Proverbs

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

If triangles had a God, He’d have three sides.
- Yiddish proverb

The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.
- American Proverb (U.S. Army Corp of Engineers)

Molasses catches more flies than vinegar.
- Italian Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
- American Proverb (Benjamin Franklin)

Experience is a comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
- Belgian Proverb

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.
- Chinese Proverb

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 Proverb (Lao Tzu)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.
- Chinese Proverb

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
- American Proverb (Billy Graham)

Too clever is dumb.
- American Proverb (Ogden Nash)

Charity sees the need, not the cause.
- German Proverb

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.
- Haitian Proverb

A dog is a dog unless he is facing you; then he is Mr. Dog.
- Haitian Proverb

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
- Hindu Proverb

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
- Hungarian Proverb

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- Indian Proverb

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
- Irish Proverb

Love kills time. Time kills love.
- Proverb

Bed is the poor man’s opera.
- Italian Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb

To teach is to learn.
- Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
- Japanese Proverb

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
- Indian Proverb (Malabar)

No one can say of his house, “There is no trouble here.”
- Chinese Proverb

When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
- Persian Proverb

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
- Proverb

Confucius say too much.
- Proverb

When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
- Russian Proverb

To know and to act are one and the same.
- Proverb

Better bend than break.
- Proverb

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
- Proverb

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.
- Proverb

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
- Proverb

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
- Proverb

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Proverb

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.
- Proverb

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
- Proverb

Charm is more than beauty.
- Proverb

If the rich could hire people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
- Proverb

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
- Proverb

The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.
- Proverb

If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows.
- Proverb

Vice rules where gold reigns.
- Proverb

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
- Proverb

When you seek it, you cannot find it.
- Proverb

Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose.
- Proverb

Before the first step is taken the goal is reached.
- Proverb

Long absent soon forgotten.
- Proverb

The absent are always in the wrong.
- Proverb

Accidents will happen.
- Proverb

If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself.
- Proverb

The accomplice is as bad as the thief.
- Proverb

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
- Proverb

The worst ache is the present ache.
- Proverb

Sharp acids corrode their own containers.
- Proverb

Every one is responsible for his own actions.
- Proverb

Adversity and loss make a man wise.
- Proverb

Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
- Proverb

A wife’s advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it.
- Proverb

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
- Proverb

Advice once was worth a camel; now that it is free of charge, no one takes it.
- Proverb

Advice that ain’t paid for ain’t no good.
- Proverb

Advice to a fool goes in one ear and out the other.
- Proverb

He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.
- Proverb

Nothing is so liberally given as advice.
- Proverb

No one is wise enough to advise himself.
- Proverb

Be always a little afraid so that you never have need of being much afraid.
- Proverb

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Proverb

The afterthought is good, but forethought is better.
- Proverb

An agreement is a kind of debt.
- Proverb

Ale in, wit out.
- Proverb

Plenty know good ale, but don’t know much after that.
- Proverb

An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee.
- Proverb

Animals have long tongues but can’t speak; men have short tongues and shouldn’t speak.
- Proverb

If one has nothing to answer, it is best to shut up.
- Proverb

To every answer you can find a new question.
- Proverb

Many ants kill a camel.
- Proverb

To be prepared is to have no anxiety.
- Proverb

An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house.
- Proverb

It is difficult to satisfy one’s appetite by painting pictures of cakes.
- Proverb

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- Proverb

Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.
- Proverb

One rotten apple spoils the other.
- Proverb

One armpit cannot hold two watermelons.
- Proverb

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
- Proverb

Practice not your art, and it will soon depart.
- Proverb

The art is not in making money, but in keeping it.
- Proverb

An artist lives everywhere.
- Proverb

Ask too much to get enough.
- Proverb

He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
- Proverb

Better ride an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
- Proverb

Attitudes don’t prove anything.
- Proverb

At an auction keep your mouth shut.
- Proverb

Like author like book.
- Proverb

The axe attacks the forest from whence it got its own handle.
- Proverb

If you don’t grease the axle you won’t be able to travel.
- Proverb

Bad is a bad servant, but worse is being without him.
- Proverb

Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Proverb

What is bad for one is good for another.
- Proverb

If you eat your bagel, you’ll have nothing in your pocket but the hole.
- Proverb

A little bait catches a large fish.
- Proverb

Be not a baker if your head be of butter.
- Proverb

The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead.
- Proverb

Banks have no heart.
- Proverb

The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.
- Proverb

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
- Proverb

A bargain is a bargain.
- Proverb

On a good bargain, think twice.
- Proverb

Bargain like a gypsy and pay like a gentleman.
- Proverb

His bark is worse than his bite.
- Proverb

Great barkers are no biters.
- Proverb

He who is well prepared has half won the battle.
- Proverb

Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead.
- Proverb

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
- Proverb

A man without a beard is like a loaf that has no crust.
- Proverb

It’s good to learn to barber on someone else’s beard.
- Proverb

Beauty and folly are often companions.
- Proverb

Beauty is a very fine thing, but you can’t live on it.
- Proverb

Beauty is but skin deep.
- Proverb

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.
- Proverb

The beauty of a loan is repayment.
- Proverb

As you make your bed, so will you sleep in it.
- Proverb

He who goes to bed hungry dreams of pancakes.
- Proverb

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
- Proverb

Too much bed makes a dull head.
- Proverb

They who drink beer think beer.
- Proverb

He who begins much, finishes little.
- Proverb

To begin is to be half done.
- Proverb

Believe not all you hear.
- Proverb

A good bell is heard far, a bad one still farther.
- Proverb

A full belly makes a heavy head.
- Proverb

An empty belly is the best cook.
- Proverb

Better belly burst than good drink lost.
- Proverb

Better bend than break.
- Proverb

Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best.
- Proverb

The early bird catches the worm.
- Proverb

Better a friend’s bite than an enemy’s caress.
- Proverb

The blind are quick at hearing; the deaf are quick at sight.
- Proverb

He who gets blister from the hoe handle will not die of hunger.
- Proverb

As the block, so the chip.
- Proverb

Blood is thicker than water.
- Proverb

Human blood is all of a color.
- Proverb

There is no getting blood from a turnip.
- Proverb

You can’t get blood out of a stone.
- Proverb

What blossoms beautifully, withers fast.
- Proverb

A blow passes on, a spoken word lingers on.
- Proverb

Better a blow from a wise man than a kiss from a fool.
- Proverb

It takes two blows to make a battle.
- Proverb

Great boast, little roast.
- Proverb

Boasting begins where wisdom stops.
- Proverb

A living body is a dying body.
- Proverb

Better a sick body than an ignorant mind.
- Proverb

To bow the body is easy; to bow the will is hard.
- Proverb

A boil is fine as long as it’s under someone else’s arm.
- Proverb

Boldness is royal power without a crown.
- Proverb

The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh.
- Proverb

There is no bone in the tongue, but it often broke a man’s head.
- Proverb

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.
- Proverb

A load of books does not equal one good teacher.
- Proverb

Books are preserved minds.
- Proverb

Better be born happy than pretty.
- Proverb

Better be born lucky than rich.
- Proverb

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
- Proverb

Borrow causes sorrow.
- Proverb

He who is quick at borrowing is slow in paying.
- Proverb

The boss is always right.
- Proverb

Do not wade where you see no bottom.
- Proverb

Start from the bottom to reach the top.
- Proverb

Full bowels make empty brains.
- Proverb

A boy knows not fire till it burns him.
- Proverb

A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part.
- Proverb

Boys will be boys.
- Proverb

They brag most that can do least.
- Proverb

All the brains are not in one head.
- Proverb

Everyone thinks he has more than his share of brains.
- Proverb

Idle brains are the devil’s workshop.
- Proverb

There are many witty men who’s brains can’t fill their bellies.
- Proverb

When brains are needed, brawn won’t help.
- Proverb

Who has no brain needs brawn.
- Proverb

Do not break the branch you climbed.
- Proverb

Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away.
- Proverb

A piece of bread in one’s pocket is better than a feather in one’s hat.
- Proverb

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
- Proverb

Bread is the staff of life, but beer’s life itself.
- Proverb

Buttered bread always falls dry side up.
- Proverb

However bad the bread, it is better than cattle dung.
- Proverb

It is the bread that keeps one warm, not the fur.
- Proverb

Without bread and wine even love will pine.
- Proverb

He who has bad breath cannot smell it.
- Proverb

Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Proverb

Too many bricklayers make a lopsided house.
- Proverb

If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim.
- Proverb

Never cross a bridge till you come to it.
- Proverb

A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
- Proverb

You cannot be a broom and remain clean.
- Proverb

With your brother eat and drink, but have no business.
- Proverb

Every bubble bursts.
- Proverb

Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know the new one holds water.
- Proverb

Buds will be roses, and kittens, cats.
- Proverb

The best way to put an end to the bugs is to set fire to the bed.
- Proverb

What you build easily will fall quickly.
- Proverb

Don’t help a bull out of a ditch, for when he’s out he’ll butt.
- Proverb

It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.
- Proverb

It isn’t quite the same thing to comment on the bull ring and to be in the bull ring.
- Proverb

Half a bun in the hand is better than a whole bun in the shop.
- Proverb

Another man’s burden is always light.
- Proverb

Pray that you may not be a burden to your children.
- Proverb

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
- Proverb

When the burial day is at your door, you do not pick and choose your grave diggers.
- Proverb

Business is business.
- Proverb

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
- Proverb

Let everyone mind his own business, and the cows will be well tended.
- Proverb

To establish a business is easy; to maintain it, difficult.
- Proverb

Some are very busy and yet do nothing.
- Proverb

Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.
- Proverb

Where there is butter there are flies.
- Proverb

You cannot sew buttons on your neighbor’s mouth.
- Proverb

Better buy than borrow.
- Proverb

Buy what you do not need, soon you will sell what you need.
- Proverb

Whether you buy or not, you can always barter a little.
- Proverb

Let bygones be bygones.
- Proverb

One can get sick of cake, but never of bread.
- Proverb

Small and great, we all boil in the same cauldron.
- Proverb

The terrible calligrapher is choosy about his brushes.
- Proverb

The camel wants one thing and the camel driver wants another.
- Proverb

You don’t water a camel with a spoon.
- Proverb

A noisy can is empty.
- Proverb

Talk of camps, but stay home.
- Proverb

A candle lights others and consumes itself.
- Proverb

No candle is wanted to look for a fool.
- Proverb

What one cannot, another can.
- Proverb

All cantors are fools, but not all fools are cantors.
- Proverb

A wise captain carries more ballast than sail.
- Proverb

Too many captains will sink the ship.
- Proverb

Life’s caravan never turns back.
- Proverb

A pack of cards is the devil’s prayer book.
- Proverb

When everyone takes care of himself, care is taken of all.
- Proverb

If you are going to do something carelessly, it would be better to give it up entirely.
- Proverb

One gets a caress for a pinch and the other for a caress gets a slap!
- Proverb

The worse the carpenter, the more the chips.
- Proverb

You can’t carry what you can’t lift.
- Proverb

An old cart well used may last out a new one abused.
- Proverb

When the cart breaks down, advisers are plentiful.
- Proverb

A bashful cat makes a proud mouse.
- Proverb

A cat is a lion to mouse.
- Proverb

A cat pent up becomes a lion.
- Proverb

A scalded cat is afraid even of cold water.
- Proverb

He that denies the cat skimmed milk must give the mouse cream.
- Proverb

He that will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
- Proverb

If stretching were wealth the cat would be rich.
- Proverb

Send not a cat for lard.
- Proverb

The cat likes fish but she doesn’t want to wet her paws.
- Proverb

When cat and mouse agree, the farmer has no chance.
- Proverb

When the cat’s away the mice will play.
- Proverb

Young cats will mouse, young apes will louse.
- Proverb

Catching before spanking is the rule.
- Proverb

If you grease a cause well it will stretch.
- Proverb

Caution is born of unpleasant experience.
- Proverb

Caution is the parent of delicate beer glasses.
- Proverb

He who does not take chances cannot expect to be rich.
- Proverb

He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery out of his life.
- Proverb

A change of work is as good as a rest.
- Proverb

Let it be worse, as long as it’s a change.
- Proverb

A man’s character reaches town before his person.
- Proverb

May your charity increase as much as your wealth.
- Proverb

Charm is better than beauty.
- Proverb

He that chases another does not sit still himself.
- Proverb

Two cheats make an even bargain.
- Proverb

He that cheats in small things is a fool; but in great things is a rogue.
- Proverb

It is fair and just to cheat the cheater.
- Proverb

A child, a drunkard, and a fool tell the truth.
- Proverb

A child is a certain worry and an uncertain joy.
- Proverb

A child is like a precious stone, but also a heavy burden.
- Proverb

An old child sucks hard.
- Proverb

Better the child should cry than the father.
- Proverb

If you’re a child at twenty, you’re an ass at twenty-one.
- Proverb

The child of a snake is also a snake.
- Proverb

There’s only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.
- Proverb

When you show the moon to a child, it only sees your finger.
- Proverb

It is easier to build two chimneys, than to maintain one.
- Proverb

Chips never fly too far from the block.
- Proverb

No choice is also a choice.
- Proverb

Small circumstances produce great events.
- Proverb

The citizen is at his business before he rises.
- Proverb

Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- Proverb

The greatest clerks are not the wisest men.
- Proverb

Uphill one climbs slowly; downhill one rolls fast.
- Proverb

Measure your cloth seven times, you can cut it but once.
- Proverb

Abroad we look at a man’s clothes; at home we look at the man.
- Proverb

Clothes make the man.
- Proverb

With clothes the new are best; with friends the old are best.
- Proverb

You may change the clothes, you cannot change the man.
- Proverb

Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb

The cobbler is always without boots.
- Proverb

A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.
- Proverb

Better five coins in hand than ten in prospect.
- Proverb

When coins rattle, philosophers are silent.
- Proverb

First come, first served.
- Proverb

Who comes last shuts the door.
- Proverb

Who comes seldom is welcome.
- Proverb

It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg that another has broken his neck.
- Proverb

Rate your commodities at home, but sell them abroad.
- Proverb

Communities begin by building their kitchen.
- Proverb

Everybody’s companion is nobody’s friend.
- Proverb

Choose your company before you drink.
- Proverb

Choose your company before you sit down.
- Proverb

Company’s good if you are going to be hanged.
- Proverb

Two’s company, three’s a crowd.
- Proverb

He who complains much does little.
- Proverb

A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
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Confidence begets confidence.
- Proverb

A clear conscience is a good pillow.
- Proverb

No one makes contracts with God.
- Proverb

Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- Proverb

You can’t grow corn on the ceiling.
- Proverb

It costs nothing to look.
- Proverb

Better inside a cottage than outside a castle.
- Proverb

Nothing seems expensive on credit.
- Proverb

He who drinks on credit gets doubly drunk.
- Proverb

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Proverb

To be a critic is easier than to be an author.
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What can’t be cured must be endured.
- Proverb

Curses come home to roost.
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Once is no custom.
- Proverb

When you enter a village, observe its customs.
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Don’t cut without measuring.
- Proverb

As the dance so the music.
- Proverb

If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
- Proverb

The willing dancer is easily played to.
- Proverb

To the bad dancer even the hem of her skirt will be in the way.
- Proverb

A danger foreseen is half avoided.
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Daughters and rotten fish should not be kept long.
- Proverb

Who the daughter would win, with the mother must begin.
- Proverb

A day in prison is longer than a thousand years at large.
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To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
- Proverb

Let the dead rest.
- Proverb

The dead are soon forgotten.
- Proverb

Death answers before it is asked.
- Proverb

Death is concise like a good proverb.
- Proverb

We do not even get death free of charge, for it costs us our life.
- Proverb

Better to go to bed without supper than to live with debts.
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A good deed bears interest.
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Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
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The best defense is offense.
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Better a friendly denial than an unwilling compliance.
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Don’t depend upon others–do it yourself.
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First deserve and then desire.
- Proverb

If you have the desire, distance doesn’t matter.
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He that desires but little has no need of much.
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There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm determination.
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To him who is determined it remains only to act.
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The devil is the root of all evil.
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In the ant’s house the dew is a flood.
- Proverb

The best cast at dice is not to play.
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It’s never too late to die or get married.
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To die is easy; to live is hard.
- Proverb

Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred others away.
- Proverb

After dinner sit awhile; after supper walk a mile.
- Proverb

Cast no dirt into the well that has given you water.
- Proverb

Better to do nothing than to make something into nothing.
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Do it well that you may do it not twice.
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He that does what he will does not what he ought.
- Proverb

If you can’t do as you wish, do as you can.
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If you’re going to do something wrong, enjoy it!
- Proverb

It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it.
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Those who do little expect the most.
- Proverb

A clever doctor never treats himself.
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Better no doctor at all than three.
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No one becomes a good doctor before he has filled a churchyard.
- Proverb

The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.
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When everybody is doing well the doctor is miserable.
- Proverb

A dog has nothing to do, and no time to rest.
- Proverb

A dog that barks too often leads the wolf to the sheep.
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A dog with a bone knows no friend.
- Dutch Proverb

Keep a dog for three days and he will not forget your kindness, but three years kindness shown to a cat is forgotten in three days.
- Japanese Proverb

Doing is better than saying.
- Proverb

In doing we learn.
- Proverb

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
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A dollar saved is as good as a dollar earned.
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What’s done can’t be undone.
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A donkey is a donkey though it may carry the Sultan’s treasure.
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You can recognize a donkey by his long ears, a fool by his long tongue.
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Lock your door rather than suspect your neighbor.
- Proverb

The door of success is marked “push” and “pull.”
- Proverb

The door to evil doing is wide, but the return gate is narrow.
- Proverb

When you open a door, do not forget to close it, and treat your mouth the same way.
- Proverb

So much dough, so many buns.
- Proverb

A dream which has not been interpreted is like a letter unread.
- Proverb

Drink in, wit out.
- Proverb

If you drink you die, if you don’t drink you die, so it is better to drink.
- Proverb

When two say you’re drunk, it’s best to go to sleep.
- Proverb

Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.
- Proverb

He is eagle-eyed in other men’s matters, but as blind as a buzzard in his own.
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It is the ear that troubles the mouth.
- Proverb

The ears don’t hear what the mouth utters.
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Better early than late.
- Proverb

First earn, then eat.
- Proverb

The earth produces all things and receives all again.
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Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
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Eat to live, not live to eat.
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The echo knows all languages.
- Proverb

It is easy to go from economy to extravagance; it is hard to go from extravagance to economy.
- Proverb

Education is life, not books.
- Proverb

No one who is following an elephant has to knock the dew off the grass.
- Proverb

The embrace at meeting is better than that at parting.
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A wise enemy is better than an unwise friend.
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Enough is better than too much.
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Enough is enough.
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More than enough is too much.
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To err is human.
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Everything goes to him who does not want it.
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Evil follows good, good follows evil.
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A good example is the best sermon.
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Anything in excess is unhealthy.
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A bad excuse is better than none.
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Since excuses were invented, no one is ever in the wrong.
- Proverb

He is wise who learns at another’s expense.
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Experience is better than knowledge.
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Experience is the best teacher.
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Experience is the father of wisdom, and memory the mother.
- Proverb

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
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To hear it told is not equal to experience.
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Two eyes see better than one.
- Proverb

A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
- Proverb

The face tells the secret.
- Proverb

Facts are facts.
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Facts are stranger than fiction.
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Facts speak for themselves.
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Facts speak louder than words.
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Failure teaches you more than success.
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Faith can move mountains.
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The bigger they are the harder they fall.
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The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
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To fall is easy; to get up is difficult.
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Fame is a magnifying glass.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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If familiarity were useful, water would not cook fish.
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Fancy requires much, necessity but little.
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What’s in fashion will be out of fashion.
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It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly.
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On the tip of the tongue lies the fate of the entire world.
- Proverb

One man’s fate is another man’s lesson.
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Father earns and son spends.
- Proverb

Like father, like son.
- Proverb

By concealing one fault another may arise.
- Proverb

Don’t find fault with what you don’t understand.
- Proverb

Faults are thick where love is thin.
- Proverb

The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
- Proverb

A fault-finder complains even that the bride is too pretty.
- Proverb

For the smallest favor you become a debtor.
- Proverb

Have no recollection of favors given; do not forget benefits conferred.
- Proverb

Don’t kick a fellow when he’s down.
- Proverb

The fellow who has ten faults sneers at others for having one.
- Proverb

A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse three dogs, and a man three horses.
- Proverb

Build a fence even between intimate friends.
- Proverb

Fences have ears.
- Proverb

Good fences make good neighbors.
- Proverb

If you invest in a fever you will realize a disease.
- Proverb

Take care of your field, and your field will take care of you.
- Proverb

He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
- Proverb

Figures can’t lie.
- Proverb

So much finery, so much poverty.
- Proverb

As a fire is kindled by bellows, so is anger by words.
- Proverb

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
- Proverb

A fish begins to stink at the head.
- Proverb

Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it.
- Proverb

Flattery listens well, but remembers little.
- Proverb

The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog.
- Proverb

A fair flower springs out of a dunghill.
- Proverb

You raise flowers for a year; you see them for but ten days.
- Proverb

Into a closed mouth no fly will enter.
- Proverb

If you must fly, fly well.
- Proverb

Idle folks take the most pains.
- Proverb

Young folks will be young folks.
- Proverb

A good follower makes a good leader.
- Proverb

Folly grows without watering.
- Proverb

Trying to outsmart everybody is the greatest folly.
- Proverb

The biggest folly of the fool is that he thinks he is smart.
- Proverb

Food without hospitality is medicine.
- Proverb

The food is cooked in a pot and the plate gets the honor.
- Proverb

A fool and his goods are soon parted; a wise man and his poverty always remain united.
- Proverb

A fool, if he holds his tongue, passes for wise.
- Proverb

A fool makes his doctor his heir.
- Proverb

A fool makes two trips where a wise man makes none.
- Proverb

A fool remains a fool.
- Proverb

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Proverb

Fools live poor to die rich.
- Proverb

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Proverb

Forbid a fool a thing, and that he will do.
- Proverb

The least foolish is wise.
- Proverb

There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
- Proverb

The foreigner attaches a handle to an egg.
- Proverb

He is lucky who forgets what cannot be mended.
- Proverb

Forgiven is not forgotten.
- Proverb

If fortune calls, offer him a seat.
- Proverb

Fractures well cured make us more strong.
- Proverb

A friend is not known until he is lost.
- Proverb

When the guest is in most favor, he will do well to leave.
- Proverb

With a good guest, you are happy when he arrives; with a bad one, when he leaves.
- Proverb

Habit becomes one’s nature.
- Proverb

Long on hair, short on brains.
- Proverb

Many hands make light work.
- Proverb

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
- Proverb

The hands soon forget what the mouth promises.
- Proverb

The right hand itches to get money, the left hand to spend it.
- Proverb

A handsaw is a good thing, but not to shave with.
- Proverb

There is no hanging a man for his thoughts.
- Proverb

Nothing happens for nothing.
- Proverb

What happens once may happen again.
- Proverb

All happiness is in the mind.
- Proverb

Haste makes waste.
- Proverb

Make haste slowly.
- Proverb

A go-between needs a thousand pairs of sandals.
- Proverb

Gold brings gold, lack of gold a headache.
- Proverb

Today gold, tomorrow dust.
- Proverb

Better good and a little rather than bad and a lot of it.
- Proverb

Do good and then do it again.
- Proverb

When you have something good, you ought not look for something better.
- Proverb

Gossip needs no carriage.
- Proverb

Government is best which governs least.
- Proverb

A grain of caution is worth a pound of medicine.
- Proverb

Grain by grain, a loaf; stone upon stone, a palace.
- Proverb

He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast.
- Proverb

Where everyone goes, the grass never grows.
- Proverb

He who eats when he is full digs his grave with his teeth.
- Proverb

Grief and joy are a revolving wheel.
- Proverb

New grief awakens the old.
- Proverb

Without bending, there is no growth.
- Proverb

A frequent guest becomes a burden.
- Proverb

Guests should not forget to go home.
- Proverb

Seven days is the length of a guest’s life.
- Proverb

If you believe in gambling, in the end you will sell your house.
- Proverb

He who looks on knows more of the game than he who plays.
- Proverb

The best game of dice is the one not played at all.
- Proverb

Garlic makes a man wink, drink, and stink.
- Proverb

One generation opens the road upon which another generation travels.
- Proverb

One generation plants the trees under whose cool shade another generation takes its ease.
- Proverb

Some think they are giants when they sit on the hump of a camel.
- Proverb

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Proverb

Girls will be girls.
- Proverb

It is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
- Proverb

Better give than take.
- Proverb

Give a little and you gain a lot.
- Proverb

If you continually give you will continually have.
- Proverb

No one is so liberal as he who has nothing to give.
- Proverb

Let the giver be silent and the receiver speak.
- Proverb

If you can’t go over, go under.
- Proverb

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
- Proverb

To go yourself is better than to send others; to do it yourself is better than to call upon others.
- Proverb

Everyone fears a goat from in front, a horse from the rear, and a fool on every side.
- Proverb

Friendship, like mud, breaks when it dries up.
- Proverb

Nothing so good as forbidden fruit.
- Proverb

Shake not the tree when the fruit is falling by itself.
- Proverb

When you eat a fruit, think of the man who planted the tree.
- Proverb

Learn the future by looking at things past.
- Proverb

No gains without pains.
- Proverb

One man’s gain is another’s loss.
- Proverb

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
- Proverb

The slow gait of the tortoise takes him far.
- Proverb

Good friends are better than pocket money.
- Proverb

He who is a friend of the forest cannot be an enemy of the tree.
- Proverb

If you have had enough of your friend, grant him a loan.
- Proverb

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
- Proverb

It is difficult to win a friend in a year; it is easy to offend one in an hour.
- Proverb

Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none has ever been gained so.
- Proverb

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune and uninvited in misfortune.
- Proverb

Real friends will share even a strawberry.
- Proverb

Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
- Proverb

The friend that can be bought is not worth buying.
- Proverb

Choose your friends like your books, few but choice.
- Proverb

Friends in prosperous times are many but in adversity you won’t find one.
- Proverb

You can’t make a hat out of a pig’s tail.
- Proverb

If you have, hold on to it; if you know, be silent; if you can, do!
- Proverb

Many have too much, but none have enough.
- Proverb

What one has, one doesn’t want; and what one wants, one cannot have.
- Proverb

Having is better than wanting.
- Proverb

Make your hay before the fine weather leaves you.
- Proverb

A cool head and warm feet are the cause of long life.
- Proverb

A good head does not want for hats.
- Proverb

A wise head keeps a shut mouth.
- Proverb

All heads have hair, but not all have brains.
- Proverb

Better be a chicken’s head than an ox’s rump.
- Proverb

Better two heads than one, better one head than a hundred.
- Proverb

Do not enter where your head cannot pass through comfortably.
- Proverb

Let not the tongue utter what the head may have to pay for.
- Proverb

Two heads are better than one.
- Proverb

There is many a good head under an old hat.
- Proverb

Where there is no head, woe to the feet.
- Proverb

Health comes before making a livelihood.
- Proverb

Health is better than wealth.
- Proverb

The more you heap, the worse you cheap.
- Proverb

Hear twice before you speak once.
- Proverb

After a good cry, your heart is lighter.
- Proverb

Hearts communicate with each other.
- Proverb

Hearts may agree though heads differ.
- Proverb

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
- Proverb

Many heirs make small portions.
- Proverb

Hell is not so bad as the way to it.
- Proverb

Hell is paved with good intentions.
- Proverb

There is no hell like a troubled conscience.
- Proverb

There’s always plenty of help when it’s not wanted.
- Proverb

The herb that can’t be got is the one that brings relief.
- Proverb

The real hero doesn’t tell that he is one.
- Proverb

A hint hits harder than the truth.
- Proverb

A hint is about as good as a kick to some people.
- Proverb

He’s not worth hiring, who talks of tiring.
- Proverb

If you saw what the hog ate, you would never eat hog meat.
- Proverb

Don’t dig a hole for someone else, you’ll only fall into it yourself.
- Proverb

Go home when the table is set and to church when the service is almost over.
- Proverb

Home is where the heart is.
- Proverb

Honesty is the best policy.
- Proverb

Better deserve honor and not have it than have it and not deserve it.
- Proverb

Hope for miracles but don’t rely on one.
- Proverb

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
- Proverb

After the horse has been stolen, the stable door is locked.
- Proverb

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

Soon hot soon cold.
- Proverb

An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day.
- Proverb

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
- Proverb

An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation.
- Proverb

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

It is no time to play chess when the house is on fire.
- Proverb

The house that is built after every man’s advice seldom gets a roof.
- Proverb

Travel east or travel west, a man’s own house is still the best.
- Proverb

When you sweep the house you find everything.
- Proverb

Large household, thin soup.
- Proverb

When hunger slips in through the door, love flies out through the window.
- Proverb

The hunter pursuing the deer sees not the mountain.
- Proverb

When the hunter comes from the bush carrying mushrooms, he is not asked for news of his hunting.
- Proverb

Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.
- Proverb

When in a hurry make a detour.
- Proverb

One does not give a hyena meat to look after.
- Proverb

You do not know who is your friend or who is your enemy until the ice breaks.
- Proverb

Idleness is the devil’s workshop.
- Proverb

Idleness makes the wit rust.
- Proverb

Ignorance is an illness for which there is no medicine.
- Proverb

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
- Proverb

An imaginary illness is worse than a real one.
- Proverb

Illness comes in a coach and goes away through the eye of a needle.
- Proverb

When you are busy you have no illness.
- Proverb

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Proverb

A lost inch of gold may be found; a lost inch of time, never.
- Proverb

An inch in an hour is a foot a day.
- Proverb

When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
- Proverb

He that courts injury will obtain it.
- Proverb

Better suffer injustice than commit it.
- Proverb

Woman’s instinct is often truer than man’s reasoning.
- Proverb

Instruction in old age is like engraving in dung.
- Proverb

Instruction in youth is like engraving in stones.
- Proverb

Insult gives birth to insult.
- Proverb

Where you need intellect, strength will not do.
- Proverb

Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity.
- Proverb

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb

He who has many irons in the fire will let some of them burn.
- Proverb

He that would jest must take a jest, else to let it alone were best.
- Proverb

Said in jest, meant in earnest.
- Proverb

The worst jests are those that are true.
- Proverb

When the jest is at its best, it will be well to let it rest.
- Proverb

It is ill jesting with edged tools.
- Proverb

A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend.
- Proverb

If there are no jokes, there is no joy.
- Proverb

There is no worse joke than a true one.
- Proverb

It is better to live in joy than die in sorrow.
- Proverb

The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow.
- Proverb

For good judgment ask old persons.
- Proverb

He has a good judgment that relies not wholly on his own.
- Proverb

There is judgment in all things.
- Proverb

Everyone prizes justice but shuts the door when it comes.
- Proverb

Justice, like oil, will come to the surface, however deeply you have sunk it.
- Proverb

Justice often leans to the side where the purse pulls.
- Proverb

There is justice in the world, but it is blind.
- Proverb

A dog’s kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
- Proverb

Everyone is kin to the rich man.
- Proverb

Drinking kindness is drunken friendship.
- Proverb

Kindness is not just for the sake of others.
- Proverb

A good king is better than an old law.
- Proverb

A kiss must last long to be enjoyed.
- Proverb

Frequent kisses end in a baby.
- Proverb

Kisses are first, and cusses come later.
- Proverb

Kisses are the messengers of love.
- Proverb

All that is said in the kitchen should not be heard in the parlor.
- Proverb

An empty knapsack is heavier to carry than a full one.
- Proverb

Do not go between the knife and the sheath.
- Proverb

The same knife cuts bread and fingers.
- Proverb

Who has no knife may not eat pineapples.
- Proverb

All that is known is not told.
- Proverb

He that knows little often repeats it.
- Proverb

He who knows nothing knows enough, if he knows how to be silent.
- Proverb

Know thyself.
- Proverb

If you don’t want anyone to know it, don’t do it.
- Proverb

Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
- Proverb

The more you know the less you will sleep.
- Proverb

To know is easier than to do.
- Proverb

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

Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used until they are seasoned.
- Proverb

Knowledge is power.
- Proverb

When knowledge is least the will is strongest.
- Proverb

As the labor, so the pay.
- Proverb

Labor has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.
- Proverb

Past labor is pleasant.
- Proverb

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
- Proverb

To the big-mouthed, a ladle is a spoon.
- Proverb

Light your lamp before night overtakes you.
- Proverb

Better poor on land than rich at sea.
- Proverb

No land without stones, or meat without bones.
- Proverb

A landmark is very well placed between the fields of two brothers.
- Proverb

As long as the language lives the nation is not dead.
- Proverb

Wherever you go, speak the language of that place.
- Proverb

Who knows the language is at home everywhere.
- Proverb

A broken latch lasts longer than a good one.
- Proverb

A little too late is much too late.
- Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

It is too late to call again yesterday.
- Proverb

Even for bad luck one needs luck.
- Proverb

A good lather is half the shave.
- Proverb

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

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
- Proverb

Law is a spider’s web; big flies break through, but little ones are caught.
- Proverb

Law makers should not be law breakers.
- Proverb

Win your lawsuit and lose your money.
- Proverb

He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
- Proverb

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
- Proverb

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Proverb

Good leading makes good following.
- Proverb

A little leak will sink a great ship.
- Proverb

Never too late to learn.
- Proverb

We learn by teaching.
- Proverb

Learning cannot be inherited.
- Proverb

Learning is better than goods.
- Proverb

Learning is the eye of the mind.
- Proverb

There is no short cut to learning.
- Proverb

Lend never that thing you need most.
- Proverb

Lending should be done with witnesses, giving without witnesses.
- Proverb

Lentils without onions are like a dance without music.
- Proverb

A liar can go around the world but cannot come back.
- Proverb

A liar is not believed when he speaks truth.
- Proverb

A liar must have a good memory.
- Proverb

A liar tells his story so often that he gets to believe it himself.
- Proverb

Every liar has another liar as a witness.
- Proverb

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
- Proverb

He who can lick can bite.
- Proverb

If there is a lid that does not fit, there is a lid that does.
- Proverb

A lie is plump in private but lean in public.
- Proverb

A lie you must not tell; the truth you don’t have to tell.
- Proverb

Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
- Proverb

One lie is a lie, two are lies, but three is politics!
- Proverb

Who tells a lie to save his credit, wipes his nose on his sleeve to save his napkin.
- Proverb

With lies you will go far, but not back again.
- Proverb

Lie, but don’t overdo it.
- Proverb

All of life is a struggle.
- Proverb

Life has its ups and downs.
- Proverb

Life is the biggest bargain–we get it for nothing.
- Proverb

If not for light there would be no shadow.
- Proverb

When the lights go out, the mice begin to dance.
- Proverb

Where there is lightning, there is thunder.
- Proverb

When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has.
- Proverb

There is a silver lining to every cloud.
- Proverb

Let sleeping dogs lie.
- English Proverb

Pour in liquor and draw out the secret.
- Proverb

Live and let live.
- Proverb

Living well is the best revenge.
- Proverb

The loaf in another’s hand is always bigger.
- Proverb

Long is not forever.
- Proverb

Looks are one thing, the facts are another.
- Proverb

Look before you leap.
- Proverb

All is not lost that is delayed.
- Proverb

All is fair in love and war.
- Proverb

Love blinds.
- Proverb

Love is sweet, but it’s nice to have bread with it.
- Proverb

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.
- Proverb

When passionately in love, one becomes stupid.
- Proverb

Love me, love my dog.
- Proverb

Love to live, and live to love.
- Proverb

An ounce of luck is worth more than a pound of gold.
- Proverb

For good luck, sleep and wait.
- Proverb

If good luck comes, who doesn’t? If good luck does not come, who does?
- Proverb

Luck will turn.
- Proverb

When ill luck falls asleep, let nobody wake her.
- Proverb

With luck, everything is possible.
- Proverb

A dead man pays no debts.
- Proverb

A guilty man is always self-conscious.
- Proverb

A man can do more than he can.
- Proverb

A man cannot be hanged for thinking.
- Proverb

A man does not live a hundred years, yet he worries enough for a thousand.
- Proverb

A man is attractive when he is not your husband.
- Proverb

A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity.
- Proverb

A poor man buys what he can afford; a rich man what he wants.
- Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Proverb

A wise man knows what he says, a fools says what he knows.
- Proverb

Better to lose with a wise man, than to win with a fool.
- Proverb

Every man has his burden.
- Proverb

Every man is blind to his own faults.
- Proverb

Get the coffin ready and the man won’t die.
- Proverb

If a clever man is angry, his wisdom quits him.
- Proverb

If you suspect a man, don’t employ him; if you employ a man, don’t suspect him.
- Proverb

In sleep man doesn’t sin, but his dreams do.
- Proverb

Man is what he is, but not what he used to be.
- Proverb

Man thinks and God laughs.
- Proverb

One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.
- Proverb

The man destined to happiness need not be in a hurry.
- Proverb

The man who eavesdrops hears himself discussed.
- Proverb

What a sober man thinks, a drunkard speaks.
- Proverb

When a wise man talks to a fool, two fools are talking.
- Proverb

Manure is the farmer’s gold.
- Proverb

Marriage and cooking call for forethought.
- Proverb

Marriage is the tomb of love.
- Proverb

The best part of marriage is from the day of engagement to the wedding.
- Proverb

Marry in haste and be sorry at your leisure.
- Proverb

The masses are asses.
- Proverb

Early maturity, early senility.
- Proverb

A good maxim is never out of season.
- Proverb

Live according to your means.
- Proverb

There is no such thing as tasty medicine.
- Proverb

Dead men bite not.
- Proverb

If all men pulled in one direction the world would topple over.
- Proverb

Men are willing to believe that which they most desire.
- Proverb

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble over stones.
- Proverb

Rich men are often lean and poor men fat.
- Proverb

Careless merchant, future beggar.
- Proverb

Might is not right.
- Proverb

Every mile is two in winter.
- Proverb

When the mill grinds, flour; when the tongue grinds, trouble.
- Proverb

A concentrated mind will pierce a rock.
- Proverb

Bearing in mind yourself, weigh others.
- Proverb

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
- Proverb

Don’t depend on miracles.
- Proverb

In the mirror everybody sees his best friend.
- Proverb

The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile.
- Proverb

Mistakes will happen.
- Proverb

Mistrust is the mother of safety.
- Proverb

Misunderstandings are best prevented by pen and ink.
- Proverb

If you mix around, you learn quite a bit.
- Proverb

If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in.
- Proverb

It’s easier to earn money than to keep it.
- Proverb

Money is power.
- Proverb

Money is round; it rolls away from you.
- Proverb

Money, like dung, does not good till it’s spread.
- Proverb

Money talks.
- Proverb

To have money is a good thing; to have a say over the money is even better.
- Proverb

When you have money, think of the time when you had none.
- Proverb

The more the merrier.
- Proverb

Every mother thinks her child is beautiful.
- Proverb

There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead.
- Proverb

The mouth is easy to open but difficult to close.
- Proverb

Much would have more.
- Proverb

When one must, one can.
- Proverb

Mutton is meat for a glutton.
- Proverb

A name doesn’t harm a man if a man doesn’t harm the name.
- Proverb

Human nature is the same all over the world.
- Proverb

Nature is nature.
- Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

Love your neighbor, but don’t pull down the fence.
- Proverb

Bad news has wings.
- Proverb

No news is good news.
- Proverb

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
- Proverb

Nothing is perfect.
- Proverb

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb

Every obstacle is for the best.
- Proverb

The ocean cannot be emptied with a can.
- Proverb

Odds will beat anybody.
- Proverb

The older the wiser.
- Proverb

Opportunity only knocks once.
- Proverb

No pains, no gains.
- Proverb

Paper and brush may kill a man; you don’t need a knife.
- Proverb

Paris was not built in a day.
- Proverb

Hot passion cools easily.
- Proverb

The best passion is compassion.
- Proverb

Where there is patience, everything is possible.
- Proverb

He that cannot pay, let him pray.
- Proverb

In peace do not forget war.
- Proverb

A pen often reaches further than a sword.
- Proverb

A penny saved is a penny earned.
- Proverb

Every penny counts.
- Proverb

People may get tireder by standing still than by going on.
- Proverb

Some people are born lucky.
- Proverb

Where people love you, go rarely; where you are hated, go not at all.
- Proverb

A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Proverb

The picture of a rice cake does not satisfy hunger.
- Proverb

Someone else’s piece is always sweeter.
- Proverb

The best pilots are ashore.
- Proverb

Pinch yourself to find out how much it hurts others.
- Proverb

A pint is a pound the world over.
- Proverb

If you dig a pit for someone else, you fall into it yourself.
- Proverb

That place seems good where we are not.
- Proverb

There’s no place like home.
- Proverb

Everyone takes his pleasure where he finds it.
- Proverb

Politics makes strange bedfellows.
- Proverb

When poor, liberal, when rich, stingy.
- Proverb

It’s not the position that makes the man, but the man the position.
- Proverb

A watched pot never boils.
- Proverb

Potters never fail to praise their pots, the more so when they are cracked.
- Proverb

Do not look for poverty, it will find you.
- Proverb

Practice makes perfect.
- Proverb

Practice is better than a teacher.
- Proverb

Practice what you preach.
- Proverb

He preaches well that lives well.
- Proverb

A present looks for a present.
- Proverb

Pretty is as pretty does.
- Proverb

There is no prison like a guilty conscience.
- Proverb

Take a profit from your loss.
- Proverb

Promises make debts, and debts make promises.
- Proverb

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- Proverb

There is no proverb without a grain of truth.
- Proverb

Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
- Proverb

If you’re at odds with your rabbi, make peace with your bartender.
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Love your relations, but live not near them.
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Never mind the remorse; don’t commit the sin.
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If you repeat often enough that you’re right, you will discover you’re wrong.
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Resolve lasts three days.
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We give to the rich and take from the poor.
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Fast ripe, fast rotten.
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Nothing risked, nothing gained.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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A great sage is often taken for a great fool.
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Sooner said than done.
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What’s said can’t be unsaid.
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The saloonkeeper loves the drunkard, but he wouldn’t give him his daughter in marriage.
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You mustn’t pour salt on a wound.
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Sap runs best after a sharp frost.
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Saying is one thing, doing another.
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The scorpion stings him who helps it out of the fire.
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The good seaman is known in bad weather.
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Wine in, secret out.
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Seldom seen, soon forgotten.
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Seeing is believing.
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He that seeks, finds.
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Share and share alike.
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If the shoe fits, wear it.
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The show is over.
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April showers bring May flowers.
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Out of sight, out of mind.
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Dignified silence is better than dignified speech.
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Silence is golden.
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Sleep is the best doctor.
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
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Something is better than nothing.
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Better too soon, than too late.
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One cannot make soup out of beauty.
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As you sow, so you will reap.
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It is impossible to spoil what never was good.
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A good start wins the race.
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A stitch in time saves nine.
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The more you stir, the worse it will stink.
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When the stomach is empty, so is the brain.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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Different strokes for different folks.
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Nothing succeeds like success.
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Success is its own reward.
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Talk is cheap, but it takes money to buy whiskey.
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Great talkers are not great doers.
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If you keep on talking you will end up saying what you didn’t intend to say.
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Taxes are taxes.
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You can’t put “thank you” in your pocket.
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Petty thieves are hanged; big thieves are pardoned.
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All things have an end.
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Think before you speak, and look before you leap.
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Second thoughts are best.
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Any time is no time.
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No time like the present.
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Lost time is never found again.
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There is always a first time.
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Time is like an arrow.
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Time waits for no man.
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Time works wonders.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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When a toothache comes, you forget your headache.
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A trade is a trade.
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Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
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A trick is clever only once.
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A half truth is a whole lie.
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The truth has many faces.
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Give someone nuts and he will throw the shells at you.
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Vinegar is the son of wine.
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It is not with an axe that the violin is played.
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Two voices cannot enter one ear.
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Before you walk you have to creep.
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Walls have ears.
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Still waters run deep.
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The best wealth is health.
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The best weapon is education.
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Better to wear out than rust out.
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Sail when the weather is fair; you do not know what the morrow will bring.
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Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
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All is well that ends well.
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You can’t whistle and drink at the same time.
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Where there’s a will there’s a way.
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When the wine goes in, the wit goes out.
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Wood warms a man twice.
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While the word is still in your mouth, you are a lord; once you utter it, you are a fool.
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Words must be weighed and not counted.
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The world is big, its troubles still bigger.
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The world was not made in a day.
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Worms eat you up when dead, and worries eat you up when alive.
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Two wrongs will not make one right.
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Lost years are worse than lost dollars.
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Youth and white paper take any impression.
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