious in small matters, careless in great.
Cease your jests, there is no joke in being ill-natured.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves.
Chalk is the pen of fools, walls their paper.
Choose a wife from among your equals.
Clodius impeaches the adulterers.
Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin.
Colewort twice cooked.
Compete not with a friend.
Confound those who have anticipated us in what we would have said!
Conscience betrays guilt.
Conscience is as a thousand witnesses.
Consider how long the winter will last.
Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.
Consideration is the parent of wisdom.
Consideration should be shown to a novice.
Constant dripping wears away the rock.
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
Contrasts mutually set off each other.
Conversation ministers to a mind diseased.
Conviviality reveals secrets.
Correct a wise man, and he will be grateful; correct a fool, and he will not only give a deaf ear, but send you off with a flea in your ear.
Courage is the mistress and queen of all virtues.
Court not companionship with tigers.
Courts grant not their favours as men are good and deserving.
Covet not the property of others.
Cowards win no laurels.
Cultivate not a barren soil.
Cultivate the garden within.
Danger can never be overcome without taking risks. – Latin Proverbs
Danger is never conquered without danger. – Latin Proverbs
[Numquam periculum sine periculo vincitur.]
Dawn is the friend of the muses.
Dead men do not bite.
Death brings to a level spades and sceptres.
Death cancels everything but truth.
Death defies the doctor.
Death is common to all.
Death is preferable.
Death is the great leveller.
Death snatches away the most deserving, and leaves the wicked.
Death to the wolf is life to the lambs.
Deeds not words are required.
Deliberate often — decide once.
Deliberate slowly, execute quickly.
Deliberation often loses a good chance.
Desire nothing that would bring disgrace.
Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off.
Desires are nourished by delays.
Despise not the weak: the gnat stings the eyes of the lion.
Despise school and remain a fool.
Different men like different things.
Different pursuits suit different ages.
Different strokes for different folks.
Differing in words, not in reality. – Latin Proverbs
[A verbal, not an actual difference.]
Divide and rule.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Do as you would be done unto.
Do business best when the wind’s in the west.
Do chattering monkeys mimic men, Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?
Do not give an opinion until it is asked for.
Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
Do well and have well.
Don’t sing your triumph before you have conquered.
Don’t be frightened at high-sounding words.
Don’t do that of which you doubt the propriety.
Don’t draw another’s bow, don’t ride another’s horse, don’t mind another’s business.
Don’t tell a secret to anybody, unless you want the whole world to know it.
Don’t that just butter your grits.
Doth the moon on high care for the barking of a dog?
Double charging will break a cannon.
Dropping water makes the rock hollow, not by its force, but by constant action.
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.
Drumming is not the way to catch a hare.
Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
Each hour injures, the last one slays.
Each man has his peculiar hobby.
Each man makes his own shipwreck.
Each man’s character shapes his fortunes.
Early ripe, early rotten.
Early rising is most conducive to health.
Early, not late remedies are the most effective.
Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. – Latin Proverbs
Education is the poor man’s haven.
Eels become accustomed to skinning.
Either a ship or a tuft of feathers.
Either by might or by sleight.
Either Caesar, or nobody.
Either never attempt a thing or carry it out.
Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
Empty expressions. Bombast.
Empty pitchers ring loudest.
Empty the glass if you would judge of the drink.
Emulation begets emulation.
Emulation is the whetstone of talent.
England is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants.
England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.
Enjoying the fruits of the labour of others.
Enough, even to loathing.
Enter not at all, or else pass through.
Envy is the companion of glory.
Envy never has a holiday.
Envy no man.
Envy waits on boasting.
Even a boy can beat a man when bound.
Even a child may beat a man that’s bound.
Even a fly can show temper.
Even a fool sometimes speaks to the purpose.
Even a hair hath its shadow.
Even a hare will insult a dead lion.
Even a mangy camel will carry more that a herd of asses.
Even a straw becomes heavy, if you carry it far enough.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Even hares insult a dead lion.
Even Jupiter himself cannot be in love and wise at the same time.
Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.
Even the ant hath its anger.
Even the beggar envies the beggar.
Even the fear of death is dispelled by music.
Even the fountains thirst.
Even the gods are conciliated by offerings.
Even the rustling of leaves will alarm the hare.
Even the smallest spark shines brightly in darkness.
Ever receive a present with approbation.
Every advantage has its disadvantage. – Latin Proverbs
Every great thing only consists of many small particles united.
Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits us by its utility.
Every little blade of grass declares the presence of God.
Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress’s heels.
Every madman thinks all other men mad.
Every man for himself.
Every man has his peculiar habit.
Every man judges of others by himself.
Every man rejoices in his peculiar study.
Every man who can blow a horn is not a huntsman.
Every man’s sin falls on his own head.
Every may-be hath a may-be not.
Every reproach against an accused man is contemptible.
Every sheet has parted. – Latin Proverbs
[Every hope has vanished.]
Every soil does not bear the same fruit. – Latin Proverbs
Every stone conceals a lurking scorpion. – Latin Proverbs
Every suitor is not a heart breaker. – Latin Proverbs
Every virtue is but half way between two vices. – Latin Proverbs
Everybody has a name, but not always the same luck with it.
Everyone is eloquent in his own cause.
Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell.
Everything beautiful is loveable.
Everything has its season.
Evils follow each other.
Excess in anything becomes a vice.
Excess of delight palls the appetite.
Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Experience is the best teacher.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Explaining what is obscure by what is still more obscure.
Extreme law, extreme injustice.
Fain would the cat fish eat, But she is loth to wet her feet.
False in one respect, never trustworthy.
Far from Jupiter, far from his thunder.
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Favours should never be forced upon others against their will.
Fear increasing age, for it does not come without companions.
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Feigned love is worse than hatred.
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
Fight with silver spears, and you will overcome everything.
Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade. – Latin Proverbs
[Said of a man who speaks with sincerity and means what he says.]
Fill your garners, harvest lasts not for ever.
Find a cruel man and you see a coward.
Find words butter no parsnips.
Find you without an excuse, and find a hare without a meuse.
Finders keepers losers weepers.
Findings keepings.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Fire will not put out fire. Anger is not appeased by anger.
Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills.
Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.
Flies, dogs. and mimics are the first to rush to the dish.
Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers.
Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
For a paltry gift, little thanks.
For God and our country.
For our altars and our hearths.
For the king, the laws and the people.
For the last comer the bones.
Force not favours on the unwilling.
Forget not that you are a man.
Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it.
Fortunate is he whom the dangers of others have rendered cautious.
Fortune and the arts assist each other.
Fortune enriches or tramples on us at her will.
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune favours fools.
Fortune fears the brave and crushes the cowardly.
Fortune helps the brave.
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.
Fortune smiles on the brave, and frowns upon the coward.
Fortune to one is mother, to another step-mother.
Fortune wearies with carrying one and the same man always.
Fraud lurks in loose generalities.
Friends become foes, and foes are reconciled.
Friends have all things in common.
Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils.
From a pure source pure water comes.
From a simple spark there will often be produced a great conflagration.
From his silence a man’s consent is inferred.
From one you may judge of the whole.
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours.
From small things a great heap is made.
From the miseries of others he fears for his own position.
From the old ox the young one learns to plough.
From trifling causes great results arise.
From what has taken place we infer what is about to happen.
Frugality is a great revenue.
Frugality is an estate alone.
Fruit ripens not well in the shade.
Full feasting breeds ferocity.
Full of courtesy, full of craft.
Gather flowers while the morning sun lasts.
Gather thistles, expect prickles.
Gently but firmly.
Gently, not by force.
Give a helping hand to a man in trouble.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give ear and weigh the matter well.
Give ear to that man who has four ears.
Give to each man that which is his due.
Give way to him with whom you contend; by doing so you will gain the victory.
Give wine to them that are in sorrow.
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
God sends enough to all.
God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
God will be present, whether asked or not.
Gold is proved by fire.
Good debts become bad unless called in.
Good health and good sense are two great blessings.
Good luck lasts not for ever.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Govern your passions, or they will govern you.
Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.
Great fish feed on the lesser.
Grieve not for that which is irreparably lost.
Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood.
Grind with every wind.
Grow where you are planted.
Habit causes love.
Habit gives readiness.
Habit in sinning takes away the sense of sin.
Habit is second nature.
Had he not been visited by sickness, he would have perished utterly.
Happiness invites envy.
Happy are one-eyed men in the country of the blind.
Happy is the man who is out of debt.
Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.
Happy the man who keeps out of strife.
Happy’s the wooing that is not long a-doing.
Hard by a river he digs a well.
Hard cases make bad law.
Hard is the path from poverty to renown.
Hard things alone will not make a wall.
Harsh is the voice which would dismiss us, but sweet is the sound of welcome.
Haste manages all things badly.
Haste trips up its own heels.
Hate knows no age but death.
Hatred is a settled anger.
Have a care how you irritate the wasps. – Latin Proverbs
[Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force.]
Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may repent.
Have a care of a silent dog and a still water.
Have confidence, but beware in whom.
Having achieved your purpose, seek not to undo what has been done.
Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely venture on greater achievements.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
He acts wisely who says little.
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
He argues in vain who argues without means.
He assumes a cheerful countenance suppressing the grief which weighs heavily on his heart.
He can carry the ox who has carried the calf.
He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook.
He catches the wind with a net.
He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
He conquers who conquers himself.
He dies before he is old who is wise before his day.
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
He does not show a decent quality even over a good dinner.
He does not sing his father’s songs.
He does not think milk-and-water of himself.
He does not think small beer of himself.
He drives out one devil by another.
He either wheedles by suasive means or terrifies by threats.
He even begrudges the water with which he washes.
He falls into the pit which he himself made.
He falls short of his duty to both who tries to serve two masters.
He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury of the waves.
He fears the very flies.
He feigns death like a panther.
He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow.
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.
He fishes in troubled waters.
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
He flourishes by hereditary renown.
He forgets himself.
He gets his wisdom cheaply who gets it at another’s cost.
He getteth a great deal of credit, who payeth but a small debt.
He gives neither too little, nor too much.
He gives too late who waits to be asked.
He gives well and bountifully who accompanies the gift with a pleasing look.
He giveth twice who giveth in a trice.
He goes beyond the bounds.
He goes not out of his way that goes to a good inn.
He has eyes in the back of his head.
He has left no means untried.
He has not even a clod of earth left to cover his remains.
He has not leisure even to scratch his ears.
He has sprung up like a mushroom.
He has tasted of the lotus.
He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.
He invokes heaven if a flea bites him.
He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.
He is a wise man who accommodates himself to all circumstances.
He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in sand.
He is caught in his own snare.
He is consumed by a vain hope.
He is full of sweet faults.
He is his own enemy.
He is his own trumpeter.
He is hunting for water in the sea.
He is indeed a conqueror who conquers himself.
He is looking out for a fig.
He is not happy who does not realize his happiness.
He is separated from the water by a plank.
He is the architect of his own fortunes.
He is the best gentleman, who is the son of his own deserts.
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another.
He is wise in vain who does not use his wisdom for his own advantage.
He is wise to no purpose, who is not wise for himself.
He is wise, who suits himself to the occasion.
He keeps watch over a good castle who has guarded his own constitution.
He knows the roads by which he has escaped before.
He labors in vain who tries to please everybody.
He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.
He labours in vain who attempts to please everybody.
He makes a lion of a mouse.
He makes his home where the living is best. – Latin Proverbs
He makes idle boasting.
He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry.
He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it.
He ploughs the land of others, and leaves his own untilled.
He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others.
He puts up with small annoyances to gain great results.
He rises early that is hanged before noon.
He says what is wholly irrelevant.
He seeks renown by public applause.
He seeks to live like a parasite.
He shaves close to the skin.
He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
He sings his own praises.
He spends the happiest life who knows nothing.
He suffers from the same disease.
He suffocates me with kindness.
He talks to a dead man.
He talks to the wind.
He tells a tale of a tub.
He tells me my way, and knows not his own.
He that flies may fight another day.
He that follows freits, freits will follow him.
He that gapeth until he be fed, Well may he gape until he is dead.
He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.
He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent.
He that has been hurt, fears.
He that has time and looks for more, loses time. – Latin Proverbs
He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May.
He thinks nothing right, but what he does himself.
He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted.
He travels fastest who travels alone.
He unravels the enigmas of the Sphinx.
He utters in his language something different from what he ponders in his mind.
He who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.
He who cannot conceal his sentiments, knows not how to live.
He who cannot do what he wishes, must needs do as he can.
He who cannot even manage a yacht asks for a ship of burthen.
He who does not advance recedes.
He who does not fully speak the truth is a traitor to it.
He who does not speak the whole truth is a traitor to truth.
He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
He who envies his admits his inferiority.
He who fears every bramble should not go to the woods.
He who follows two hares loses both.
He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
He who has come to the mill first does not grind last.
He who has great strength should use it lightly.
He who has once used deception will deceive again.
He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.
He who has received a kindness forgets it; he who has been injured remembers it.
He who has tried it, is afraid of it.
He who hastens to be rich will not be without fault.
He who hastens too much stumbles and falls.
He who hath lost his good name how shall he in future gain his living.
He who hath much peas may put the more in the pot.
He who increases knowledge increases sorrow. – Latin Proverbs
He who is first in time has the prior right.
He who is in love with himself need fear no rival.
He who is not lucky, let him not go to sea.
He who knows not how to employ his leisure hath more cares on his mind than the most busy of busily-engaged men.
He who lies on the ground cannot fall.
He who lives by medical treatment has but a wretched existence.
He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful.
He who makes too much haste gains his end later.
He who owes nothing fears not the sheriff’s officer.
He who oweth is all in the wrong.
He who paints the flower cannot paint its fragrance.
He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy.
He who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. – Latin Proverbs
He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
He who spares the rod hates his son.
He who takes it to himself, he it is who has done the act.
He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
He who waits till an opportunity occurs may wait for ever.
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
He who would catch is caught.
He who would speak well should well consider his subject beforehand.
He will die before he’s old who’s wise before his time.
He will embark in litigation, even if a donkey has bitten his dog.
He won’t give us so much as the skin.
He writes with an iron pen.
He, who denies his faults, makes no atonement for them.
He, who neglects the little, loses the greater.
He, who shareth honey with the bear, hath the least part of it.
Hear all, say nothing.
Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak’ all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.
Hear both sides of a question.
Hear, see, and be silent.
Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty.
He’d skin a louse, and send the hide and fat to market.
Help by actions, not by words.
Help him who is willing to work, not him who shrinks from it.
Hercules himself could not cope with two assailants.
Hidden valour is as bad as cowardice.
Him whom Jove would destroy he first deprives of his reason.
His heart fell down to his heels.
His illness is more mental than bodily.
His presents conceal a baited hook.
His tongue says little, but powerful is his right arm.
His wit got wings and would have flown, But poverty still kept him down.
History repeats itself.
Hitherto I gave you credit for having horns.
Holyday time will not last forever.
Home is home though it’s never so homely.
Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.
Home is home, be it ever so humble.
Honesty with poverty is better than ill-gotten wealth.
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
Honey catches most flies.
Honey cloys.
Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.
Honourable words by the bushel.
Honour’s onerous.
Hope gives strength and courage, and saves an otherwise dying man from his grave.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Hope is our only comfort in adversity.
Hope supports men in distress.
Hope sustains the farmer.
Hopes delayed hang the heart upon tenter-hooks.
How changed from what he was.
How great the sufferings we endure.
How many accidents keep human life a rolling.
How much do we resemble that filthy brute the ape.
How near to guilt without actual guilt.
How quickly with all is a kindness forgotten.
How to live happily, not luxuriously, is the question.
How you come by it no one asks; but wealth you must have.
However extravagant men’s desires, they hope to see them gratified.
Hunger and delay raise up anger.
Hunger and thirst scarcely kill any, But gluttony and drink kill a great many.
Hunger is the best cook.
Hunger sharpens anger.
Hunger sweetens everything but itself.
Hunger teaches us many a lesson.
Hypocritical piety is double iniquity.
I am in a fix.
I am in a place where three ways meet.
I am less concerned about them than about the croaking frogs in the marsh.
I am recommending you to do what I should do myself.
I am touched but not broken by the waves.
I am what you will be, I was what you now are.
I am willing but unable.
I bear the laurel-branch.
I beggar is not favoured even by his relations.
I came, I saw, I won.
I cannot get on with you, or without you.
I don’t want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.
I have lost my labour and my cost.
I have other fish to fry.
I have washed my hands of it.
I kill the boars, but another eats the flesh.
I know Simon, and Simon knows me.
I prefer death to disgrace.
I regret that I have given what I have.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas. the worse.
I shall paint you in your own colours.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
I simply state what I have heard.
I speak of garlic, you reply about onions.
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
I wince to win.
I wish I were at home.
I would not purchase it at the price of a rotten nut.
I would rather be in an apple-tree, than a bad man in distress.
I would rather buy than beg.
Idleness is ever the root of indecision.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana.
If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish: for who would till the ground? who would sow it? Who would plant? who would press wine?.
If being well bearded brings happiness. a he-goat must be happier than any of us.
If better were within, better would come out.
If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors–Rest, cheerfulness, and moderate diet.
If flesh is not to be had, fish must content us.
If he should ask for wine, box his ears.
If I wrestle with a filthy thing, win or lose, I shall be defiled.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there’d be no work for tinkers.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.
If it pleases you, it does not displease me.
If poor, act with caution.
If the head aches all the members of the body suffer.
If the lion’s skill will not do, we must sew on that of the fox.
If the mother had never been in the oven, she would not have looked for her daughter there.
If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.
If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, let Mahomet go to the mountain.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
If there is no wind, row.
If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character.
If there were clouds we should not enjoy the sun.
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
If you are contented with your lot, you will live wisely.
If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have use for it.
If you cannot drive an ox, drive a donkey.
If you care for the court, the court will bring cares for you.
If you desire peace, be ever prepared for war. – Latin Proverbs
If you say that he is guilty of ingratitude, you need say no more.
If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
If you snooze, you loose.
If you strike a goad with your fist, your hand will suffer most.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.
If you would resemble the vulture, look out for a carcase.
If your conduct be noble, you will be a king.
Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees.
Ill weeds grows apace.
Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.
Ill-doers, ill-deemers.
Imitate the snail in deliberation, the bird in execution.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Immortal glory waits on talent.
Impatience does not diminish but augments the evil.
Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
In avoiding Charybdis, he falls into Scylla.
In avoiding that which is evil I have found that which is good.
In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him.
In every pomegranate a decayed pip is to be found.
In flying from one enemy you encounter another.
In forming new friendships, forget not old friends.
In misfortune we need help, not lamentation.
In prosperity look out for squalls.
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
In the great sea fish is always to be caught.
In the midst of our mirth some annoyance always arises to vex us.
In the snare laid for others is your foot taken.
In the very act of committing an offence.
In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
In time of sickness man is ever on his best behaviour.
In times of peace we should think of war.
In vain does a man possess property if he makes no use of it.
In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird.
Indulge not in boisterous mirth.
Injuries destroy affection.
Injuries put us on our guard.
Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.
Instead of a fish he gives you a scorpion.
Instead of a treasure, coals.
Interfere not in the quarrels of others.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone.
It does not fall to the lot of all to smell of musk.
It doubles the value of a gift to be well-timed.
It early pricks that will he a thorn.
It flies at our approach but follows us as we retire.
It flies gently, but wounds deeply.
It hangs by a hair.
It has become a proverb.
It has caused injury and will do so again.
It is a bad action that success cannot justify.
It is a bad bargain, where both are losers.
It is a disgrace to be praised by those who deserve no praise.
It is a foul bird that fills his own nest.
It is a fraud to connive at a fraud.
It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
It is a mean thing to despise unsuccessful merit.
It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die.
It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another’s.
It is a poor dog that’s not worth whistling for.
It is a solace to the miserable to have a companion in their grief.
It is a wretched position to be dependent on others for support.
It is all over: I may as well go and hand myself.
It is an absurdity that he should rule others who cannot command himself.
It is an easy task to improve upon an invention.
It is an honourable thing to be accused by those who are open to accusation.
It is as bad to have too many friends as no friends at all.
It is bad to contend about trifles.
It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others.
It is better to be always prepared than to suffer once. – Latin Proverbs
It is better to be born lucky than rich.
It is better to enjoy what we possess than to hanker after other things.
It is better to fly than to remain in disgrace.
It is better to give than to receive.
It is better to satisfy our hunger than to be clothed in purple.
It is better to say nothing than not enough.
It is better to turn back than to persevere in an evil course.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
It is but fair that he who requires indulgence for his own offences should grant it to others.
It is cruel to refer to those things which cause sorrow.
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
It is easier to raise the Devil than to lay him.
It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue.
It is easier to win good luck than to retain it.
It is easy to set a cask a rolling.
It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
It is human nature to hate a person whom you have injured.
It is inexcusable to have remained long away, and return empty-handed.
It is more difficult to bridle the tongue than to conquer an army.
It is more wicked to love a sin than to commit one.
It is necessary to risk something. – Latin Proverbs
It is never too late to ask what time it is.
It is never too late to learn.
It is never too late to mend.
It is no advantage for a man in fever to change his bed.
It is no business of mine; may it go to the devil.
It is not allowed in war to blunder twice.
It is not at the altar that we should consider the course we would take.
It is not becoming to play the fox, or to play up on both sides.
It is not easy suddenly to cast aside a fancy long indulged in.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
It is often better to go by a circuitous than by a direct path.
It is one thing to boast, another to fight.
It is safer to irritate a dog than an old woman.
It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled.
It is soon known which trees will bear fruit.
It is sweet and meritorious to die for one’s country.
It is the duty of a good sportsman to kill game freely, but not kill all.
It is the duty of friends mutually to correct each other.
It is the essence of good taste to do that which is consistent with our position.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
It is the perfection of art when no trace of the artist appears.
It is the season not the soil that brings the crop.
It is the tree that gives its nature to the fruit.
It is the very backbone of wisdom not to trust too hastily.
It is thou must honour the place, not the place thee.
It is ungentlemanly to lie; truthfulness becomes the gentleman.
It is unlucky to marry in May.
It is vain to do that by a multitude which a few can accomplish.
It is well to buy oil as well as salt.
It matters little whether we are the slaves of circumstance, or of man.
It may be said that noisy barrels are easier to carry.
It rings, it is empty.
It rolled like water off a duck’s back.
It would be clear enough even to a blind man.
It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.
It would puzzle even Apollo to understand it.
It’s a well-known fact, dirt stinks more when stirred.
It’s all grist to the mill.
It’s an ill plan that cannot be changed.
It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.
Jokes, which carry injury with them, are never agreeable.
Joking must have its proper limit.
Jouk and let the jaw go by.
Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury.
Judge of the daughter by the mother.
Judge of the statue of Hercules by the size of the foot.
Jupiter himself cannot please everybody.
Justice is exercised in the proper prevention, rather than in the severe punishment, of crime.
Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
Keep the common road, and thou’rt safe.
Keep your eye upon the goal.
Keep your own counsel.
Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.
Kings have many ears and many eyes too.
Kings learn wisdom from associating with wise men.
Kings love the treason, but not the traitor.
Know you not that kings have long arms?
Labour conquers all things.
Late hours and love and wine lead not to moderation in anything.
Late repentance is rarely sincere.
Laugh with those that laugh.
Laugh, if you are wise.
Laughter abounds in the mouths of fools.
Learning has sour roots, but pleasant fruits.
Leave not your staff at home.
Length of time rots a stone.
Less malevolence, or more power to exercise it.
Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.
Let each man do his best.
Let every man have his due.
Let him bear the prize, who has deserved it.
Let him take the oars who has learned to row.
Let him that earns the bread eat it.
Let it be given to the most meritorious.
Let it be well recorded that a harlot is a gate which leads to death.
Let it go for what it is worth.
Let no man be the servant of another, who can be his own master.
Let no man refuse to endure that which is common to the lot of all.
Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth.
Let not your sword be drawn at any man’s bidding.
Let the buyer be on his guard.
Let the buyer beware.
Let the devil never find you unoccupied.
Let the ignorant learn, and the learned delight in refreshing the memory.
Let the poor man mind his tongue.
Let them hate, so that they fear me.
Let them laugh that win.
Let there be no delay.
Let us be judged of by our actions.
Let us go, where fate directs us.
Liberal enough of another man’s leather.
Liberate me from that bad fellow, myself.
Light griefs can speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
Like a fish out of water. – Latin Proverbs
Like likes like.
Like mistress, like maid.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like prince, like people.
Limit your inquiry after knowledge.
Limping justice ne’er will fail To hunt out the longest trail.
Lions in time of peace; deer in war.
Listen to that which is openly and seriously spoken.
Little drops produce the shower.
Little grain have I collected from a mass of chaff.
Live according to your means.
Live near a lame man, and you will soon learn to limp.
Live not beyond your means.
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Losses make us more cautious.
Lost time is never found again.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
Love and dignity do not dwell together.
Love brooks no delay.
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
Love for those too easily won does not last long.
Love is a kind of military service.
Love is like a shuttlecock.
Love is the fruit of love.
Love steals on us imperceptibly.
Love would soon perish, unless nourished by Ceres and Bacchus.
Lovers are madmen.
Lust of power is the strongest of all passions.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Mad drunkenness discloses every secret.
Make a virtue of necessity.
Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards complain.
Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Make haste slowly.
Make hay when the sun shines.
Make too much haste and pay the penalty.
Make your experiment on a worthless subject.
Man and woman, fire and chaff.
Man is a wolf to man.
Man is himself the author of every sorrow he endures.
Man is to man a wolf, man is to man a demon.
Man’s life is a sojourn in a strange land.
Man’s life’s a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes.
Many an injury comes from a fool’s speech.
Many annoyances surround an aged man.
Many asses have only two legs.
Many can drive an ox; few can plough.
Many can drive oxen, few can plough.
Many fall by the sword, but more from gluttony.
Many hands make light work.
Many meet the gods, but few salute them.
Many promises impair confidence.
Many will hate you if you love yourself. – Latin Proverbs
Many words, little credit.
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Marriage is a lottery.
Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun’s rays.
Marry a person in your own rank in life.
Men are bound by words, bulls’ horns by ropes.
Men in office must work hard.
Men learn oratory by practice.
Men see more of the business of others than of their own.
Men who have no religion, no honour.
Men worship the rising, not the setting sun.
Mere intentions are not to be esteemed as actions.
Merit consists in action.
Merit is often belied by the countenance.
Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
Mice care not to play with kittens.
Midway between the earth and the starry Olympus.
Mirth must be indulged in to prepare the mind for more serious matters.
Misfortunes make friends.
Misfortunes make happiness more sweet when it comes.
Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.
Mistakes are to be pardoned.
Moderate measures succeed best.
Moderation in all things.
Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe. Thursday’s child has far to go, Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for its living, And a child that’s born of the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay. – Latin Proverbs
Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty.
More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
More cost, more worship.
More die by food than famine.
More like than egg to egg.
More naked than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
Morning dreams come true.
Most bitter are the quarrels of brothers.
Most haste, worst speed.
Mountains never unite.
Much coin, much care.
Mules help to scratch each other.
Music induces more madness in many than wine.
Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind.
Music is the handmaid of divinity.
Music provokes love.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.
My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the opposite.
My turn today, yours tomorrow.
Natura genetrix.
Nature is our mother.
Nature without an effort surpasses art.
Necessity is a strong weapon.
Necessity recognizes no law.
Necessity requires no decision.
Negation proves nothing.
Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge.
Neither beautiful, nor young.
Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant.
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Never be too much elated.
Never descend to vulgarity, even in joking. – Latin Proverbs
Never expect your friends to do for you that which you can yourself accomplish.
Never give a child a sword.
Never give a sucker an even break.
Never malign a friend.
Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
Never refuse a good offer.
Never say, “die!”
Never speak in a hurry.
Never take the antidote before the poison.
Never tell tales out of school.
Never too old to learn.
Night is the mother of council. – Latin Proverbs
No bees, no honey.
No day is wholly productive of evil.
No day should pass without something being done.
No folly like being in love.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
No gain satisfies a greedy mind.
No gains without pains.
No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
No horse is so good, but that he will at times stumble.
No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
No man acquires perfection all at once.
No man can be happy without a friend, or be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
No man can call again yesterday.
No man can swim ashore and carry his baggage with him.
No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others.
No man commands ably unless he has himself obeyed discipline.
No man ever became wicked all at once.
No man grieves long unless by his own fault.
No man has a worse friend than he brings with him from home.
No man is contented with his lot in this life.
No man is faultless.
No man is his craft’s master the first day.
No man is impatient with his creditors.
No man is so rich as to say, “I have enough!”
No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
No man should be a witness in his own cause.
No man will feed on herbs when meat is to be had.
No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
No one ever suddenly reached the height of vice.
No one in a shabby coat is treated with respect.
No one is a fool always, every one sometimes.
No one loves another better than himself.
No peacock envies another peacock his tail.
No protection is so sure as that of innocence.
No sooner said than done.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Nobility of conduct is a greater recommendation than nobility of birth.
Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide has left.
Not even a drop is left.
Not to advance is to recede.
Not to disturb that which is at rest.
Not words but knocks.
Nothing answers worse than too high farming.
Nothing bears a stronger resemblance to a madman than a man when drunk.
Nothing can be said which has not been said already.
Nothing can exist long without occasional rest.
Nothing comes of nothing.
Nothing dries sooner than tears. – Latin Proverbs
Nothing dries up more quickly than a tear.
Nothing is grievous which necessity enjoins.
Nothing is more foolish than to dabble in too many things.
Nothing is more humiliating than when a reproach recoils on the head or him who utters it.
Nothing prevails against wealth.
Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
Nothing, however small, is to be irritated.
Nourish not a lion’s whelp.
Nourish the whelps of a wolf.
Novelty always appears handsome.
Novelty in all things is charming.
Now a layman, to-morrow a clerk.
Now I have got a ewe and a lamb, Every one cries, “Welcome, Peter.”
Now it rains, and again the sun shines forth brightly in the heavens.
Now my resources are reduced to a narrow compass.
O ancient house, by what a different master are you presided over.
Obedience is the mother of happiness.
Obey orders, if you break owners.
Observe decorum even in your sport.
Obstinately to justify a fault is a second fault.
Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm’s way.
Of no sort of good to himself, or to anybody else.
Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend.
Of two evils the least is always to be chosen.
Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one.
Office tests the man.
Often a silent face has voice and words.
Often there is eloquence in a silent look.
Oil and truth will get uppermost at last.
Old age is in itself a disease.
Old age is venerable.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old men’s children are rarely of good constitution.
Once a buffoon, never a good father of a family.
Once a handmaid never a lady.
Once a priest, always a priest.
Once in each man’s life fortune smiles.
One against whom accusations when made are easily believed.
One beast easily recognizes another.
One bird in the hand is worth four in the air.
One butcher fears not many sheep.
One fool makes many.
One hand washes the other.
One has woven the thread, another has drawn it forth.
One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.
One house cannot keep two dogs.
One lawsuit begets another.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
One man excels in one thing, another in another.
One man is no man.
One man must not fight with two.
One man restored our fortunes by delay.
One man uses his tongue, another his teeth.
One man yawning makes another yawn too.
One man’s loss is another man’s gain.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
One poison is cured by another.
One that promised better things.
One tree won’t hold two robins.
One who can do you a deal of good or a deal of harm.
One who would quarrel about goats’ wool.
Opportunity has hair in front, behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
Opportunity makes the thief.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man’s door.
Opportunity only knocks once.
Oppose not a hungry man.
Opposites attract.
Oppression causeth rebellion.
Our fears always outnumber our dangers.
Our hearts run riot in prosperity.
Our last garment is made without pockets.
Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.
Our neighbour’s crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
Our outward actions reveal our hidden intentions.
Our own house surpasses every other.
Our pillow should be our counsellor.
Out of nothing nothing comes.
Outward appearances assuming the form of virtues.
Over no home can the sign be hung: There is no trouble here.
Overdoing is doing nothing to the purpose.
Pain mingles with pleasure.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Pain past is pleasure.
Patience overtaxed turns to rage.
Peace gains a value from discord.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover.
Plague seize the hindmost.
Pleasure and pain succeed each other.
Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
Pleasure is the bait of evil.
Pleasure often comes from pain.
Ponder long before you act.
Pondering over many things by night.
Poor though in the midst of wealth.
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time. – Latin Proverbs
Potter envies potter, and smith smith.
Poverty is death in another form.
Poverty is no disgrace, but it’s a great inconvenience.
Poverty makes a man mean.
Poverty shows us who are our friends and who our enemies.
Poverty trieth friends.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
Power is strengthened by union.
Practice is better than theory.
Practice is the best master.
Practice makes perfect.
Practise not your art, and ’twill soon depart.
Praise a fair day at night.
Precepts invite, but examples drag us to conclusions.
Precepts may lead, but examples draw.
Presents from an enemy must be received with suspicion.
Presents more burdensome than profitable.
Preserve the guns, but destroy the gunners.
Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.
Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken.
Property is robbery.
Providence assists not the idle.
Providence crushes pride.
Providence has not entirely deserted us.
Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
Providence is better than a rent.
Providence may delay, but punishment will come at length.
Providence our herald, no barrier can oppose us.
Providence provides but short horns for the fierce ox.
Providence tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Providential aid at a critical moment.
Prudence and strength combined.
Prudence availeth more than strength.
Prudence is the charioteer of all virtue.
Prudence is the charioteer of all virtues.
Prying with sidelong glance into other people’s business.
Puffed goods are putrid.
Punishment awaits all offences.
Punishment awaits crime.
Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy.
Quarrels enhance the pleasures of love.
Quick enough, if safe enough.
Quickly come, quickly go.
Quietly, if you can; if not, by any means.
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
Ready money is ready medicine.
Real wealth consists not in having, but in not wanting.
Rear dogs and wolves’ cubs to rend you.
Reason is absent, when impulse rules.
Rejoice with those that do rejoice.
Relationship produces envy.
Religion must be taught, not forced.
Renown is denied to the living.
Re-open not a wound once healed.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Respect is greater from a distance.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
Revenge is a confession of pain.
Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold.
Revere your parents.
Revolutions are not made with rose water.
Reward not a sleeping pilot.
Rich for yourself, poor for your friends.
Riches fall not always to the lot of the most deserving.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Rumour grows easily enough, but is not easily silenced.
Safely housed to listen to the storm outside.
Satiety has killed more men than hunger.
Satires run faster than panegyrics.
Scarce things are prized.
Science is unlimited in its course; life is short.
See that in avoiding cinders you step not on burning coals.
Seek a wife in your own sphere.
Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow.
Seek not the rose which is once lost.
Self is the first object of charity.
Self praise is odious.
Self-love is a mote in every man’s eye.
Self-praise is no recommendation.
Servants differ as their masters.
Seven hours of sleep is enough for the young and the aged.
She is not a modest woman whom common report condemns.
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Shirk work and you will want bread.
Shit floats to the top.
Shit rolls downhill.
Short cuts are long ways round.
Showy clothes attract most.
Shrouds have no pockets.
Sickness shows us what we are.
Silence is the greatest ornament in a woman.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Silence is wisdom and gets a man friends.
Silence means consent.
Sincerity gives wings to power.
Sing before breakfast, cry before night.
Sing not of triumph before the victory.
Skill will enable us to succeed in that which sheer force could not accomplish.
Sleep is all important.
Sleep not in time of peril.
Small favours conciliate, but great gifts make enemies.
Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Small things have their own peculiar charm.
So ends all earthly glory.
Soft speeches injure not the mouth of the speaker.
Some small spark may yet by chance lie hidden.
Some sow, others read.
Some things are better praised by silence than by remark. – Latin Proverbs
Some things are better praised by silence than remark.
Some things are better praised by silence than remark. – Latin Proverbs
Soon ripe, soon rotten.
Sooner could you hide an elephant under your armpit.
Sooner shall earth mount to heaven.
Sooner will a beetle make honey.
Sooner will the tamarisk bear apples.
Sooner will the wolf take the sheep for a wife.
Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.
Sorrow brings on premature old age.
Sorrow dwells on the confines of pleasure.
Sorrow follows pleasure.
Sorrows come uninvited.
Sour grapes will ne’er make sweet wine.
Speak not against the dead.
Speaking, though speechless, it exercises dominion over the mind.
Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men.
Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy and covetous.
Spring succeeds to winter.
Spur not a free horse to death.
Spur not a willing horse.
Stagnant waters putrefy.
Stand away from a horse’s heels.
Stolen waters are the sweetest.
Stone dead hath no fellow.
Straitened circumstances.
Strange sins, strange punishments.
Strike me a light, and I’ll light you.
Strike when the iron is hot.
Study invites study, idleness produces idleness.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Submission to one wrong brings on another.
Submit to the rule you have yourself laid down.
Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.
Success alters our manners.
Success leads to insolence.
Success makes a fool seem wise.
Success or ruin.
Summer will not last for ever.
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.
Take counsel of your pillow.
Take not the antidote before the poison.
Take time: much may be gained by patience.
Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.
Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.
Taught in the same school.
Teach an eagle to fly, a dolphin to swim.
Tears are at times as eloquent as words.
Test the danger by the Carians.
Thank ‘ee for nothing.
That country will I call mine which supports me, not that which gave me birth.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
That is with difficulty preserved which all hanker after.
That which I receive, that I return.
That which is beyond our reach is nothing to us.
That which is deferred is not abandoned.
That which is despised is often most useful.
That which is good for the back is bad for the head.
That which is his lot to-day may be yours to-morrow.
That which is not understood is always marvellous.
That which is sweet to some is bitter to others.
That which is violent never lasts long.
That which is wanting in some respects, may be made up for in others.
That which satisfies is enough.
That which should feed our children ought not to be given to dogs.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
That which we really require not is dear at a farthing.
The absent one will not be the heir.
The act itself does not constitute a crime, unless the intent be criminal.
The antidote before the poison.
The assistance of fools only brings injury.
The autumn of beauty is still beautiful.
The avenging gods have their feet clothed in wool.
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
The bad refrain from sin from fear of punishment.
The bear wants a tail and cannot be a lion.
The bear, he never can prevail To lion it for want of tail.
The beginning is half of the whole.
The best things are the first to perish.
The best things come in small packages.
The best things in life are free.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
The bitch in her haste brings forth blind puppies.
The blind man wishes to show the way.
The blind would lead the blind.
The blossoms in the spring are the fruit in autumn.
The blow falls more lightly when it is anticipated.
The bones for those who come late.
The brave man may die, but he will never say “die.”
The bust of Mercury cannot be carved in every wood.
The carriage draws the ox.
The carrion which the eagle has left feeds the crow.
The cause at an end, the effect is removed.
The challenger is beaten.
The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
The cobbler should not go beyond his last.
The cobbler to his last and the gunner to his linstock.
The conquered dare not open their mouths.
The conqueror weeps, the conquered is ruined.
The corruption of the best things makes the worst.
The counsel of the aged is sound.
The course of a river is not to be altered.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The cowl does not make the monk.
The crab would catch the hare.
The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth comes out.
The crow is a pretty bird when the jackdaw is not present.
The dead are the best counsellors.
The diseases of the mind are either caused or cured by the power of music.
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
The eagle does not catch flies.
The early morn favours study.
The end crowns the work.
The end justifies the means.
The evil is lessened when it is seen beforehand.
The excess of mirth leads to tears.
The face is the index to the mind.
The face is the portrait of the mind; the eyes, its informers.
The faded rose No suitor knows.
The Fates will not permit it.
The favour of the great is not lasting.
The fear of death is worse than death itself.
The field should be poorer than the farmer.
The fish requires salt.
The fool would teach the learned.
The force of anger is broken by a soft answer.
The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it.
The fox loves cunning, the wolf covets the lamb, and a woman longs for praise.
The fox may grow gray, but never good.
The future struggles against being mastered.
The gifts of fortune do not always benefit us.
The girl is more inviting who smells of wild thyme than she who smells of musk.
The gladiator seeks advice, when in the very lists.
The gnat trusting itself to the flame is singed.
The gods assist the industrious.
The gods sell all things for labour.
The gods sell all things to hard labor.
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth.
The good fortunes of life fall to the lot even of the base.
The good hate to sin from love of virtue; the bad hate to sin from fear of punishment.
The good hate to sin from love of virtue; the bad hate to sin from fear of punishment. – Latin Proverbs
The good is the enemy of the best.
The goodwill accompanying the gift is the best portion of it.
The grape is not ripened by the rays of the moon.
The grasshopper is dear to the grasshopper, the ant loves the ant.
The great elephant of India cares not for a gnat.
The greater the fool, the greater his insolence.
The greatest consideration is due to the innocence of youth.
The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age.
The half is better than the whole.
The hand often travels to the part where the pain is.
The hand that gives gathers.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes.
The harp dispels care.
The hatred of knaves is preferable to their company.
The hatred of knaves is preferable to their company. – Latin Proverbs
The hatred of knaves is to be preferred to their company. – Latin Proverbs
The hedge is trodden down where it seems to lean.
The highest seat will not hold more than one.
The highest spoke in fortune’s wheel may soon turn lowest.
The highest tree hath the greatest fall.
The hindmost dog may catch the hare.
The hour is passing.
The intemperate die young, and rarely en joy old age.
The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
The laborer is worthy of his hire.
The labour is in itself a pleasure.
The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive.
The law of requital of injury by injury.
The madness of one makes many mad.
The magpie is competing with the nightingale.
The master’s eye makes the horse fat.
The means were wanting, not the will.
The memory of a benefit vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh fast in the heart.
The memory of happiness makes misery woeful.
The mice have taken themselves off.
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
The miller sees not every wave that flows.
The mind is best taught with a sharp whip.
The mind when unoccupied knows not what it wants.
The misfortune of the foolish is a warning to the wise.
The misfortunes to which we are accustomed affect us less deeply.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.
The more they have, the more they want.
The more we have, the more we want.
The more you give in, the more you have to give in.
The most pleasant cruise is near the land; the most inviting walk near the sea.
The mouse is caught in the trap.
The names of fools are always written on walls.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
The office shows the man.
The office shows the man. – Latin Proverbs
The old cask tastes of what the new cask held.
The old monkey is caught last.
The old parrot does not mind the stick.
The owl has one note, the crow another.
The owl sings to the nightingale.
The ox in a strange stall often casts a longing look towards the door.
The ox when most weary is most surefooted.
The parrot utters one cry, the quail another.
The passing hour is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.
The penalty attaching to evil deeds should be thought of in time.
The people want to be deceived.
The pig prefers mud to clean water.
The plan executed, reason comes to our assistance.
The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries.
The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.
The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting more.
The position in which we were before the war.
The post of honor is the post of danger.
The prolonged visit of no guest is pleasant.
The provoking pertinacity of a fly.
The quoit attracts them more than philosophy.
The rabble is not influenced by reason, but blind impulse.
The rabble, as of old, truckles to success, and hates a favourite in disgrace.
The race is not always to the swift.
The rack can extort a false confession from the innocent.
The rat betrayed by his own track perishes.
The razor against the grindstone.
The real nettle will sting early.
The real world is a special case.
The remedy for injuries is to forget them.
The remembrance of past pleasures adds to present sorrows.
The reserve are engaged.
The revenge of an idiot is without mercy.
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it.
The reward of silence is certain.
The Roman conquered by delay.
The rough manners of the vulgar are contagious.
The sacrifice of an ox will not bring us all we want.
The same failings attach not to all.
The same shoe does not fit every foot.
The shadow for the substance.
The shirt is nearer than the coat.
The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship.
The silver is become dross.
The skin of a lion covering some mongrel beast.
The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire abroad.
The sow has been greeted with music.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The stupid fear fortune, the wise endure it.
The swans will not sing till the jackdaws are quiet.
The swift are overtaken by the slow.
The tale is marred in the telling.
The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.
The test of merit is success.
The times are changing; we too are changing with them.
The title is one thing, the contents another.
The toothless man envies those who can eat well.
The warnings of age are the weapons of youth.
The whisperer’s tongue is worse than serpent’s venom.
The will cannot be compelled.
The wind will let us neither sail nor stay.
The wolf changes his coat but not his nature.
The wolf changes his hair, but not his nature.
The wolf dances round the well.
The work tests the workman.
The workmanship surpassed the material.
There are many languages on earth, but one in heaven.
There grows not the herb, which can protect against the power of death.
There is a black sheep in every flock.
There is a good time coming.
There is a season for all things.
There is a skeleton in every house.
There is a time and place for everything.
There is a time for all things.
There is a time for everything.
There is a time for everything.
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.
There is always a first time.
There is danger when a dog has once tasted flesh.
There is more to be feared from the doctor than the disease.
There is no accounting for tastes.
There is no departing from the words of the law.
There is no disputing about tastes.
There is no good but contains some evil; no evil but contains some good.
There is no remedy against the bite of a secret slanderer.
There is no way to make money so certain as to save what you have.
There is no wheat without chaff.
There is no wise response to a foolish remark.
There is nothing more telling than wit.
There is nothing new under the sun.
There is nothing so intolerable as a fortunate fool.
There is nothing to be gained by buying inferior goods.
There is often wisdom under a shabby coat.
There’s death in the pot.
They attend a funeral robed in white, and a wedding in mourning.
They build houses but shall not inhabit them.
They can do least who boast loudest.
They cease to be friends who dwell afar off.
They fight with tweezers, not swords.
They fought with varying success.
They found no fault with Time, save that he fled.
They give, to find a pretext for asking.
They laugh till they cry.
They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing.
They look at the greens, but steal the bacon.
They marry under bad auspices who marry in the month of May.
They understand each other, like thieves at a fair.
They who are thirsty drink in silence.
Thief knows thief, and wolf knows wolf.
Thieves dread a commotion.
Things beyond our reach are not worth our consideration.
Things coming from afar are most esteemed.
Things hardly attained are the longer retained.
Things hatched in discord are not speedily terminated.
Things past cannot be recalled.
Things rumoured lessen in importance as they assume reality.
Think first and speak afterwards.
Think late, suffer soon.
This grief will prove a blessing.
Those who are conscious of their own iniquity, suspect others.
Those who are nourished by hope live ever in suspense, and enjoy not life.
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed to be so for ever.
Those who attack, though they die in the attempt.
Those who do a thing are consenting parties.
Those who see the faults of others, and see not their own, are wise for others and fools for themselves.
Though living, dead for all useful purposes.
Though malice may darken truth, it cannot put it out.
Though physician to others, yet himself full of sores.
Three women will make as much noise as a market.
Through dangers to distinction.
Thus years glide by.
Tide and time wait for no man.
Time flies with hasty step.
Time has a forelock, but is bald behind.
Time reveals all things.
Time softens animosity.
Times change, and we change with them.
Times change, and we change with them. – Latin Proverbs
‘Tis folly to love fetters, though they be of gold.
‘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?
‘Tis wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
To be in love and act wisely is scarcely granted to a god.
To be loved, be loveable.
To conceal disease is fatal.
To condemn by a cutting laugh comes easily to all.
To do a favour slowly is to begrudge it; to consent slowly shows unwillingness.
To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rose-water into the sea.
To every one who doth ask, but not everything he doth ask.
To have been silent never does harm, but to have spoken does.
To have no wants, is money.
To have nothing is not poverty.
To him that hath much, shall much be given.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
To obtain that which is just we must ask that which is unjust.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
To relax the mind is to lose it.
To remove the hairs from a horse’s tail, one by one must be plucked out.
To silence another, first be silent yourself.
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. – Latin Proverbs
To the pure all things are pure.
To understand a stammerer, you ought to stammer yourself.
To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art.
To whom is he any good, if he is no good to himself?
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
To work is to pray.
Toil is prayer. – Latin Proverbs
To-morrow is the pupil of to-day.
To-morrow we will credit it, not to-day.
Too late do I take up the shield after the wound.
Too late for the fair.
Too much care does more harm than good.
Too much care may be as bad as downright negligence.
Too much consulting confounds.
Too much of a thing nauseates.
Too much of anything is bad.
Too much wine will make a sane man mad.
Treachery will eventually betray itself; though wary enough at first.
Treat everything of this world as mere vanity.
Treat your friends as if hereafter they will become your enemies, and your enemies as if they will become your friends.
Trifles often lead to serious results.
Trifling at an end, now let us go to the point.
Troy is a thing of the past.
True friends are tested in adversity.
Trust no one, until you have eaten a peck of salt with him.
Trust not a sword in the hands of a boy.
Trust not a woman, even when dead.
Trust not your all in one ship.
Truth becomes lost in the turmoil of arguments.
Truth conquers all things.
Truth is great and will prevail.
Truth is violated by a lie or by silence.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled.
Truth will be out. – Latin Proverbs
Try to deserve the reputation you enjoy.
Turn it inside and out.
Turn of phrase.
Two eyes can see more than one.
Unable to keep yourself, you are keeping dogs.
Unaccustomed to wear them, he displays the breeches he has on to every one he meets.
Under the rose.
Unequalled in the smallest matters.
Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain.
Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain.
Urge the horse close to the turning-post.
Use not coercive measures against those in authority.
Valour acquires strength by union.
Valour even in an enemy is worthy of praise.
Vengeance is slow, but stern.
Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
Vice is nourished by concealment.
Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue.
Viper produces viper.
Virtue and valour rejoice in being put to the test.
Virtue our leader, fortune our companion.
Virtue, which parleys, is near a surrender.
Walk on your own lands.
Walk softly but carry a big stick.
Want all lose all.
War appears pleasant to those who have never experienced it.
War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake.
We all envy other people’s luck.
We all refer to that of which we know most.
We are born; we die. – Latin Proverbs
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
We are not disposed to study much after heavy meals.
We are the authors of our own disasters.
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
We become wiser as we grow older.
We benefit by affliction.
We can accustom ourselves to anything.
We can enjoy nothing without some one to share the pleasure.
We conquer and are conquered in our turn.
We covet not that of the existence of which we are ignorant.
We easily believe that which we hope for.
We easily give advice to others.
We expiate in old age the follies of our youth.
We find much ingratitude, and create more.
We give and take in turn.
We hate the man whom we have wronged.
We hate whom we have injured.
We have all been fools in our time.
We judge of the present from the past.
We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.
We lessen our wants by lessening our desires.
We live more by fashion than common sense.
We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.
We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.
We must live as we can, not as we would wish.
We must not expect everything, everywhere, and from everybody.
We need not friends if Providence smiles on us.
We never profit by the gifts of the wicked.
We pardon faults in youth.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
We perish by permitted things.
We receive nothing with so much reluctance as advice.
We shall never be younger.
We should eat to live, not live to eat.
We should trust more to our eyesight than to our ears.
We sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.
We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning.
We trust what we see rather than what we hear.
Wealth is protected and poverty is assisted by concord.
Wealth lightens not the heart and care of man.
Wealth makes worship.
Wealth not acquired by our own labours, but inherited.
Wealth, like an index, reveals the character of men.
Wear not boots too big for your feet.
Wear not out your welcome.
What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
What does the tortoise care for flies?
What everybody says must be true.
What harm is there in making a trial?
What has benefited one has destroyed others.
What has this to do with the matter?
What I do against my will cannot be said to be my own act.
What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine’s snout?
What is lighter than a feather? Dust. What lighter than dust? Wind. What lighter than the wind? A harlot. What lighter than a harlot? Nothing.
What is new is esteemed, but what is in every day use ceases to afford interest.
What is not understood by what is less understood.
What is not understood.
What is permitted us we least desire.
What is there that love will not achieve?
What is useful cannot be base.
What is viler than to be laughed at?
What is worthwhile must needs be difficult.
What limit is there in love?
What need has a blind man of a looking glass?
What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.
What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget. – Latin Proverbs
What people in distress most wish for, they most readily believe.
What raging rashly is begun, Challengeth shame before half done.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
What the eye rarely sees, the heart soon despises.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
What though his hair be gray, his mind is no less vigorous than ever.
What we possess is always beautiful.
What will not performance achieve?
What you are doing do thoroughly.
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
What you’ve never had you never miss.
What. you a hare, and ask for hare-pie.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Whatever you undertake let it be proportioned to your powers.
What’s bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
What’s done can’t be mended.
What’s done is done.
When a man’s mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt.
When an observation by joke is true, it is out of place and ill-natured.
When an old dog barks, look out.
When fortune deserts us, our friends are nowhere.
When hunger is appeased we can preach the merits of fasting.
When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever.
When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
When once at sea, do not long to be on shore.
When one dog barks another will join it. – Latin Proverbs
When one dog barks, another will follow suit.
When one wave leaves, another succeeds.
When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
When rogues fallout, many a secret is revealed.
When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious.
When the battle is over you make your appearance.
When the head aches, all the members suffer with it.
When the head acheth, all the body is the worse.
When the journey is finished to lay up provisions for the journey.
When the old dog barks it is time to watch.
When the soul hungers, even bitter things taste sweet.
When the tale of bricks is doubled, then Moses makes his appearance.
When the tree is fallen, every one goeth to it with his hatchet.
When the war is over then comes help.
When you bargain with a fox, beware of tricks.
When you can avoid it, never seek strife.
When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
Where art is displayed truth does not appear.
Where bees are, there is honey.
Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved.
Where freedom is, there shall my country be.
Where the bee sucks honey the spider sucks poison.
Where the carcase is, there will the vultures be.
Where the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.
Where the honey, there the bees.
Where the love is, thither turns the eye.
Where there is content there is abundance.
Where there is wealth, friends abound.
Wherein have I erred? What have I done?
Wherever a man dwells, he shall be sure to have a thorn-bush near his door.
Whether he will or no.
While avoiding the smoke I have fallen into the flame.
While between two stools my tail go to the ground.
While life lasts let us enjoy it.
While there is life there is hope.
While we discuss matters, the opportunity passes by.
While we draw we are drawn.
While we live, let us live.
While we live, let us live. – Latin Proverbs
While we would catch we are caught.
Whilst standing he holds one opinion, whilst sitting another.
Who aims at things beyond his reach, the greater will be his fall.
Who lies with dogs shall rise up with fleas. – Latin Proverbs
Who loses honor can lose nothing else.
Who loves me loves my dog.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Who would avoid all strife, should be a bachelor.
Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it?
Whose life is as lightning, his words are as thunder.
Why wear out your great coat in summer?
Wickedness and malice only require an opportunity.
Wickedness with beauty is the devil’s hook baited.
Wider ears and a short tongue.
Win by persuasion not by force.
Wine brings forth the truth.
Wine carries no rudder.
Wine gladdeneth the heart of man.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
Wine is given to bring mirth not drunkenness.
Wine is one thing, drunkenness another.
Wine is the mirror of the mind.
Wine mars beauty and destroys the freshness of youth.
Winter is summer’s heir.
Winter never rots in the sky.
Wisdom does not consist in dress.
With his own weapon do I stab him.
With one hand he scratches you, and with the other he strikes you.
With the idle it is always holy day time.
Without divine assistance we can achieve nothing.
Without favour, art is like a windmill without wind.
Women when injured are generally not easily appeased.
Women’s jars breed men’s wars.
Words butter not parsnips.
Words may either conceal character or reveal it.
Words pay no debts.
Work makes the workman.
Works have a stronger voice than words.
Worthless is the advice of fools.
Would you shear a donkey for wool.
Would you take water to the frog?
Wrongdoers and assenting parties are equally punishable.
Yield to divine power.
You anoint the dead man with salve.
You are but sowing in sand.
You are carrying owls to Athens.
You are comparing a rose to an anemone.
You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
You are looking for wings in a wolf.
You are more shifting than a potter’s wheel.
You are needlessly alarmed.
You are talking to a stone.
You are teaching a fish to swim.
You are teaching iron to swim.
You are what you eat.
You ask the path when the high road is before your eyes.
You attack a horned animal.
You bring your own evil deeds to light.
You can never consider that as your own which can be changed.
You cannot catch a fox with a bait.
You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
You cannot have all you wish for.
You can’t love Thetis and Galatea at the same time.
You compare the bee to the grasshopper.
You compare the moorhen to the I swan.
You compare the tortoise to the hare.
You count the sand.
You give hay to the dog and bones to the ass.
You give the wolf the wether to keep.
You harp perpetually on the same string.
You have come too late for the feast.
You have got your feet out of the mire.
You have hit the nail on the head.
You have hit the point exactly.
You have left the sheep with the wolf for safe custody.
You have spoilt the wine by adding water to it.
You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.
You hold an eel by the tail.
You keep making that face and it’ll stay that way.
You kick against the goad.
You know not what the evening may bring with it.
You let the cat out of the bag.
You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
You make an elephant of a mouse.
You may as well talk to the sea-shore.
You may drive Nature out with a pitchfork, but she will inevitably return.
You may drive Nature out with a pitchfork, but she will inevitably return. – Latin Proverbs
You may judge a man by his countenance.
You may judge of a man by his remarks.
You may know a lion by his claw.
You must howl with wolves if you wish to be one of their herd.
You must rave with the insane, unless you would be left alone.
You reap the crop of another.
You reap what you sow.
You sail in the same boat.
You seek for fruit in the garden of Tantalus.
You seek water from a stone.
You seek wool from a donkey.
You should eat plentifully of the flesh of the turtle or not at all.
You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.
You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear.
You stick in the same mire.
You talk to a deaf man.
You talk to a wall.
You teach the dolphin to swim.
You teach the dolphin to swim. – Latin Proverbs
You tell a tale to a dead man.
You trust the guard to a naked or unarmed man.
You use a lantern at noonday.
You war against heaven.
You will learn by teaching.
You will mix what is sacred with what is profane.
You will wear the ivy wreath, the victor’s meed.
You win a few, you lose a few.
You would frighten a lion with a mask.
You would weave a rope of sand.
‘Tis a hard winter when one wolf eats another. – Russian Proverb
A bachelor is never sent as a go-between. – Russian Proverb
A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls. – Russian Proverb
A bad peace is better than a good quarrel. – Russian Proverb
A bad rumour flies on wings. – Russian Proverb
A beaten one is worth two unbeaten ones. – Russian Proverb
A bird may be known by its flight. – Russian Proverb
(A person is know and judged by his actions or behavior)
A bird may be known by its flight. – Russian Proverb
A boat stands firmer with two anchors. – Russian Proverb
A cat always knows whose meat it eats. – Russian Proverb
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. – Russian Proverb
A cross-eyed Tsar, one-eyed ministers, blind subjects. – Russian Proverb
A day is long, but a lifetime is short. – Russian Proverb
A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. – Russian Proverb
A dog on the hay: will neither eat it himself, nor let others eat it. – Russian Proverb
A dog on the hay: will neither eat it himself, nor let others eat. – Russian Proverb
A drawing man clutches at straw. – Russian Proverb
A drop from every mug makes for a house for the barmaid. – Russian Proverb
A drop hollows out a stone. – Russian Proverb
(Persistence will achieve a difficult objective)
A drop in the sea. – Russian Proverb
A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs. – Russian Proverb
A drowning man will clutch at straw. – Russian Proverb
A field held in common is always ravaged by bears. – Russian Proverb
A field in common is always ravaged by bears. – Russian Proverb
A fisherman can recognize another fisherman from afar. – Russian Proverb
A fly cannot enter a closed mouth. – Russian Proverb
(It is desirable, and may be more effective, remain silent in some circumstances)
A fly will not get into a closed mouth. – Russian Proverb
A fool is not afraid to lose his mind. – Russian Proverb
A fool may throw into a well a stone which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. – Russian Proverb
A friendly word is like a spring day. – Russian Proverb
A girl never grows into a lady. A girl never grows into a lady. – Russian Proverb
A glass for the vodka, for the beer a mug, and for the table, cheerful company. – Russian Proverb
A golden handshake convinces even the most skeptical judge. – Russian Proverb
A good borrower is a lazy payer. – Russian Proverb
A good citizen owes his life to his country. – Russian Proverb
A good laugh is sunshine in a house. – Russian Proverb
A good man maybe, but it’s best to shoot him. – Russian Proverb
A good merchant has neither money nor goods. – Russian Proverb
A good wife and a wholesome cabbage soup, what more could you want? – Russian Proverb
A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one. – Russian Proverb
A goose doesn’t befriend a pig. – Russian Proverb
A gowk at yule’ll no be bright at beltane. – Russian Proverb
A guest has not to thank the host, but the host the guest. – Russian Proverb
A hammer breaks glass, but also forms steel. – Russian Proverb
A hammer will shatter glass yet it can forge steel. – Russian Proverb
A handful of dirt is pleasing if it’s your own land. – Russian Proverb
A Horse has four legs, but still stumbles. – Russian Proverb
A judge and a stomach do their asking in silence. – Russian Proverb
A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years. – Russian Proverb
A kind word is like a spring day. – Russian Proverb
A kopeck saves the rouble, and the rouble guards your head. – Russian Proverb
A liar can go round the world but cannot come back. – Russian Proverb
A little spark kindles a great fire. – Russian Proverb
A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves. – Russian Proverb
A lonely person is at home everywhere. – Russian Proverb
A long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether. – Russian Proverb
A lucky man can stumble upon a treasure while an unlucky one can’t even find a mushroom. – Russian Proverb
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words. – Russian Proverb
(People can say many things,because talking is easy,but it is more important what person does than what he says he will do)
A man should not be struck when he is down. – Russian Proverb
(Never hit an opponent who has fallen, do not attack or hurt a person in misfortune who cannot “fight back”)
A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur cap. – Russian Proverb
A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps. – Russian Proverb
A mile walked with a friend has only one hundred steps. – Russian Proverb
A net will catch more than a pole. – Russian Proverb
A new broom sweeps in a new way. – Russian Proverb
A nightingale doesn’t feed on songs. – Russian Proverb
A Party member is an active person. – Russian Proverb
A person never gets tired working for himself. – Russian Proverb
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. – Russian Proverb
A pig in a parlor is still a pig. – Russian Proverb
A pig will find mud. – Russian Proverb
A priest’s beard is always soaked in butter. – Russian Proverb
A priest’s belly is made up of several sheepskins. – Russian Proverb
A proverb can’t be judged. – Russian Proverb
A ruler without a nation is like a flower without the sun. – Russian Proverb
A sea will not dry up, a nation will not get lost. – Russian Proverb
A silent man is not a conquered man. – Russian Proverb
A sin of gold is followed by a punishment of lead. – Russian Proverb
A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole. – Russian Proverb
A sleeping fox counts chicken in his dreams. – Russian Proverb
A smart person will not climb a mountain; A smart person will go around it. – Russian Proverb
A soldier on furlough lets his shirt hang out of his trousers. – Russian Proverb
A soldier who doesn’t dream of becoming a general is a bad one. – Russian Proverbs
A sparrow in the hand is better than a cock on the roof. – Russian Proverb
(It is better to be content with what we have or can easily get than to lose it by trying to get something better, as this may never happen)
A spoken word flies; you won’t catch it. – Russian Proverb
A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again. – Russian Proverb
A spoken word is not a sparrow. – Russian Proverb
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can’t catch it. – Russian Proverb
A spooked crow is afraid of a bush. – Russian Proverb
A spoonful of tar in a barrel of honey. – Russian Proverb
A stranger’s soul is like a dark forest. – Russian Proverb
A tale is soon told; a deed is not soon done. – Russian Proverb
A thief’s hat is burning. – Russian Proverb
A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many. – Russian Proverb
A thread from everyone will make a shirt for the needy. – Russian Proverb
A titmouse in the hand is better than a crane in the sky. – Russian Proverb
A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he has no teeth. – Russian Proverb
A virgin’s heart is a dark forest. – Russian Proverb
A wife is not a pot, she will not break so easily. – Russian Proverb
A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove. – Russian Proverb
A wise companion is half the journey. – Russian Proverb
A wise man sees only water in the tears of a woman. – Russian Proverb
A wolf won’t eat wolf. – Russian Proverb
(People of the same group, occupation, interests live, or should live, together in amity)
A woman farmer had no trouble, so she bought a piglet. – Russian Proverb
A woman’s tongue is longer than her hair. – Russian Proverb
A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin. – Russian Proverb
A word of kindness is better than a bottle of vodka. – Russian Proverb
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all. – Russian Proverb
Absentmindedness is searching for the horse you are riding. – Russian Proverb
Abuse doesn’t hang on the collar. – Russian Proverb
Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families. – Russian Proverb
Acknowledgement is half of correction. – Russian Proverb
Advertising is the driving force of business. – Russian Proverb
Afraid of the enemies – don’t be a border guard. – Russian Proverb
After a storm (comes) fair weather, after sorrow (comes) joy. – Russian Proverb
(There must be something better after every piece of unpleasantness)
After a storm comes fair weather, after sorrow comes joy. – Russian Proverb
After a storm fair weather, after sorrow joy. – Russian Proverb
After all, every man is the son of a woman. – Russian Proverb
After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair. – Russian Proverb
After your daughter is married, there comes a number of potential sons-in-law. – Russian Proverb
All ages are submissive to love. – Russian Proverb
All are not cooks who walk with long knives. – Russian Proverb
(Good looks do not always go to with virtue, and ugliness does not always go with sin)
All cats are grey at night. – Russian Proverb
(All shapes,all colors are alike in the dark. The night obscure all distinguishing features)
All is not gold that glitters. – Russian Proverb
(A person or thing may not be as good,valuable,etc., as he or it first appears; appearances can be deceptive)
All is well that ends well. – Russian Proverb
All lay loads on a willing horse. – Russian Proverb
All roads do not lead to Rome. – Russian Proverb
All roads lead to Moscow. – Russian Proverb
All roads lead to Rome. – Russian Proverb
(A number of persons arrive at one common objective by different means.All ways or methods of fulfilling a certain intention end in the same results.)
All the cones drop on poor makar. – Russian Proverb
An agreement is more valuable than money. – Russian Proverb
An argument is fine only when there is to be a fight. – Russian Proverb
An axe does not cut down a tree by itself. – Russian Proverb
An egg is dear on Easter day. – Russian Proverb
An empty barrel makes the greatest sound. – Russian Proverb
(Ignorant stupid people talk more often and more loudly than wise ones; just as an empty pot makes a loud noise when it is struck, while a full pot makes little noise)
An empty barrel rattles louder. – Russian Proverb
An empty mill will turn without the wind. – Russian Proverb
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue. – Russian Proverb
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue. – Russian Proverbs
An icon for the mind is like raw vodka for the stomach.– Russian Proverb
An ill-paying job is better than a lucrative heist. – Russian Proverb
An indispensable thing never has much value. – Russian Proverb
An old dog can’t get used to chains. – Russian Proverb
An old friend is better than two new ones. – Russian Proverb
An old loan repaid is like finding something new. – Russian Proverb
An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing. – Russian Proverb
An uninvited guest is worse than the Mongol invasion. – Russian Proverb
An unsolicited guest is better than a solicited one. – Russian Proverb
An unsolicited guest is worse than a Tatar. – Russian Proverb
Any fish is good if it is on the hook. – Russian Proverb
(The fisherman can make use of every kind of fish that he catches,large and small.One should make use of every opportunity that comes one’s way)
Any sandpiper is great in his own swamp. – Russian Proverb
(It is easy to brag of your deeds in familiar surroundings where you are safe from danger and not likely to be put to proof)
Around bread there will always be crumbs. – Russian Proverb
As busy as a bee. – Russian Proverb
As chicken is not a bird, woman is not a human being. – Russian Proverb
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far place. – Russian Proverb
As hungry as a wolf. – Russian Proverb
As is well that ends well. – Russian Proverb
(If the final result is good,previous failures are forgotten and there is no need to complain, since the end result is the most importance thing)
As long as a child does not cry, it does not matter what pleases it. – Russian Proverb
As long as the fish swims in the water, don’t light up the grill. – Russian Proverb
As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon. – Russian Proverb
As soon as your cart is turned over, everyone rushes to give you advice. – Russian Proverb
As twice two is four. – Russian Proverb
As you brew, so must you drink. – Russian Proverb
As you cooked the porridge, so must you eat it. – Russian Proverb
(Every must take consequences of his own actions)
As you make your bed, so you will sleep. – Russian Proverb
(A person must take the responsibility for the results of his own unwise actions; just as a man who makes his bed badly will certainly sleep uncomfortably.)
Ask a lot, but take what is offered. – Russian Proverb
Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer. – Russian Proverb
Asking is no sin, and being refused is no tragedy. – Russian Proverb
Bad luck is fertile. – Russian Proverb
Badly oiled wheels will squeak. – Russian Proverb
Be patient, cossack, and you’ll be a chieftain. – Russian Proverb
Be wise, but pretend to be ignorant. – Russian Proverb
Beat your own and others will fear you. – Russian Proverb
Beauty is the sister of idleness and the mother of luxury. – Russian Proverb
Beauty’s sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. – Russian Proverb
Before we went to churches and bars – now we go to clubs and cinemas. – Russian Proverb
Berry by berry, a basket will be full. – Russian Proverb
Best is the enemy of good. – Russian Proverb
Better a bed of wood than a bier of gold. – Russian Proverb
Better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place. – Russian Proverb
(It is better to accept something small than to reject it and hope to get more later on)
Better a fair pair of heels than a halter. – Russian Proverb
Better late than never. – Russian Proverb
(It is better to come (to repent, to do something,etc) late than never to come (to repent,to do something,etc.) at all)
Better to stumble than make a slip of the tongue. – Russian Proverb
(It is better to do something wrong that to say something wrong, because it is sometimes more difficult to improve something said than something done)
Better to turn back than to lose your way. – Russian Proverb
Better too aware than too unaware. – Russian Proverb
Between hammer and anvil. – Russian Proverb
Beware of a quiet dog and still water. – Russian Proverb
(You should not afraid of people who make threats and shout in a loud voice; it is the people who are quiet and say little that must really be feared)
Big voyage for a big ship. Big voyage for a big ship. – Russian Proverb
Both cheap and angry. – Russian Proverb
Bread and salt never quarrel. – Russian Proverb
Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open. – Russian Proverb
Call a pot, just don’t put into the oven. – Russian Proverb
Cat died of curiosity. – Russian Proverb
Chickens are counted in autumn. – Russian Proverb
(Do not be sure of success,victory,etc.,until all difficulties have been overcome; make sure that a thing is actually yours before you speak or act as if it were already yours)
Chipped china lasts two centuries. – Russian Proverb
Choose a matchmaker, not a bride. – Russian Proverb
Clemency is the support of justice. – Russian Proverb
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. – Russian Proverb
Close to the Tsar, close to death. – Russian Proverb
Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak. – Russian Proverb
Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load. – Russian Proverb
Cows forget that they were calves. – Russian Proverb
Creditors have better memories than debtors. – Russian Proverb
Crows are black the world over. – Russian Proverb
Cry and the whole world cries with you. – Russian Proverb
Cry not for the hair when the head is off. – Russian Proverb
Cry not out before you are hurt. – Russian Proverb
Curious Varvara’s nose was torn off. – Russian Proverb
(A person who tries to find out too much about other people’s affairs is likely to suffer injury or harm; a warning to mind one’s own business)
Custom is stronger than law. – Russian Proverb
Cut down the tree that you are able to. – Russian Proverb
(Do not undertake more than you are able to perform or something that is too difficult)
Death answers before it is asked. – Russian Proverb
Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar just as easily as a light beggar. – Russian Proverb
Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life. – Russian Proverb
Death does not take the old but the ripe. – Russian Proverb
Death is a giant against whom even the Tsars must draw weapons. – Russian Proverb
Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders. – Russian Proverb
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. – Russian Proverbs
Do not carry rubbish out of your hut. – Russian Proverb
(Do not discuss your fault, mistakes, private, and especially family, grievances, troubles, quarrels, scandals, etc., in public)
Do not cut the bough you are sitting on. – Russian Proverb
(do not act in such a way as to do yourself harm)
Do not dig a hole for somebody else; you yourself will fall into it. – Russian Proverb
(Mistakes, misdeeds, etc., come back as an unpleasant effect on the person who originally made the mistakes, did the misdeeds, etc)
Do not look at gift horse’s mouth. – Russian Proverb
(Never criticize or express displeasure when you receive a gift;be thankful that you have it at all.(examination of a horse’s mouth reveals a lot about its age and condition)
Do not look for further good from good. – Russian Proverb
Do not look for good from good. – Russian Proverb
Do not make an elephant out of a fly. – Russian Proverb
(Do not worry or become excited about matters that are not really important at all. Do not exaggerate the importance of matters)
Do not make jokes that cost more than a ruble. – Russian Proverb
Do not make me kiss, and you will not make me sin. – Russian Proverb
Do not measure (others) by your own arshin (=28 inches) – Russian Proverb
(Do not judge others by yourself; do not apply your own standard to other)
Do not measure others by your own yardstick. – Russian Proverb
Do not plant a tree with its root upward. – Russian Proverb
(Do not do or say things in the wrong order; do not reverse the right or natural order of things)
Do not plant a tree with the roots upward. – Russian Proverb
Do not play with fire – you will burn yourself. – Russian Proverb
(Do not take risks with dangerous articles,especially when it is foolish and unnecessary; do not put yourself into a position that may be dangerous)
Do not praise yourself when going of to battle going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle. – Russian Proverb
(Do not rejoice till you are sure that your difficulties are at an end)
Do not spit in the well – you may be thirsty by and by. – Russian Proverb
Do not spit into a well-it may be useful to drink water. – Russian Proverb
Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of. – Russian Proverb
Do not spit into the well you may have to drink of. – Russian Proverb
Do not teach a learned person. – Russian Proverb
Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science. – Russian Proverb
(Do not tell or show somebody how to do something that he can do perfectly well and probably better than you yourself)
Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail. – Russian Proverb
Don’t blame your wife’s side if your son is cross-eyed. – Russian Proverb
Don’t boast when you start out, but when you get there. – Russian Proverb
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood. – Russian Proverb
Don’t chat on the phone – a talker is a great find for a spy. – Russian Proverb
Don’t dig a hole for someone else, as you will fall into it yourself. – Russian Proverb
Don’t drive a Binya into the woods if he has found his way to your house. – Russian Proverb
Don’t fight with the strong one, don’t sue the rich one. – Russian Proverb
Don’t hope for rain or thunder, hope for an agronomist. – Russian Proverb
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. – Russian Proverb
Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail. – Russian Proverb
Don’t blame your wife’s side if your son is cross-eyed. – Russian Proverb
Don’t boast when you start out, but when you get there. – Russian Proverb
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood. – Russian Proverb
Don’t chat on the phone – a talker is a great find for a spy. – Russian Proverb
Don’t dig a hole for someone else, as you will fall into it yourself. – Russian Proverb
Don’t drive a Binya into the woods if he has found his way to your house. – Russian Proverb
Don’t fight with the strong one, don’t sue the rich one. – Russian Proverb
Don’t hope for rain or thunder, hope for an agronomist. – Russian Proverb
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. – Russian Proverb
Don’t look for a sea when you can drown in a puddle. – Russian Proverb
Don’t pluck the apple while it is green; when it is ripe it will fall of itself. – Russian Proverb
Don’t praise your furnace when the house is cold. – Russian Proverb
Don’t put all eggs in one basket. – Russian Proverb
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. – Russian Proverb
Don’t put it in my ear, but in my hand. – Russian Proverb
Don’t put new wine into old bottles. – Russian Proverb
Don’t raise your stick and the dog won’t bark at you. – Russian Proverb
Don’t swear off of beggary and jail. – Russian Proverb
Don’t wake up trouble while it sleeps quietly. – Russian Proverb
Don’t worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend. – Russian Proverb
Drowning man clutches at straw. – Russian Proverb
(Anyone in desperate circumstances will try every possible means to escape from danger or difficulty even though he knows it is unlikely to be successful)
Each day learns from the one before it, but no day teaches the one after it. – Russian Proverb
Each time it is different. – Russian Proverb
Ears do not grow higher than the head. – Russian Proverb
Eat until you are half full; drink until you are half drunk. – Russian Proverb
Eat what is cooked; listen to what is said. – Russian Proverb
Eggs cannot teach a hen. – Russian Proverb
(Do not give advice to someone who is more experienced than you; do not teach a person who is wiser and more knowledgeable)
Eggs don’t teach the hens anything. – Russian Proverb
Either chest in crosses, or a head in bushes. – Russian Proverb
Elderberries in the yard and an uncle in Kiev. – Russian Proverb
Elder-berry is in the kitchen-garden, therefore your Uncle is in Kiev. – Russian Proverb
Envy can breed swans from bad duck eggs. – Russian Proverb
Envy sees the sea but not the rocks. – Russian Proverb
Eternal peace lasts only until the next war. – Russian Proverb
Eternal peace lasts until the next war. – Russian Proverb
Eternity makes room for a salty cucumber. – Russian Proverb
Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in awhile. – Russian Proverb
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. – Russian Proverb
Even an eagle will not fly higher than the sun. – Russian Proverb
Even an old lady makes mistakes. – Russian Proverb
Even good dogs have fleas. – Russian Proverb
Even honor is not an honor, if there is nothing to eat. – Russian Proverb
Even in the ashes there will be a few sparks. – Russian Proverb
Even one person in the field is a warrior, if he is a soviet warrior. – Russian Proverb
Even pulling a fish out of the pond requires some effort. – Russian Proverb
Even vinegar is sweet when for freebie. – Russian Proverb
Even walls may have ears. – Russian Proverb
Every Ananya has his Melanie. – Russian Proverb
Every cricket must know its hearth. – Russian Proverb
Every day is a messenger of God. – Russian Proverb
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea. – Russian Proverb
Every road has two directions. – Russian Proverb
Every sandpiper praises his own swamp. – Russian Proverb
Every sandpiper praises its own swamp. – Russian Proverb
(Every man praises what is familar and dear to him)
Every seed knows its time == All in good time. – Russian Proverb
(One should not be impatient and hasten events; everything will work out after some time,but not immediately)
Every seed knows its time. – Russian Proverb
Every vegetable has its time. – Russian Proverb
Everyone has his own Czar in his head. – Russian Proverbs
Everyone loves the tree that gives him shelter. – Russian Proverb
Everything cannot be hung on one nail. – Russian Proverb
Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else. – Russian Proverb
Everything tastes bitter to him with gall in his mouth. – Russian Proverb
Eyes are afraid, but hands are doing the job. – Russian Proverb
Fear has big eyes. – Russian Proverb
Fear has large eyes. – Russian Proverb
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and a man from all sides. – Russian Proverb
Fear the Greeks bearing gifts. – Russian Proverb
Fear the law not the judge. – Russian Proverb
Fedot, yet not the one. – Russian Proverb
Fedot, yet not the right one. – Russian Proverb
Feel free to jabber, Emelya-it’s your week. – Russian Proverb
Fighting for your country glorifies death. – Russian Proverb
First do it, then say it. – Russian Proverb
First the stable, then the cow. – Russian Proverb
Fishermen recognize each other from far away. – Russian Proverb
Flies and priests can enter any house. – Russian Proverb
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. – Russian Proverb
For a drunkard the sea only reaches his knees. – Russian Proverb
For a drunken one a sea is knee-deep, and a puddle – ears-deep. – Russian Proverb
For a mad dog, seven versts is not a long detour. – Russian Proverb
For a poor man, to prepare for a trip means belt himself. – Russian Proverb
For each wise man there are plenty of fools. – Russian Proverb
For every one with a plow-there’re seven with a spoon. – Russian Proverb
For him who does not believe in signs, there is no way to live in the world. – Russian Proverb
For ill do well, Then fear not hell. – Russian Proverb
For some people war is war, for others – dear mother. – Russian Proverb
Force a fool to pray and he’ll crack his forehead. – Russian Proverb
Forgiveness is a pillar of justice. – Russian Proverb
Fortune and misfortune live in the same courtyard. – Russian Proverb
Freedom for the free and heaven for the saved. – Russian Proverb
Friendship is friendship, but keep our tobacco apart. – Russian Proverb
Friendship is one thing and tobacco is another. – Russian Proverb
From fire to flame. – Russian Proverb
Further from the eye – closer to the heart. – Russian Proverb
Give a naked man a piece of cloth and he will say it is too thick. – Russian Proverb
Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own. – Russian Proverb
Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea. – Russian Proverb
Glory lies still; abuse is running. – Russian Proverb
Glowing coals sparkle oft. – Russian Proverb
God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered cow. – Russian Proverb
God comes with leaden feet but strikes with iron hands. – Russian Proverb
God does not give horns to a cow that likes to gore. – Russian Proverb
God does not give to cow that butts. (Example: Angry men cannot do the mischief they wish)
God does not give to the cow that butts. – Russian Proverb
God doesn’t give more beards than soap. – Russian Proverb
God gave, God took back. – Russian Proverb
God gives to those who get up early. – Russian Proverb
(The person who gets up early to work will be successful; those that arrive early at a place have the advantage over the latecomers)
God gives to those who wake up early. – Russian Proverb
God is always where we don’t look for him. – Russian Proverb
God is far up high, the Tsar is far away. – Russian Proverb
God keeps those safe who keep themselves safe. – Russian Proverb
God marks the crook. – Russian Proverb
God takes care of the one who takes care of himself. – Russian Proverb
(What appears to be cowardice may be wise caution,and what appears to be valour may be foolish rashness; so unnecessary risks should not be run)
God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers. – Russian Proverb
God wanted to punish mankind, so he created lawyers. – Russian Proverb
Golden hands, but a wicked mouth. – Russian Proverb
Good brotherhood is the best wealth. – Russian Proverb
Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation. – Russian Proverb
Gossip needs no carriage. – Russian Proverb
Guard your honor from your youth, and your weapons once you’ve got them in hand. – Russian Proverb
Habit is a second nature. – Russian Proverb
Habit is a shirt that we wear till death. – Russian Proverb
Hands wash each other. – Russian Proverb – Russian Proverb
Hang a German, even if he is a good man. – Russian Proverb
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. – Russian Proverb
Haste is good only for catching flies. – Russian Proverb
Have a good time if you want — but don’t overdo it. – Russian Proverb
Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things. – Russian Proverb
Having given your word, be strong; not having done it, try not to promise. – Russian Proverb
He can cheat a fish of its skin. – Russian Proverb
He is dead who is faultless. – Russian Proverb
He lied like an eyewitness. – Russian Proverb
He lived a colonel but died a corpse. – Russian Proverb
He makes the bed soft, yet it’s hard to sleep on. – Russian Proverb
He need not search his pockets for words. – Russian Proverb
He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea. – Russian Proverb
He took the devil’s mat, but he’ll pay back with his skin. – Russian Proverb
He who doesn’t risk never gets to drink champagne. – Russian Proverb
He who is destined for the gallows will not be drowned. – Russian Proverb
He who is frightened of a sparrow will never sow barley. – Russian Proverb
He who offers his back should not complain if it is beaten. – Russian Proverb
He who serves the Tsar cannot serve his people. – Russian Proverb
He would exclaim “Ah” looking at himself. – Russian Proverb
(People are inclined to shut their eyes to their own sins and vices.)
Heart with pepper, soul with garlic. – Russian Proverb
His word is as good as a tied knot. – Russian Proverb
Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands. – Russian Proverb
Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon. – Russian Proverb
Hope for God, but do not be reliant. – Russian Proverb
Hope in the Lord, but exert yourself. – Russian Proverbs
How echo is prompted, it will bounce back. – Russian Proverb
How is prompted, it will bounce back. – Russian Proverb
However much you steal from your state, all the same you won’t get your own back. – Russian Proverb
However much,good you feed the wolf, he still looks at the wood. – Russian Proverb
However muchwould the string wind, the end will be reached anyway. – Russian Proverb
However would the string wind, the end will be reached. – Russian Proverb
However you feed the wolf, he still looks at the wood. – Russian Proverb
Hunger is not your aunt. – Russian Proverb
Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues. – Russian Proverb
I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent. – Russian Proverb
I sell it for what I bought it. – Russian Proverb
Ice in spring is treacherous; new friendships are seldom sure. – Russian Proverb
Idleness is the mother of all vices. – Russian Proverb
(There is no excuse for doing nothing – when people do not have enough work to do,they into trouble)
If a poor man finds a penny, it is probably a false one. – Russian Proverb
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth. – Russian Proverb
If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt. – Russian Proverb
If everyone were a gentleman, who would make the mills work? – Russian Proverb
If God listened to every shepherd’s curse, our sheep would all be dead. – Russian Proverb
If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack. – Russian Proverb
If Jesus Christ comes to help me, I laugh at the angels. – Russian Proverb
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now. – Russian Proverb
If Moscow is the heart of Russia and St. Petersburg is its head, then Kiev is its mother. – Russian Proverb
If mushrooms grew in the mouth, that would be not mouth but kitchen garden. – Russian Proverb
If not by washing, then by rolling. – Russian Proverb
If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean. – Russian Proverb
If rubles fell from heaven the poor would have no bag. – Russian Proverb
If the child does not cry, the mother won’t know what it wants. – Russian Proverb
If the collective farm is wealthy, the farmer is happy. – Russian Proverb
If the devil catch a man idle he’ll set him at work. – Russian Proverb
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it. – Russian Proverb
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place. – Russian Proverb
If the fool has a hunchback no one remarks about it; if a wise man has a boil everybody talks about it. – Russian Proverb
If the peasant doesn’t hear the thunder he won’t make the sign of the cross. – Russian Proverb
If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf. – Russian Proverb
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Russian Proverb
If there is no apple one eats a little carrot. – Russian Proverb
If there is no caviar one eats porridge. – Russian Proverb
If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog as well. – Russian Proverb
If you are afraid of the wolves, do not go to the woods. – Russian Proverb
If you are going to do something carelessly, it is better to give it up entirely. – Russian Proverb
If you called yourself a milk-mushroom-get into the basket!. – Russian Proverb
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. – Russian Proverb
If you didn’t catch anything when fishing, then a crab is a fish. – Russian Proverb
If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands. – Russian Proverb
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Russian Proverb
If you don’t crack the shell, you can’t eat the nut. – Russian Proverb
If you don’t deceive, you can’t sell. – Russian Proverb
If you don’t have a hundred rubles, make sure you have a hundred friends. – Russian Proverb
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. – Russian Proverb
If you enjoy riding, enjoy pulling the sleigh. – Russian Proverb
If you enjoy riding, you better enjoy pulling the sleigh. – Russian Proverb
If you feel an urge to work, take a nap, and it will pass. – Russian Proverb
If you flatter the mother, you will embrace the daughter. – Russian Proverb
If you follow god, you won’t find anything. – Russian Proverb
If you go to war pray once; if you go on a sea journey pray twice; but pray three times when you are going to be married. – Russian Proverb
If you have eaten the morsel on Wednesday, do not look for it on Thursday. – Russian Proverb
If you learn a lot, you’ll age soon. – Russian Proverb
If you make a fool to pray to God, he will hurt forehead. – Russian Proverb
If you rely on god, you won’t fail. – Russian Proverb
If you rush things, you’ll just make others laugh. – Russian Proverb
If you start chasing two hares, you will catch none. – Russian Proverb
If you take it together, it will not be heavy. – Russian Proverb
If you talk to an official you must talk rubles. – Russian Proverb
If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own. – Russian Proverb
If you want to be a hundred you must start young. – Russian Proverb
If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. – Russian Proverb
If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. – Russian Proverb
If your face looks skewed, don’t blame the mirror. – Russian Proverb
If your face skewed, don’t blame the mirror. – Russian Proverb
If your heart is a rose, then your mouth will speak perfumed words. – Russian Proverb
If you’re afraid of wolves, don’t go to the woods. – Russian Proverb
In a crush, yet without resentment. – Russian Proverb
In a deal there are two fools: the one who asks too much and the one who asks too little. – Russian Proverb
In a fight the rich man tries to save his face, the poor man his coat. – Russian Proverb
In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation. – Russian Proverb
In a rickety stable the cow produces no milk. – Russian Proverb
In affect you can break even an elm. – Russian Proverb
In other persons’ eye one can see a mote, in one’s own – cannot see a log. – Russian Proverb
In Russia every day is of thirty hours. – Russian Proverb
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation. – Russian Proverb
In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. – Russian Proverb
In the lake of lies there are many dead fish. – Russian Proverb
In the land of hope, there is never any winter. – Russian Proverb
In the times of czar Goroch. – Russian Proverb
Intoxication is not the wine’s fault but man’s. – Russian Proverb
Invite a peasant to your table and he’ll put his feet on it. – Russian Proverb
It is a bad workman that has a bad saw. – Russian Proverb
(A careless or unskilled person blames his tools to excuse himself for bad work, while it is his own carelessness or lack of skill which is really to blame)
It is better to have a small fish than a big cockroach. – Russian Proverb
It is bread that keeps one warm, not fur. – Russian Proverb
It is easier for the horse when a woman gets off the cart. – Russian Proverb
It is easier to bear a child once a year than to shave every day. – Russian Proverb
It is easier to bear a child once a year than to shave everyday. – Russian Proverbs
It is easier to fill bellies than one pair of the eyes. – Russian Proverb
It is easier to fill twenty bellies than one pair of eyes. – Russian Proverb
It is easy to undress the naked. – Russian Proverb
It is good to be visiting, but it is better to be at home. – Russian Proverb
It is good to be visiting, but it is better at home. – Russian Proverb
(Your home (i.e. your house,your home town,etc.) is where you are likely to be happiest, especially in comparison with other places you may be at the time)
It is good to pay with other people’s money. – Russian Proverb
It is never winter in the land of hope. – Russian Proverb
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. – Russian Proverb
It is unpleasant to go alone, even to be drowned. – Russian Proverb
It is wanted and repellent. – Russian Proverb
It makes chicken laugh. – Russian Proverb
It takes all kinds of trees to make a forest. – Russian Proverb
It was smooth on paper, but forgotten about ravines. – Russian Proverb
It was smooth on paper, but we’ve forgotten about ravines. – Russian Proverb
It will heal well before your wedding. – Russian Proverb
It will last out our time; if after us no grass grows, what does it matter to us? – Russian Proverb
It will snap where it’s the thinnest. – Russian Proverb
It’s a crime if you get caught. – Russian Proverb
It’s better to be a cripple than always sitting down. – Russian Proverb
It’s better to be known as a rascal than a fool. – Russian Proverb
It’s better to be too aware than too unaware. – Russian Proverb
It’s better to see once than hear a hundred times. – Russian Proverb
It’s easier to tear a hole than to mend one. – Russian Proverb
It’s nice to have a spoon in time for dinner. – Russian Proverb
It’s the still waters that are inhibited by devils. – Russian Proverb
Jabber, Emelya – your week. – Russian Proverb
Jesus Christ was crucified by public opinion. – Russian Proverb
Judges and physicians kill with impunity. – Russian Proverb
Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower. – Russian Proverb
Keep your eye on the ball. – Russian Proverb
Know friend when trouble. – Russian Proverb
Law is a flag and gold is the wind that makes it wave. – Russian Proverb
Law is like a shaft of a cart, it points wherever you turn it to. – Russian Proverb
Laws are silent in time of war. – Russian Proverb
Lenin’s science strengthens the mind and the hands. – Russian Proverb
Lenin’s truth makes great strides all around the world. – Russian Proverb
Let everyone pick his own nose. – Russian Proverb
Lie, but don’t overdo it. – Russian Proverb
Life is short, but there’s a lot to be done. – Russian Proverb
Like priest, like church. – Russian Proverb
Like two drops of water. – Russian Proverb
Live and scratch — when you’re dead the itching will stop. – Russian Proverb
Live for a century – learn for a century. – Russian Proverb
Living life is not like crossing a meadow. – Russian Proverb
Living life is not like just crossing a field. – Russian Proverb
Living mindlessly is paradise. – Russian Proverb
Living your life is not like crossing a meadow. – Russian Proverb
Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains. – Russian Proverb
Look for wind in a field. – Russian Proverb
Looking at a tree see its fruit; looking at a man see his deeds. – Russian Proverb
Loose words are picked up like gold coin. – Russian Proverb
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. – Russian Proverb
Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. – Russian Proverb
Love is like a glass that breaks if handled clumsily. – Russian Proverb
Love makes the owl seem prettier than a white falcon. – Russian Proverb
Make a friend of the wolf, but keep your axe ready. – Russian Proverb
Make peace with man and war with your sins. – Russian Proverb
Make peace with people; wage war with your sins. – Russian Proverb
Make thyself a sheep, and the wolf is ready. – Russian Proverb
Make yourself a sheep and the wolf is ready. – Russian Proverb
Makes the bed soft, yet hard to sleep. – Russian Proverb
Many people who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. – Russian Proverb
Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. – Russian Proverb
Mass is not repeated for the deaf. – Russian Proverb
Masters are fighting, servants’ forelocks are creaking. – Russian Proverb
Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind. – Russian Proverb
Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once. – Russian Proverb
Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small. – Russian Proverb
Men will not be fortunate without a helping hand from misfortune. – Russian Proverb
Messengers should be neither beheaded nor hanged. – Russian Proverb
Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted. – Russian Proverb
Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love. – Russian Proverb
Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you. – Russian Proverb
Mocking is catching. – Russian Proverb
Money is like down — one puff and it’s gone. – Russian Proverb
Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day. – Russian Proverb
Moscow does not believe in tears. – Russian Proverb
Much noise from nothing. – Russian Proverb
Mute as a fish. – Russian Proverb
My job ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’; from then on, it may not dawn. – Russian Proverb
My job is to scream, ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’; from then on, it may not dawn. – Russian Proverb
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin. – Russian Proverb
Neither fish nor meat. – Russian Proverb
Neither rhyme nor harmony. – Russian Proverb
Never kiss an opportunity with a dirty mouth. – Russian Proverb
No apple tree is immune from worms. – Russian Proverb
No family has no ugly member. – Russian Proverb
No man can be a good ruler unless he has first been ruled. – Russian Proverb
No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest. – Russian Proverb
No money is taken for just looking at somebody or something. – Russian Proverb
(There is nothing to prevent an ordinary person from l looking at a person of great importance so long as he tries to do no harm)
No money is taken for just looking. – Russian Proverb
No one can take two skins from one ox. – Russian Proverb
No one is dragged to heaven by the hair. – Russian Proverb
No one is hanged who has money in his pocket. – Russian Proverb
No one knows how the poor man dines. – Russian Proverb
No year has two summers. – Russian Proverb
Nobody goes to another monastery with one’s own charter. – Russian Proverb
Nobody goes to Tula with one’s own samovar. – Russian Proverb
Nosy Barbara’s nose was torn off at the market. – Russian Proverb
Not all who make love make marriages. – Russian Proverb
Not every glittering thing is gold. – Russian Proverb
Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk. – Russian Proverb
(Do not judge people by what they appear to be)
Not everything is a mermaid that dives into the water. – Russian Proverb
Not for village, not for town. – Russian Proverb
Nothing is worse than waiting or chasing. – Russian Proverb
Old age is not a blessing. – Russian Proverb
Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain. – Russian Proverb
On a fishing lull, even a crayfish is fish. – Russian Proverb
On an empty belly every burden is heavy. – Russian Proverb
Once burned by milk you will blow on cold water. – Russian Proverb
(After some bitter or painful experience you will be on your guard against similar troubles our sufferings)
Once it flies out, you can’t catch it. – Russian Proverb
Once you have fallen into the water, you’re not scared of water any more. – Russian Proverb
One can even get used to living hell. – Russian Proverb
One can get sick of cake, but never of bread. – Russian Proverb
One cannot make a fur coat from a “Thank you.” – Russian Proverb
One can’t break an axe with a whip. – Russian Proverb
One can’t spoil porridge with butter. – Russian Proverb
One day before you is better than ten years behind you. – Russian Proverbs
One does not go to Tula with one’s own samovar. – Russian Proverb
(Tula-Russia city. Do not do anything that is completely unnecessary; do not take supplies, articles, etc., to a place where are plenty of them already)
“Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for nothing,” said the pig to the horse. – Russian Proverb
One does not look for good from good. – Russian Proverb
(By continually striving for the best one way waste good opportunities)
One does not look for good when he is well. – Russian Proverb
One does not regret giving one’s own ear-ring to one’s dear friend. – Russian Proverb
(One does not regret giving the best to one’s friend)
One does not sharpen the axes after the right time; after the time they are needed. – Russian Proverb
(It is useless to have something when there is no use for it)
One does not wash one’s dirty linen in public. – Russian Proverb
One doesn’t bring samovars to Tula. – Russian Proverb
One fisherman recognizes another from afar. – Russian Proverb
One fisherman sees another from afar. – Russian Proverb
(People of similar interests,tastes or characters are attracted to each other and stay close together)
One good daughter is worth seven sons. – Russian Proverb
One is not a thief unless caught stealing. – Russian Proverb
One is one’s own master on one’s own stove. – Russian Proverb
(An Englishman can do as he likes in his own home and nobody may enter it without his permissions)
One is received according to one’s dress and sent off according to one’s wit. – Russian Proverb
One is wiser in the morning than in the evening. – Russian Proverb
One man in a field is not a warrior. – Russian Proverb
One may make up a soft bed for somebody, but still it will be hard to sleep in. – Russian Proverb
(One should beware of an attractive offer, for there is very likely)
One may make up a soft bed, but still it will be hard to sleep in. – Russian Proverb
One naturally prefers one’s own kind. – Russian Proverb
One never tires working for oneself. – Russian Proverb
One road for the fugitive and a hundred for the pursuer. – Russian Proverb
One rotten beam can make a whole house collapse. – Russian Proverb
One son is no son, two sons is no son, but three sons is a son. – Russian Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt. – Russian Proverb
One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance. – Russian Proverb
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy. – Russian Proverb
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. – Russian Proverb
(A person who cannot decide which of two courses to follow, who tries to follow two courses at the same time,may fail to follow either)
One with a plow – seven with a spoon. – Russian Proverb
One would like to eat fish, but would not like to get into the water. – Russian Proverb
(Said of a person who is anxious to obtain something valuable but does not want to take the necessary trouble or risk)
One would like to eat honey, but would not like to get stung. – Russian Proverb
Onion treats seven ailments. – Russian Proverb
(If person eats an onion every day,he will remain healthy and not need a doctor)
Only a fool will make a doctor his heir. – Russian Proverb
Only chained bears dance. – Russian Proverb
Only death will cure the hunchback. – Russian Proverb
Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. – Russian Proverb
Other people’s money has sharp teeth. – Russian Proverb
Our eyes are our enemies. – Russian Proverb
Out of eyesight – out of heart. – Russian Proverb
Overseas, a cow a quarter of kopeck, but a rouble to ship. – Russian Proverb
Overseas, a cow costs a quarter of kopeck, but it will cost a rouble to ship it here. – Russian Proverb
Paper is patient – you can put anything on it. – Russian Proverb
Partnership is an invention of the devil. – Russian Proverb
Peace and harmony is great treasure. – Russian Proverb
Peace lasts till the army comes, and the army lasts till peace comes. – Russian Proverb
Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes. – Russian Proverb
Plan your life as though you were going to live forever, but live today as if you were going to die tomorrow. – Russian Proverb
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. – Russian Proverbs
Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive. – Russian Proverb
Poverty is crafty. – Russian Proverb
Poverty is not a sin, it’s worse than that. – Russian Proverb
Praise a fair day at night. – Russian Proverb
Pray for revenge, and God will turn a deaf ear. – Russian Proverb
Pray to God but continue to row to the shore. – Russian Proverb
Pray to God, but be level-headed. – Russian Proverb
Pray to God, but continue rowing towards the shore.– Russian Proverb
Pray to God, but keep on rowing to the shore. – Russian Proverb
Pray to God, but keep rowing to the shore. – Russian Proverb
Praying kneads no dough. – Russian Proverb
Proverbs are the people’s wisdom. – Russian Proverb
Pull out the beak and the tail gets stuck, pull out the tail and the beak gets stuck. – Russian Proverb
Rain falls alike on the just and the unjust. – Russian Proverb
Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie. – Russian Proverb
Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind. – Russian Proverb
Reperition is a mother of learning. – Russian Proverb
Ride slower – get further. – Russian Proverb
Ride slower – you’ll get further. – Russian Proverb
Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. – Russian Proverb
Rotten straw can harm a healthy horse. – Russian Proverb
Running away is not glorious, but often very healthy. – Russian Proverb
Russia was tsarist – became proletarian. – Russian Proverb
Seeing the Kremlin stars – going forward braver. – Russian Proverb
Seek the brave in prison and the stupid among the clergy. – Russian Proverb
Seven don’t wait for one. – Russian Proverb
Seven nannies make a one-eyed kid. – Russian Proverb
Seven people don’t wait for one. – Russian Proverb
Shame is worse than death. – Russian Proverb
Shoot a daw and a crow, and soon you’ll hit a falcon. – Russian Proverb
Single man in a field is not a warrior. – Russian Proverb
Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it. – Russian Proverbs
Small children give you headache; big children give you heartache. – Russian Proverb
Small children give you headache; big children heartache. – Russian Proverbs
Small choice in rotten apples. – Russian Proverb
Small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater. – Russian Proverb
Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones. – Russian Proverb
Smooth hands love the labor of others. – Russian Proverb
So the man, so his shadow. – Russian Proverb
Soap is grey but it used to be white. – Russian Proverb
Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves. – Russian Proverbs
Some people are masters of money, and some people are slaves of it. – Russian Proverb
Something well cared for lasts two centuries. – Russian Proverb
Sorrow doesn’t kill, but it blights. – Russian Proverb
Spending is quick, earning is slow. – Russian Proverb
Spent as earned. – Russian Proverb
Still water undermines the bank. – Russian Proverb
Still waters are inhibited by devils. – Russian Proverb
Stormy weather cannot stay all the time, the red sun will come out, too. – Russian Proverb
(Things are at their worst just before they get better, or the worst stage is often the prelude to an improvement)
Stretch your legs according to your clothes. – Russian Proverb
(One should remain within the limits of what one has or what one can afford)
Strike while the iron is hot. – Russian Proverb
Success and rest don’t sleep together. – Russian Proverb
Success consecrates the foulest crimes. – Russian Proverb
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan. – Russian Proverb
Take a man at his word, an ox by the horns. – Russian Proverb
Take care of clothes since they are new, take care of your honor since you are young. – Russian Proverb
Take care of your dress from when it’s new and your honor from your youth. – Russian Proverb
Take the bull by the horns. – Russian Proverb
(You should deal with something difficult boldly without delay)
Take the goods the gods provide. – Russian Proverb
Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening. – Russian Proverbs
Take time to smell the roses. – Russian Proverb
Take time when time is, for time will away. – Russian Proverb
Take together, it will not be heavy. – Russian Proverb
Tastes are not argued. – Russian Proverb
Tears come more often from the eyes than from the heart. – Russian Proverb
Tell God the truth, but give money to the judge. – Russian Proverb
Tell God the truth, but give the judge money. – Russian Proverb
Tell lies, but become not tangled in lies. – Russian Proverb
Tell me who your friends are and i’ll tell you who you are. – Russian Proverb
Tell me who’s your friend and I’ll tell you who you are. – Russian Proverb
Thanks to one small candle the whole of Moscow burns. – Russian Proverb
That’s the snag!. – Russian Proverb
That’s where the dog is buried. – Russian Proverb
That’s, Grandma, the Yuri’s Day. – Russian Proverb
The appetite comes during a meal. – Russian Proverb
(Desire or facility increases as an activity proceeds)
The appetite comes with eating. – Russian Proverb
The apple doesn’t fall far away from the apple-tree. – Russian Proverb
The bear dances but the tamer collects the money. – Russian Proverb
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams. – Russian Proverb
The belly is like a judge that is silent yet still asks questions. – Russian Proverb
The blind cannot see — the proud will not. – Russian Proverb
The boss is always right. – Russian Proverb
The calmer you go, the further along you will be. – Russian Proverb
The cart is still there. – Russian Proverb
The casket opened in a simple way. – Russian Proverb
The casket opened simple. – Russian Proverb
The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys. – Russian Proverb
The cat knows who’s meat it has eaten. – Russian Proverb
The cat with cream on her whiskers should have a good excuse ready. – Russian Proverb
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I’ll walk carefully. – Russian Proverbs
The coat is quite new, only the holes are old. – Russian Proverb
The crow flew over the sea but returned still a crow. – Russian Proverb
The cub does not teach the Wolf. – Russian Proverb
The devil is not as scary as they paint him. – Russian Proverb
The devil is not so frightful as he is painted. – Russian Proverb
(Any person of bad character is not so bad as people say he is )
The devil is not so frightful as he is painted. – Russian Proverb
The dog learns to swim when the water reaches his ears. – Russian Proverb
The elbow is near, but try and bite it. – Russian Proverb
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. – Russian Proverb
The end is the crown of any work. – Russian Proverb
(It is the final result than completes all that went before and is its culmination; it is the final result than matters)
The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. – Russian Proverb
The fall of the leaf; is a whisper to the living. – Russian Proverb
The fathers ate the cranberries and the children are left with the aftertaste. – Russian Proverb
The first [cup of vodka] goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird. – Russian Proverb
The first blin always turns out lumpy. – Russian Proverb
The first goes as a stake, the second as a falcon, and the third as a little bird. – Russian Proverb
The first pancake is a blob. – Russian Proverb
The first pancake is always a failure. – Russian Proverb
The first snow does not mean winter, nor the first love marriage. – Russian Proverb
The fish always stinks from the head downwards. – Russian Proverb
The future is for those who know how to wait. – Russian Proverb
The greatest king must at last be put to bed with a shovel. – Russian Proverb
The hammer shatters glass but hardens steel. – Russian Proverb
The hearth in our house is warmer than our neighbor’s. – Russian Proverb
The horse loves oats; the earth, manure; and the governor, tribute. – Russian Proverb
The horse may run quickly, but it can’t escape its own tail. – Russian Proverb
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly. – Russian Proverb
The lambskin is not worth the currying. – Russian Proverb
The less you know, the more soundly you sleep. – Russian Proverb
The lonely person is at home everywhere. – Russian Proverb
The lucky man’s enemy dies, and the unlucky man’s friend. – Russian Proverb
The man is the flame, the woman the glow. – Russian Proverb
The moon gives us light but no heat. – Russian Proverb
The more you know the less will you sleep. – Russian Proverb
The morning is wiser than the evening. – Russian Proverbs
The morning sun never lasts a day. – Russian Proverb
The naked don’t fear robbery. – Russian Proverb
The newborn baby yells; you die in silence. – Russian Proverb
The night walks the same road as the dream. – Russian Proverb
The nights are short for him who married late in life. – Russian Proverb
The night’s too short to warrant marrying poor. – Russian Proverb
The noblemen’s quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants. – Russian Proverb
The offender never forgives. – Russian Proverb
The old bear falls into the old trap. – Russian Proverb
The one who draws (a cart) is urged on. – Russian Proverb
(A man willing to work is always given more work to do than a lazy one,because the work which given to willing man will be done well and quickly)
The one who draws the cart is urged on. – Russian Proverb
The one who pulls a cart is urged on. – Russian Proverb
The past is for God, the future for the Tsars. – Russian Proverb
The payment adorns the debt. – Russian Proverb – Russian Proverb
The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right. – Russian Proverb
The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder. – Russian Proverb
(Do not do at the last moment anything that was to be done long before.Do not put things off until the last moment)
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good. – Russian Proverb
The poorer, the more generous. – Russian Proverb
The reserve doesn’t weight your pocket. – Russian Proverb
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. – Russian Proverb
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen. – Russian Proverb
The river is flat but the banks are steep. – Russian Proverb
The river’s reputation ends where the sea begins. – Russian Proverb
The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel. – Russian Proverb
The sat one doesn’t understand the hungry one: for one the soup is too thin, for the other – the pearls are too small. – Russian Proverb
The scythe has hit a stone. – Russian Proverb
The scythe ran into a stone. – Russian Proverb
(Said of meeting of two persons who are a match for each other in cunning or power)
The shovel insults the poker. – Russian Proverb
The slower you go, the farther you will be. – Russian Proverb
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. – Russian Proverb
The sober man’s secret is the drunkard’s speech. – Russian Proverb
The sooner you get in, the sooner you get out. – Russian Proverb
The stargazer’s toe is often stubbed. – Russian Proverb
The sun will shine into our yard too. – Russian Proverb
(Neither the weather nor people can remain disturbed for long;the calm(sun) must follow)
The sythe ran into a stone. – Russian Proverb
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. – Russian Proverb
The tallest tree is rooted in the ground. – Russian Proverb
The tears of strangers are only water. – Russian Proverb
The teeth are not match for the nut. – Russian Proverb
The thief has a chicken’s heart — he sleeps in fear. – Russian Proverb
The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred. – Russian Proverb
The toe of the star-gazer is often stubbed. – Russian Proverb
The tongue always returns to the sore tooth. – Russian Proverb
The tongue speaks, but the head doesn’t know. – Russian Proverb
(Foolish and vain people are very fond of expressing their own opinions and talking too much)
The Tsar has three hands but only one ear. – Russian Proverb
The vulture embraced the chicken until its last breath. – Russian Proverb
The whole Soviet country is visible from the Kremlin. – Russian Proverb
The wife is twice precious only; when led into the house, and when taken out. – Russian Proverb
The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife. – Russian Proverb
The wise man says “I am looking for truth”; and the fool, “I have found truth.” – Russian Proverb
The wolf can always be hired very cheap as a shepherd. – Russian Proverb
The wolf is not afraid of the sheepdog, but he is of his chain. – Russian Proverb
The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd. – Russian Proverb
The woman had no problems so she bought some pigs. – Russian Proverb
The word is silver, the silence is gold. – Russian Proverb
The young lobster learns his manner of walking from the old lobster. – Russian Proverbs
There are many fathers, but only one mother. – Russian Proverb
There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones. – Russian Proverb
There are no bad ships at all, there are bad captains. – Russian Proverb
There are only two types of Chinese — those who give bribes and those who take them. – Russian Proverbs
There are two kinds of Chinese: those who give wine and those who drink it. – Russian Proverb
There is more light than can be seen through the window. – Russian Proverb
There is no evil without good. – Russian Proverb
(In every trouble and difficulty there is hope or expectation of an improvement in the circumstances; a misfortune may turn into a benefit)
There is no honor when there is nothing to eat. – Russian Proverb
There is no law written for fools. – Russian Proverb
There is no repentance after death. – Russian Proverb
There is no shame in not knowing — the shame lies in not finding out. – Russian Proverb
There is no smoke without fire. – Russian Proverb
There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law. – Russian Proverb
There is only one good – knowledge; there is only one evil – ignorance. – Russian Proverb
There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel. – Russian Proverb
There may be deep bottoms in still waters. – Russian Proverb
There may be snow on the roof, but there’s fire in the belly. – Russian Proverb
There was – there wasn’t. – Russian Proverb
There was a time they loved an accordionist, and now the time has come where they love a tractor driver. – Russian Proverb
There were people before us and there will be people after us. – Russian Proverb
There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies. – Russian Proverb
(A person should concern himself with his own trade or occupation and should not engage in, or give advice about, other trades or occupations)
There will come a time when the seed will sprout. – Russian Proverb
(Do not trouble yourself about future problems and difficulties, but wait till you have to deal with them; then will be the time to worry about them,not now)
There would be no good fortune had misfortune not helped. – Russian Proverb
There’s no bad without the good. – Russian Proverb
There’s no harm in wine, it’s drunkenness that is at fault. – Russian Proverb
They bow to you when borrowing, you bow to them when collecting. – Russian Proverb
They come into the courtroom in a suit and leave with no trousers. – Russian Proverb
They don’t hit you in the nose for asking. – Russian Proverb
They don’t swing fists when the fight is over. – Russian Proverb
They use a wedge to knock out a wedge. – Russian Proverb
They wait three years for what was promised. – Russian Proverb
Those that are afraid of bad luck will never know good. – Russian Proverb
Those who are discontent to remain in one place will not earn much. – Russian Proverb
Those who love you will make you weep; those who hate you will make you laugh. – Russian Proverb
Thread off the world – shirt for naked. – Russian Proverb
Time best healer. – Russian Proverb
Time makes the best healer. – Russian Proverb
To ask is no sin, and to be refused is no calamity. – Russian Proverb
To become a master or a deadman. – Russian Proverb
To every high mountain, there is a higher one. – Russian Proverb
To keep a new friend, never break with the old. – Russian Proverb
To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man. – Russian Proverb
To live is well, but to live well is better. – Russian Proverb
To live with wolves, you have to howl like a wolf. – Russian Proverb
To run away is not glorious, but very healthy. – Russian Proverb
To us – in the tanks, going back – on the sleds. – Russian Proverb
Together, it’s cramped; apart, it’s boring. – Russian Proverb
Trouble is here, so open the gates. – Russian Proverb
Trouble is the beginning of disaster. – Russian Proverb
Trouble never comes alone. – Russian Proverb
Trust in God but lock your doors. – Russian Proverb
Trust in God, but mind your own business. – Russian Proverb
Trust, but verify. – Russian Proverb
Truth does not need many words. – Russian Proverb
Two bears don’t live in one cave. – Russian Proverb
Two boots make a pair. – Russian Proverb
Two communists lead three hundred unaffiliated. – Russian Proverb
Two hands upon the breast, and labour is past. – Russian Proverb
Unless the thunder strikes, a man won’t cross himself. – Russian Proverb
Until you have smoked out the bees, you can’t eat the honey. – Russian Proverb
USSR – an example for all. – Russian Proverb
Visiting is good, but home is better. – Russian Proverb
Vixen resolved not to steal chicken. – Russian Proverb
Vodka is the aunt of wine. – Russian Proverb
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. – Russian Proverb
Wait three years for promised. – Russian Proverb
Warm a frozen snake and it will be the first to bite you. – Russian Proverb
Water does not run under a lying stone. – Russian Proverb
Water never loses its way. – Russian Proverb
We all see the same sun, but we don’t eat the same meal. – Russian Proverb
We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost. – Russian Proverb
(We do not appreciate the value of a thing until we have lost it)
We use to live and spill tears, now we live and build happiness. – Russian Proverb
Went to get wool, but returned bald. – Russian Proverb
What boy one begs for, the man throws away. – Russian Proverb
What comes out of one mouth goes into a hundred others. – Russian Proverb
What go looking for, will find. – Russian Proverb
What johnny will not teach himself, johnny will never know. – Russian Proverb
What makes you happy, makes you rich. – Russian Proverb
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. – Russian Proverb
What plant, that will harvest. – Russian Proverb
What the heart doesn’t see, the eye will not see either. – Russian Proverb
What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away. – Russian Proverb
What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe. – Russian Proverb
What you go looking for, you will find. – Russian Proverb
What you plant, that you will harvest. – Russian Proverb
When a girl is born all four walls weep. – Russian Proverb
When a needle sees a dagger, she cries “O sister!” – Russian Proverb
When Anger and Revenge get married, their daughter is called Cruelty. – Russian Proverb
When death is there, dying is over. – Russian Proverb
When god will punish, he will first take away the understanding. – Russian Proverb
When gold speaks, everything else is silent. – Russian Proverb
When he mounts his horse he forgets God; when he dismounts, he forgets his horse. – Russian Proverb
When masters are fighting, their servants’ forelocks are creaking. – Russian Proverb
When misers die, children open up their coffers. – Russian Proverb
When money speaks the truth is silent. – Russian Proverb
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. – Russian Proverb
When money talks, the truth is silent. – Russian Proverb
When money talks, then truth stays silent. – Russian Proverb
When necessity speaks, it demands. – Russian Proverb
When night falls the face of the wolf lights up. – Russian Proverb
When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. – Russian Proverb
When the fight’s over, don’t wave your fists. – Russian Proverb
When the task accomplished, feel free to take a walk. – Russian Proverb
When the Tsar sins the Empire must do penance. – Russian Proverb
When the wine is run out, you stop the leak. – Russian Proverb
When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us. – Russian Proverbs
When wood is chopped, wood chips will fly. – Russian Proverb
When you are in a pack of hounds, you either bark or wag your tail. – Russian Proverb
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone. – Russian Proverb
When you meet a man judge him by his clothes, when you leave a man judge him by his heart. – Russian Proverb
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. – Russian Proverb
Where necessity speaks it demands. – Russian Proverb
Where something is thin, that’s where it tears. – Russian Proverb
(Each person or feature in an enterprise or process must be equally reliable; an enterprise or process may fail because of a single weakness or fault)
Where you saw wood, there the sawdust will fall. – Russian Proverb
Whether an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl. – Russian Proverb
Whether you hit an owl with a stump, or a stump with an owl. – Russian Proverb
Who drinks till bottom, lives without mind. – Russian Proverb
Who falls in the water will hold on to the foam to save himself. – Russian Proverb
Who have not been there – he will be, who have been – will not forget. – Russian Proverb
Who is brave eats two. – Russian Proverb
Who lives in exile finds that spring has no charm. – Russian Proverb
Who owns the bank owns the fish. – Russian Proverb
Who reminds old, will be deprived of his eye. – Russian Proverb
Who talks little hears better. – Russian Proverb
Who wants heat, must endure the smoke. – Russian Proverb
Who wasn’t [out] in the sea, didn’t pray to God. – Russian Proverb
Who wasn’t out in the sea, didn’t pray to God. – Russian Proverb
Whoever wants honey must breed bees. – Russian Proverb
Why marry, when your neighbor’s wife is ready to go to bed with you? – Russian Proverb
Wild ducks and tomorrow both come without calling. – Russian Proverb
Will heal before wedding. – Russian Proverb
Wine bears no blame — only the drunkard. – Russian Proverb
Wisdom is born; stupidity is learned. – Russian Proverb
With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree. – Russian Proverb
With lies you may go ahead in the world–but you can never go back. – Russian Proverb
With seven nurses the child loses its eye. – Russian Proverb
Without a cat mice have no restrictions. – Russian Proverb
Without a fertilizer, there couldn’t be any plants. – Russian Proverb
Without stooping down for the mushroom, you cannot put it in your basket. – Russian Proverb
Without the shepherd, sheep are not a flock. – Russian Proverb
Wolf in sheep’s clothing. – Russian Proverb
Word is not a sparrow: flies out, can’t catch it. – Russian Proverb
Work is afraid of a skilled worker. – Russian Proverb
Work is unlike wolf; it won’t run to the woods. – Russian Proverb
Work makes you into a hunchback and then rich. – Russian Proverb
Worship the gods of where you live. – Russian Proverb
Would I know where I’d fall, I’d lay some straw there ahead of time. – Russian Proverb
Yakov’s magpie started chattering the same thing about anyone. – Russian Proverb
You can bend an alder-tree, if you do it gradually. – Russian Proverb
You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers. – Russian Proverb
You can get used to anything — even hell. – Russian Proverb
You can get used to anything—even hell. – Russian Proverbs
You can not write in the chimney with charcoal. – Russian Proverb
You cannot break a wall with your forehead. – Russian Proverb
You cannot break through a wall with your forehead. – Russian Proverb
(It is often wise to give way to the wishes off others; for to oppose them might bring ruin upon oneself)
You cannot build a wall with one stone. – Russian Proverb
You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home. – Russian Proverb
You cannot drive straight on a twisting lane. – Russian Proverb
You cannot hang everything on a single peg. – Russian Proverb
You cannot jump higher than your head. – Russian Proverb
You cannot make a soft bed for everyone. – Russian Proverb
You cannot please everybody. – Russian Proverb
You cannot pull a fish out of the pond without work. – Russian Proverb
(Restraint and caution achieve nothing; if you want to get something,you should immediately start working for it)
You cannot ride two horses with one ass. – Russian Proverb
You cannot sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth. – Russian Proverb
You cannot throw a word out of a song. – Russian Proverb
You can’t do everything at once. – Russian Proverb
You can’t drive straight on a twisting lane. – Russian Proverb
You can’t have two forenoons in the same day. – Russian Proverb
You can’t keep a word of thanks in your pocket. – Russian Proverb
You can’t move faster than your shadow. – Russian Proverb
You can’t sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth. – Russian Proverb
You can’t throw a handkerchief over somebody’s mouth. – Russian Proverb
You could even hew sticks on head. – Russian Proverb
You do not drink soup with a knife. – Russian Proverb
You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse. – Russian Proverb
(A keep worker who is doing his best should be left alone and not urged to work harder)
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. – Russian Proverb
You do not swap horses while crossing the ford. – Russian Proverb
(Do not change arrangements while yyou are in the middle of a difficult task or till a crisis is past)
You don’t get a headache from what other people have drunk. – Russian Proverb
You don’t get something for nothing. – Russian Proverb
You don’t learn anything from buying, but you do from selling. – Russian Proverb
You don’t milk a cow with your hands in your pockets. – Russian Proverb
You get to really know your friend when trouble comes. – Russian Proverb
You get used to everything — even hell. – Russian Proverb
You have summer and you have winter — why, then, be in a hurry? – Russian Proverb
You heard the ring, but don’t know where. – Russian Proverb
You know a bird from the way he flies. – Russian Proverb
You look for the horse you ride on. – Russian Proverb
You may call me even a pot, just don’t put me into the oven. – Russian Proverb
You must chop down the tree that gives too much or too little shade. – Russian Proverb
You need a sharp axe for a tough bough. – Russian Proverb
(Serious evils need drastic remedies)
You need sharp axes for knotty trees. – Russian Proverb
You needn’t be afraid of a barking dog, but you should be afraid of a silent dog. – Russian Proverb
(People who often lose their temper and make many loud threats seldom carry them out. Dogs that bark most bite least)
You will reap what you will sow. – Russian Proverb
(You will be rewarded or punished in accordance with what you have done to deserve it)
You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman. – Russian Proverb
Your body belongs to the Tsar, your soul to God, and your back to the squire. – Russian Proverb
Your dog wishes you a long life. – Russian Proverb
Your elbow is near but you can’t bite it. – Russian Proverb
Your tongue will get you to Kiev. – Russian Proverb