Proverbs from around the world

• A bad cause requires many words - German Proverb
  
• A book is like a garden carried in the pocket - Arab Proverb
  
• A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush - English Proverb
  
• A broken hand works, but not a broken heart - Persian Proverb
  
• A cat has nine lives - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• A clear conscience is a soft pillow - German Proverb
  
• A close friend can become a close enemy - Ethiopian Proverb
  
• A closed mouth catches no flies - Italian Proverb
  
• A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs - German Proverb
  
• A courtyard common to all will be swept by none - Chinese Proverb
  
• A dimple on the chin, the devil within - Gaelic Proverb
  
• A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master - Russian Proverb
  
• A drink precedes a story - Irish Proverb
  
• A drowning man is not troubled by rain - Persian Proverb
  
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
  
• A forest is in an acorn - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• A friend in need is a friend indeed - English Proverb
  
• A friend's eye is a good mirror - Irish Proverb
  
• A good denial, the best point in law - Irish Proverb
  
• A good husband is healthy and absent - Japanese Proverb
  
• A healthy man is a successful man - French Proverb
  
• A hedge between keeps friendship green - French Proverb
  
• A hen is heavy when carried far - Irish Proverb
  
• A hound's food is in its legs - Irish Proverb
  
• A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel - Portuguese Proverb
  
• A hungry man is an angry man - English Proverb
  
• A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on - French Proverb
  
• A little too late, is much too late - German Proverb
  
• A loan though old is not gift. - Hungarian Proverb
  
• A lock is better than suspicion - Irish Proverb
  
• A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man - Turkish Proverb
  
• A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal - Yiddish Proverb
  
• A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity - Yiddish Proverb
  
• A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly - Haitian Proverb
  
• A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners - Irish Proverb
  
• A penny saved is a penny gained. - Scottish Proverb
  
• A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands - English Proverb
  
• A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener - Hungarian Proverb
  
• A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths - Chinese proverb
  
• A silent mouth is melodious - Irish Proverb
  
• A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole - Traditional Russian Saying
  
• A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in - Greek Proverb
  
• A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger   Bible - Proverbs 15:1  - 
  
• A son is a son till he gets him a wife, But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom - Welsh Proverb
  
• A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars - Yiddish Proverb
  
• A teacher is better than two books - German Proverb
  
• A thief believes everybody steals - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom - Chinese proverb
  
• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet - French Proverb
  
• A trade not properly learned is an enemy - Irish Proverb
  
• A tree falls the way it leans - Bulgarian Proverb
  
• A white Christmas fills the churchyard - French Proverb
  
• A wise man hears one word and understands two - Yiddish Proverb
  
• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion - Chinese Proverb
  
• A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass - German Proverb
  
• A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing - Bible - Proverbs 31
  
• Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill - Danish Proverb
  
• Advice should be viewed from behind - Swedish Proverb
  
• Advice when most needed is least heeded - English Proverb
  
• After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers - Albanian Saying
  
• Age is honorable and youth is noble - Irish Proverb
  
• All things grow with time, except grief - Yiddish Proverb
  
• An angry man is not fit to pray - Yiddish Proverb
  
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome - Traditional German Saying
  
• An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue - Russian Proverb
  
• An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea - Turkish Proverb
  
• An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna - Hungarian Proverb
  
• And old rat is a brave rat - French Proverb
  
• Anger can be an expensive luxury - Italian Proverb
  
• Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest - Malabar Proverb
  
• Anger without power is folly - German Proverb
  
• Appetite comes with eating - French Proverb
  
• As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly - Bible - Proverbs 26:11
  
• As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he - Bible - Proverbs 23:7
  
• As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country - Bible - Proverbs 25:25 - 
  
• As mad as a March hare - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• As proud as a peacock - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France - Traditional Irish Saying
  
• As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• As the big hound is, so will the pup be - Irish Proverb
  
• As we live, so we learn - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy - Irish Proverb
  
• Better give a penny then lend twenty - Italian Proverb
  
• Better no doctor at all than three - Polish Proverb
  
• Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know - English Proverb
  
• Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese Proverb
  
• Better wear out shoes than sheets - Scottish Proverb
  
• Between the devil and the deep blue sea - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Beware of a silent dog and still water - German Proverb
  
• Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love  (About coffee.) - Turkish proverb
  
• Blood is thicker than water - English Proverb (17th Century)
  
• Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die - Irish Proverb
  
• Call on God, but row away from the rocks - Indian Proverb
  
• Children are poor men's riches - English Proverb
  
• Children should be seen and not heard - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old - English Proverb - 
  
• Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight - Italian Proverb
  
• Climb mountains to see lowlands - Chinese Proverb
  
• Clogs to clogs in three generations - English Proverb
  
• Clouds gather before a storm - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime - Jewish Saying
  
• Curiosity killed the cat - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse - Japanese Proverb
  
• Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own - Chinese Proverb
  
• Death always comes too early or too late - English Proverb
  
• Death closes all doors - English Proverb
  
• Death pays all debts - English Proverb
  
• Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky - Russian Proverb
  
• Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings - Indian Proverb
  
• Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped - African proverb
  
• Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new - Spanish Proverb
  
• Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills - Hebrew Proverb
  
• Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor - Oriental Proverb
  
• Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead - Chinese Proverb
  
• Don't imitate the fly before you have wings - French Proverb
  
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound - Latin Proverb
  
• Epigrams succeed where epics fail - Persian Proverb
  
• Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding - Bible - Proverbs 17:28
  
• Even a small thorn causes festering - Irish Proverb
  
• Every ass loves to hear himself bray - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Every cloud has a silver lining - English Proverb
  
• Every dog hath its day - English Proverb
  
• Every garden may have some weeds - English Proverb
  
• Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven - Yiddish proverb
  
• Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another - Italian Proverb
  
• Everyone pushes a falling fence - Chinese Proverb
  
• Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree - Ethiopian Proverb
  
• Evil is sooner believed than good - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald - Eastern Proverb
  
• Fame is a magnifying glass - English Proverb
  
• Feather by feather the goose can be plucked - French Proverb
  
• Fine feathers make fine birds - English Proverb
  
• Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies - Spanish Proverb
  
• Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow - French Proverb
  
• Fortune is blind, but not invisible - French Proverb
  
• Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight - English Proverb
  
• Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom - French Proverb
  
• Friendship is a furrow in the sand - Tongan Proverb
  
• Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day -  Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever - Chinese Proverb
  
• Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it - Italian Proverb
  
• Give the devil his due - English Proverb
  
• Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth - French Proverb
  
• God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers - Jewish Proverb
  
• God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them - German proverb
  
• God heals, and the physician takes the fee - French Proverb
  
• God help the rich man, let the poor man beg! - Old English Proverb
  
• God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves - Old English Proverb
  
• Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat - Chinese Proverb
  
• Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never - French Proverb
  
• Good as drink is, it ends in thirst - Irish Proverb
  
• Good luck beats early rising - Irish Proverb
  
• Gray hairs are death's blossoms - English Proverb
  
• Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's - Welsh Proverb
  
• He is not wise that is not wise for himself - English Proverb
  
• He lied like an eyewitness - Russian Insult
  
• He makes his home where the living is best - Latin Proverb
  
• He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good - Jewish Proverb
  
• He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned - French Proverb (14th century)
  
• He that is rich will not be called a fool - Spanish Proverb
  
• He that lives on hope will die fasting - North American Proverb
  
• He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent - Bible - Proverbs 28:20 - 
  
• He that marries for money will earn it - American Proverb
  
• He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses - English Proverb
  
• He that seeks trouble never misses - English Proverb (17th century)
  
• He that spareth his rod hateth his son - Bible - Proverbs 24
  
• He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock - Scottish Proverb
  
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever - Chinese proverb
  
• He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them - Chinese proverb
  
• He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you - Irish Proverb
  
• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years - Chinese Proverb
  
• He who does not know one thing knows another - Kenyan Proverb
  
• He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday - Irish Proverb
  
• He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything - Arabian Proverb
  
• He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup - German Proverb
  
• He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief - German Proverb
  
• He who knows nothing, doubts nothing - Spanish Proverb
  
• e who leaps high must take a long run - Danish Proverb
  
• He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount - Chinese Proverb
  
• He who serves two masters has to lie to one - Portuguese Proverb
  
• He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon - English Proverb
  
• He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom - English Proverb
  
• He who would eat in Spain must bring his kitchen along - Traditional German Saying
  
• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
  
• Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave - Chinese Proverb
  
• Honesty is the best policy - English Proverb
  
• How many will listen to the truth when you tell them? - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Hygiene is two thirds of health - Lebanese Proverb
  
• If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look - Japanese Proverb
  
• If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me - Italian Proverb
  
• If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over - Yiddish Proverb
  
• If God lived on earth, people would break his windows - Jewish Proverb
  
• If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living - Yiddish Proverb
  
• If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him - Italian Proverb
  
• If two men ride a horse, one must ride behind - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• 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 Proverb
  
• If you believe everything you read, better not read - Japanese proverb
  
• If you bow at all bow low - Chinese Proverb
  
• If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn - Irish Proverb
  
• If you love him, don't lend him - Polish Proverb
  
• If you take big paces you leave big spaces - Burmese Proverb
  
• If you want to be criticized, marry - Irish Proverb
  
• If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir - Romanian Proverb
  
• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words - Chinese Proverb
  
• In a calm sea every man is a pilot - Spanish Proverb
  
• In America half an hour is forty minutes - German Proverb
  
• In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse - Greek Proverb
  
• In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek - French Proverb
  
• Instinct is stronger than upbringing - Irish Proverb
  
• It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself - Irish Proverb
  
• It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear - English Proverb
  
• It is a long road that has no turning - Irish Proverb
  
• It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody - English Proverb (18th century)
  
• It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten - Kurdish Proverb
  
• It is better to be born a beggar than a fool - Spanish Proverb
  
• It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance - Spanish Proverb
  
• It is better to exist unknown to the law - Irish Proverb
  
• It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all -  (About laziness)Indian Proverb
  
• It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten - Danish Proverb
  
• It is not a secret if it is known by three people - Irish Proverb
  
• It is not enough to run, one must start in time - French Proverb
  
• It is not fish until it is on the bank - Irish Proverb
  
• It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats - Russian proverb
  
• It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for - Irish Proverb
  
• It is the good horse that draws its own cart - Irish Proverb
  
• It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal - Irish Proverb
  
• It takes time to build castles -  Rome wan not built in a day - Irish Proverb
  
• It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while - Irish Proverb
  
• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come - Chinese Proverb
  
• Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it - Irish Proverb
  
• Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs - English Proverb
  
• Lack of resource has hanged many a person - Irish Proverb
  
• Last ship, best ship - English Proverb
  
• Laws control the lesser man -  Right conduct controls the greater one - Chinese Proverb
  
• Lend your money and lose your friend - English Proverb
  
• Let sleeping dogs lie - English Proverb
  
• Let your heart guide your head in evil matters - Spanish Proverb
  
• Life is a bridge -  Cross over it, but build no house on it - Indian Proverb
  
• Life without a friend is death without a witness - Spanish Proverb
  
• Like a fish out of water - Latin Saying
  
• Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool - Bible - Proverbs 26:7
  
• Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout - Irish Proverb
  
• Little pitchers have big ears - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Live with wolves, and you learn to howl - Spanish Proverb
  
• Look down if you would know how high you stand - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears - Polish Proverb
  
• Love makes the time pass -  Time makes love pass - French Proverb
  
• Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence - Chinese proverb
  
• Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves - Spanish Proverb
  
• Luck has a slender anchorage - English Proverb
  
• Make hay while the sun shines - English Proverb
  
• Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not - Chinese Proverb
  
• Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so - Czech Proverb
  
• May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb - English Proverb
  
• May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son - Irish Proverb
  
• Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting - French Proverb
  
• Mere words do not feed the friars - Irish Proverb
  
• More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown - Spanish Proverb
  
• Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat - Irish Proverb
  
• Necessity is the mother of invention - Irish Proverb
  
• Necessity knows no law - Irish Proverb
  
• Necessity never made a good bargain - North American Proverb
  
• Need teaches a plan - Irish Proverb
  
• Never cut what can be untied - Portuguese Proverb
  
• Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking - English Proverb
  
• Never marry for money -  Ye'll borrow it cheaper - Scottish Proverb
  
• Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today - English Proverb
  
• Night is the mother of council - Latin Proverb
  
• No man limps because another is hurt - Danish Proverb
  
• No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival - Turkish Proverb
  
• No time like the present - English Proverb
  
• Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow - Chinese Proverb
  
• Not wine - men intoxicate themselves; Not vice - men entice themselves - Chinese Proverb
  
• Nothing dries sooner than tears - Latin Proverb
  
• Nothing is as burdensome as a secret - French Proverb
  
• One beggar at the door is enough - French Proverb
  
• One cannot shoe a running horse - Dutch Proverb
  
• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - English Proverb (17th century)
  
• One flower will not make a garland - French Proverb
  
• One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade - Chinese Proverb
  
• One joy scatters a hundred griefs - Chinese Proverb
  
• One of these day is none of these days - English Proverb
  
• One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune - Swedish Proverb
  
• One woman never praises another - Estonian Proverb
  
• Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinchesEnglish Proverb
  
• Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet - French Proverb
  
• Patience is poultice for all wounds - Irish Proverb
  
• Patience is the best medicine - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• People live in each other's shelter - Irish Proverb
  
• Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks - Russian proverb
  
• Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat - English Proverb
  
• Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred - Korean Proverb
  
• Practice makes perfect - English Proverb
  
• Praise the young and they will blossom - Irish Proverb
  
• Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall - Bible - Proverbs 16:18
  
• Procrastination is the thief of time - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Public before private and country before family - Chinese Proverb
  
• Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat - Irish Proverb
  
• Quiet people are well able to look after themselves - Irish Proverb
  
• Rags to riches to rags - Lancastrian Proverb
  
• Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots - Ashanti Proverb
  
• Rats desert a sinking ship - French Proverb
  
• Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor - French Proverb
  
• Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth - Dutch Proverb
  
• Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander - English Proverb
  
• Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh - Arabic Proverb
  
• Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil - German Proverb
  
• Set a thief to catch a thief - English Proverb
  
• Silence was never written down - Italian Proverb
  
• Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get - Spanish Proverb
  
• Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it - Russian Proverb
  
• Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool - English Proverb
  
• Small children give you headache; big children heartache - Russian Proverb
  
• Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves - Russian Proverb
  
• Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time
  
• I am being carried on great wings across the sky - Ojibway Saying
  
• Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short - English Proverb
  
• Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them - English Proverb (17th century)
  
• Speak the truth, but leave immediately after - Slovenian Proverb
  
• Stars are not seen by sunshine - Spanish Proverb
  
• Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant - Bible - Proverbs 9:17 - 
  
• Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment - Irish Proverb
  
• Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled - English Proverb - 
  
• Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening - Russian Proverb
  
• Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear - English Proverb
  
• Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are - Spanish Proverb
  
• Tell the truth and shame the devil - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names - Chinese Proverb
  
• The best advice is found on the pillow - Danish Proverb
  
• The best thing about a man is his dog - French Proverb
  
• The big thieves hang the little ones - Czech proverb
  
• The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully - Russian proverb
  
• The comforter's head never aches - Italian Proverb
  
• The darkest hour is that before the dawn - English Proverb
  
• The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail - Irish Proverb
  
• The devil looks after his own - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials - Chinese Proverb
  
• The girl who can't dance says the band can't play - Yiddish Proverb
  
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• The great thieves lead away the little thieves - French Proverb
  
• The hole is more honorable than the patch - Irish Proverb
  
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)
  
• The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law - Yiddish Proverb
  
• The jay bird don't rob his own nest - West Indies Proverb
  
• The light heart lives long - Irish Proverb
  
• The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman - Spanish Proverb
  
• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out - Chinese Proverb
  
• The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot - Irish Proverb
  
• The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely - Irish Proverb
  
• The morning is wiser than the evening - Russian Proverb
  
• The nail that sticks up will be hammered down - Japanese Proverb
  
• The night rinses what the day has soaped - Swiss Proverb
  
• The only good thing that comes from the east is the sun - Traditional Portuguese Saying
  
• The palest ink is better than the best memory - Chinese proverb
  
• The pine stays green in winter, Wisdom in hardship - Chinese Proverb
  
• The raggy colt often made a powerful horse - Irish Proverb
  
• The reverse side also has a reverse side - Japanese proverb
  
• The right man comes at the right time - Italian Proverb
  
• The road to a friend's house is never long - Danish proverb
  
• The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions - Traditional German Saying
  
• The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite - French Proverb
  
• The silent dog is the first to bite - German Proverb
  
• The smallest thing outlives the human being - Irish Proverb
  
• The Spaniard is a bad servant but a worse master - Traditional English Saying
  
• The sun will set without thy assistance - Hebrew Proverb
  
• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man - French Proverb
  
• The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe - Russian proverb
  
• The tongue is more to be feared than the sword - Japanese Proverb
  
• The tongue like a sharp knife. Kills without drawing blood - Chinese Proverb
  
• The truth is not always what we want to hear - Yiddish Proverb
  
• The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed - Malay Proverb
  
• The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches - Irish Proverb
  
• The well fed does not understand the lean - Irish Proverb
  
• The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion - Arabian Proverb
  
• The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher - Chinese Proverb
  
• The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet - Persian Proverb
  
• The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations - Spanish Proverb
  
• The work praises the man - Irish Proverb
  
• The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends - Persian Proverb
  
• The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey - Irish Proverb
  
• There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same - Chinese Proverb
  
• There are more old drunkards than old doctors - French Proverb
  
• There are only two types of Chinese -- those who give bribes and those who take them - Russian Proverb
  
• There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing - French Proverb - 
  
• There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead - English Proverb
  
• There is honor even among thieves - English Proverb
  
• There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave - Irish Proverb
  
• There is no fireside like your own fireside - Irish Proverb
  
• There is no luck except where there is discipline - Irish Proverb
  
• There is no need like the lack of a friend - Irish Proverb
  
• There is no strength without unity - Irish Proverb
  
• There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel - Russian Proverb
  
• There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip - Greek Proverb
  
• They who love most are least valued - English Proverb
  
• Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar - German Proverb
  
• Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness - Irish Proverb
  
• Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground - Malay Proverb
  
• Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst - Irish Proverb
  
• Three Spaniards, four opinions - Spanish Proverb
  
• Time is a great story teller - Irish Proverb
  
• Time trieth truth - English Proverb
  
• To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps - Yiddish Proverb
  
• To deny all, is to confess all - Spanish Proverb
  
• To leave is to die a little - French Proverb
  
• To lend is to buy a quarrel - Indian Proverb
  
• To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming - English Proverb (18th century)
  
• To teach is to learn - Japanese Proverb
  
• To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation - Latin Proverb
  
• To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty - Spanish Proverb
  
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life - North American Saying
  
• Tomorrow is a new day - English Proverb
  
• Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week - Spanish Proverb
  
• Tomorrow never comes - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Trouble rides a fast horse - Italian Proverb
  
• True nobility is in being superior to your previous self - Hindustani Proverb
  
• Trust in Allah, but tie your camel - Old Muslim Proverb
  
• Truth and oil always come to the surface - Spanish Proverb
  
• Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments - German Proverb
  
• Truth is the safest lie - Jewish Proverb
  
• Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed - Bible - Proverbs 12:19
  
• Truth will be out - Latin Proverb
  
• Two shorten the road - Irish Proverb
  
• Two thirds of the work is the semblance - Irish Proverb
  
• Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs - Japanese Proverb
  
• Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year - Spanish Proverb
  
• Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab - Irish Proverb
  
• Want a thing long enough and you don't - Chinese Proverb
  
• Water for oxen, wine for kings - Spanish Proverb
  
• We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry - Scottish Proverb
  
• What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody - Spanish Proverb
  
• What breaks in a moment may take years to mend - Swedish proverb
  
• What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget - Latin Proverb
  
• What you can not avoid, welcome - Chinese Proverb
  
• When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry - Jewish Proverb
  
• When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it -  Every beginning is weak - Irish Proverb
  
• When fire is applied to a stone it cracks - Irish Proverb
  
• When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely - Spanish Proverb
  
• When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her - Italian Proverb
  
• When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter - Persian Proverb
  
• When one dog barks another will join it - Latin Proverb
  
• When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion - Ethiopian proverb
  
• When the apple is ripe it will fall - Irish Proverb
  
• When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside - Irish Proverb
  
• When the liquor was gone the fun was gone - Irish Proverb
  
• When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby - Nigerian Proverb
  
• When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away - English Proverb
  
• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you - African Proverb
  
• When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world - Chinese Proverb
  
• When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us - Russian Proverb
  
• When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone - Russian Proverb
  
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced -  Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice - Indian proverb
  
• When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety - Bible - Proverbs 11:14 - 
  
• Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth - Irish Proverb
  
• Where there is love there is pain - Spanish Proverb
  
• Where there is no vision, the people perish - Bible - Proverbs 29:18
  
• Where there's music there can be love - French Proverb
  
• hile the cat's away, the mice can play - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• Who begins too much accomplishes little - German proverb
  
• Who knows most speaks least - Spanish Proverb
  
• Who lies with dogs shall rise up with fleas - Latin Proverb
  
• Wine divulges truth - Irish Proverb
  
• Witches and harlots come out at night - English Proverb
  
• With foxes we must play the fox - Proverb of Unknown Origin
  
• With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm - Chinese Proverb
  
• Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die -  Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell - Bible - Proverbs 23:13-14 - 
  
• Without justice, courage is weak - North American Proverb
  
• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom - Greek proverb
  
• Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day - Sanskrit Proverb
  
• You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear - Irish Proverb
  
• You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears - Greek Proverb
  
• You cannot unscramble eggs - North American Proverb
  
• You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs - Dutch Proverb
  
• You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince - North American Proverb
  
• You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me - Irish Proverb
  
• Young men may die, old men must - English Proverb
  
• Young wood makes a hot fire - Greek Proverb
  
• Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest - Yiddish Proverb
  
• Youth does not mind where it sets its foot - Irish Proverb
  
• Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever - Irish Proverb
  
• You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was - Irish Proverb