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1"If it isn’t one thing it’s the other," said the girl with a nosebleed.
2"Sour," said the fox about the rowanberries.
3'tis in vain to kick after you have once put on fetters.
4An ill won penny will cast down a pound.
5A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
6A bad beginning makes a good ending.
7A bad bush is better than no shelter.
8A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.
9A bad corn promise is better than a good lawsuit.
10A bad craftsman blames his tools.
11A bad excuse is better than none at all.
12A bad husband cannot be a good man.
13A bad name as a reward.
14A bad rower blames the oar.
15A bad thing never dies.
16A bad workman always blames his tools.
17A bad workman blames his tools.
18A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
19A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion.
20A bald-headed man finds a comb.
21A bargain is a bargain.
22A barking dog does not bite.
23A bat in a village without birds.
24A bath whisk rears children, the wind chickens.
25A beard does not grow on the bad, chin whiskers on the idle.
26A beggar can never be bankrupt.
27A beloved child has many names.
28A benevolent God might make a master out of a slave, a merchant out of a hired man.
29A bigger fish devours a smaller one.
30A bird in the hand is better than ten in the forest.
31A bird in the hand is better than ten on a tree.
32A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
33A bird is known by its feathers.
34A bird is known by its flight.
35A bird is named after its song, a man after his habits.
36A bird may be known by its song.
37A bird that sings early in the morning is in a hawk's ass in the evening.
38A bird-sized nest, an egg-sized hole.
39A bitter turnip does not go bad first.
40A black hen lays a white egg.
41A black hen may bring forth white eggs.
42A black miller and a white smith are an abomination in God's view.
43A bleating sheep eats no grass.
44A blind hen shall find corn.
45A blind leader of the blind.
46A blind man may perchance hit the mark.
47A blind man shoots sometimes a crow.
48A blind man should not judge of colours.
49A blind man would be glad to see.
50A bog pine takes after its kind.
51A book does not lie.
52A bridal veil brings half a worry, a wife's headdress a steady flow.
53A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
54A burden of one's own choice is not felt.
55A burnt child dreads fire.
56A burnt child dreads the fire.
57A burnt child keeps away from fire.
58A burnt child shuns fire.
59A camel will go through the eye of a needle before a rich man enters heaven.
60A candle, by consuming itself, gives light to others.
61A carefree boy without a horse: if you don't feed a horse, you can't ride it.
62A cat dreams of mice.
63A cat in gloves catches no mice.
64A cat lands on all fours.
65A cat may look at a king.
66A centipede though dead will not fall.
67A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
68A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
69A cheerful look makes a dish a feast.
70A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
71A cheerful wife is the spice of life.
72A cheerless home without master or mistress, though the day is sunny.
73A chicken at home feels like daal.
74A chicken likes her own eggs best.
75A child laughs after having eaten and cries after having had no food.
76A child should speak only when the cat is laying eggs and the chicken is pissing.
77A child's heart and hands are soon filled.
78A church axe and a iron shovel will pay the pauper's debts.
79A city that parleys is half gotten.
80A civil denial is better than a rude grant.
81A clean conscience is the best pillow.
82A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
83A clean hand wants no washing.
84A clear conscience is a coat of mail.
85A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
86A clenched fist can neither give nor take.
87A close mouth catches no flies.
88A closed mouth catches no flies.
89A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
90A cock knows what is good, despite its bony beak.
91A cold hand, a warm heart.
92A cold May and a wet June fill the cellars and granaries.
93A cold may and a wet june fill the cellars and granaries.
94A colt you may break but an old horse you never can.
95A company in distress makes sorrow less.
96A constant drip wears the stone.
97A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.
98A cow costs a copeck in Moscow, but it costs dear when it is brought here.
99A coward will never bed a pretty woman.
100A cracked bell can never sound well.
101A craft is no burden.
102A crafty fox never preys near his den.
103A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
104A crow doesn't pick out another crow's eyes.
105A crow sits next to a crow.
106A crow's nest can't be found if it doesn't crow.
107A cuckoo calls its name.
108A curst cow has short horns.
109A danger foreseen is half avoided.
110A dark man, a soft heart.
111A day is never so long that night does not follow.
112A dead wolf is a healthy sheep.
113A debt never rots.
114A disease known is half cured.
115A distant relative is like the sixth water the churn is rinsed with.
116A dog barks for anyone who feeds him.
117A dog does not bark at his family members.
118A dog does not bite his family members.
119A dog does not eat hay nor give to others.
120A dog in the manger.
121A dog knows his fart, an evil-doer his deeds.
122A dog knows his master.
123A dog will run out of piss before a bad wife out of stories.
124A dog will run out of piss before a drunkard out of spirits.
125A dog won't bark if it isn't pestered, nor will a cat claw if it isn't bothered.
126A drop does not fill the sea.
127A drop in the bucket.
128A drowning man plucks at a straw.
129A drowning man will catch at a straw.
130A drowning man will catch at any straw.
131A drowning man will cling to a straw.
132A drunkard’s purse is a bottle.
133A fair face and a foul heart.
134A fair face may hide a foul heart.
135A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.
136A father doing good things will have a similar son.
137A fault confessed is half redressed.
138A feather in the beak of the flier, two under the arm of the goer.
139A fifth wheel on a cart is too much.
140A fire will burn its surroundings.
141A fire's belly is never full.
142A fish begins first to smell at the head.
143A fish out of water.
144A fish rots from the head down.
145A fish stinks from the head.
146A fish wants to swim.
147A fist shouldn't be shown after a quarrel.
148A fly in the ointment.
149A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
150A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
151A fool always rushes to the fore.
152A fool and his money are soon parted.
153A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
154A fool has a fool's luck.
155A fool is always a fool.
156A fool is ever laughing.
157A fool is known by his laugh.
158A fool laughs at nothing.
159A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
160A fool may give a wise man counsel.
161A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it.
162A fool may put something in a wise body's head.
163A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
164A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
165A fool spends his time working.
166A fool will not notice the tasty slice, nor will a pig savour the salted fish.
167A fool's heart is in his mouth, a wise man's mouth is in his heart.
168A fool's money is not long in his pocket.
169A fool's tongue runs before his wit.
170A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,.
171A foolish friend is like an open enemy.
172A forced kindness deserves no thanks.
173A foreign land is a land of wolves.
174A forest is a poor man's coat.
175A forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels.
176A foul morn may turn to a fair day.
177A fox has a fine life: northerly wind and sunshine.
178A fox is not taken twice in the same snare.
179A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
180A friend in need is a friend indeed.
181A friend in need's a friend indeed.
182A friend is easier lost than found.
183A friend is known in adversity, like gold is known in fire.
184A friend is never known till needed.
185A friend is recognised in need.
186A friend to all is a friend to none.
187A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
188A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.
189A friend’s frown is better than a foe’s smile.
190A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile.
191A friend’s slap has honest intentions, your enemies’ kisses are meant to deceive.
192A frog in a well does not know the great ocean.
193A fruit-bearing tree bends.
194A full purse makes the mouth to speak.
195A generous confession disarms slander.
196A girl from four, a wife from five, and a mother from six.
197A goat must find its food from where it's tied.
198A golden bit does not make the horse any better.
199A golden key opens any gate but that of heaven.
200A good advice is part of the religion.
201A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
202A good beginning is half the battle.
203A good beginning makes a good ending.
204A good beginning makes a good ending; well begun is half done.
205A good child vomits, a bad one shits a lot.
206A good conscience is a soft pillow; a safe conscience makes a sound sleep.
207A good deed is never lost.
208A good dog deserves a good bone.
209A good example is the best sermon.
210A good face is a letter of recommendation.
211A good friend is worth many relations.
212A good horse is a member of the family.
213A good husband makes a good wife.
214A good jack makes a good jill.
215A good listener needs few words.
216A good man manages on his own.
217A good marksman may miss.
218A good mind possess a kingdom.
219A good name is better than riches.
220A good name is sooner lost than won.
221A good name is the best of all treasures.
222A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
223A good promise is better than a poor favour.
224A good soup is never cooked in envy's kettle.
225A good thing will praise itself.
226A good tool does already half of the work.
227A good wife is a goodly prize.
228A good wife makes a good husband.
229A good wife supports her husband, a bad wife is poison to him.
230A good word never broke a tooth.
231A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.
232A great fortune is a great slavery.
233A great friend is plato, but a greater friend is truth.
234A great ship asks deep waters.
235A great talker is a great liar.
236A group is composed of a motley.
237A guest is a witch in the house.
238A guest won't lay a house to ruin, but indolence will.
239A guilty conscience is a self-accuser.
240A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
241A guilty mind betrays itself.
242A habit is not as easy to change as a house's yard.
243A hard nut to crack.
244A hardworking mother raises lazy children.
245A healthy wife for the husband, a rich sister for the brother.
246A hearty laugh lengthens your life.
247A heavy purse makes a light heart.
248A hedge between keeps friendship green.
249A helper's wages are paid with evil.
250A herring does not know who will eat it, nor does a maid know her suitor.
251A honey tongue and a heart of gall.
252A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
253A horse does not thank for the wedding, nor a priest for long holidays.
254A horse has four legs, yet it often falls.
255A horse may trip.
256A horse's milk has more fat.
257A house shows its habits.
258A house will receive a whore, but even a field will not take a thief.
259A house without woman and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite.
260A hundred friends is worth more than a hundred roubles.
261A hungry belly has no ears.
262A hungry devil will even eat a fly.
263A hungry man is an angry man.
264A hungry man, an angry man.
265A jack of all trades is master of none.
266A job will find its workman.
267A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.
268A journey of a thousand miles always begins with a single step.
269A kind heart dies wretched.
270A king's favour is no inheritance.
271A kiss without a beard is like a coffee without cream.
272A large man has large trousers.
273A lawyer never goes to law himself.
274A lazy sheep think its wool heavy.
275A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
276A lazy tailor uses a long thread.
277A lean fee is fit for a lazy clerk.
278A leopard can't change his spots.
279A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.
280A liar should have a good memory.
281A lie begets a lie.
282A lie has no legs.
283A lie has short legs.
284A lie's legs are short.
285A light purse is a heavy curse.
286A light purse makes a heavy heart.
287A line inscribed in water.
288A lion at home, a mouse abroad.
289A lion on me and an ostrich in war.
290A little bird told me.
291A little body often harbours a great soul.
292A little each day, a lot each week.
293A little fire is quickly trodden out.
294A little fish is supper for a large fish.
295A little keeps alive, a nothing kills.
296A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
297A living dog is better than a dead lion.
298A loamy field does not bear a dainty plougher.
299A long sack is needed when waiting for someone to die.
300A lot of donkeys means a lot of hay.
301A lot of work when being a maid, even more as a mistress.
302A low hedge is easily leaped over.
303A maid that is praised should not be taken as a wife.
304A man bears a name, a dog gives a name.
305A man can die but once.
306A man can do no more than he can.
307A man does not feel a burden of his own choosing.
308A man in debt is caught in a net.
309A man is a wife's head as a cat is a mouse's head.
310A man is as old as he feels.
311A man is known by his horse.
312A man is known by his words.
313A man is known by the company he keeps.
314A man keeps as his own what he finds from a fish-trap.
315A man must live according to his fortune.
316A man of many trades begs his bread on Sunday.
317A man of many trades begs his bread on sunday.
318A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
319A man pleads anothers's cause with a stick.
320A man resembles his work.
321A man sleeps very soundly on another man's wound.
322A man spends his time working.
323A man without shame is always full.
324A man's age is long, the world's shore wide.
325A man's enemies are they of his own household.
326A man's worst enemies are often those of his own house.
327A mans worst enemies are often those of his own house.
328A man’s house is his castle.
329A mare is sold in the courtyard, a maiden is sold in her father's house.
330A mare's kick is nothing but a pat.
331A married man is a woman's man, a bachelor is a mother's boy.
332A messenger has no guilt.
333A mighty power in moscow said he who has no horse will travel by foot.
334A miserly father begets a squandering son.
335A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
336A miss is as good as a mile.
337A mosquito can make the lion's eye bleed.
338A mosquito is noticed in the eyes of another, but not an elephant in the eyes of ones own self.
339A mother is a school, preparing her is like preparing a good nation.
340A mother's lap is softer than a feather.
341A mother's love will bring you up from the bottom of the sea.
342A mountain never meets a mountain, but a man meets a man.
343A nagging wife works, a hardy wife quarrels.
344A near neighbor is better than a distant cousin.
345A needle in a haystack.
346A new broom sweeps clean.
347A new broom sweeps well.
348A new broome sweepeth cleane.
349A nice wife and a back door oft make a rich man poor.
350A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
351A north-westerly wind is the sky's broom.
352A northerly wind brings with it fair weather, an easterly wind rain.
353A pair shortens the road.
354A pauper's death does not carry far, though a rich man's illness all the more.
355A pawn will surely bring home your own.
356A penny for your thoughts.
357A penny minted stays a penny.
358A penny saved is a penny gained.
359A penny soul never came to twopence.
360A perch makes its own decisions: it takes the bait if it wants.
361A person slips, and a ladder falls on him.
362A picture paints a thousand words.
363A picture says more than a thousand words.
364A pig grows fat in the mud.
365A pig will always be a pig, even if you put a golden saddle on its back.
366A pike will even eat a frog after swimming across a large lake, a man will even marry a wicked woman after being without one for a week .
367A pike will even eat a frog after swimming across a large lake, a man will even marry a wicked woman after being without one for a week.
368A pipe does not feed a family, nor does a kantele support the folk.
369A pitcher that goes oft to the well is broken at last.
370A place for each thing and each thing in its place.
371A poke in the eye for those, who dwell on the past.
372A poor bird decorates itself with another bird's feathers.
373A poor craftsman blames his tools.
374A poor man's pipe does not sound.
375A poor man's word is not accepted without cursing.
376A poor workman always blames his tools.
377A poor workman blames his tools.
378A pot of gold is needed to keep the gifts from loneliness.
379A pound of care won’t pay an ounce of debt.
380A pretty honour, chicken shit on a table.
381A pretty pod, but a worm inside.
382A problem is solved when it gets tougher.
383A problem shared is a problem halved.
384A promise is a debt, it's always been said.
385A promise is a debt.
386A promise will not impoverish a house.
387A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
388A public hall is never swept.
389A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
390A rabbit aims for the moon.
391A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
392A rich man may end up poor and the beggar may rise to be a general.
393A road to travel on, a fallen tree to rest on.
394A rod does not make a child worse.
395A rolling stone gathers no moss.
396A rose between two thorns.
397A round peg in a square hole.
398A roving dog runs against a stick.
399A Russian is a Russian even if cooked in butter.
400A safe conscience makes a sound sleep.
401A scalded cat fears cold water.
402A servant who has two masters, lies to one of them.
403A shameless person will be happy with a thorny tree on his backside.
404A sheep will eat a hay load even through a bore hole.
405A shoemaker must not go beyond his laft.
406A short cut is often a wrong cut.
407A short hymn is quickly sung.
408A shy cat makes a proud mouse.
409A silent fool is counted wise.
410A single swallow doth not the summer make.
411A sinking man will try to catch any rope.
412A sleepy master makes his servant a lout.
413A slow fire makes sweet meat.
414A sluggard's days are the longest.
415A small leak will sink a great ship.
416A small lie sweetens talk.
417A small solotnikke.
418A small tuft often tumbles a big load.
419A small wound and a poor relative have to be heeded.
420A snotnose may grow up to be a man; but he who laughs without cause, never.
421A soft answer calms the wrath.
422A soft answer turns away wrath.
423A sound mind in a sound body.
424A spaniel, a woman and a walnut tree; the more they're beaten, the better still they be.
425A splinter doesn't land far from the trunk.
426A stick has two ends.
427A stick is easily found to beat a dog.
428A stick is easy found to beat a dog.
429A stitch in time saves nine.
430A stomach must be served a lifetime.
431A stopped clock is right twice a day.
432A store is no sore.
433A store is no sore; keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
434A storm in a teacup.
435A story never loses in the telling.
436A stranger is blind even when he sees.
437A stranger though he has a bed will return home.
438A stranger's bread is bitter to eat.
439A stranger's cunt is the prick's sweetmeat.
440A stranger's eyes can see the fault.
441A swallow makes no summer.
442A table without bread is not a table but bread is a table on its own.
443A tailor does not choose the cloth.
444A tall man has short wits.
445A tattler is worse than a thief.
446A thief knows a thief and a wolf knows a wolf.
447A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf.
448A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich.
449A thief thinks everyone around him is a thief.
450A thing begun is half done.
451A thrashing will break no bones.
452A threatened blow is seldom given.
453A throw without a thrower.
454A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all that sit near him.
455A tongue will take you to Kiev.
456A tree doesn't fall with one blow.
457A tree is climbed from its base.
458A tree is known by its fruit.
459A tree is never felled on one side alone.
460A tree lies where it falls.
461A tree starts with a seed.
462A tree will break before it reaches heaven.
463A trough never searches for a horse, instead the horse searches for the trough.
464A true man earns his bread even from a rock.
465A truth teller finds the doors closed against him.
466A veil brings worries, linen low spirits.
467A vessel won't weep for its sides.
468A wager is a fool's argument.
469A wagtail kicks the ice.
470A watched pot never boils.
471A wet log doesn't burn.
472A whore has no honesty, a thief has no honour.
473A whore thanked me, a thief blamed me, but the good person left me in peace.
474A widow's love is like reheated potato soup.
475A wife isn't a kantele to hang on the wall.
476A wife should be sought from afar, a horse nearby.
477A wise child will not live long.
478A wise enemy as a companion is better than a foolish friend.
479A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
480A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
481A wise man hears one word and understands two.
482A wolf in sheep's clothing.
483A wolf will eat its own cousin.
484A wolf will have its reasons when its mind is set on mutton.
485A wolf will not break a wolf.
486A woman is probably at the heart of the quarrel.
487A woman's advice is but slender, yet he that refuses it is a madman.
488A wonder lasts but nine days.
489A wonder lasts nine days.
490A word dropped from a song makes it all wrong.
491A word for a word.
492A word has feet.
493A word is enough to the wise.
494A word spoken is an arrow let fly.
495A word spoken is past recalling.
496A word to the wise is enough.
497A word to the wise is sufficient.
498A workman is known by his chips.
499A yawn flies from mouth to mouth as a squirrel flies from tree to tree.
500A young man's thoughts are like April weather.
501Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
502Accusing is proving, when malice and force sit judges.
503Acquire new knowledge by "warming up" old knowledge.
504Action speaks louder than words.
505Actions can boomerang.
506Actions have consequences.
507Actions speak louder than words.
508Actions speaks louder than voice.
509Adversity exists to be overcome.
510Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
511Adversity is the mother of wisdom.
512Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
513Advice comes too late when a thing is done.
514Advice most needed are the least heeded.
515Advice most needed is the least heeded.
516Advice sharpens a rusty opinion.
517Advice when most needed is least heeded.
518After a good cry, your heart is lighter.
519After a storm comes a calm.
520After a storm comes calm.
521After death, a person is holy.
522After dinner comes the reckoning.
523After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
524After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
525After dinner sleep a while, after supper walk a mile.
526After meat, mustard; after death the doctor.
527After rain comes fair weather.
528After rain comes fair weather; march winds and april showers bring forth may flowers.
529After rain comes sunshine.
530After the sweet, the leftover are thrown away.
531After three years at a village schoolhouse, even a dog can recite a poem.
532After us the deluge.
533After wit is every body's wit.
534Afterwards is no advice.
535Age and poverty are ill to bear.
536Age breeds aches.
537Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot.
538Aid yourself and the lord will help you.
539Alike children play the best.
540All are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives?
541All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives?
542All are not friends that speak us fair.
543All are not hunters that blow the horn.
544All are not merry that dance lightly.
545All are not saints that go to church.
546All are not thieves that dogs bark at.
547All asses wag their ears.
548All bread is not baked in one oven.
549All cats are grey in the dark.
550All cats are grey in the night.
551All covet, all lose.
552All ditches drive to the sea.
553All doors open to courtesy.
554All eggs should not be put in one basket,.
555All eggs should not be put in one basket.
556All good comes in threes.
557All good things are three.
558All good things come in threes.
559All hat and no cattle.
560All in good time.
561All is fish that comes to his net.
562All is fish that comes to net.
563All is fish that comes to the net.
564All is not lost that is in danger.
565All is not lost that is in peril.
566All is well that ends well.
567All lay load on the willing horse.
568All men can't be first.
569All men can't be masters.
570All methods are good except for the bad ones.
571All play and no work makes jack a mere toy.
572All promises are either broken or kept.
573All roads lead to rome.
574All roads lead to Rome.
575All sugar and honey.
576All that glimmers is not gold.
577All that glisters is not gold.
578All that glitters is not gold.
579All that is fair must fade.
580All that is known is not told.
581All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
582All things are difficult before they are easy.
583All truth must not be told at all times.
584All truths are not to be told.
585All work and no play make a jack a dull boy.
586All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
587All's well that ends well.
588Allah is kind, and he likes those who are kind too.
589All’s fair in love and war.
590All’s fish that comes to his net.
591All’s well that ends well.
592Almost never killed a fly.
593Alone is strong.
594Also, every man is the smith of his own fortune.
595Also, nobody can serve two masters.
596Also: where God has a church the devil will have his chapel.
597Although you are throwing it into the river, measure it first.
598Always be prepared.
599Always bring more than you need.
600Always is a sluggard meaning to do.
601Always something.
602Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.
603Among the blind, the one-eyed is king.
604Among the blind, the oneeyed man is king.
605An accident rarely comes alone.
606An accident won't arrive with a bell on its neck.
607An age to an age is not a brother.
608An animal does not defecate in its nest.
609An animal does not defecate in its own nest.
610An ape is an ape, a varlet is varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet.
611An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
612An apple a day turns away illness.
613An apple does not fall far from the tree.
614An army marches on its stomach.
615An ass in a lion's skin.
616An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
617An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle.
618An awl doesn't stay in the sack.
619An early calf and a late lamb fare best.
620An empty bag will not stand upright.
621An empty cart rattles loudly.
622An empty drum gives off a loud sound.
623An empty hand is no lure for a hawk.
624An empty sack cannot stand upright.
625An empty vessel gives a greater sound than a full barrel.
626An ermine leaves more tracks on a wintry night than a mare with her colts in the summer.
627An evil chance seldom comes alone.
628An excuse is sometime more ugly than a guilt.
629An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
630An harmless-appearing confidant can bring down a city.
631An honest 'no' is better than an insincere 'yes'.
632An honest look covereth many faults.
633An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
634An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.
635An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
636An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
637An ill stake stands longest.
638An ill workman quarrels with his tools.
639An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
640An illness feeds but does not fatten.
641An itch gives you nails.
642An oak is not felled at one stroke.
643An oath is the thief's God.
644An old ape has an old eye.
645An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.
646An old cat laps as much as a young kitlin.
647An old dog barks not in vain.
648An old dog doesn't bark lies.
649An old dog will learn no tricks.
650An old fox is never first to be snared by a fox trap.
651An old fox understands a trap.
652An old friend is better than two new ones.
653An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.
654An old love does not rust.
655An old love never grows rusty.
656An old man is not to be laughed at.
657An old man sometimes has a colt's thoughts.
658An old ox makes a strait furrow.
659An old thief will one day be caught.
660An old wife grows young with a good man, but a maiden grows old with a bad man.
661An onion with a friend is a lamb.
662An open door may tempt a saint.
663An organised group lifts a mountain.
664An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning.
665An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
666An ounce of lying saves tons of explanations.
667An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
668An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
669An ounce of preventions is better than a pound of cure.
670An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.
671An ox needs its tail when a horsefly takes to flight.
672An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
673An unshod mocks a shoe.
674An X.
675And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.
676And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
677Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
678Anger begins with madness and ends with regret.
679Anger is misery.
680Angry cats get scratched skin.
681Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
682Any port in a storm is shaken a little.
683Any port in a storm.
684Appearances are deceitful.
685Appearances deceive.
686Appetite comes with eating.
687Appetite grows as you eat.
688April and May the keys of the year.
689April and may the keys of the year.
690Arrogance over the arrogant is modesty.
691As a man lives so shall he die.
692As a tree falls so shall it lie.‎.
693As drunk as a lord.
694As far as the heavenssky from the earth.
695As innocent as a babe unborn.
696As is the music, thus will be the dance.
697As it has been thought, so has it been done.
698As like as an apple to an oyster.
699As like as two peas.
700As long as the gypsy has tongs, he will not burn his fingers.
701As long as there is life there is hope.
702As old as the hills.
703As old people sing, young people tweet.
704As one hollows in the woods, so it echoes back.
705As one is dressed one will be judged.
706As plain as the nose on a man's face.
707As plain as two and two make four.
708As snug as a bug in a rug.
709As soon as he started, he went far.
710As sure as eggs is eggs.
711As the call, so the echo.
712As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
713As the old birds sing, so do the young ones tweet.
714As the old cock crows, so crows the young.
715As the old cock crows, so does the young.
716As the old crow sings, so sing its fledglings.
717As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
718As the tree, so the fruit.
719As welcome as flowers in may.
720As welcome as water in one's shoes.
721As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
722As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
723As ye sow shall ye reap.
724As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
725As you brew, so must you drink.
726As you make your bed so you must lie on it.
727As you make your bed, so must you lie on it.
728As you make your bed, so will you sleep.
729As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
730As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.
731As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
732As you make your bed, so you must lie.
733As you shout in the forest you will be answered.
734As you shout you will be answered.
735As you sow so will you reap.
736As you sow, so shall you reap.
737As you sow, so you shall reap.
738Ask for the knowledge that would be useful to you, would keep you from harm and shame, then elevate you.
739Ask much to get little.
740Ask no questions and you will be told no lies.
741Ask not a saint of his caste; ask of his knowledge.
742Asses carry the oats and horses eat them.
743Assiduous wins.
744At night all cats are grey.
745At the ends of the earth.
746At the same time to eat, but work go whenever one has time.
747Attack is the best defense.
748Avoid evil and it will avoid thee.
749Avoid the company of a liar.
750Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow.
751Avoid what may require an apology.
752Avoiding mistakes is better than apologizing after.
753Away is good but home is best.
754Bacchus has drowned more men than neptune.
755Bad is the best choice.
756Bad news has wings.
757Bad shoes on a shoemaker's wife, bad horseshoes on a smithy's horse, bad trousers on a tailor's son, a bad cart at a jointer.
758Baghdad is not remote to a lover.
759Bare is the back of a brotherless man.
760Barking does seldom bite.
761Barking dogs seldom bite.
762Barking follows you home.
763Be aware of the idiot, for he is like an old dress.
764Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil.
765Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you.
766Be just to all, but trust not all.
767Be like a beetle, living once on a flower field. don't be like a fly, living once on a mountain of trash.
768Be quick to act, and slow to promise.
769Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
770Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
771Be the slave of him whose bread you eat.
772Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart.
773Beans come out from where beans are planted.
774Beans plead to be cooked, meat asks of the fire.
775Beat around the bush.
776Beat the iron while it is hot.
777Beating the dead is a sin.
778Beauty is but skin-deep.
779Beauty lies in lover's eyes.
780Beauty may open the door, but only virtue enters.
781Beauty opens all doors.
782Because with wise advice you should do a war.
783Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned.
784Before one can say jack robinson.
785Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
786Beggars can't be choosers.
787Beggars cannot be choosers.
788Beggars can’t be choosers.
789Begun is two-thirds done.
790Believe not all that you see nor half what you hear.
791Bend the willow while it is young.
792Besser biegen als brechen.
793Best defence is offence.
794Best is the enemy of good.
795Best to be without oaths.
796Best to learn from other people's injury.
797Better a bad bush than no shelter.
798Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie.
799Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
800Better a handful of honour than a lap full of shame.
801Better a lean jade than an empty halter.
802Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
803Better a lean settlement than a fat litigation.
804Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
805Better a poor man's honour than a rich man's money.
806Better a ruff in the net than an ide on one's mind.
807Better a wife with rye than a lady with barley.
808Better alone than in bad company.
809Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.
810Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
811Better an empty purse than borrowed money.
812Better an open enemy than a false friend.
813Better be a tail for the lions than the head of the foxes.
814Better be alone than in bad company.
815Better be alone than in bad company: and in good company, is better than be alone.
816Better be born lucky than rich.
817Better be envied than pitied.
818Better be single all your life than be a widow for a month.
819Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
820Better bend than break.
821Better bow than break.
822Better breadless than clueless.
823Better deny at once than promise long.
824Better die standing than live kneeling.
825Better early than late.
826Better eat and praise God than eat and stay silent.
827Better fed than taught.
828Better fill a glutton's belly than his eye.
829Better five content cows than six hungry.
830Better foolish by all than wise by yourself.
831Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
832Better give the slight than take it.
833Better go about than fall into the ditch.
834Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
835Better hold with the hound, as run with the hare.
836Better is the enemy of good.
837Better late than never.
838Better lose a jest than a friend.
839Better lose your eye rather than your honour.
840Better never begun than never ended.
841Better one bird in the hand than ten in the forest.
842Better one bird on hand than ten birds on a tree.
843Better one hazel grouse in the bag, than ten on the branch.
844Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
845Better safe than sorry.
846Better short and fun than long and bad.
847Better short of pence than short of sense.
848Better something than nothing.
849Better squinting than blind.
850Better ten steps around than one step in the mire.
851Better that the feet slip than the tongue.
852Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
853Better the foot slip than the tongue.
854Better the grave than a life of want.
855Better the last smile than the first laughter.
856Better to avoid a dumb friend than a wise enemy.
857Better to be a hired hand at a wealthy house than the master of a poor house.
858Better to be a spinster than a young whore.
859Better to be half hanged than ill wed.
860Better to beg than steal.
861Better to bow than break.
862Better to command another than do it oneself.
863Better to dam a ditch than a river.
864Better to dam the brook than the creek.
865Better to do a little right than a lot wrong.
866Better to do well than to say well.
867Better to flee than to fence poorly.
868Better to free one guilty than convict an innocent.
869Better to go dressed in patched clothes than to go naked.
870Better to go to sleep with an empty stomach than wake up in debt.
871Better to go yourself than give orders to a lazy person.
872Better to have a little of your own than another's much.
873Better to have and not need than to need and not have.
874Better to have too much than to lack.
875Better to keep quiet than speak evil.
876Better to keep quiet than to speak poorly of someone.
877Better to keep quiet than to speak poorly.
878Better to plough deep than wide.
879Better to preempt, than to be preempted.
880Better to rear a pig than to bring up some body else's child.
881Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
882Better to see a weeping child than a weeping mother.
883Better to sell time than to buy it.
884Better to spend a day thinking it over than a week working for no purpose at all.
885Better to take than to give.
886Better unborn than untaught.
887Better underdone than overdone.
888Better untaught than ill-taught.
889Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
890Between the devil and the deep blu) sea.
891Between the upper and nether millstone.
892Between two evils 'tis not worth choosing.
893Between two stools my tail goes to ground.
894Between two stools one falls to the ground.
895Between two stools, you fall to the ground.
896Betwixt and between.
897Beware of a silent dog and still water.
898Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly, they are ravening wolves.
899Beware of false prophets.
900Beware of greeks bearing gifts.
901Beware of he whose goodness you can't ask for and whose evil you can't be protected from.
902Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
903Beware the levelheaded when he is angry.
904Bias is the plague of the openion.
905Big fish are worth of fishing even if you don't catch one.
906Big fish eat little fish.
907Big in the words, small on the ground.
908Billy-goats' horns are all one bone.
909Bind the sack before it be full.
910Birds fly not into our mouth ready roasted.
911Birds known by their feather, humans are known by their friends.
912Birds listen to day-words and rats listen to night-words.
913Birds of a feather flock together.
914Bitten skin is sore, stricken skin is smarting.
915Bitter pills may have blessed effects.
916Blessed when received, cursed when paying back.
917Blind dogs hunting deer.
918Blind men can judge no colours.
919Blood can never turn into water.
920Blood is much thicker than water.
921Blood is thicker than water.
922Bloom where you are planted.
923Boasting costs nothing.
924Bolder than a rooster.
925Borrowed garments never fit well.
926Both a farmer and a willow thicket are hard to do away with.
927Boys will be boys.
928Bread does not grow by singing, nor work progress by sitting.
929Bread is the staff of life.
930Bread that needed toiling tastes good.
931Breaking is easy, mending hard.
932Brevity is the soul of wit.
933Broken pieces are a good luck sign.
934Building upon the sand.
935Burial is the way to honor the dead.
936Burn not your house to fright away the mice.
937Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.
938Burn not your house to rid it off the mouse.
939Burnt child shuns the fire.
940Business before pleasure.
941Busy youth makes easy age.
942Butter does not spoil the gruel.
943Butter melts where leather burns.
944Butter melts where skin burns.
945Butter melts where wool burns.
946Buy a horse that is praised, take a wife that is railed.
947Buy cheaply, pay dearly.
948By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
949By hook or by crook.
950By others' faults wise men correct their own.
951By perseverance the snail reached the arc.
952By the street of 'by-and-bye' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
953By your clothes you are received, by your talk you are wished off.
954Calamity is man's true touchstone.
955Calm water washes away.
956Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
957Can the ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
958Can't see the forest for the trees.
959Can't see the forest from the trees.
960Can't see the wood for the trees.
961Cannot see the wood for the trees.
962Can’t see the forest for the trees.
963Can’t see the wood from the trees.
964Care eats into the conscience as rust eats into iron.
965Care killed the cat.
966Carry coals to newcastle.
967Carry one's straw to the hill.
968Carthage didn't raise up in only one day.
969Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
970Cast not out the dowed water till you get the clean.
971Cast not your pearls before swine.
972Cat patting leads to hump raising.
973Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
974Cats eat what hussies spare.
975Cats hide their claws.
976Caught lots - got nothing.
977Caution is the parent of safety.
978Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you.
979Charity begins at home.
980Chase away the natural and it returns at a gallop.
981Cheap meat produces thin broth.
982Cheaper than dates in basra.
983Cheapest is the dearest.
984Cheek brings success.
985Chicken today, teather tomorrow.
986Chickens are to be counted in the autumn.
987Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
988Children and fools speak the truth.
989Children are poor men's riches.
990Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares.
991Children beget children to the nuisance of their parents.
992Children do as you do, not as you say.
993Children will be children.
994Children will thrive best on a varied diet.
995Children, fools and drunken men tell the truth.
996Chip like wood block.
997Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
998Choose an author as you choose a friend.
999Choose the lesser of two evils.
1000Christmas and Midsummer match.
1001Christmas and midsummer match.
1002Christmas comes but once a year, but when it comes it brings good cheer.
1003Circle like the cat around hot porridge.
1004Circumstances alter cases.
1005Claw me, and I will claw thee.
1006Cleanliness is half the food.
1007Cleanliness is next to godliness.
1008Cleverness and stupidity go together.
1009Clocks run as they are used, roosters call as they are fed.
1010Close but no cigar.
1011Close does not shoot any hares.
1012Close the door from which the wind blows and relax.
1013Closer than the carotid artery.
1014Closer than the tongue to the teeth.
1015Clothing makes the man.
1016Cobbler, stick to your last.
1017Cobblers' children are worst shod.
1018Coffee is served when it is hot and girls when they are young.
1019Cold food is soon old food.
1020Cold forces a man to run alongside his sleigh as it climbs on the sleigh itself.
1021Cold teaches you to run.
1022Come rain or shine, no man will melt.
1023Comes time, comes counsel.
1024Command your man and do it yourself.
1025Common fame is often to blame.
1026Common fame is seldom to blame.
1027Company in distress makes trouble less.
1028Comparisons are odious.
1029Complaining is the weak's weapon.
1030Complaining to someone other than God is disgraceful.
1031Conceal not the truth from thy physcian and lawyer.
1032Conceal not the truth from thy physician and lawyer.
1033Confession is the first step to repentance.
1034Confidence begets confidence.
1035Constant dripping wears away stones.
1036Constant dripping wears the stone.
1037Constant dropping wears away the stone.
1038Constant dropping wears the stone.
1039Constant sunshine makes a desert.
1040Consuetudo facit legem.
1041Consult the wise and do not disobey him.
1042Continuous improvement is better than being good.
1043Cookie searches for a wife.
1044Copper is a poor man's gold, pewter a pauper's silver.
1045Could, Should and Would are three brothers.
1046Counsel is no command.
1047Counting your sheep won't keep the wolf away.
1048Courage lost, all lost.
1049Courtesy on one side can never last long.
1050Creditors have better memories than debtors.
1051Criticism is something you can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.
1052Crooked logs make straight fires.
1053Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
1054Cross your bridges when you reach them.
1055Crows do not pick crow's eyes.
1056Crows do not pick out crow's eyes.
1057Crows do not pick out crows' eyes.
1058Crush the serpent's head with the hand of an enemy.
1059Curiosity killed a cat.
1060Curiosity killed the cat.
1061Curses like chickens come home to roost.
1062Custom is a second nature.
1063Custom is second nature.
1064Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
1065Cut your coat according to your cloth.
1066Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
1067Dark hair, gentle heart, blond hair, hardened heart.
1068Darker than the night.
1069Daughters are the thieves of the household.
1070Days are countries.
1071Days grow longer, threads get shorter.
1072Dead horse receiving medical treatment medically meant for a live horse.
1073Dead men don't bite.
1074Dead men tell no tales.
1075Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch.
1076Death arrives uninvited.
1077Death before dishonour.
1078Death comes to kings and masters alike.
1079Death does not blow a horn on arrival.
1080Death does not visit an empty barn.
1081Death has not learned to take what is offered to it.
1082Death has the key to open the miser's chest.
1083Death is the grand leveller.
1084Death meets us everywhere.
1085Death pays all debts.
1086Death spares neither small nor great.
1087Death when it comes will have no denial.
1088Death will wait by your bed if you go to sleep in the evening without food.
1089Debt is the worst poverty.
1090Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
1091Deeds, not words.
1092Deep calls to deep.
1093Delays are dangerous.
1094Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
1095Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
1096Desperate times call for desperate measures.
1097Diamond cut diamond, you have met your match.
1098Diamonds cut diamonds.
1099Different countries, different customs.
1100Different fields different grasshoppers, different pools different fishes.
1101Different strokes suit different folks.
1102Diffidence is the right eye of prudence.
1103Dig a well then close the well, but do not unemploy a worker.
1104Dig where you stand.
1105Diligence is the base for intelligence.
1106Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
1107Diligence is the mother of good luck.
1108Diligence is the mother of success.
1109Diligent youth makes easy age.
1110Dirty laundry must be washed at home.
1111Discretion is better than valour.
1112Discretion is the better part of valor.
1113Diseases are the interests of pleasures.
1114Dissent and you will be known.
1115Distance is disaffection.
1116Distance yourself from every dirtiness.
1117Distress knows no law.
1118Distrust is the mother of safety.
1119Divide and conquer.
1120Divide and rule.
1121Do all you can and leave the rest to providence.
1122Do as you may, if you can't do as you could.
1123Do as you would be done by.
1124Do good and throw it in sea.
1125Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts.
1126Do not abuse the hospitality of others.
1127Do not cross the brook for water.
1128Do not judge others by your own yardstick.
1129Do not make a hen out of a feather.
1130Do not play with edged tools.
1131Do not pull everyone over with a comb.
1132Do not put everything in the mouth that your eyes see.
1133Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many.
1134Do not throw pearls before swine.
1135Do not wake the bear that sleeps.
1136Do not weep over spilled milk.
1137Do the duty that lies nearest thee.
1138Do things of your capacity.
1139Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
1140Do well and have well.
1141Does a thief steal expecting that he will be caught?
1142Dog does not eat dog.
1143Dog doesn't eat dog.
1144Dog eats dog.
1145Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
1146Doing is better than saying.
1147Don't add fuel to the fire.
1148Don't add fuel to the flames.
1149Don't ask for addresses you don't visit.
1150Don't be all sugar, the world will swallow you; nor be all pepper either, it will spit you out.
1151Don't be fooled for thinking calm water don't have alligators.
1152Don't beat a dead horse.
1153Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
1154Don't blow your own horn.
1155Don't boast until you are finished.
1156Don't bring the devil aboard!
1157Don't burn the candles at both ends.
1158Don't buy a cat in the sack.
1159Don't buy what you need, buy what you can't live without.
1160Don't call a morsel fat before you've skinned the animal.
1161Don't celebrate until you have crossed the creek.
1162Don't change horses in midstream.
1163Don't change horses in the midstream.
1164Don't cook before you have a kettle!
1165Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
1166Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
1167Don't count your chickens before they hatched.
1168Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
1169Don't cross the bridges before you come to them.
1170Don't cross your bridges until you reach them.
1171Don't cry over the spilled milk.
1172Don't delay today's work until tomorrow.
1173Don't despise a gift because it is small.
1174Don't do as the priest does but as he commands.
1175Don't do to another what is hated by you.
1176Don't drink ahead to the bear's hide.
1177Don't eat your bread on someone else's table.
1178Don't find fault with another's child or bride, or you'll soon have a child and bride that others will find fault with.
1179Don't find fault with the old one before you know the habits of the new one.
1180Don't flog a dead horse.
1181Don't force God into a tree, since you won't even get him down by begging.
1182Don't gabble if you don't lay eggs.
1183Don't give a sword to a child.
1184Don't go between the tree and the bark.
1185Don't halloo until you are out of the wood.
1186Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.
1187Don't have too many irons in the fire.
1188Don't hear one and judge two.
1189Don't hit a man when he is down.
1190Don't judge a book by its cover.
1191Don't judge things and a man at first sight.
1192Don't jump higher than your own head.
1193Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
1194Don't kick a man when he's down.
1195Don't kick against the pricks.
1196Don't kill mosquitoes with a club.
1197Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
1198Don't lay an egg larger than your ass.
1199Don't leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
1200Don't leave today's work for tomorrow.
1201Don't let grass grow on your feet.
1202Don't let rice fields lay fallow; an inch of soil is an inch of gold.
1203Don't light a fire for the crows.
1204Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
1205Don't look at the jar, but at what's inside it.
1206Don't look for goose eggs in a magpie's nest, nor a pig's head in a poor man's pot.
1207Don't look for yesterday.
1208Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
1209Don't make a promise you can't keep.
1210Don't make an elephant out of a mosquito.
1211Don't make an ox out of a fly.
1212Don't measure others against yourself.
1213Don't measure others by your own yardstick.
1214Don't mock an old dog too long, it'll bite you straight to the bone.
1215Don't paint the devil on the wall.
1216Don't pester the dog, it will bite.
1217Don't plough with another's calf.
1218Don't postpone till tomorrow what you can do today.
1219Don't pour oil on fire.
1220Don't praise it before you have it in your mouth.
1221Don't praise the day before the sun has set.
1222Don't put a candle under the basket.
1223Don't put a fire to the tow.
1224Don't put all the eggs in the same basket.
1225Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
1226Don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
1227Don't put stones on a burden.
1228Don't put the cart before the horse.
1229Don't run before your horse to market.
1230Don't saw off the branch you're sitting on.
1231Don't sell the bear skin before you have caught the bear.
1232Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it.
1233Don't sell the fur until the bear has been shot.
1234Don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear.
1235Don't shoot the messenger.
1236Don't shoot yourself in the foot.
1237Don't sit in a strange sleigh.
1238Don't spit where you need to drink.
1239Don't take revenge on evil with evil.
1240Don't take what is strange, don't give up what is yours.
1241Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
1242Don't tell everything you know.
1243Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
1244Don't throw out the child with the bath water.
1245Don't tie the mouth of a threshing ox.
1246Don't touch a strange gruel as none of your own groats are in it.
1247Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
1248Don't trust for others, what you can do yourself.
1249Don't try to cover the whole sky with the palm of your hand.
1250Don't try to hold onto the wind.
1251Don't turn down warm bread or a hot sauna.
1252Don't wait for dead mens shoes.
1253Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
1254Don't wash your dirty linen in public; it is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
1255Don't waste gunpowder on dead crows.
1256Don't whistle until you are out of the wood.
1257Don't yawn, or a crow will fly into your mouth.
1258Don’t buy the pig in the bag.
1259Don’t complain about lack of wind – learn to sail.
1260Don’t let the wolf guard the sheep.
1261Don’t put all the eggs in the same basket.
1262Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
1263Don’t throw pearls before swine.
1264Dot your I's and cross your t's.
1265Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
1266Drink the liquor, not your mind.
1267Drive the nail that will go.
1268Drop by drop - a whole lake becomes.
1269Drop by drop the sea is drained.
1270Dropped the ball.
1271Drumming is not the way to catch a hare.
1272Drunken days have all their tomorrow.
1273Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.
1274Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
1275Dumb dogs are dangerous.
1276During the evening the lazy get in a hurry.
1277Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
1278Each bird sings according to its own beak.
1279Each country has its own custom.
1280Each day brings it own bread.
1281Each day has enough of its own misery.
1282Each dog has his day.
1283Each man must recognize his faults.
1284Each one has to scratch for himself.
1285Each person is the forger of his own happiness.
1286Each smith has his custom.
1287Eagles do not catch flies.
1288Eagles don't catch flies.
1289Early ripe, early rotten.
1290Early rising benefits you three pence.
1291Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
1292Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
1293Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
1294Eary to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
1295Easier hides a wise man his wisdom than a fool his madness.
1296Easier said than done.
1297Easier to make a promise than keep one.
1298Easily caught, easily lost.
1299East or west - home is best.
1300East or west ? home is best.
1301East or west, home is best.
1302Easy come, easy go.
1303Easy to cut a broad strap from the skin of another's back.
1304Easy work, easy bread.
1305Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
1306Eat bread or the bread will eat you.
1307Eat less to sleep more.
1308Eat salt and bread, and always do right.
1309Eat the bones since you ate the meat.
1310Eat what you are given, you may not have a second chance!
1311Eat, afterwards bones only remain.
1312Eats more than a fire.
1313Eats more than a whale.
1314Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves.
1315Eggs and oaths are soon broken.
1316Either live with dignity or die generous.
1317Empty barrels rattle most.
1318Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
1319Empty vessels make the most noise.
1320Empty vessels make the most sound.
1321Empty vessels makes the most noise.
1322Empty vessels sound most.
1323End or mend.
1324Enough is as good as a feast.
1325Envy always shooteth at a high mark.
1326Envy is a weight not placed by its bearer.
1327Envy is its own torturer.
1328Envy never rests.
1329Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
1330Envy takes no holiday.
1331Even a berry is picked off the ground.
1332Even a black chicken lays white eggs.
1333Even a blind chicken will find grain.
1334Even a blind hen can find a grain.
1335Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
1336Even a blind pig may occasionally pick up an acorn.
1337Even a cat covers its ass with its tail.
1338Even a chicken drinks even though it does not piss.
1339Even a daughter is a blessing born for the empty hand.
1340Even a dog covers its ass with its tail.
1341Even a fool may give a wise man counsel.
1342Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.
1343Even a frog will stir when stepped on.
1344Even a king wears worn clothes.
1345Even a master's dog is a master.
1346Even a morsel is bread.
1347Even a net can offer some shade.
1348Even a penny is money.
1349Even a pig falls as it's being scratched.
1350Even a ram relies on its large horns.
1351Even a roach has gall.
1352Even a solitary mutter in a well is known after three years.
1353Even a stone turns green if it does not move for a long time.
1354Even a thumb's length of a man is more than a woman.
1355Even a washing tub from a rich house will be married.
1356Even an axe is not sharpened on one side.
1357Even birds in a nest quarrel.
1358Even death is jollier in a group.
1359Even fish are in pairs in the sea.
1360Even if there is a quarrel, a neighbour should be visited five times a day.
1361Even in paradise it is not good to be alone.
1362Even kings accept gifts.
1363Even monkeys may fall from trees.
1364Even reckoning keeps long friends.
1365Even reckoning makes long friends.
1366Even spat cabbage is edible.
1367Even the best can make mistakes.
1368Even the blind chicken finds grains.
1369Even the cat looks the king in the eye.
1370Even the devil licks his own.
1371Even the fool is thought wise if he remains silent.
1372Even the other's wheat bread tastes different.
1373Even the wise are stirred up by greed.
1374Evening is wiser than morning.
1375Evening will gather the cattle.
1376Ever drunk, ever dry.
1377Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
1378Every barber knows that.
1379Every bean has its black.
1380Every beginning is hard.
1381Every beginning is weak.
1382Every bird likes its own nest.
1383Every bird must hatch its own eggs.
1384Every bullet has its billet.
1385Every cloud has a silver lining.
1386Every cloud has its silver lining.
1387Every cock is brave on his own dunghill.
1388Every cook praises his own broth.
1389Every country has its customs.
1390Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
1391Every day has its own worries.
1392Every day is not sunday.
1393Every dog has his day and every man his hour.
1394Every dog has his day.
1395Every dog is a lion at home.
1396Every dog is valiant at his own door.
1397Every extremity is a fault.
1398Every extremity is a vice.
1399Every fool is pleased with his own folly.
1400Every grain has its bran.
1401Every hair casts its shadow.
1402Every heart has his own ache.
1403Every Jack has his Jill.
1404Every jack has his jill.
1405Every little helps.
1406Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
1407Every man has his faults.
1408Every man has his forte.
1409Every man has his hobby-horse.
1410Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
1411Every man is the architect of his own fortunes.
1412Every man is the blacksmith of his own happiness.
1413Every man is the master of his own fortune.
1414Every man is the smith of his own fortune.
1415Every man seeks his own profit.
1416Every man thinks his own geese swans.
1417Every man to his taste.
1418Every man to his trade.
1419Every miller draws water to his own mill.
1420Every miller is ready to convey water to his own mill.
1421Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
1422Every nest has one rotten egg.
1423Every one as they like best.
1424Every one for himself and God for us all.
1425Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.
1426Every peddler praises his own needles.
1427Every person is observant to the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.
1428Every piece of bread has a crust.
1429Every power is subject to an other power.
1430Every rope has two ends, and tomorrow is yet to come.
1431Every rose has its thorns.
1432Every shopkeeper praises his own merchandise.
1433Every sore has its salve.
1434Every tide has its ebb.
1435Every time you patch it, the wind will tear it back again.
1436Every tree has its own roots.
1437Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
1438Every white has its black, and every sweet its sour.
1439Every why has a wherefore.
1440Every why has its wherefore.
1441Every why hath its wherefore.
1442Everybody knows best, where his own shoe pinches him.
1443Everybody to whom much is given, much is expected.
1444Everybody wants to live long, but nobody wants to grow old.
1445Everybody's business is nobody's business.
1446Everyone ages, but pray to God that you never become a cripple.
1447Everyone blows into his own spoon.
1448Everyone has his own worries.
1449Everyone is beautiful when young, but many are bad when old.
1450Everyone is closest to himself.
1451Everyone is creator of his own fortune.
1452Everyone knows how to steal, but few can hide the boot.
1453Everyone knows the monkey, but the monkey knows no one.
1454Everyone knows when and where they were born, but no one knows the time or place they will die.
1455Everyone lives in their own way.
1456Everyone should sweep before his own door.
1457Everyone takes care for his own and God for everything .
1458Everyone takes care for his own and God for everything.
1459Everyone talks into his own sack.
1460Everyone thinks his own fart smells sweet.
1461Everyone wants to be lords, but no one wants to carry the sack.
1462Everyone will find salvation in his own faith.
1463Everyone will make sure their sack is filled.
1464Everyone's shirt is closer to his own skin.
1465Everyone's the blacksmith of their own fate.
1466Everything comes to him who waits.
1467Everything goes when in dire straits: even ham and eggs.
1468Everything has a beginning.
1469Everything has an end and a pudding hath two.
1470Everything has its time.
1471Everything in its season.
1472Everything in moderation.
1473Everything is good in its season.
1474Everything is known in the smith's forge, in the mill and in the rectory.
1475Everything is needed in a house: the stub of a knife, a shabby axe, a whore, a mutt.
1476Everything is possible, you just need to want it!
1477Everything is worth its price.
1478Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
1479Evil cannot defeat evil.
1480Evil comes even without predicting.
1481Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1482Evil gun powder doesn't go away easily.
1483Evil in people does not go away when they get buried.
1484Evil is ancient and man mortal.
1485Evil makes one frightened.
1486Evil seldom goes alone.
1487Evil shall by evil be expelled.
1488Evil will get its pay.
1489Evil will get its share.
1490Example is better than precept.
1491Exception strenghtens the rule.
1492Expect the unexpected.
1493Experience is the mother of wisdom.
1494Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
1495Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
1496Experiencesexperimenting has no end and one always gains from them.
1497Experimenting is the great science.
1498Extremes meet.
1499Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
1500Fact is stranger than fiction.
1501Facts are stubborn things.
1502Fain would the cat fish eat, but she's loath her feet to wet.
1503Faint heart never won fair lady.
1504Fair and softly goes far in a way.
1505Fair weather follows the thunderstorm.
1506Fair without, false within.
1507Fair without, foul within.
1508Fair words break no bones.
1509Faith can move mountains.
1510Faith is half the battle.
1511Faith will move mountains.
1512Fake it till you make it.
1513Faker than a mirage.
1514Fall down seven times, get up eight.
1515False friends are worse than open enemies.
1516Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts till the end of time.
1517Familiarity breeds contempt.
1518Far from eye, far from heart.
1519Far from the eye - far from the heart.
1520Farther than pleiades.
1521Faster than an arrow.
1522Faster than death.
1523Faster than eye blink.
1524Faster than lightning.
1525Faster than the wind.
1526Faster than thoughts.
1527Fasting comes after feasting.
1528Faults are thick where love is thin.
1529Fear has large eyes.
1530Fear the man of one book.
1531Feast today and fast tomorrow.
1532Feed a guest with words until the soup is ready.
1533Feed with a spoon and dig the eye out with the handle.
1534Festivities will not last forever and halls are not cleaned every day.
1535Few words are best.
1536Fields have eyes and woods have ears.
1537Fight fire with fire.
1538Fight fire with fire; like cures like.
1539Finally an end to this stony bread, but when will this spring day end.
1540Fine feathers make fine birds.
1541Fine words are not enough for the empty stomach, it needs bread.
1542Fine words butter no parsnips.
1543Fine words butters no parsnips.
1544Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
1545Fire is not quenched with fire.
1546First a man takes a swig, then the swig takes the man.
1547First blow your own nose and only then another's.
1548First catch your hare.
1549First come, first served.
1550First deserve and then desire.
1551First leap, and then say "hop"!
1552First learn it yourself before teaching others.
1553First the maid longs to be married, then she longs to be back at home.
1554First think and then speak.
1555First think, then speak.
1556First to the mill will first grind.
1557Fish and company stink in three days.
1558Fish begins to stink at the head.
1559Fixing what you have is better than waiting to get what you don't have.
1560Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee.
1561Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
1562Follows more than a shadow.
1563Food is prepared swiftly in the hands of the good mistress.
1564Fool's haste is no speed.
1565Fools and madmen speak the truth.
1566Fools grow without watering.
1567Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
1568Fools never know when they are well.
1569Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
1570For every seed a corresponding fruit.
1571For nine weeks keep a plank for her corpse under the back of a woman who has given birth.
1572For one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding.
1573For smart people, signs can replace words.
1574For the blind, all his money is pennies.
1575For the love of the game.
1576For the sake of a single rose one must endure the pain of a hundred thorns.
1577For what thou canst do thyself, rely not on another.
1578Forbearance is no acquittance.
1579Forbidden fruit always tastes the best.
1580Forbidden fruit is sweet.
1581Forbidden fruit is sweetest.
1582Forbidden road is often heavily worn.
1583Forced beauty won't do.
1584Forced to work but not to eat.
1585Forewarned is forearmed.
1586Forewarned, forearmed.
1587Forget other faults remembering your own.
1588Forget other faults remembering your own; forgive and forget.
1589Forgetting is the plague of knowledge.
1590Forgive and forget.
1591Fortune and glass soon break.
1592Fortune and unfortune are neighbours.
1593Fortune disdains the lazy.
1594Fortune favors the bold.
1595Fortune favors the brave.
1596Fortune favours the bold.
1597Fortune favours the brave.
1598Fortune favours the foolish.
1599Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
1600Fortune is never bought.
1601Fortune is never taken.
1602Fortune never comes twice.
1603Four eyes see better than two.
1604Four eyes see more than two.
1605Foxes when they cannot reach the grapes say they are not ripe.
1606Freedom or death.
1607Fretting cares make grey hairs.
1608Friendlier than a dog.
1609Friends are thieves of time.
1610Friends for a meal are easy to find, friends until end of life are difficult to find.
1611Friends may meet, but mountains never greet.
1612Friends will never survive an empty plate.
1613From bad to worse.
1614From children, drunkards and madmen you get to hear the truth.
1615From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
1616From nothing nothing can come.
1617From nothing, nothing can come.
1618From nothing, nothing will be.
1619From pillar to post.
1620From the mouth into God's ear, and from God's ear into the purse.
1621From your mouth to God's ears.
1622Frost wants clothes.
1623Full stomach, contented heart.
1624Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
1625Get a man drunk if you wish to find out his true nature.
1626Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.
1627Get together like brother, and keep each other in check like strangers.
1628Get together like brothers, and work together like strangers.
1629Gifts break a rock.
1630Gifts from enemies are dangerous.
1631Give a finger, he will take whole arm.
1632Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
1633Give an inch and they'll take a mile.
1634Give credit where credit is due.
1635Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
1636Give him an inch and he will take a yard.
1637Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.
1638Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
1639Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
1640Give him an inch he will take a yard.
1641Give me some good luck and throw me in the sea.
1642Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it.
1643Give never the wolf the wether to keep.
1644Give one an inch, and he will take a mile.
1645Give the devil his due.
1646Give to the emperor what is the emperor's and to God what is God's.
1647Give your friend your blood and money.
1648Given promised gift.
1649Giving to oneself is better than receiving.
1650Giving will make no one poor.
1651Gluttony kills more men than the sword.
1652Gluttony kills more than the sword.
1653Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot.
1654Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
1655Go with the flow.
1656God above, king afar.
1657God didn't create haste, but did command us to hurry.
1658God does not burden man with a load greater than he can carry.
1659God does not finish his work; if he did, the elephant would have a bushy tail.
1660God does not support the lazy.
1661God gave teeth, God will provide the bread.
1662God gave us two ears and one mouth.
1663God gives time but doesn't ignore.
1664God gives to them that give to others.
1665God gives us hands, but does not build bridges for us.
1666God gives, God takes.
1667God has made us all.
1668God helps the rich, but the poor live anyway.
1669God helps them that help themselves.
1670God helps those who help themselves.
1671God himself is the help of the helpless.
1672God is on the side of the strongest batallions.
1673God is where he was.
1674God is with those who persevere.
1675God is with those who persevere; persevere and never fear.
1676God listens to those who have faith.
1677God sends a curst cow short horns.
1678God who gives the wound gives the salve.
1679God's mill grinds slowly yet surely.
1680God's mills grind slowly, but for sure.
1681God, help me be a wife so that I could yell at the girls.
1682God, take me wherever you will as long as it's not my own home.
1683Gold blinds many, love blinds all.
1684Gold buys you silver as daughters do son-in-laws.
1685Gold is proved in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.
1686Gold must be hammered, and the child must be beaten.
1687Gold will change a king's mind.
1688Good begets more good, but evil always leads to evil.
1689Good blood always shows itself.
1690Good cheap is dear.
1691Good clothes open all doors.
1692Good counsel does no harm.
1693Good deeds never rot.
1694Good deeds remain, all things else perish.
1695Good health is a crown on the heads of the healthy that only the ill can see ali ibn abi talib.
1696Good health is above wealth.
1697Good health is more to be desired than wealth.
1698Good laws have sprung from bad customs.
1699Good manners is the greatest friend.
1700Good masters make good servants.
1701Good medicine always tastes bitter.
1702Good medicine is bitter to the mouth.
1703Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold.
1704Good sense costs money and cannot be bought with money.
1705Good shall overcome evil.
1706Good swimmers are often drowned.
1707Good wine needs no bush.
1708Good wine needs no label.
1709Good words and no deeds.
1710Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.
1711Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
1712Gossiping and lying go together.
1713Grab the bull by its horns.
1714Grand it has to be even if you live a day less.
1715Grasp all, lose all.
1716Grass grows not upon the highway, nor in the marketplace.
1717Gray hairs are honorable.
1718Great barkers are no biters.
1719Great boast, small roast.
1720Great braggers little doers.
1721Great cry and little wool.
1722Great griefs are mute.
1723Great minds agree.
1724Great minds think alike.
1725Great spenders are bad lenders.
1726Great talkers are great liars.
1727Great talkers are little doers.
1728Greedy folk have long arms.
1729Grey hairs are honorable.
1730Gruel and peas are cooked in the autumn, watery gruel in the spring.
1731Guests and fish stink on the third day.
1732Habit cures habit.
1733Haggle well and pay all.
1734Half a loaf is better than no bread.
1735Halls don't grace men, it's men that grace halls.
1736Hamlet without the prince of denmark.
1737Hands are loans.
1738Handsome is as handsome does.
1739Handsome is that handsome does.
1740Happiness comes happiness leaves.
1741Happiness takes no account of time.
1742Happy is he that is happy in his children.
1743Happy Tom Crump ne'er sees his own Hump.
1744Hard for the stomach, easy on the shoulders.
1745Hard words break no bones.
1746Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
1747Harm watch is harm catch.
1748Harm watch, harm catch.
1749Has a better voice than a pigeon.
1750Haste makes waste.
1751Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
1752Hasty judgment leads to repentance.
1753Hasty work - shame for the craftsman.
1754Hate not at the first harm.
1755Hatred is blind, as well as love.
1756Have a care of a silent dog and still water.
1757Have faith and God shall provide.
1758Have patience and you'll get what you want.
1759Hawks will not pick hawks' eyes.
1760Hawks will not pick out hawk's eyes.
1761He beat me and cried, and went before me to complain.
1762He begins to die that quits his desires.
1763He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
1764He carries fire in one hand and water in the other.
1765He carries water in a sieve.
1766He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice.
1767He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
1768He deserves not the sweet, that will not taste of the sour.
1769He does not kill the beast who only looks at it.
1770He doesn't shit where he squats.
1771He gives twice who gives in a trice.
1772He gives twice who gives quickly.
1773He gives twice, who gives in a trice.
1774He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes.
1775He had need rise early who would please everybody.
1776He has been to rome but has not seen the pope.
1777He is a fair weather friend.
1778He is a fool that forgets himself.
1779He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
1780He is a man who keeps his word.
1781He is afraid of his own shadow.
1782He is an evil cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
1783He is happy that thinks himself so.
1784He is lifeless that is faultless.
1785He is more obedient to him than his own right hand.
1786He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.
1787He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.
1788He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much.
1789He is rich who is satisfied.
1790He is so pig-headed.
1791He is taking water to the danube.
1792He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
1793He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
1794He knows how many beans make five.
1795He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
1796He lacks not comfort who enjoys a contended mind.
1797He laughs best who laughs last.
1798He lives long that lives well.
1799He must have a lot of butter in order to stop a mans mouth.
1800He must needs swim that is held up by the chin.
1801He performs severe penance outwardly, but he is a great rogue.
1802He pours water into the sea.
1803He promises like a merchant but pays like a man of war.
1804He says the moon is made of cheese.
1805He sets the fox to keep his geese.
1806He should have a long spoon that sups with the devil.
1807He smells best that smells of nothing.
1808He sold his vinyard and bought a squeezer.
1809He that builds a house by the side of the highway, either too high or too low.
1810He that can have patience can have what he wants.
1811He that comes first to the hill may sit where he will.
1812He that comes now and then, shall have a fat hen.
1813He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.
1814He that does lend, loses his friend.
1815He that does not work shall not eat.
1816He that does you an I!I turn will never forgive you.
1817He that endures, is not overcome.
1818He that fears every bush must never go a-birding.
1819He that fears you present wiil hate you absent.
1820He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
1821He that flees and runs away might live to see another day.
1822He that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
1823He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
1824He that goes softly, goes safely.
1825He that has a full purse never wanted a friend.
1826He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
1827He that has an ill name is half hanged.
1828He that has he head needs no hat.
1829He that has no children knows not what love is.
1830He that has no money needs no purse.
1831He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.
1832He that hath many irons in the fire, some will cool.
1833He that hath one hog, makes him fat; and he that hath one son, makes him a fool.
1834He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
1835He that is full of himself is very empty.
1836He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
1837He that is warm thinks all so.
1838He that knows least commonly presumes most.
1839He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
1840He that leave a certainty and sticks to chance, when fools pipe he may dance.
1841He that leaves a certanity and sticks to chance, when fools pipe he may dance.
1842He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about.
1843He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas.
1844He that lies down with dogs, must rise up with fleas.
1845He that lives on hope dances without music.
1846He that lives on hope shall die fasting.
1847He that lives on hope will die fasting.
1848He that lives with cripples learns to limp.
1849He that looks not before finds himself behind.
1850He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it gains by the loss.
1851He that loves his children corrects them well.
1852He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him.
1853He that mischief hatches, mischief catches.
1854He that never climbed never fell.
1855He that never climbed, never fell.
1856He that once deceives is ever suspected.
1857He that promises too much means nothing.
1858He that reckons without his host, may reckon again.
1859He that respects not is not respected.
1860He that runs and flees away, might live to see another day.
1861He that seeks trouble never misses.
1862He that sends mouths, sends meat.
1863He that serves everybody is paid by nobody.
1864He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages.
1865He that sows thistles shall reap thorns.
1866He that spares the bad injures the good.
1867He that steal a pin, will steal a better thing.
1868He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
1869He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace.
1870He that swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
1871He that takes the devil into the boat must carry him over the sound.
1872He that talks much errs much.
1873He that talks much lies much.
1874He that touched pitch shall be defiled.
1875He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.
1876He that will not be counseled cannot be helped.
1877He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.
1878He that will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
1879He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay.
1880He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.
1881He that will not work, shall not eat.
1882He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
1883He that will thrive, must rise at five.
1884He that would eat the fruit must climb the tree.
1885He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut.
1886He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens.
1887He that would pick the rose must sometimes be scarred with the thorns.
1888He thought that roasted larks would have fallen into his mouth.
1889He was in rome and did not see the pope.
1890He who acts friendly does not seek your affection, but a specific thing from you.
1891He who always knows best never learns.
1892He who bids for much, often loses all.
1893He who buys what he does not need may have to sell what he needs.
1894He who can not dance but blames the floor as uneven.
1895He who cannot beat the ass, beats the saddle.
1896He who comes uncalled sits unserved.
1897He who conceals his grief dies of it.
1898He who consecrates each Sabbath beholds all hungers .
1899He who consecrates each sabbath beholds all hungers.
1900He who dares wins.
1901He who demands well, should fulfill his demands well.
1902He who destroys a thing should repair it.
1903He who dies by laughing is buried with a fart.
1904He who digs a pit for others, often falls into it himself.
1905He who digs a pit for others, will fall in it himself.
1906He who does all the work will always be hungry.
1907He who does not advance goes backwards.
1908He who does not feed his cat will feed rats.
1909He who does not give from his plenty does not give from his storehouse.
1910He who does not go forward goes backward.
1911He who does not help others has not been in trouble himself.
1912He who does not know the falcon would grill it.
1913He who does not know you is not informed of you.
1914He who does not look after his property will have many thieves.
1915He who does not steal and lie a bit is not really wise at all.
1916He who does not want to listen with his ears will feel it in his back.
1917He who does not want to work, that cannot eat either.
1918He who doesn't want to hear, shouldn't say.
1919He who earns much spends much.
1920He who easily believes is soon duped.
1921He who enters the game must endure it.
1922He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
1923He who follows the dung beetle ends up in a dunghill.
1924He who gets a foothold gets a seat for his ass.
1925He who gives away his only one will be left with nothing.
1926He who gives his only one God will reward twice.
1927He who gives must have a measure since he who takes does not.
1928He who has a large mouth must also have a broad back.
1929He who has been to the mill has flour on his cap.
1930He who has fingers of iron, the devil shall flee.
1931He who has is given, he who does not have is taken from.
1932He who has lost his good name has lost everything.
1933He who has money is powerful.
1934He who has much will be asked even more.
1935He who has no friend has God.
1936He who has the money has the right.
1937He who has the strength has the right.
1938He who heeds his parents kneads a whole troughful of bread for himself.
1939He who helps the poor lends to the lord.
1940He who hesitates is lost.
1941He who holds the fire is never thanked.
1942He who humbles himself is elevated.
1943He who is a master in this world is a master in hell: the slaves keep the kettle fire burning.
1944He who is asleep cannot commit a sin.
1945He who is born a fool is never cured.
1946He who is born cannot avoid death.
1947He who is cruel to his horse is severe with his wife.
1948He who is fast in youth is swift in old age.
1949He who is feared by many, fears many.
1950He who is most stubborn will win.
1951He who is not with me is against me.
1952He who is on horseback will not spare his own father alive.
1953He who is silent admits.
1954He who is unable to reap, carries fifty-eight sickles at his side.
1955He who is useless for himself is useless for others.
1956He who knows does not ask.
1957He who laughs last, laughs best.
1958He who laughs last, laughs longest.
1959He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.
1960He who lives shall see.
1961He who looks upwards thinks downwards.
1962He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
1963He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.
1964He who perservers shall win.
1965He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
1966He who pulls out a knife, by knife shall die.
1967He who puts his hand to the plough should not look behind.
1968He who runs after two hares catches neither.
1969He who saddles early rides late.
1970He who saves, has.
1971He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn't like.
1972He who serves God has a good master.
1973He who sleeps does not sin.
1974He who sows love will reap love.
1975He who sows thickly reaps plenty.
1976He who sows wind reaps storms.
1977He who spits towards the sky gets it back into his own face.
1978He who starts well is in the middle of the work.
1979He who stays quiet consents.
1980He who strikes has his reasons, but he who strikes back has none.
1981He who sups with the devil needs a long spoon.
1982He who takes care of his cat takes care of his horse.
1983He who takes his time to choose gets the worst one.
1984He who takes needs a longer arm than he who gives.
1985He who talks a lot knows little.
1986He who thinks a lot seldom acts.
1987He who thinks he is standing tall should be wary of lapsing into sin.
1988He who waits for something good never waits too long.
1989He who wants also gets.
1990He who was caught was under the influence of saturn in the eight sign; and he who escaped, was under the influence of saturn in the ninth.
1991He who whispers lies.
1992He who works always receives something, he who doesn't gets nothing.
1993He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
1994He who would eat the nut must first crack the shell.
1995He who would search for pearls must dive below.
1996He will never set the thames on fire.
1997He works best who knows his trade.
1998He would fall on his back and break his nose.
1999He would have the looks and the figure if he had good health.
2000He would have the looks and the figure if he had good manners.
2001He wrongfully blames the sea who suffers shipwreck twice.
2002He's not truly wise if he shows no cunning.
2003He's the rock, the oak, not to be wind-shaken.
2004Head cook and bottle-washer.
2005Health is above wealth.
2006Health is not valued till sickness comes.
2007Health is quietly keeping silent.
2008Health is wealth.
2009Heard the question wrong, answered wrong.
2010Hearing does not compare to sight.
2011Hearing is never as good as seeing.
2012Heaven helps the helpless.
2013Heaven helps those who help themselves.
2014Heavier than a mountain.
2015Hedges have ears.
2016Hell is paved with promises.
2017Help and you will be helped.
2018Help another and get yourself in trouble!
2019Help yourself and God will help you also.
2020Help yourself, and God will help you.
2021Helping yourself is the best way to help yourself.
2022Here's nothing, hold it well!
2023Herring is never spoilt with salt.
2024Higher than the heavens.
2025Hindsight is 20-20.
2026His fault is besides him.
2027His money burns a hole in his pocket.
2028His name will live forever.
2029His own desire leads every man.
2030History repeats itself.
2031Hit the iron while it's hot.
2032Hold a woman by her word or a burbot by its tail, and empty-handed you will always be.
2033Honesty is the best policy.
2034Honesty lasts the longest.
2035Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
2036Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
2037Honey is sweet, but the bees sting.
2038Honor blossoms on the grave.
2039Honor whom should be honored.
2040Honour and profit lie not in one sack.
2041Honour the tree that gives you shelter.
2042Honour will not fill your stomach.
2043Honours change manners.
2044Honours to the deserving.
2045Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
2046Hope is the last thing to leave a human being.
2047Hope is the poor man's bread.
2048Hope that the poor benefit, the ill get better.
2049Hospitality asks for equal treatment in return.
2050How can the louse cough if it has no lungs.
2051How did the swine's head get into the beggar's sack?
2052How many ifs fill a bushel?
2053How should one know another man's heart.
2054How you are fed is how you hoe.
2055How you live is how you will die.
2056How you live, that's also how you are talked about.
2057However many fruits the akatti tree yields, they are only fit to throw away.
2058However smart a squirrel jumps, in the end they fall back down.
2059Human thinks and God plans.
2060Hunger breaks stone walls.
2061Hunger drives the pig home.
2062Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.
2063Hunger finds no fault with cookery.
2064Hunger is an infidel.
2065Hunger is the best flavouring.
2066Hunger is the best sauce.
2067Hunger teaches you to be a witch.
2068Hungry bellies have no ears.
2069Hurry slowly.
2070I can tell a sweet birch from the other trees and my mother-in-law from the other village women.
2071I cured my self but I amputated my nose in the process.
2072I do not recognize his achievements as almost anything.
2073I have put these ugly skins on, but at least they cover my body.
2074I know the place where I was born, the place where I grew up, but not the place where I will die.
2075I myself am a man, though my family members are wolves.
2076I need to sleep on it.
2077I never promised you a bed of roses.
2078I saw people tending to the one who has money.
2079I take pride in my accomplishments and not in those of my ancestors.
2080I taught him archery everyday, and when he got good at it he throw an arrow at me.
2081I today, you tomorrow.
2082I wish you a readier meat than a running hare.
2083I'm already drowning so why should I fear getting wet.
2084I'm here today, where tomorrow.
2085I'm up to it and to every great thing.
2086Idle folks lack no excuses.
2087Idle hands are the devils playthings.
2088Idle people have the least leisure.
2089Idleness is the mother of all evil.
2090Idleness rusts the mind.
2091If a blind leads a blind man both shall fall into a ditch.
2092If a blind one leads another, they both fall together.
2093If a donkey brays at you, don't bray at him.
2094If a hungry louse finds flesh, it will bite through to the bone.
2095If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
2096If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
2097If a man cheats me once, shame on him; if he cheats me twice, shame on me.
2098If a man once fall, all will tread on him.
2099If a stone stays in one place, it becomes overgrown with grass.
2100If a wind blows, ride it.
2101If an ass brays at you, don't bray at him.
2102If an ass goes abroad, an ass will return.
2103If an eagle is no good, cut its feathers off.
2104If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
2105If finland's katherine.
2106If Finland's Katherine.
2107If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.
2108If fortune favours, beware of being exalted.
2109If fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed.
2110If he eats a lot, he also works hard.
2111If he gives a duck, he expects a goose.
2112If his spoon is made smaller, he will be manageable;.
2113If ifs and ands were pots and pans, then we would need no tinkers.
2114If ifs and ans were pots and pans..
2115If ifs and buts were candy and nuts.
2116If it belongs to the elder sister, it is rice, if it belongs to the younger sister, it is only bran.
2117If it should rain porridge, he would want his dish.
2118If it tastes good, it is expensive.
2119If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
2120If meat is expensive then patience is cheap.
2121If my aunt had been a man she'd have been my uncle.
2122If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle.
2123If near ink, you will be black, if near light, you will shine.
2124If no agreement, then separation.
2125If one has said 'a' one has to say 'b'.
2126If one of the two adversaries came to you with a pumped eye, don't judge for him until you see the other, for maybe he got both of his eyes pumped.
2127If one piece of advice fails, then another one will surely help.
2128If one sows pumpkins with the devil, they will bash onto one's head.
2129If only I knew then, what I do now.
2130If patience is bitter then its result is sweet.
2131If separated by a long distance, there will be long-lived friendship, but if they are near each other, there will be perfect hatred.
2132If something increased more than it should, it will turn againest itself.
2133If speech is silvern, silence is golden.
2134If talk is silver then silence is gold.
2135If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
2136If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
2137If the blind leads the blind, they both fall into the ditch.
2138If the cairn were not built, the magpie wouldn't have perched.
2139If the cat is away, the mice play.
2140If the fish are not eating, the worms are spared.
2141If the fog is rising, it will rain; if the fog is falling, the weather will be fine.
2142If the head is dumb, the body suffers.
2143If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too.
2144If the mountain will not come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
2145If the people wanted life, destiny better respond.
2146If the pig goes, then the trough remains and many a muncher.
2147If the raven were a judge, who would ride a horse.
2148If the sea is rich, the land is poor.
2149If the shell is not good, the nut inside is also poor.
2150If the shoe fits, wear it.
2151If the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
2152If the water is available you need not clean up with sand.
2153If there are two women together, it means they're speaking ill of a third woman.
2154If there is a question, there is also an answer.
2155If there is a will, there is a way.
2156If there is enough bread, no man will go hungry.
2157If there is liquor, there are friends.
2158If there is no hardship when young, then as an old man there will be no support.
2159If there is no petitioner, there is no judge.
2160If there is no wind the trees do not quiver.
2161If there is room in the heart, there is room for the behind.
2162If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
2163If there's no choice but advice, ask for the decisiveness of an advisor or the advice of a decisive person.
2164If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
2165If two families keep a boat, it leaks.
2166If two people live at a distance, their hatred will turn into friendship.
2167If two thieves quarreled, what was stolen emerges.
2168If we can't as we would, we must do as we can.
2169If we go forward we die; if we go backward we die; better go forward and die.
2170If wishes were fishes, there'd be no room in the river for water.
2171If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
2172If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak.
2173If words don't help, fists will speak.
2174If work were a sweetmeat, the masters would touch it.
2175If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
2176If you are good at one thing, you are also good at another.
2177If you are over fastidious you will fare worse.
2178If you are to hit then make it painful, because you'll get one blame eitherways.
2179If you are worried by the rain you can always plunge into the sea.
2180If you buy cheaply you pay dearly.
2181If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.
2182If you buy quality you only cry once.
2183If you buy quality, you only cry once.
2184If you can't be content with even a little, then not even a lot is enough.
2185If you can't reward then you should thank.
2186If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
2187If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
2188If you cut a tree, cut at the base and not at the top.
2189If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
2190If you do charity, your house will be always rich.
2191If you do good, good will be done to you.
2192If you do no wrong, you need not be afraid.
2193If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub.
2194If you do the right things, you don't have to worry.
2195If you don't have a mind yourself, you can't give to others.
2196If you don't help yourself, even God cannot help you.
2197If you embrace your masters, feed their dogs.
2198If you follow a crow long enough you light on carrion.
2199If you give someone a finger he wants the whole hand.
2200If you got it, flaunt it.
2201If you had been calm, you wouldn't have seen a miracle.
2202If you have a good man, cover one of his eyes; if you have a bad man, cover both.
2203If you have an opinion, be determined, the only faulty opinion is to hesitate.
2204If you have brought the devil on your boat, you must also row him to shore.
2205If you have much, you will need much.
2206If you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.
2207If you have no shame then do whatever you want.
2208If you hear a person talking good about things that aren't in you, don't be sure that he wouldn't also say bad things about things that aren't in you.
2209If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
2210If you lose one, there are a thousand more to choose from.
2211If you mentioned the wolf you better prepare the stick.
2212If you mentioned the wolf you better watch out.
2213If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you.
2214If you pay peanuta you get monkeys.
2215If you play with fire you will get burned.
2216If you pledge, don't hedge.
2217If you put a fool to pray, he'll break his own forehead.
2218If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles.
2219If you put one finger in the shit, be prepared to put in your whole hand.
2220If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars.
2221If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
2222If you save a rogue from the gallows, he will rob you that same night.
2223If you see the fangs of the lions, don't think the lion is smiling.
2224If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
2225If you speak the word it shall own you, and if you don't you shall own it.
2226If you take care of the soil, the soil will take care of you.
2227If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
2228If you try to please all you will please none.
2229If you turn yourself into a doormat, everyone will walk over you.
2230If you want a thing done right, do it yourself.
2231If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
2232If you want something done right, do it yourself.
2233If you want something done, do it yourself.
2234If you want to live a life that is long, don't die.
2235If you want to ride, then feed the horse.
2236If you want to touch the head, first touch the foot.
2237If you wanted obedience command with what is possible.
2238If you wishask, wishask for more.
2239If you're a liar, you better have a good memory.
2240If you're a wind then I'm a hurricane.
2241If you're going to eat pork, eat it till your mouth drips.
2242If your greetings had not preceded your words, your bones before your flesh would I have eaten.
2243Ignorance is bliss.
2244Ignorance is the death of the living.
2245Ignorance is the worst acquaintance.
2246Ill gotten goods never prosper.
2247Ill gotten, ill spent.
2248Ill laughter is the best laughter.
2249Ill news come apace.
2250Ill weeds grow apace.
2251Ill words corrupt good manners.
2252Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
2253Ill-gotten goods seldom prosper.
2254Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
2255In a country according to its customs.
2256In a place where there is will, there is a road.
2257In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace.
2258In at one ear and out at the other.
2259In doing good one does it to oneself; in doing evil one does it to oneself.
2260In every beginning think of the end.
2261In for a penny, in for a pound.
2262In haste there is regret and in taking time there is peacesafety.
2263In its own nest even the crow will pick the vulture's eyes.
2264In muddy water one catches fish easily.
2265In perils, you know your friends.
2266In sight one is like silk; out of sight one is like a wolf.
2267In the calmest waters swim the ugliest fish.
2268In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
2269In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
2270In the dark all are equally pretty.
2271In the dark all cows are equally grey.
2272In the desert sand is cheap.
2273In the emperor's presence to abide is just like sleeping by a tiger's side.
2274In the Emperor's presence to abide is just like sleeping by a tiger's side.
2275In the end things will mend.
2276In the evening one may praise the day.
2277In the house of the hanged man, they mention not the rope.
2278In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is a king.
2279In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
2280In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
2281In this weather a good man would not force his dog to go out, but a bad man will even his wife.
2282In wine there is truth.
2283In with the new and out with the old.
2284Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
2285Ingratitude is the world's reward.
2286Injury makes you wise.
2287Ink on paper.
2288Innocent blood does not tremble.
2289Insight is more valuable than gold.
2290Iron fist in a velvet glove.
2291Iron hand in a velvet glove.
2292Iron must be forged when it is hot.
2293Iron will crack before a man breaks his word.
2294It concerns you, too, when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
2295It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes.
2296It doesn't take what is passed to it or grab what is offered .
2297It doesn't take what is passed to it or grab what is offered.
2298It is a fool who follows, not who commands.
2299It is a good doctor who follows his own advice.
2300It is a good horse that never stumbles.
2301It is a lie what is spoken quietly.
2302It is a long lane that has no turning.
2303It is a nuisance for the louses if the cottage burns down.
2304It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
2305It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
2306It is a sin if the poor show off, the rich steal and the old commit adultery.
2307It is a third of the work to begin.
2308It is an ill bird that fouls her own nest.
2309It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
2310It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
2311It is as good to be in the dark as without light.
2312It is bad with the bad but worse without the bad.
2313It is best to bite into the sour apple.
2314It is better to be a good man's whore than a bad one's wife.
2315It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
2316It is better to die with honor than to live with shame.
2317It is better to have broken gaelic than dead gaelic.
2318It is better to laugh than to cry.
2319It is by the head that the cow gives the milk.
2320It is dark one inch ahead of you.
2321It is darkest before dawn.
2322It is difficult for one man to act a play.
2323It is easiest to learn from another man's damage.
2324It is easiest to learn from another mans damage.
2325It is easy to be prudent in hindsight.
2326It is easy to cut broad strips off other people's leather.
2327It is easy to find fault with another's work, but hard to improve it.
2328It is easy to get something small from something large, but harder to get something large from something small.
2329It is easy to go down a hill, but hard to go up one.
2330It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin.
2331It is easy to swim if another hoids up your head.
2332It is enough to make a cat laugh.
2333It is even a help when the fly shits in the sea.
2334It is fairer to listen to the string that broke than to never strain a bow.
2335It is given what is offered.
2336It is good fishing in muddy waters.
2337It is good fishing in streamy water.
2338It is good fishing in troubled waters.
2339It is good to fish in streamy water.
2340It is good to have friends both in heaven and hell.
2341It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand.
2342It is hard to get butter out of a dog's throat.
2343It is hard to live in rome and strive against the pope.
2344It is more blissful to give than to receive.
2345It is never too late to learn.
2346It is never too late.
2347It is no use crying over spilt milk.
2348It is not necessary to teach a fish to swim.
2349It is not one person's fault if two people quarrel.
2350It is not the cow that shouts the loudest that gives the most milk.
2351It is not the hen that cackles the most that lay the most eggs.
2352It is not the hen who cackles the loudest who hatches the most eggs.
2353It is not what you do, but the way that you do it.
2354It is not what you say, it is the way you say it.
2355It is not wise to open old wounds.
2356It is only the dead who don't return.
2357It is soon apparent which trees will bear fruit.
2358It is the early bird that gets the worm.
2359It is the first step that costs.
2360It is the hunt that matters and not the quarry, and the sauce that matters and not the meat.
2361It is the milk of the goat foaming and warm, that gave the strength to the past generations of people.
2362It is the mountains that do not move to help one another; but one man surely comes to the help of another.
2363It is the wise man who knows when to give in.
2364It is the wolf that teaches its young to howl.
2365It is to be bent in time, that which bent shall be.
2366It is useless, once the water is gone, to hurry.
2367It must start raining since the pig is carrying a straw in his mouth.
2368It never rains but it pours.
2369It remains unknown if it has not been seen.
2370It takes a man to know a man.
2371It takes all sorts to make a world.
2372It takes one to know one.
2373It takes two to tango.
2374It will all be the same a hundred years hence.
2375It will be all the same a thousand years hence.
2376It will be like it will be.
2377It will go as it came.
2378It won't bite who threatens.
2379It won't strike who growls.
2380It would blow the horns off a goat.
2381It's a hardship that will go away.
2382It's a long lane that has no turning.
2383It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
2384It's always darkest before the dawn.
2385It's an old swedish law that he who has no horse will travel by foot.
2386It's as broad as it's long.
2387It's best for a child to live with good parents.
2388It's better to have a good name than to be rich.
2389It's better to have one than be waiting for two.
2390It's by the head that the cow gives the milk.
2391It's easier to find fault with others than oneself.
2392It's easy if you can.
2393It's easy to be wise after the event.
2394It's good to be drunk: no poverty nor pain.
2395It's ill meddling between the bark and the rind.
2396It's like bringing coal to newcastle.
2397It's no use crying over spilled milk.
2398It's no use preaching to a hungry man.
2399It's no use pumping a dry well.
2400It's not the mirror's fault if your nose is crooked.
2401It's not what you do it's the way that you do it.
2402It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
2403It's possible since it's regular.
2404It's the exception that proves the rule.
2405It's the quiet ones you gotta watch.
2406It's the thought that counts.
2407It's too handsome if the poor have two eyes.
2408It's too late to go to the mill when the husks are in the sack.
2409It's too late to make a cover for the well, since the child has already drowned.
2410It's very hard to shave an egg.
2411It’s a small world.
2412Jack of all trades and a master of none.
2413Jack of all trades begs bread on sundays.
2414Jack of all trades, master of none.
2415Jackdaw in peacock's feathers.
2416Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
2417Joan is as good as Milady in the dark.
2418Joy shared, joy doubled.
2419Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved.
2420Judge not a man and things at first sight.
2421Judge not of men and things at first sight.
2422Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2423Jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
2424Jung gewohnt, alt getan.
2425Just as one calls into the forest, so it echoes back.
2426Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
2427Justice is what wins.
2428Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
2429Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
2430Keep everything in your mind, but forget your dream sack.
2431Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
2432Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
2433Keep your tongue in the middle of your mouth.
2434Keeping a secret is a commitment.
2435Kein Vogel fliegt so hoch, er kommt wieder auf die Erde.
2436Kill two birds with one stone.
2437Kindness leads one to be a whore, spite keeps one a virgin.
2438Knavery may serve a turn but honesty never fails.
2439Know thyself, give another man his due.
2440Know your friend then leave him.
2441Knowledge is power.
2442Knows no dance, claims the stage is tilted.
2443Lack of work brings a thousand diseases.
2444Laid card lies.
2445Lange Krankheit, sicher Tod.
2446Lange krankheit, sicher tod.
2447Large fish spawn in deep waters.
2448Large words will not stick in the throat.
2449Last night there were five pairs of oxen and now there isn't even the tip of calf.
2450Last night there were five pairs of oxen and now there isn't even the tip of horn.
2451Last, but not least.
2452Laugh, and the world laughs with you weep, and you weep alone.
2453Laughable are the ways of women, but never those of men.
2454Laughing for no reason is rude.
2455Laughing helps you live longer.
2456Laughs at others today, and tomorrow others will laugh at you.
2457Laughs he who laughs last.
2458Laws catch flies but let hornets go free.
2459Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
2460Laying pearls before swine.
2461Laziness leads many people astray.
2462Lazy people are always busy.
2463Lead by example.
2464Learn to creep before you leap.
2465Learn to say before you sing.
2466Learn to walk before you can run.
2467Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
2468Learning begets skill.
2469Learning is the eye of the mind.
2470Learning without playing you lose your youth.
2471Least said, soonest mended.
2472Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
2473Leave evil, it will leave you.
2474Leave the last word unsaid.
2475Leave well enough alone.
2476Leaves without figs.
2477Less talk and more action!
2478Lesser of two evils.
2479Let bygones be bygones.
2480Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
2481Let fortune be taken, the rope for the complaint's neck.
2482Let him go to sea who has not learned to know his God elsewhere.
2483Let him that is cold blow the coals.
2484Let money come and go, but don't let it build a nest.
2485Let not the cobbler go beyond his last.
2486Let not your tongue cut your throat.
2487Let sleeping dogs lie.
2488Let the buyer have a thousand eyes for the seller wants only one.
2489Let the buyer have thousand eyes for the seller wants only one.
2490Let the food silence the mouth.
2491Let us look for the woman.
2492Let well enough alone.
2493Let's sit down and let haste go by.
2494Let's take from where there is and put where it is needed.
2495Liars need good memories.
2496Liars should have a good memory.
2497Lice eat you and the world hates you.
2498Licks in the front and bites from behind.
2499Lies are the plague of speech.
2500Lies have short legs.
2501Life brings pearls, death graves.
2502Life is a battle.
2503Life is but a span.
2504Life is but one and God is but one.
2505Life is made of two days.
2506Life is not a bed of roses.
2507Life is not all beer and skittles.
2508Life is not all cakes and ale.
2509Life is short and shitty like a child's shirt.
2510Life is the faithful's prison and the nonbelievr's paradise.
2511Life is to have a belief and fight for it.
2512Life was never meant to be easy.
2513Life without a friend is death without a witness.
2514Life without friends means death without neighbors.
2515Life's no walk in the park.
2516Life's not all beer and skittles.
2517Life's not all wine and roses.
2518Life-time, live, life-time, all the same you will die as stupid.
2519Light burdens become heavy.
2520Like a cat on hot bricks.
2521Like a needle in a haystack.
2522Like begets like.
2523Like cures like.
2524Like draws to like.
2525Like father like son.
2526Like father, like son.
2527Like guest, like food.
2528Like knife, like wife.
2529Like making you a gift of a thousand acres of land in a sandy river.
2530Like master like farm dog.
2531Like master like farm hand.
2532Like master like farm slave.
2533Like master, like man.
2534Like money, like stuff.
2535Like mother, like daughter.
2536Like parents, like children.
2537Like priest, like people.
2538Like stepping into the water without knowing its depth.
2539Like teacher, like pupil.
2540Like tree, like offshoots.
2541Like will to like.
2542Linen is gold, wool mud.
2543Liquor does what beer doesn't even know.
2544Liquor revives a man, but beer gives him strength.
2545Listen much and speak little.
2546Listen to the wind upon the hill till the waters abate.
2547Little chips light great fires.
2548Little is better than nothing.
2549Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
2550Little knows the fat sow what the lean one means.
2551Little pigeons can carry great messages.
2552Little pitchers have big ears.
2553Little pitchers have great ears.
2554Little pitchers have long ears.
2555Little strokes fell great oaks.
2556Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
2557Little things amuse little minds.
2558Little things make a big difference.
2559Live according to your means.
2560Live and learn.
2561Live and let live.
2562Live as if you were to die tomorrow, work as if you were to live to a hundred.
2563Live by the sword, die by the sword.
2564Live not to eat, but eat to live.
2565Loaned out trousers don't get better.
2566Long absent, soon forgotten.
2567Long days without work, long nights without sleep.
2568Long goes the pitcher to the well before it gets broken at last.
2569Long hair and short wit.
2570Long hair, short wits, a woman's head.
2571Long legs are of no use except in drawing the birch bark.
2572Longer than a separation day.
2573Longer than the winter's night.
2574Look at a boy's head and a maid's feet.
2575Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
2576Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
2577Look before you leap.
2578Look for last winter's snow and yesterday.
2579Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
2580Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
2581Look not a horse in the mouth.
2582Look through your eyes as if through a golden pearl, but don't touch.
2583Lookers-on see more than players.
2584Looks are deceptive.
2585Loose lips sink ships.
2586Lord without post and pig without snout.
2587Lose nothing for asking.
2588Lose nothing for want of asking.
2589Lost time is never found again.
2590Love and a cough cannot be hid.
2591Love and a cough.
2592Love and punishment live together.
2593Love and then what you will, do.
2594Love cannot be forced.
2595Love goes through the stomach.
2596Love in a cottage.
2597Love is a risky game.
2598Love is a slippery game.
2599Love is blind, as well as hatred.
2600Love is blind.
2601Love is mad.
2602Love is not a potato but a whole turnip.
2603Love makes all equal.
2604Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I need it the most.
2605Love me, love my dog.
2606Love takes half of a wise man's mind, but it takes everything from a madman.
2607Love will creep where it may not go.
2608Love, smoke and cough are hard to hide.
2609Lovers can even live on a bare rock.
2610Loving your country is pious.
2611Luck in the sky and brains in the ground.
2612Make a shoe that fits your foot.
2613Make a virtue out of necessity.
2614Make do with what you have.
2615Make haste slowly.
2616Make hay while the sun shines.
2617Make long stitches and leave the thread slack, so we get to the next house quicker.
2618Make or mar.
2619Making peace is treasured.
2620Man does not melt like salt or drench like paper.
2621Man isn't old, the devil in hell is old.
2622Man more often repents what he did say than he did not.
2623Man plans and God laughs.
2624Man proposes but God disposes.
2625Man proposes, God disposes.
2626Man was made to work and the bird was made to fly.
2627Manna does not fall from the sky.
2628Manure is a farmer's gold.
2629Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
2630Many a good cow has a bad calf.
2631Many a good father has but a bad son.
2632Many a little makes a mickle.
2633Many a true word is spoken in jest.
2634Many a true words are spoken in jest.
2635Many are called but few are chosen.
2636Many do kiss the hands they wish to see cut off.
2637Many hands make light work.
2638Many have become poor for lack of money.
2639Many have died in their homes.
2640Many have entered the Underworld, but none have returned.
2641Many have entered the underworld, but none have returned.
2642Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
2643Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off.
2644Many men, many minds.
2645Many speak of robin hood who never shot his bow.
2646Many strokes cut down great oaks.
2647Many talk, but few do.
2648Many words hurt more than swords.
2649Many words will not fill a bushel.
2650Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
2651Marriage is no horse trade.
2652Marriages are made in heaven.
2653Marry and grow tame.
2654Martin.
2655May your father die, not your mother.
2656Maybe rain or maybe snow, maybe yes or maybe no.
2657Measure for measure.
2658Measure thrice and cut once.
2659Measure thrice, cut once.
2660Measure twice, cut but once.
2661Meeting death is better than escaping from it.
2662Men are given two joyous days: one when he gains a wife and the other when he is rid of her.
2663Men are judged by their strength of their opinion and with hopesdreams money awaits.
2664Men are like fish.
2665Men are like fish; the great ones devour the small.
2666Men cut large thongs of other men's leather.
2667Men have lice, dogs have fleas.
2668Men leap over where the hedge is lower.
2669Men may meet but mountains never.
2670Men may not be a single day without employment.
2671Men talk only to conceal the mind.
2672Men trip not on mountains, they stumble over stones.
2673Men try to hide their sorrow.
2674Mend or end.
2675Mercy is better than a hard punishment.
2676Might goes before right.
2677Might is always right.
2678Might is not always right.
2679Might is right.
2680Might makes right.
2681Mild days in January will be paid for in March.
2682Mild days in january will be paid for in march.
2683Mild physician – putrid wounds.
2684Mild physician, putrid wound.
2685Mind your own business.
2686Mischiefs come by the pound but go away by ounces.
2687Misery loves company.
2688Misery on entering this world, misery on casting away your life.
2689Misery will teach you to pray.
2690Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
2691Misfortunes come by forties.
2692Misfortunes never come alone.
2693Misfortunes never come singly.
2694Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
2695Missing the forest because of the trees.
2696Mistaking red for ripe.
2697Moderation in spending is half of all living.
2698Money begets money.
2699Money buys a man's silence.
2700Money changes minds, itch fools the reason.
2701Money commands all.
2702Money does not grow on trees.
2703Money does not smell.
2704Money doesn't fall from trees.
2705Money doesn't stink.
2706Money gets you anything, except for love and appetite.
2707Money has no eyes.
2708Money has no smell.
2709Money helps up to the gates of hell.
2710Money is a cure.
2711Money is a good servant but a bad master.
2712Money is drawn to money.
2713Money is roundish so that it can move.
2714Money is the rich man's God, sleep the poor man's feast.
2715Money is there to be spent.
2716Money often unmakes the men who make it.
2717Money opens all doors except those to heaven.
2718Money opens all gates but heaven's.
2719Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
2720Money talks. if you have money, can you buy even fairies.
2721Money will do anything.
2722More arrogant than a peacock.
2723More awake than a wolf.
2724More corrupt then mites.
2725More desperate than a drowning person.
2726More enduring than a donkey.
2727More fair than scales.
2728More famous than a fire on a mountain.
2729More fearful than an ostrich.
2730More flirty than imru' alqais.
2731More folk drown in a glass of liquor than in the sea.
2732More generous than hatim.
2733More greedy than asha'ab.
2734More haste, less speed.
2735More hideous than the disappearance of good fortune.
2736More hideous than words with no action.
2737More jinxed than albassoos.
2738More lost than the moon in the winter.
2739More secure than the nose of a lion.
2740More silent than the earth.
2741More skillful than a silk worm.
2742More speed less haste.
2743More treacherous than a wolf.
2744More vicious than a snake.
2745More vulnerable than a spider's web.
2746Morning hour has gold in its mouth.
2747Morning is as precious as gold.
2748Morning is wiser than the evening.
2749Mother's rod is woollen, a stranger's rod is bloody.
2750Movement is a blessing.
2751Moving three times is the same as one fire.
2752Mow when wet, rake when dry.
2753Much ado about nothing.
2754Much coin, much care.
2755Much wants more.
2756Much will have more.
2757Much would have more.
2758Muck and money go together.
2759Murder will out.
2760My clock strikes once only.
2761My feet took me to my death.
2762My house is my castle.
2763Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.
2764Name not a rope in his house that was hanged.
2765Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself.
2766Narrow is the fisherman's table.
2767Nature abhors a vacuum.
2768Nature gave us two ears and one mouth.
2769Nature is beyond all teaching.
2770Nature passes nurture.
2771Necessity has no law.
2772Necessity is the mother of invention.
2773Necessity knows no law.
2774Neck or nothing.
2775Need bargains while the man looks on.
2776Need excavates the trick.
2777Need makes the old wife trot.
2778Needs must go when the devil drives.
2779Needs must when the devil drives.
2780Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
2781Neither fish nor flesh.
2782Neither here nor there.
2783Neither rhyme nor reason.
2784Nemo potest digne dominis servire duobus.
2785Never argue against one who is greater than you.
2786Never cackle till your egg is laid.
2787Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk.
2788Never do things by halves.
2789Never fry a fish till it's caught.
2790Never is a long time.
2791Never judge a book by its cover; never judge by appearances.
2792Never judge by appearances.
2793Never judge by appearances; judge not a man and things at first sight.
2794Never justify yourself.
2795Never offer to teach fish to swim.
2796Never overlook a small wound or a poor family member, both can grow in size.
2797Never part company with a road or an old friend.
2798Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
2799Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today. or there's no time like the present.
2800Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2801Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2802Never quit certainty for hope.
2803Never seemed a prison fair or mistress foul.
2804Never too much of a good thing.
2805Never too old to learn.
2806Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
2807Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
2808Never write what you dare not sign.
2809New brooms sweep clean.
2810New brooms sweep the best.
2811New day, better luck.
2812New lords, new laws.
2813New meat begets new appetite.
2814News flies fast.
2815News spreads like wildfire.
2816Nightingales will not sing in a cage.
2817Nine can help one, but one cannot help nine.
2818Nine do not wait for one.
2819Nine people, ten ideas.
2820No bad thing that doesn't bring something good.
2821No bird flies without wings.
2822No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it.
2823No bridge is built of words or a fence of bean stalks.
2824No careful hen trusts a fox.
2825No church will be built where the dog died.
2826No cloud without a silver lining.
2827No day ends without misfortune.
2828No day passes by without some grief.
2829No dreaming cat catches mice.
2830No enemies is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.
2831No field grows by looking, only by ploughing.
2832No field stands for treachery.
2833No fire without smoke.
2834No flying from fate.
2835No fried sparrows will fly into your mouth.
2836No garden without its weeds.
2837No great loss without some small gain.
2838No heralds in the grave.
2839No herb will cure love.
2840No horse will die of its sweat nor woman of her tears.
2841No illness makes hair prettier.
2842No joy without alloy.
2843No joy without sorrow.
2844No living man all things can.
2845No longer pipe, no longer dance.
2846No man is indispensable.
2847No man is wise at all times.
2848No man lives twice.
2849No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
2850No man was ever ruined by being cursed, and no one ever prospered because he was blessed.
2851No men is an island.
2852No money will come without work.
2853No need of words, trust deeds.
2854No need to carry out two good deeds: promise and give.
2855No news is good news.
2856No one becomes rich by eating.
2857No one believes the words of a liar.
2858No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.
2859No one can be sold to death by force.
2860No one can be the judge in his own case.
2861No one can serve two masters.
2862No one gets rich quickly if he is honest.
2863No one has gone ahead of misfortune.
2864No one here lives to be the pillar that bears the world.
2865No one is a blacksmith when they are born.
2866No one is a prophet in one's own home city.
2867No one is a prophet in one's own homeland.
2868No one is indispensable to others.
2869No one is indispensable.
2870No one is shamed by work.
2871No one knows the weight of another's burden.
2872No one knows the weight of anothes burden.
2873No one knows what the morrow will bring.
2874No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it.
2875No one that has suffered shipwreck for the second time can complain about the sea.
2876No one's mouth is made of birch bark.
2877No pain, no gain.
2878No pain, no gain. nothing ventured, nothing gained.
2879No pains no gains.
2880No pains, no gains.
2881No party without shattering.
2882No pride like that of an enriched beggar.
2883No rose without a thorn.
2884No rose without thorns.
2885No smoke without fire.
2886No song, no supper.
2887No stolen property is blessed.
2888No stolen property is lucky.
2889No sweet without some sweat.
2890No sweet without sweat.
2891No thief is rich, nor wise man healthy.
2892No thief is rich, nor wise man rich.
2893No trees grow to the sky.
2894No trousers are so bad that they weren't worth a skirt.
2895No true man speaks unless asked.
2896No two days are alike.
2897No two trees are alike, even in a forest.
2898No tyrant rules long.
2899No use crying over spilt milk.
2900No use striving against Fate.
2901No use striving against fate.
2902No water gets on top of fat.
2903No wisdom like silence.
2904Nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbour pleaseth.
2905Nobody can serve two masters.
2906Nobody has two stomachs to fill.
2907Nobody is a prophet in his own country.
2908None but a dog eats his fill.
2909None but the brave deserve the fair.
2910None is so deaf as the one who will not hear.
2911None so blind as those who won't see.
2912None so deaf as those that won't hear.
2913None so deaf as those who will not hear.
2914Not a hair is broken without the will of God.
2915Not able to take revenge on the donkey, take it out on the saddle.
2916Not all clouds give rain.
2917Not all is gold that glitters.
2918Not all shiny things are golden.
2919Not all that glitters is gold.
2920Not all that shines is gold, nor all that glows is silver.
2921Not all trees end up being masts.
2922Not all truths are proper to be told.
2923Not all who wear trousers are men.
2924Not all your days are at an end.
2925Not even a bird flies before it has wings.
2926Not even Hercules could contend against two.
2927Not even the poor are denied great thoughts.
2928Not every day is a festival when one can eat sweetmeat.
2929Not every day is there a wedding, nor are all days revelries.
2930Not everyone's good is the same.
2931Not everything that is praised is good and not everything that is blamed is bad.
2932Not having enough is like not having anything.
2933Not seeing the forest for the trees.
2934Not to give chase to those who leave, nor refuse those who come.
2935Not worth it to go further than the sea for fish.
2936Nothing beats an elk's muzzle, a bear's paw or a burbot's liver.
2937Nothing can be gained from the dead.
2938Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
2939Nothing for nothing.
2940Nothing is compulsory except death, and not even that as long as you breathe.
2941Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
2942Nothing is new under the sun.
2943Nothing is new.
2944Nothing is so good that it can't be made better.
2945Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
2946Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
2947Nothing succeeds like success.
2948Nothing venture, nothing have.
2949Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
2950O, father, o mother! drink of the water that runs in the river.
2951Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.
2952Oat's words: If I'm sown into rich soil, I will dress him with cloth.
2953Oat's words: if I'm sown into rich soil, I will dress him with cloth.
2954Oats for catching and reins for riding.
2955Of saving comes having.
2956Of soup and love the first is the best.
2957Of three roads take the middle.
2958Of two evils choose the least.
2959Of what fills the heart speaks the mouth.
2960Offering medicine to the old is like fixing an old boot.
2961Often beautiful nuts have an ugly core.
2962Often has a shoemaker's wife had bad shoes.
2963Oil does not extinguish the fire.
2964Old age is a sickness in itself.
2965Old age, boy, is no joy.
2966Old birds are not caught with chaff.
2967Old brooms sweep better.
2968Old debt are always new.
2969Old friends and old wine are best.
2970Old habits die hard.
2971Old is oldest.
2972Old love never rusts.
2973Old men are twice children.
2974Old people know much; they were taught by necessity.
2975Older and wiser.
2976Older than you by a day, more knowledgeable than you by a year.
2977On shank's mare.
2978On the other side grass is greener.
2979Once a drunkard always a drunkard.
2980Once a knave, ever a knave.
2981Once a person cheats in an exam, forever people will distrust him.
2982Once a thief always a thief.
2983Once bitten twice shy.
2984Once bitten, twice shy.
2985Once is as good as never.
2986Once is no custom.
2987Once is no rule.
2988Once the wolf has eaten the grey horse, let it have the cart as well.
2989Once you got angry, take off your shoes too.
2990One a man, the other a lad.
2991One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.
2992One bird in hand is better than ten on the roof.
2993One bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
2994One bird in the hand is better than two on the tree.
2995One blind man leads the crowd.
2996One can cause the illness which he wanted to cure.
2997One can work well with many and eat well with few.
2998One can't make war with rose water.
2999One cannot both eat one's cookie and keep it.
3000One cannot force a dog to hunt.
3001One cannot watch the thief of one's own house.
3002One cheek is bloody, the other greasy.
3003One chick keeps a hen busy.
3004One cow for the flies and one woman for the doorstep.
3005One crane's voice is better than the chirping of a thousand sparrows.
3006One crow will not peck out another crow's eyes.
3007One day closer to death and wife-taking.
3008One day on the road and food for a week.
3009One does bad, nine heads carry.
3010One does not become great by claiming greatness.
3011One does not change a habit with a shake of the tail.
3012One does not know another's illness.
3013One does not know another's trouble.
3014One does not wash away blood with blood.
3015One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
3016One dullard asks more than five wise men have time to answer.
3017One enemy is too many, a hundred friends are not enough.
3018One evil rises out of another.
3019One eyewitness is worth ten earwitnesses.
3020One finger gashed - all the fingers are covered with blood.
3021One fire drives out another.
3022One fool makes many.
3023One for all, all for one.
3024One frog spoilt all the water.
3025One glass, not the better and not the worse my body or my soul of it. two glasses, the better my body of it and not the worse my soul of it. three glasses, the worse my soul of it and not the better my body of it.
3026One glass, not the better of it and not the worse of it. two glasses, the better of it and not the worse of it. three glasses, the worse of it and not the better of it.
3027One God and no more, but friends a good store.
3028One good turn asks another.
3029One good turn deserves another.
3030One grain suffices to test a whole pot of boiled rice.
3031One hand washes another and both wash the face.
3032One hand washes the other, both will be clean.
3033One hand washes the other.
3034One hand will not clasp.
3035One has to screw the aunt since there is no other bride.
3036One ill word asks another.
3037One is not so soon healed as hurt.
3038One knows a man by his trade even if it is drinking beer.
3039One law for the rich, and another for the poor.
3040One learns as long as one lives.
3041One learns from mistakes.
3042One learns to understand another's misfortune through one's own.
3043One lie makes many.
3044One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
3045One look is worth a thousand words.
3046One man against a man, two against a bear.
3047One man can summon the future.
3048One man's illness is another man's health.
3049One man's meat is another man's poison.
3050One man, no man.
3051One more for the road.
3052One must cut one's coat according to one's cloth.
3053One must step back to take a good leap.
3054One must take matters into one's own hands.
3055One nail drives another.
3056One nail drives out another.
3057One pebble doesn't make a floor.
3058One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock.
3059One sheep follows another.
3060One should choose the lesser of two evils.
3061One should eat or one dies.
3062One should feel shame before good, fear before evil.
3063One should not add oil to the fire.
3064One should not bow before stupidity merely because it is old.
3065One should not change horses in the middle of the stream.
3066One should not have a wolf as a shepherd.
3067One should not offer cinnamon rolls to baker's children.
3068One shouldn't make a bull out of a fly.
3069One sleeps like one makes his bed.
3070One sows, another reaps.
3071One stone cannot grind.
3072One swallow does not a summer make.
3073One swallow does not herald the coming of spring.
3074One swallow does not make a summer.
3075One swallow doesn't make a spring.
3076One swallow makes no summer.
3077One sword keeps another in the sheath.
3078One time after the denial.
3079One time is no time.
3080One time, no time — two times, a habit.
3081One today is worth ten tomorrows.
3082One today is worth two tomorrow.
3083One today is worth two tomorrows.
3084One which is sweet and the other is bitter.
3085One who gets up early is doubly lucky.
3086One who is sitting still does not fill in for the one who keeps moving.
3087One year's joy for the married, two years' mourning for the dead.
3088One's own help is the best help.
3089One's reach exceeds one's grasp.
3090Only a fool takes delight in the other's misfortune.
3091Only dead fish follow the stream.
3092Only he who has sat behind the stove can search for someone behind it.
3093Only nixon can go to china.
3094Only sweden has swedish gooseberries.
3095Only time will tell.
3096Only what one has eaten is one's own.
3097Only your grand child is dearer to you than your child.
3098Open not your door when the devil knocks.
3099Opinion comes before the bravery of the braves.
3100Opinions differ.
3101Opportunity knocks only once.
3102Opportunity makes the thief.
3103Oppose your affection to find rationality.
3104Our parents planted so we ate, and we plant for our children to eat.
3105Out of sight out of mind.
3106Out of sight, out of mind.
3107Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
3108Out of the frying pan and into the fire.'.
3109Out of the frying pan into the fire.
3110Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
3111Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings come great truth.
3112Own hearth is gold worth.
3113Packed like herrings.
3114Pain is felt by its owner.
3115Paper is forbearing.
3116Paradise is under mothers' feet.
3117Paradise without people is not worth living in.
3118Patience - in time the grass becomes milk.
3119Patience is a plaster for all sores.
3120Patience is a virtue.
3121Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
3122Patience is mother of success.
3123Patience is the art of hoping.
3124Patience is the best remedy.
3125Peace builds, quarrelling shatters.
3126Peace in the land and a priest in every parish.
3127Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
3128Penny-wise, pound foolish.
3129Penny-wise, pound-foolish.
3130People are like fish; the big ones devour the small.
3131People throw stones only at trees with fruit on them.
3132People who come from hell are not afraid of hot ashes.
3133People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
3134Perfect is the enemy of good.
3135Persevere and never fear.
3136Physician, heal thyself!
3137Physician, heal yourself!
3138Pick the lesser of the two evils.
3139Planning is half of living.
3140Plant each day and you will eat.
3141Play, women and wine undo men laughing.
3142Playing with water, wet. playing with fire, burned.
3143Playing without learning you lose your future.
3144Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
3145Plenty is no plague.
3146Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep.
3147Poets are born, but orators are trained.
3148Polite words will be well received.
3149Politeness costs little but yields much.
3150Politeness costs little, but yields much.
3151Politeness costs nothing, but yields much.
3152Politicians are like crocodiles — big jaws but no ears.
3153Poor memory is better than bad memories.
3154Poured water won't stay in the well.
3155Poverity is no sin.
3156Poverty and love are bad to hide.
3157Poverty does not lose its virtue; envy is its own torturer.
3158Poverty is no crime.
3159Poverty is no sin.
3160Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
3161Poverty is the reward of idleness.
3162Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden.
3163Practice gives skill.
3164Practice makes perfect.
3165Practise what you preach.
3166Praise is not pudding.
3167Praise other lands to the others, live on your own land.
3168Praise the day at dawn.
3169Praise the mountains, but love plains.
3170Praise the sea, but keep on land.
3171Pray to God war is heard but not seen!
3172Preachers say do as I say and not as I do.
3173Preachers say: do as I say, not as I do.
3174Precepts teach, but examples move.
3175Prepare for the dog of evil, a dog as strong.
3176Prettiness makes no pottage.
3177Prevention is better than cure.
3178Pride comes before fall.
3179Pride comes before the fall.
3180Pride goes before a fall.
3181Pride goes before the fall.
3182Probity is the only coin that has value everywhere.
3183Procrastination is the thief of time.
3184Proffer'd service stinks.
3185Proffered service stinks.
3186Promise is debt.
3187Promise little, but do much.
3188Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
3189Protect a child from fire and water until he's seven years old.
3190Protect your brother's privacy for what he knows of you.
3191Prudence is the footprint of wisdom.
3192Punctuality is the virtue of princes.
3193Punishment is lame but it comes.
3194Punishment is lame, but it comes.
3195Purer than a tear.
3196Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death.
3197Put new stuff into the gut when the old one dies.
3198Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
3199Put your head between these heads and shout cut our heads off.
3200Quarrelsome dogs come limping home.
3201Qui cherche le danger, y p?ira.
3202Qui cherche le danger, y périra.
3203Quick at meal quick work.
3204Quick at meal, quick at work.
3205Quick at meat, quick at work.
3206Quick wealth makes the man suspicious.
3207Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
3208Rain in spring is as precious as oil.
3209Rarely does a crane land in a spruce, even then it breaks its leg.
3210Rarely does a pig see the sky.
3211Rarely is a bird shot for its feathers.
3212Rather an honest 'no' than an insincere 'yes'.
3213Rather look over a gallon of fleas than two lovers.
3214Rather one bird in the hand, than ten in the woods.
3215Rather see than hear.
3216Rather today a sparrow than a bustard tomorrow.
3217Rats desert a sinking ship.
3218Raw meat fattens, raw fish makes lean.
3219Read like the devil reads the bible.
3220Reading ten thousand books is less than journeying ten thousand miles.
3221Reality surpasses the poem.
3222Reason does not come before age.
3223Reason does not come before years.
3224Reason has no age.
3225Reckless youth makes rueful age.
3226Redo, do right.
3227Relations or no relations, my turnips are three hundred cash per picul.
3228Relatives are dear when they live afar and seldom call in.
3229Remind the youngster of his next life.
3230Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
3231Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
3232Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
3233Revenge is sweet.
3234Ride the horse with oats, not with a whip.
3235Rima came back to her old habits.
3236Ripe fruit falls of itself.
3237Rivers begin from small streams.
3238Robbers get plundered by thieves.
3239Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
3240Robbing peter to pay paul.
3241Roll my log and I will roll yours.
3242Rome was not built in a day.
3243Rome was not built in one day.
3244Rudeness knows no bounds of shame.
3245Rye bread does not leave one hungry, and coarse clothes do not leave one naked.
3246Safer than the pigeons of mekkah.
3247Said to congratulate newlyweds.
3248Salt doesn't injure the heart, nor does tar turn the mind.
3249Salt water and absence wash away love.
3250Save the share of the one who is sleeping, eat the share of the one gadding about.
3251Say no ill about the year till it be past.
3252Saying and doing are two things.
3253Scandal will rub out like dirt when it is dry.
3254Schadenfreude is the only true joy.
3255Score twice before you cut once.
3256Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
3257Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
3258Second thoughts are best.
3259Second thoughts are the best.
3260See all, say nothing, hold yourself content.
3261Seeing a client is in itself a trade.
3262Seeing is believing.
3263Seek education even if it takes you to china.
3264Seek education from the cradle to the grave.
3265Seek to get.
3266Seigneur sans dame, ce n'est que vent.
3267Self done is soon done.
3268Self done is well done.
3269Self is a bad counsellor.
3270Self is the best farmhand.
3271Self-made is well made.
3272Self-praise comes aye stinking ben.
3273Self-praise is no praise.
3274Self-praise is no recommendation.
3275Self-praise stinks.
3276Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him.
3277Send a wise man and don't advise him.
3278Sense does not come before age.
3279Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
3280Set a herring to catch a whale.
3281Set a thief to catch a thief.
3282Seven horses going to the mill, and not one of them carries a load.
3283Shall the sheep go astray, they will be led by the ill goat.
3284Shallow streams make most din.
3285Shame isn't smoke, it doesn't cut your eyes.
3286Shame on he who gives up.
3287Shame take him that shame thinketh.
3288Shameful to be bitten by a horse, more shameful to be struck by a woman.
3289Shameful to tell, but painful to endure.
3290Shared are the believers' belongings.
3291Shared joy is twice the joy, and shared grief is half the grief.
3292Shared joy is twice the joy.
3293She who does not cry when entering marriage will cry when living in wedlock.
3294She who is not pretty before twenty, wise before thirty, and rich before fifty, will never achieve any of these.
3295Short accounts make long friends.
3296Short debts make long friends.
3297Short prayers reach heaven.
3298Shortcuts are often "longcuts.".
3299Should one make the efforts of bhagiratha over a trifle?
3300Silence gives consent.
3301Silence hurts no one.
3302Silence is golden.
3303Sin punishes itself.
3304Since adam was a boy.
3305Since the wife barks at strangers, we don't need a dog.
3306Sink or swim!
3307Sit where you are welcomed and helped, and don't sit where you are not welcomed.
3308Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
3309Six of one, half a dozen the other.
3310Skill is better than strength.
3311Skin is nearer than the skirt.
3312Sleep is brother to death.
3313Sleeping farmer gets a dreaming farmhand.
3314Sloth moves so slowly that poverty will finally catch it.
3315Slow and steady wins the race.
3316Slow and steady.
3317Slow but steady.
3318Slow but sure.
3319Slower than a turtle.
3320Small but peppery.
3321Small crumbs are bread too.
3322Small pots have ears too.
3323Small presents keep up friendship.
3324Small rain lays a great dust.
3325Small rain lays great dust.
3326Small streams make great rivers.
3327Small wounds and poor friends should not be despised.
3328Smart people are blessed.
3329Smoke of the neighbours renders you blind.
3330Smoother than a breeze.
3331So many countries, so many customs.
3332So many men, so many minds.
3333Soft fire makes sweet malt.
3334Some eat to live, others live to eat.
3335Some forgiveness is weakness.
3336Some people are punished immediately by God.
3337Someone died, someone cried.
3338Something is better than nothing.
3339Something is rotten in the state of denmark.
3340Something owned in abundance is undervalued.
3341Something that has happened once can happen again.
3342Sometimes the blind can see horseshoes.
3343Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
3344Sometimes to sink, sometimes to rise.
3345Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel would be.
3346Soon is the fool tricked.
3347Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
3348Soon ripe, soon rotten.
3349Sooner a rapid is dammed than a wife's mouth.
3350Sooner said than done.
3351Sorrow is born of exessive joy.
3352Sorrow shared, sorrow halved.
3353Sour grapes.
3354Sow beans in the mud and they'll grow like wood.
3355Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
3356Sow thin, shear thin.
3357Sow wind reap a whirlwind.
3358Sparing is the first gaining.
3359Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear.
3360Speak of the devil and he will appear.
3361Speak of the devil, and he appears.
3362Speak of the devil..
3363Speak with farmers like farmers speak, and with the educated in latin.
3364Speak, for God spoke to moses.
3365Speech is silver but silence is gold.
3366Speech is silver; silence is golden.
3367Speech shows what a man is.
3368Spring showers bring life, autumn showers ruin.
3369Standers-by see more than gamesters.
3370Standing pools gathers mud.
3371Standing waters smell.
3372Steal, but do not get caught.
3373Steel is softer than gold.
3374Step after step the ladder is ascended.
3375Still water runs deep.
3376Still waters are the deepest.
3377Still waters run deep.
3378Stinginess deceives wisdom.
3379Stinginess demeans the value of man.
3380Stolen fruit tastes sweet.
3381Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
3382Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
3383Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
3384Strike while the iron is hot.
3385Strive not against the stream.
3386Stroke a cat the wrong way and it'll become angry.
3387Stroke upon stroke will make even a grinding-stone creep.
3388Stubborn as a mule.
3389Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
3390Stupidity does not kill, but it does keep you in misery.
3391Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
3392Stupidity is worse than theft.
3393Subtlety is better than force.
3394Success is never blamed.
3395Such a beginning, such an end.
3396Such carpenters, such chips.
3397Such father, such son.
3398Such man, such hat.
3399Such mother, such daughter.
3400Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
3401Suspicion is the sister of the wrong.
3402Sweaty is the man who has skied, thirsty the woman who has ground corn into flour.
3403Sweep before your own door.
3404Sweep your own doorstep clean.
3405Take a big bite, don't say a big word.
3406Take a man by his word and a cow by her horns.
3407Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
3408Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
3409Take counsel of one's pillow.
3410Take heed if you find what you do not seek.
3411Take heed of a stepmother; the very name of her suffices.
3412Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.
3413Take heed of still waters, the quick pass away.
3414Take something along with you when going out, bring something back when returning.
3415Take the bull by the horns.
3416Take the custom where you go.
3417Take the will for the deed.
3418Take the world as you find it.
3419Take things as you find them.
3420Take us as you find us.
3421Take with two hands from where you have put with one hand.
3422Talk is cheap, silence is golden.
3423Talk is cheap.
3424Talk much and err much.
3425Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
3426Talk of the devil..
3427Talk of the wolf and his tail appears.
3428Talking pays no toll.
3429Tarred with the same brush.
3430Taste is like the buttocks, divided.
3431Tastes differ.
3432Teach a man to take a fish is not equal to teach a man how to fish.
3433Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
3434Tears are no help when in trouble, bawling through the bad days.
3435Teeth on a nail when the bread is finished.
3436Tell me with whom though goest, and I will tell what though doest.
3437Tell that to the marines.
3438Tell the story from the beginning.
3439Thank who gives you and give who thanks you.
3440Thanks are worthless.
3441Thanks do not fill the stomach.
3442That cock won't fight.
3443That day, that sorrow.
3444That hole in the dress is bigger than anyone can fix.
3445That is true which stands the flame.
3446That put the red kite among the hens.
3447That shalbe, shalbe.
3448That which belongs to heaven, returns to earth.
3449That which does not kill you, makes you stronger. pain is gain.
3450That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
3451That's a horse of another colour.
3452That's thanks for you when you thank yourself.
3453That's where the shoe pinches!
3454That’s the crux.
3455That’s the rub.
3456That’s where the shoe pinches.
3457The anvil fears no blows.
3458The appetite comes with eating.
3459The apple does not fall far from the apple tree.
3460The apple does not fall far from the tree.
3461The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
3462The apple never falls far form the tree.
3463The ass that brays most, eats least.
3464The awkward man has his thumb in the middle of his palm.
3465The axe goes to the wood whence it borrowed its handle.
3466The backside answers to a backside's words.
3467The baker shouldn't comment on his dough.
3468The bear that is hungry never dances.
3469The beauty is but a skin deep; within is filth an putrefaction.
3470The beauty of the soul is known in the face.
3471The bedclothes are lying down, but I'm not asleep.
3472The beggar laughs at what the people in the house.
3473The beggar may sing before a footpad.
3474The beggar may sing before the thief.
3475The beginning makes work pretty, in the end thanks stand.
3476The best answer comes from the man who isn't angry.
3477The best cloth may have a moth in it.
3478The best defence is a good offence.
3479The best defence is a good offense.
3480The best defense is a good offense.
3481The best fish smell when they are three days old.
3482The best fish swim near the bottom.
3483The best generousity is giving without being asked.
3484The best goods are cheapest in the end.
3485The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
3486The best jihad is saying the truth in the face of a dictator.
3487The best mirror is an old friend.
3488The best place in the world is on the back of a horse, and the best friend in all time is a book.
3489The best road is the straightest.
3490The best step, the first step.
3491The bigger the crook, the luckier he is.
3492The bird is known by its note.
3493The bird loves her own nest.
3494The bite of a lion is better than an envies look.
3495The biting dog does not show it's teeth.
3496The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
3497The blind leads the blind and both fall into the ditch.
3498The brother wishes for a rich sister, the man for a healthy wife.
3499The bushes don't rattle if there's no wind.
3500The busiest man finds the most leisure.
3501The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
3502The cap fits.
3503The captain is in his ship like God in heaven.
3504The cardplayer will see the gates of hell.
3505The careful man takes from his store, the miser from his coffer, the open-handed from his ass.
3506The carpenter's door is loose.
3507The carpenter's wife has no batler, the smith's wife has no hatchet.
3508The cask savours of the first fill.
3509The cat on the rock is like the horse in the barn.
3510The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
3511The cat will eat its prey alone.
3512The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
3513The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
3514The chicken are counted in the autumn.
3515The child died calling out for water when he spoke persian in punjab.
3516The child says nothing but what he heard at the fire.
3517The choosy one ends up with the ordinary.
3518The closer to the source, the clearer the water.
3519The closer you are to the church, the closer you are to hell.
3520The closer you live to a church, the harder it is to be there on time.
3521The clothes make the man.
3522The coal glows from the coals.
3523The cobbler and the tailor ruin the house.
3524The cobbler should stick to his last.
3525The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
3526The cock to its perch, the lazy to work, the hardworking to bed.
3527The cook tries the salt, the matchmaker the bride.
3528The court is straight but the judge is crooked.
3529The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself.
3530The cow licks the one which licks it.
3531The cow on the one side river thinks the other side green.
3532The cow with calves cannot avoid giving birth.
3533The craftsman has a bad roof.
3534The crow thinks her own birds fairest in the wood.
3535The crown's hand is long.
3536The cure for fate is patience.
3537The danger past, God forgotten.
3538The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
3539The darkest place is under the candlestick.
3540The day will dawn even without the rooster.
3541The death of a coward comes from over him.
3542The death of one gives bread to another.
3543The death of one, the bread of the other.
3544The debts made to one's mother are never paid.
3545The deserter is the brother of the murderer.
3546The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
3547The devil is not so black as he is painted.
3548The devil knows many things because he is old.
3549The devil lurks behind the cross.
3550The devil rebuking sin.
3551The devil will be busy between the newly-weds for seven years.
3552The devil will bring him heirs, since the Lord takes only his soul.
3553The devil will bring him heirs, since the lord takes only his soul.
3554The dew falls on both dirt and lily.
3555The dew to the ant is a flood.
3556The distress is not as large as it's made to be.
3557The doctor is never killed because the patient dies.
3558The doctors themselves are ill, the quacks themselves suffer.
3559The dog eats his vomit, the bad man his words.
3560The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it.
3561The dog is always up to dog's trickery.
3562The dog is another dog's godfather.
3563The dog that barks doesn't bite.
3564The dog will bark for his bread.
3565The dog will find his way back home.
3566The dog will not yelp if you throw him with a bone.
3567The dogs bark but the caravan passes on.
3568The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
3569The dogs may bark; the caravan goes on.
3570The donkey is known by his ears, the fool by his words.
3571The door swings both ways.
3572The dripping can hollow the stone.
3573The drums sound better at a distance.
3574The drunkard is up to his knees in the sea.
3575The drunken man's words are the sober man's thoughts.
3576The dutch have taken holland !
3577The eagle needs feathers, and the wren does too.
3578The ear hears more than the eye sees.
3579The early bird catches the worm.
3580The early bird gets the worm.
3581The early one wins.
3582The earth is hard, God strong.
3583The east wind won't cease before it rains and a wife's scolding won't cease before she cries.
3584The elephant in front of your eyes can't be seen but the speck across the sea are clearly visible.
3585The ember cooks the cabbage, the neighbour weds the maid.
3586The emptier the stomach, the sweeter the bread.
3587The end crowns all.
3588The end crowns the work.
3589The end is good, everything is good.
3590The end justifies the means.
3591The end of life is death.
3592The end of the grape cluster.
3593The envious person is the least happy.
3594The error of one moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life.
3595The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
3596The exception confirms the rule.
3597The exception proves the rule.
3598The excuse of the absent is with him.
3599The eye and holy things can bear no jesting.
3600The eye can't take.
3601The eye does not become higher than the eyebrow.
3602The eye is bigger than the belly.
3603The eye looks but it is the mind that sees.
3604The eye that sees all things sees not itself.
3605The eyes are sometimes a true index of the heart.
3606The eyes want more than the stomach.
3607The eyes would continue to eat, though the stomach is full.
3608The face is the image of the soul, and the eyes are its interpreter.
3609The face is the index of the mind.
3610The fair potato is first eaten and the fair maid is first married.
3611The fairest silk is soonest stained.
3612The fallen blossom returns not to the bough.
3613The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
3614The family has its wolves and the home has its devils.
3615The farmer is the year's boy.
3616The fat is in the fire.
3617The father donated a vineyard to his son, the son didn't give a single bunch of grapes to the father.
3618The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.
3619The fault is ours.
3620The fault was committed in the bush, but it is now talked about on the highway.
3621The fire is no toy!
3622The first blow is half the battle.
3623The first drink to sorrow, the second to a good cause, and the third to step in between the first two.
3624The first pancake is always spoiled.
3625The first step to lead, is to consult.
3626The first task is to stand up after falling.
3627The fish is killed by its mouth.
3628The fish rots from the head down ¬¬¬¬.
3629The fish that gets away is always a large one.
3630The fish that will be eaten is still in the river.
3631The fish will bite the patient man's hook and line.
3632The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sandfly.
3633The fly says:'the world is before and behind' =it is at home everywhere.
3634The fly says:'The world is before and behind' =it is at home everywhere.
3635The fool should not be goaded, a rotten tree should not be shaken.
3636The fool's morsel will be eaten first.
3637The forest answers in the same way one shouts at it.
3638The friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve.
3639The fried dove will not fly into your mouth.
3640The fried pigeon will not fly into your mouth.
3641The fright is greater than the wound.
3642The frightened crow also fears the bush.
3643The frog burst when it tried to make itself as big as a bull.
3644The frost drives the pig home.
3645The fruit of a good tree is also good.
3646The further away the forest is, the more trees there are.
3647The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
3648The game is not worth the candle.
3649The game isn’t worth the candle.
3650The geese will tell it in autumn.
3651The goat quarrelled with the wolf, what remained were the horns and feet.
3652The gods see through everything.
3653The good are thanked, the bad reprimanded.
3654The good master builds a sleigh in the summer and a carriage in the winter.
3655The good men reject me and the bad men I won't take.
3656The good-hearted has a heavy load.
3657The grass is always greener on the far side of the hill.
3658The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
3659The grass is always greener on the other side.
3660The great folks and dogs know no relationship.
3661The great ones devour the small.
3662The greatest poverty is the lack of intelligence.
3663The green crop is not yet in the granary.
3664The ground will support its little creatures.
3665The hailer.
3666The hand to the nail and the heart to the beloved.
3667The hand which touches bran will touch money.
3668The hand works, the mouth is allowed to chew.
3669The hardest fight is fighting your anger.
3670The hardest the problem is the closer it is to be solved.
3671The hasty bitch bringeth forth blind whelps.
3672The hasty bitch gives birth to blind puppies.
3673The head can be heated but the heart must stay cool.
3674The head is the cap's peg.
3675The healthy have no need for a doctor.
3676The healthy must carry the ill.
3677The heart does not lie. —or— the heart sees farther than the head.
3678The heart is weeping and the mouth is smiling.
3679The heart sees farther than the head.
3680The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
3681The heart's case is hard to open.
3682The hen that cackles much lays few eggs.
3683The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
3684The higher you climb, the greater you fall.
3685The higher, the fewer.
3686The highway is never about.
3687The hired man hoes as much as the master feeds him.
3688The horse coddles its young, the wife her stomach's folk.
3689The horse has four legs and still stumbles.
3690The house of a tyrant is a ruin.
3691The hunger drives the pig home.
3692The hunger is not as large as it's made to be.
3693The hungry are never sleepy.
3694The hungry man farts, the fed man belches.
3695The hunting dogs have scratched faces.
3696The idea came after the drunkness passed away.
3697The key to all things is determination.
3698The kind of fish you catch, the kind of soup you cook.
3699The king is dead, long live the king.
3700The king's child is a child too.
3701The labourer is worthy of his hire.
3702The labourer looks like his work.
3703The land gives us bread to eat.
3704The land grows even when the farmer is sleeping.
3705The land weds a bad maid and the ham weds the cross-eyed one.
3706The last drop makes the cup run over.
3707The last straw breaks the camel's back.
3708The last will be first, and the first last.
3709The later in the evening, the more beautiful the people.
3710The lazy are rich in holidays.
3711The lazy know nothing of their luck, and the inexperienced of their good fortune.
3712The lazy person has no work and has no time.
3713The leopard cannot change his spots.
3714The leopard cannot change its spots.
3715The liar is the thief's brother.
3716The liar will only be trusted once.
3717The life of man is as spotted as woodpecker's coat.
3718The lion is not half so fierce as he is painted.
3719The little fish feed the big fish.
3720The little hemlock is a sister to the big hemlock.
3721The little thief is hanged but his resetter is saved.
3722The living is more important than the dead.
3723The longest day has an end.
3724The lord giveth and the lord taketh away.
3725The lord helps those who help themselves.
3726The louse says: Burn me in ashes, freeze me in cold air, but don't take in the sauna.
3727The lowest one is the wrong one.
3728The maid and hired man are like one soul.
3729The main foe of man is himself.
3730The maker surely knows his work.
3731The man gets a new wife, but the children don't get a mother.
3732The man has a paddle in his hand, but God guides the boat.
3733The man is at sea with his fortune, on the waves with his luck.
3734The man is the head, the women is the neck.
3735The man who wanted to milk the male goat failed.
3736The mare makes a lot of colts, but dies with a collar around its neck.
3737The master's eye.
3738The master's footsteps fatten the soil.
3739The master's footsteps make fertile the field.
3740The master's haste is slow.
3741The masters' beggars never die from hunger.
3742The measure you use, that's what you are measured with yourself.
3743The medicine for hate is separation.
3744The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
3745The miller's pigs are fat.
3746The mind is a decoration.
3747The miser's riches are poverty and his kitchen is poor.
3748The mistake of the scientist leads to mistakes by many people.
3749The mistress is the first in the house.
3750The mocked may grow up to dignity, but the mocker will never outgrow his juvenile behaviour.
3751The moneyless do not trade.
3752The monkey in his mother's eye is a gazzelle.
3753The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
3754The moon is the crofter's sun.
3755The Moor has done his duty let him go.
3756The moor has done his duty let him go.
3757The more chefs, the worse the soup.
3758The more haste, the less speed.
3759The more laws, the more offenders.
3760The more the merrier.
3761The more you lie down, the sleepier you are.
3762The more you stir, the more it will stink.
3763The more you stroke the cat's tail, the more he raises his back.
3764The morning sun never lasts a day.
3765The most deadly of wild beasts is a backbiter, of tame ones a flatterer.
3766The most fortunate of all is he who dies in the cradle.
3767The most important thing is not to win, but to fight well.
3768The most praised form of eloquence is silence when speech isn't wise.
3769The mother-in-law does not remember that she has been a daughter-in-law.
3770The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
3771The mouse that has but one hole is soon catched.
3772The mouth doesn't sing without melted butter, nor does the tongue talk without cooked pasties.
3773The mouth is not satisfied until it has tasted cow.
3774The mouth is related to the road, the eyes demand cleanliness.
3775The mouth knows what is good, the tongue tastes what is sweet.
3776The mouth lies, but the eyes tell the truth.
3777The mouth you cry with it is also the mouth you laugh with.
3778The mute don't receive a sheep.
3779The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
3780The nail that sticks out gets struck.
3781The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
3782The neck for the bearer, the head for the hunter.
3783The night bird defeats the day bird.
3784The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
3785The northerly wind spends the night next to his wife.
3786The old are feable, but the young are stupid.
3787The old are feable, but the young are weak.
3788The old are wise, but powerless.
3789The old fox sheds its old hair, but not its old habits.
3790The old man's day, hardship's day.
3791The old ones shall be honoured, the young ones shall be taught.
3792The old talk about what they have done, the young about what they will do.
3793The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
3794The one who controls himself most, is the one who can keep his own secrets.
3795The one who knows God most, is the one who accepts whatever God has given him.
3796The one who loves you will make you cry, the one who hates you will make you laugh.
3797The one who should be forgiven, is the one who's able to punish.
3798The one with no spouse takes a cat.
3799The one without a sword gets humiliated.
3800The only son and a cottage ram, neither one is a source of happiness.
3801The only stupid question is the one not asked.
3802The only trick the incapable has, are his tears.
3803The ox eats what it carries.
3804The ox lives while the knife is being sharpened.
3805The ox will meet the hare in the kettle at the latest.
3806The oxman spends his night where the horseman does.
3807The parent's heart in the child, the child's in the cold stone.
3808The parish clerk and the rooster live off their big mouths.
3809The path through the turnip field is the straightest.
3810The patient man's lot is best.
3811The pebble comes from the mountain.
3812The pencil writes and paper bears it all.
3813The people meet each other but the hills do not.
3814The pig and the smith make the old new.
3815The pig eats the supplies.
3816The pig is the poor man's saving bank.
3817The pillow is the best adviser.
3818The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
3819The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken eventually.
3820The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last.
3821The poor eat what they get, the rich what they want.
3822The poor give thanks to their sleep, the rich quarrel over their land.
3823The poor give thanks to their sleep, the rich quarrel over their property.
3824The poor man finds justice in the doorway and the rich man at the head of the table.
3825The poor man gives from what little he has, but the rich man does not even give from his plenty.
3826The poor man has to be the rich man's sewer broom and shovel.
3827The poor man would cook, too, if only he had a kettle.
3828The poor man's calves die and the rich man's children.
3829The pot calls the kettle black.
3830The pretty should not be burn-beating.
3831The prey spurs on the hunt.
3832The price lies in the thing.
3833The price of the expensive is within him.
3834The priest's pot is small but full.
3835The priest's pot is small but tasty.
3836The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
3837The purchased bread is thin.
3838The purest people are the ones with good manners.
3839The real art of divination lies in the choice of neighbours, not of houses.
3840The receiver is as bad as the thief.
3841The remedy is often worse than the disease.
3842The remedy is worse than the cure.
3843The remedy is worse than the disease.
3844The rich have money like mud.
3845The rich have money, the poor have children.
3846The richer, the meaner.
3847The right hand knows not what the left hand is doing.
3848The right path is very steep upward, whereas the wrong path is horizontal.
3849The road carries the load, and not even a good horse.
3850The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
3851The rope of lies is short.
3852The ropeman got mixed with the archer.
3853The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
3854The rotten apple spoils his companions.
3855The rotten apple spoils the barrel.
3856The rulers live off the farmer's work.
3857The same as the same and others as others.
3858The satiated cannot see the hungry.
3859The scalded dog fears cold water.
3860The sea gives, the sea takes.
3861The sea will make a man out of him.
3862The sea will pay back its debts.
3863The serpent knows his own hole.
3864The shoddier wheel makes a louder noise.
3865The shoemaker goes barefoot.
3866The shoemaker is always barefooted.
3867The shoulder is not higher than the head.
3868The sick want everything.
3869The sin is not in the sinning but in the being found out.
3870The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.
3871The skin on a woman's stomach is made of seven sheep skins.
3872The slow will win the quick.
3873The small reach far.
3874The small sheep, always a lamb.
3875The smaller the company, the better the share; the bigger the company, the merrier the play.
3876The smart one will learn from the mistakes of others.
3877The smarter you get the less you speak.
3878The smith's horse and the shoemakers children are worst shod.
3879The soul to the Lord, the rest to the devil.
3880The soul to the lord, the rest to the devil.
3881The soup is eaten as cooked.
3882The Southeasterly will drive the fish from the sea, the Northeasterly from the pot, and the Northwesterly from the spoon.
3883The southeasterly will drive the fish from the sea, the northeasterly from the pot, and the northwesterly from the spoon.
3884The spirit cannot live without eating.
3885The spoken word, the shot arrow, take it away if you can.
3886The spoonmaker's children have often the worst spoons.
3887The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
3888The stingy has a big porch and little morality.
3889The stomach gets full before the eye.
3890The stomach grants no debts.
3891The stomach is an eye easily blinded.
3892The stomach is not a glass bottle, whatever you put in it.
3893The stomach needs to be filled.
3894The strange master's eyes will not be watery.
3895The strong always think the weak are guilty.
3896The strongest cord is made of three strands.
3897The stupid find relief in the suffering of others.
3898The stupid might have wanted to help you, but ended up hurting you.
3899The sun also has its spots.
3900The sun cannot be hidden by a hand.
3901The sun rises and the rain falls for all.
3902The sun shines upon all alike.
3903The sun will look in our window.
3904The swallow summer brings, the swallow summer takes.
3905The sweet potato does not speak of its own sweetness.
3906The sweetest flesh is near the bones.
3907The tailor makes the man.
3908The talented hawk hides its claws.
3909The thief fears the daylight.
3910The thief takes what has been left behind by the careless.
3911The thief's hat is on fire, though there are no flame.
3912The things passed off like water from a duck's back.
3913The third time pays for all.
3914The thread's end will appear if you pull long enough.
3915The throne is never vacant.
3916The tongue breaks bones, though itself has none.
3917The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth; what the heart thinketh the tongue speaketh.
3918The tongue is not made of bone.
3919The tongue kills man and the tongue saves man.
3920The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
3921The tongue will show the direction.
3922The tree is known by his fruit.
3923The tree must be bent while it is young.
3924The trick the father has, the son has.
3925The truth can be told even in jest.
3926The truth comes forward in wine.
3927The truth holds on to its place.
3928The truth needs no colors.
3929The truth will out.
3930The truthful man has no room even in the tavern.
3931The turtle who perserveres wins.
3932The ugly maul their work, the pretty guard their stalk.
3933The ugly one breaks the mirror.
3934The village's piper does not exhilarate.
3935The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
3936The voice of the people is the drum of God.
3937The voice of the people is the voice of God.
3938The walls have ears.
3939The warp yarn stretched between the beams is already woven.
3940The water is the same on both sides of the boat.
3941The water will pay back its debts.
3942The water you collect from the stream teaches you about its source.
3943The way a man dies is determined by his occupation.
3944The way the devil reads the bible.
3945The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
3946The way to hell is paved with good intentions.
3947The way you call into a forest, the way it echoes back.
3948The way you make your bed is the way you will lie.
3949The weather carries the load, and not even a good horse.
3950The well fed person doesn't understand the hungry one.
3951The wheel of fortune is forever in motion.
3952The wife and the oven stay at home.
3953The wife of the cobbler and the horse of the smith always have bad shoes.
3954The wife was angry with St. Petersburg for seven years, but the city knew nothing of it.
3955The wind cannot be caught in a net.
3956The wind cannot snap a tree which bends down.
3957The wise drink beer, the ignorant throw up.
3958The wisest is the one who can forgive.
3959The wolf breaks the counted sheep.
3960The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb.
3961The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own.
3962The wolf is the dog's uncle.
3963The wolf won't die in front of one gate.
3964The wood of which tools are made is crooked from the beginning.
3965The woof makes the cloth.
3966The work shows the workman.
3967The worker is his work's slave.
3968The world does not stand on quarrelling.
3969The world is a good place if you keep your eyes opened and your mouth shut.
3970The world is like a dancing girl; it dances to everyone for a little while.
3971The world is small.
3972The world wants to be taken in.
3973The world you get is the world you give away, what goes around comes around or you reap what you sow.
3974The worst emotion is envy.
3975The worst wheel makes the most noise.
3976The written word remains.
3977The wrong penny takes the straight penny.
3978The young die when their years come to an end, but the old die from necessity.
3979The youngest kitten already chases mice.
3980The youth's skin will last on the hayrack.
3981There are a lot of spotted dogs in the world.
3982There are also better men to be found even than the best.
3983There are always larger fish in the stranger's boat.
3984There are hardships and there are delights.
3985There are lees to every wine.
3986There are more maids than Maukin and more men than Michael.
3987There are more maids than maukin and more men than michael.
3988There are more ways to the wood than one.
3989There are no cakes without work.
3990There are no secrets in the world.
3991There are none so blind as they who will not see.
3992There are plenty more fish in the sea.
3993There are seven types of fools on this earth: fools for food, drink, work, laziness, money, starving and fools for fighting.
3994There are three accursed things in a house: rain, smoke, an evil woman.
3995There are too many chiefs and not enough indians.
3996There are two sides to every question.
3997There is a black sheep in every flock.
3998There is a difference between people and people.
3999There is a limit to everything.
4000There is a limit to play.
4001There is a man in every drunkard, but none in a fool.
4002There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
4003There is a remedy for everything but death.
4004There is a way from heart to heart.
4005There is danger in delay.
4006There is enough salve in God's horn for everyone.
4007There is land for the ploughman and water for the rower.
4008There is many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip.
4009There is more than one way to kill a cat.
4010There is never a lack of food for the lazy person, nor of work for the industrious.
4011There is no accord where every man would be a lord.
4012There is no accounting for taste.
4013There is no building bridges across the ocean.
4014There is no bull so big that it won't find its better in a castrator.
4015There is no cow on the ice.
4016There is no fire without smoke.
4017There is no greater torment than to be alone in paradise.
4018There is no head so small that it does not have some sense in it.
4019There is no law for fools.
4020There is no little enemy.
4021There is no man so tall he doesn't have to stretch and no man so short he doesn't have to bend.
4022There is no one so old who does not believe that he will live a year more.
4023There is no place like home.
4024There is no rose without a thorn.
4025There is no rule without an exception.
4026There is no shame in not knowing something; the shame is in not being willing to learn.
4027There is no smoke without fire.
4028There is no smoke without some fire.
4029There is no sound more pleasing than one's owns praises.
4030There is no trust in horse or woman.
4031There is no washing a blackamoor white.
4032There is no woman more accustomed to bad shoes on her than the cobbler's wife.
4033There is nothing left to do in what has been done.
4034There is nothing more precious than time.
4035There is nothing new under the sun.
4036There is room for noise in the world.
4037There is sure to be fuel near a big tree.
4038There is surely plenty of time in a hundred years.
4039There is the sea - and who shall drain it dry?
4040There isn't a flood which will not subside.
4041There must be some moderation.
4042There must be two at least to a quarrel.
4043There often lies falsehood beneath a pretty skin.
4044There seldom is a single wave.
4045There was often a bad cloth on a tailor and a bad shoe on a cobbler.
4046There will always be hay where a load turns over.
4047There will fly no fried goose into the sleeping mans mouth.
4048There would be eaters if there were only collectors.
4049There's a sucker born every minute.
4050There's always tomorrow.
4051There's enough yarn in the world to make a shirt for the poor man.
4052There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
4053There's no smoke without fire.
4054There's no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes.
4055There's no use crying over spilt milk.
4056They agree like cats and dogs.
4057They are different men who wash corpses, and different men who bury them.
4058They are hand and glove.
4059They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
4060They planted so we ate, and we plant so they would eat.
4061They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
4062They talk like angels but live like men.
4063They way you sow is the way your reap.
4064They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young.
4065Things aren't as they seem.
4066Things never turn out the way you imagined.
4067Things past cannot be recalled.
4068Think before you act.
4069Think first about your idea, for later regrets are useless.
4070Think today and speak tomorrow.
4071This world has been spoilt with women and wolves.
4072Those are wise that heed advice, but no one should heed dissuasive advice.
4073Those who are far from the eye are far from the heart.
4074Those who don't look forward, stay behind.
4075Those who in quarrels interpose must often wipe a bloody nose.
4076Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
4077Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
4078Those who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young.
4079Those who've had their fingers burned think twice next time.
4080Thou shalt not steal.
4081Though near be the stone to the ground, closer is the help of coivi.
4082Though the horse never washes its eyes, it is still strong.
4083Though the night tarry, the dawn will break.
4084Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain.
4085Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul.
4086Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
4087Thought he was a great catch, turns out he is a shackle.
4088Thoughts pay no customs.
4089Three that come unbidden – love, jealousy and fear.
4090Three things a man should never lend to others: his wife, his knife and his boat.
4091Three things come without being wanted, age, love, and rheumatism.
4092Three times is good for everything.
4093Through yourself you know others.
4094Tie a knot at the end of the string, so you won't have to stick in vain.
4095Tie your camel and rely on God.
4096Tie your horse well, your boat even better.
4097Tighter than a needle's eye.
4098Time and tide wait for no man.
4099Time and tide waits for no man.
4100Time and tide waits for none.
4101Time conquers all.
4102Time cures all things.
4103Time cures all wounds.
4104Time has eaten and drank upon it.
4105Time heals all wounds.
4106Time is money.
4107Time is precious.
4108Time is the great healer.
4109Time is the oldest.
4110Time passes by quickly when you are enjoying yourself.
4111Time runs like the river current.
4112Time will bring everything out into the open.
4113Time will tell.
4114Time works wonders.
4115Tit for tat.
4116To add fuel to the fire.
4117To add oil to the flames.
4118To angle with a silver hook.
4119To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
4120To be head over ears in debt.
4121To be in one's birthday suit.
4122To be sick first, to be happy later.
4123To be up to the ears in love.
4124To be wise behind the hand.
4125To beat about the bush.
4126To beat the air.
4127To bite off more than one can chew.
4128To bring grist to somebody's mill.
4129To build a fire under oneself.
4130To buy a pig in a poke.
4131To call a spade a spade.
4132To call off the dogs.
4133To carry coals to newcastle.
4134To carry owls to athens.
4135To carry wood back into the forest.
4136To cast pearls before swine.
4137To cast prudence to the winds.
4138To clean the beak by rubbing it on the ground.
4139To close the gate of the bull pen after the bull has escaped is foolishness.
4140To come away none the wiser.
4141To come off cheap.
4142To come off with a whole skin.
4143To come off with flying colours.
4144To come out dry.
4145To come out with clean hands.
4146To continue is power.
4147To cook a hare before catching him.
4148To cry with one eye and laugh with the other.
4149To cut one's throat with a feather.
4150To dance to a person's pipe.
4151To dare is to lose your foothold for a moment, to not dare is to lose yourself.
4152To defend a wrong, is to wrong do anew.
4153To dig one's grave with one's own hands.
4154To dine with Duke Humphrey.
4155To draw in one's horns.
4156To draw water in a sieve.
4157To drop a bucket into an empty well.
4158To each, their own fun.
4159To eat the calf in the cow's belly.
4160To err is human, to forgive, divine.
4161To err is human.
4162To everything there is a season.
4163To fiddle while rome is burning.
4164To fight with one's own shadow.
4165To find a mare's nest.
4166To fish in troubled waters.
4167To fit like a glove.
4168To flog a dead horse.
4169To frighten a bird is not the way to catch it.
4170To get out of bed on the wrong side.
4171To give a lark to catch a kite.
4172To give a thing and take a thing is fit for the devil's darling.
4173To go for wool and come home shorn.
4174To go through fire and water.
4175To have a finger in the pie.
4176To have one foot in the grave.
4177To have rats in the attic.
4178To heal all disease, take garlic and may butter; drink along with that white goats’ milk.
4179To hit the nail on the head.
4180To kick against the pricks.
4181To kill a bull by straightening its horns.
4182To kill two birds with one stone.
4183To kiss the child for love of the nurse.
4184To know everything is to know nothing.
4185To know on which side one's bread is buttered.
4186To know what's what.
4187To lay by for a rainy day.
4188To lazy pigs the ground is always frozen.
4189To live from hand to mouth.
4190To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
4191To look at the stars and fall into a ditch.
4192To look for a needle in a haystack.
4193To love somebody as the devil loves holy water.
4194To love something as the devil loves holy water.
4195To make a mountain out of a molehill.
4196To make both ends meet.
4197To make the air blue.
4198To make the cup run over.
4199To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
4200To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
4201To pay one back in one's own coin.
4202To plough the sand.
4203To pour water into a sieve.
4204To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
4205To pull the devil by the tail.
4206To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
4207To put off till doomsday.
4208To put the cart before the horse.
4209To quake at work and sweat at meals.
4210To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
4211To roll in money.
4212To run with the hare and hold with the hound.
4213To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
4214To save one's bacon.
4215To send owls to athens.
4216To separate is to die a little.
4217To set the cart before the horse.
4218To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
4219To shoot a sparrow with a large cannon.
4220To speak is silver, to keep silent is gold.
4221To steal the goose and give the giblets in alms.
4222To stick to somebody like a leech.
4223To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
4224To take counsel of one's pillow.
4225To take the bull by the horns.
4226To teach the dog to bark.
4227To tell tales out of school.
4228To the place where the heart loves the feet will carry you.
4229To throw a stone in one's own garden.
4230To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
4231To throw pearls before swine.
4232To throw straws against the wind.
4233To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
4234To turn the air blue.
4235To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
4236To warm a snake in your bosom.
4237To wash one's dirty linen in public.
4238To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
4239To weep over an onion.
4240To work with the left hand.
4241To) late shall the sinner awaken.
4242Today gold, tomorrow soil.
4243Today me, tomorrow thee.
4244Today red, tomorrow dead.
4245Today's egg is better than tomorrow's chicken.
4246Tomorrow come never.
4247Tomorrow comes never.
4248Tomorrow has its care, the next day its tasks.
4249Tomorrow is a new day.
4250Tomorrow is close if you wait for it.
4251Tomorrow's backside is black.
4252Tongueless woes are not known.
4253Too many captains and the ship rolls.
4254Too many cooks spoil the broth.
4255Too much hope deceives.
4256Too much humility brings humiliation.
4257Too much knowledge makes the head bald.
4258Too much laughter discovers folly.
4259Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.
4260Too much of one thing, good for nothing.
4261Too much the death of he who is moving.
4262Too much water drowned the miller.
4263Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
4264Tougher than a rock.
4265Tougher than a stone.
4266Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse.
4267Travellers have leave to lie.
4268Treat others as you would want to be treated yourself.
4269Trouble never comes crying.
4270Troubles come in packs.
4271True blue will never stain.
4272True coral needs no painter's brush.
4273True jests are the worst.
4274True love never grows old.
4275True only the second time around.
4276True only the second time around. a friend shows in misfortune.
4277Trust begets trust.
4278Trust in God, but lock your car.
4279Trust your instincts.
4280Trust yourself and your horse!
4281Truth comes out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.
4282Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about.
4283Truth is simple, lies are complicated.
4284Truth is stranger than fiction.
4285Truth lies at the bottom of a well.
4286Truths and roses have thorns about them.
4287Twice is a guest dear: on arrival and on departure.
4288Two are in fifty, ten tens in a hundred.
4289Two blacks do not make a white.
4290Two cocks cannot roost on the same perch.
4291Two dogs fight over a bone, and the third takes it.
4292Two heads are better than one.
4293Two heads in one hood at once.
4294Two is a crowd, but three is a company.
4295Two is always two.
4296Two is company, but three is none.
4297Two kings in one kingdom do not agree well together.
4298Two men will meet sooner than two mountains.
4299Two of a trade never agree.
4300Two tasks for a guest: to arrive and to depart.
4301Two women together is a small marketplace, three a fair.
4302Uglier than a monkey.
4303Uglier than a pig.
4304Uglier than an ogre.
4305Uglier than magic.
4306Under the lamp, darkness.
4307Understand the boat and the boat will understand you.
4308Ungratefulness is the world's wages.
4309Union is strength.
4310United we stand, divided we fall.
4311Unity is power.
4312Unseriousness eats pumpkin leaves.
4313Unused firewood mocks the burning wood.
4314Variety delights.
4315Variety is the spice of life.
4316Variety pleases.
4317Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
4318Villages visited and bread eaten and the crust brought home.
4319Virtue is its own reward.
4320Virtue is not lost with age.
4321Virtue is the foundation of happiness, vice the presage of misery.
4322Virtue which parleys is near a surrender.
4323Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
4324Wait for the cat to jump.
4325Wake not a sleeping dog.
4326Walk the talk.
4327Walk the walk, then talk the talk.
4328Walls have ears.
4329War does not look in the eyes.
4330Warned is armed.
4331Warned is forearmed.
4332Wash your dirty linen at home.
4333Waste not, want not.
4334Watch out for a bull's front side, a horse's backside, and a bad person's every side.
4335Watch the mother's habits before marrying the daughter.
4336Water afar does not quench a fire at hand.
4337Water flows, rock erodes.
4338Water is a brother's mercy, husk is a sister's mercy.
4339Water is medicine to shit.
4340Water is stronger than spirits, it topples even large mills.
4341Water keeps the boat afloat, but can also sink it.
4342Water under the bridge.
4343Water will stand in a hollow.
4344We all start out as children.
4345We are all Adam's children.
4346We are all descended from adam.
4347We are all in the same boat.
4348We are to learn as long as we live.
4349We know not what is good until we have lost it.
4350We learn as long as we live.
4351We live as we can, not as we wish.
4352We must take things as we find them.
4353We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
4354We never know the worth of water until the well runs dry.
4355We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
4356We rode slow, but we ride sure.
4357We shall see what we shall see.
4358We soon believe what we desire.
4359We'll see what we'll see.
4360Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away like a gazelle.
4361Wealth is nothing without health.
4362Wealth is short-lived.
4363Wealth rarely brings happiness.
4364Weather can't be put in a pot.
4365Weeping does not keep you from death.
4366Well begun is half done.
4367Well begun, is half done.
4368Went to haj while pilgrims are coming back.
4369What ails folk, they'll bewail it.
4370What ails folk, they'll talk about.
4371What are the piglet's habits, so are they the sow's.
4372What can you do with an eye that does not see.
4373What can't be cured, must be endured.
4374What do the rich care, put more fat in the cabbage.
4375What do you take from something that is empty.
4376What does a monkey knows about the taste of ginger?
4377What does not kill you makes you stronger.
4378What doesn't kill, hardens.
4379What everybody says must be true.
4380What everyone says must be true.
4381What goes around comes around.
4382What goes around, comes around.
4383What has no tongue pulls a fool's load.
4384What I do is what others do.
4385What is a workman without his tools?
4386What is acquired easily is lost easily.
4387What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
4388What is done by night appears by day.
4389What is done cannot be undone.
4390What is done in the dark is seen in the day.
4391What is done no longer needs to be done.
4392What is done, is done.
4393What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
4394What is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw.
4395What is in the heart, comes to the tongue.
4396What is in the pot will come out in the ladle.
4397What is in your dreams at night is what is in your head during the day.
4398What is it for the driver that the master will drive.
4399What is learned in youth is remembered in old age.
4400What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tomb.
4401What is lost is lost.
4402What is salty ties the heart.
4403What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
4404What is the use of crying when the birds ate the whole farm?
4405What is tight for one is best for two and large for three.
4406What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
4407What is unclearly said is unclearly thought.
4408What is used wears down.
4409What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
4410What is worth doing at alt is worth doing well.
4411What is written with a quill pen cannot be erased by an axe.
4412What is, is.
4413What it looks like, that's what it tastes like.
4414What kind of parents, such children.
4415What matters if we drink milk in a dream out of bellmetal or gold?
4416What must be, must be.
4417What one's head lacks one has to have in one's legs.
4418What rains before Midsummer rains into the grain bin.
4419What rains before midsummer rains into the grain bin.
4420What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
4421What starts with a needle usually ends with a silver bowl.
4422What the father collects, the son divides.
4423What the goat does, the kid follows.
4424What the good-wife spares, the cat eats.
4425What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
4426What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
4427What the mother is singing, her young will be chirping.
4428What the sea takes it also returns.
4429What we do willingly is easy.
4430What you can do today don't put off to tomorrow.
4431What you collect in youth, you'll find in front of you in old age.
4432What you cook you eat.
4433What you cut can no longer be brought together.
4434What you do not know does not hurt you.
4435What you do when drunk, you answer for when sober.
4436What you don't have the strength to carry, you don't have to lift up.
4437What you don't want to hide, you tell your wife.
4438What you eat and sleep, you get for yourself.
4439What you get used to as young man you keep up that habit as an old man.
4440What you have given will be a shield.
4441What you lose at the swings you take back at the merry-go-round.
4442What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
4443What you make alone, you eat alone.
4444What you reap is what you sow.
4445What's done is done.
4446What's got over the devil's back is bent under his belly.
4447What's talked about is what's missing.
4448Whatever is broken will grow back, whatever is lost will be replaced.
4449Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you.
4450Whatever will be, will be.
4451Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end.
4452What’s done is done; don't lock the stable door after the horse has bolted.
4453When **** speak it is too late to argue.
4454When a cat goes out for a walk, the mice throw a party.
4455When a child gets what he wants, he keeps his mouth shut.
4456When a child stumbles, the devil cushions his fall; when a grown-up falls, it jumps on top.
4457When a daughter is born, nothing is born, when a son is born, the real thing is born.
4458When a dog learns to lick the quern, it won't change its habits.
4459When a door closes another opens.
4460When a strange cow sets foot in the herd, the others tease it with their horns.
4461When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
4462When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.
4463When angry, count a hundred.
4464When anyone has learnt to steal he must also learn to hang.
4465When at rome, do as the romans do.
4466When children stand quiet, they have done some harm.
4467When distress is the greatest, help is the nearest.
4468When doing good, you're rewarded with shit.
4469When eating porridge, don't pity butter.
4470When everyone spits on it, the stone will get wet.
4471When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
4472When ginger is made from chicken shit it's pretty fine.
4473When God brings death, the devil brings heirs.
4474When good is sought, better is found.
4475When has the greedy man had enough?
4476When hungry, any food is fit for a while.
4477When I itch, I must scratch.
4478When in doubt, leave it out.
4479When in rome do as the romans.
4480When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
4481When in rome, do as the romans do.
4482When in rome, do as the romans.
4483When in rome, do as the romans. when among wolves you must howl.
4484When it comes on one it comes on all.
4485When it rains and the sun shines..
4486When it rains and the sun shines...
4487When it rains manna from heaven, the poor one does not have a spoon.
4488When it rains on the priest, it dripples on the sacristan.
4489When it's caught together, it's also eaten together.
4490When matters are drawn out, they become twisted.
4491When misfortune arrives, it comes through doors and windows.
4492When one door closes another opens.
4493When one lives, one experiences.
4494When pigs fly.
4495When poisoned, one might as well swallow the plate.
4496When poverty comes in at the door, friendship flees out at the window.
4497When queen anne was alive.
4498When something has been denied of you, you can still do it once.
4499When the bread is finished, then pies are eaten.
4500When the cat is away, the mice dance on the floor.
4501When the cat is away, the mice will play.
4502When the cat is away, the rats dance on the table.
4503When the cat's away, the mice will play.
4504When the crow sings early it means warm weather.
4505When the devil grows old he turns religious.
4506When the devil is blind.
4507When the father's generation eats salt, the child's generation thirsts for water.
4508When the fox is engaging you in conversation, keep an eye on your chicken.
4509When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
4510When the fox sleeps, no grapes fall in his mouth.
4511When the head is sick, the whole body is sick.
4512When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked.
4513When the luckless plan to be wed the nights begin to shorten.
4514When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
4515When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole.
4516When the need is highest, help is nearest.
4517When the oil is exhausted the lamp goes out.
4518When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke.
4519When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe.
4520When the plating goes, the base will show.
4521When the reason is known, there will be no more wonder.
4522When the shepherd is angry with his flock, he appoints a blind sheep as leader.
4523When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
4524When the tree is fallen every man goes to it with his hatchet.
4525When the trough is empty, the pigs start to squabble.
4526When the veil of night falls, all colors are equal.
4527When there is no fish in the river, shrimps are valued.
4528When thieves fall out, honest men get their own.
4529When three know it, alt know it.
4530When three women get together, it's a village meeting.
4531When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow.
4532When times are hard even the male will cub.
4533When we are gone, let happen what may.
4534When will the greedy be content and when will hell be full?
4535When wine is in wit is out.
4536When you do not see him you desire him; when you see him you loathe him.
4537When you fall, you won't fall lower than the ground.
4538When you flee from a wolf, you run into a bear.
4539When you fool a fool, the more foolish he will be.
4540When you give, give and be quiet.
4541When you're speaking about the trolls, they're standing in the entrance hall listening.
4542When your elders are talking, children should be silent.
4543When your neighbour's wall breaks, your own is in danger.
4544When your son grows up, become his brother.
4545Where a bird sits, there a feather is left.
4546Where can a man flee from his given days.
4547Where else would the shit be than in the cart.
4548Where force rules, justice does not exist.
4549Where God bestows an office, he gives brains to fill it.
4550Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.
4551Where God has a church the devil will have his chapel.
4552Where people are promising much to you, bring a small bag.
4553Where shall the ladle be if not in the cauldron?
4554Where the carcass is the ravens will gather.
4555Where the devil can't go, he sends a bad woman.
4556Where the horse lies down, there some hair will be found.
4557Where the needle goes, the string follows.
4558Where the red goat was lying, the grass does not grow for forty years =riddle: war, forest fire.
4559Where the work is being done, there the bread is eaten.
4560Where there is a will, there is a way.
4561Where there is an advantage there is also a disadvantage.
4562Where there is butter there are flies.
4563Where there is life, there is misfortune.
4564Where there is wealth, there are friends.
4565Where there's a will, there's a way.
4566Where there's smoke, there's fire.
4567Where wine enters sense leaves.
4568Whether I pull or push, it won't get better.
4569Whichever way you turn the rump is on your backside.
4570While the grass grows the horse starves.
4571While the grass grows the steed starves.
4572While the grass grows, the steed starves.
4573While the grass is growing the steed starves.
4574While there is life there is hope.
4575While there's life there's hope.
4576Whine you may even in good clothes.
4577Who arrives uninvited, leaves without asking.
4578Who asks is given.
4579Who begins with little finishes with plenty.
4580Who breaks, pays.
4581Who can see in the future?
4582Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
4583Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself.
4584Who doesn't appreciate the litte does not deserve the big.
4585Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels.
4586Who goes into the water is dry when he comes out.
4587Who goes more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare.
4588Who has a bell around his neck has his head down.
4589Who has a cunt has power.
4590Who has long fingers is a thief.
4591Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
4592Who has not served cannot command.
4593Who is angered by play is a fool.
4594Who is fated to be hanged will not die in the water.
4595Who is feared also shows mercy.
4596Who is first put into the bag is last taken out.
4597Who is given eats much, who takes himself eats more.
4598Who is itching must scratch himself.
4599Who is merciful to the cruel eventually would be cruel to the merciful.
4600Who is not struck by words is not struck by a cane.
4601Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
4602Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.
4603Who keeps company with the wolves, will learn to howl.
4604Who keeps silent defeats everyone.
4605Who knows a lot, runs along the road; who knows little, sleeps on the oven.
4606Who promises a lot, gives a little.
4607Who pursues work is not yet a man, who is pursued by work is a man.
4608Who saw a peacock dance in the woods?
4609Who says "a" must say "b".
4610Who sings in the morning, cries in the evening.
4611Who sows the wind will reap the storm.
4612Who spends the summer singing has an empty belly in the winter.
4613Who talks a lot lies a lot.
4614Who wakes early finds gold.
4615Who wants to lick honey must not shy away from the bees.
4616Who wants to win a gander, you need to weigh drake.
4617Who will not keep a penny, shall never have many.
4618Who would gather everyone's view.
4619Who would invite a fool to his wedding.
4620Whoever digs a hole for someone else, will fall in it themselves.
4621Whoever owns the stick owns the buffalo.
4622Whom God will destroy, he first make mad.
4623Whom God will help no man can hinder.
4624Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
4625Whose the cow, his the calf, no matter whose the ox is.
4626Whose work, his food.
4627Whosoever digs a pit, will fall into it himself.
4628Why should he worry about swimming if his head is being carried.
4629Why should the seal worry in a sea full of small fish.
4630Wikimedia foundation powered by mediawikieven if you know the way, ask one more time.
4631Wikimedia foundation powered by mediawikioh, what a pair! a snail and a slug!
4632Will not be who has waited till the food is cooked, also wait till it cools?
4633Will the word pumpkin serve for a meal?
4634Winds blow counter to what ships desire.
4635Wine has drowned more than the sea.
4636Winning is earning, losing is learning., sadder but wiser.
4637Wisdom begins with the fear of God.
4638Wisdom comes with age.
4639Wisdom goes not always by years.
4640Wisdom gotten from age is better than the shell of a tortoise.
4641Wisdom has long ears and short tongue.
4642Wise after the event.
4643Wise fear begets care.
4644Wise men learn by other men's harms, fools by their own.
4645Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
4646Wish that summer would come along with flies so that even a poor man would have friends.
4647Wishers and woulders are never good householders.
4648Wit will arrive, but only on the night train.
4649With a good friend the hours are short.
4650With butter goes even iron nail heads.
4651With butter goes even old mittens.
4652With carefulness you realize your opportunity.
4653With foxes you must play the fox.
4654With one's hat in one's hand one goes throughout the land.
4655With only a drop of alcohol, a pot of milk is damaged.
4656With rapport and offsprings.
4657With the same mouth the lies are exposed.
4658With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin.
4659With violets and goats’ milk anoint your face, and every king’s son in the world will be after you.
4660Without a voice even the fool is wise.
4661Without legs one cannot run far, nor without wings fly.
4662Without manure he growing grain will not yield a good crop.
4663Without temptation there is no victory.
4664Without the support of small pebbles, a big rock cannot be stable.
4665Without work - there are no kolaches.
4666Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child.
4667Wolf in sheep's clothing.
4668Women and cats have hardy spirits.
4669Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass shops.
4670Wonders will never cease.
4671Wood burns most bright when joined with other wood.
4672Words cut more than swords.
4673Words don't match with actions.
4674Words may pass, but blows fall heavy.
4675Words pay no debts.
4676Work for the engagement of your daughter, but don't work for the engagement of your son.
4677Work is a man's honour, skill his best thing.
4678Work is afraid of the master.
4679Work not, eat not.
4680Work teaches work.
4681Working and working at it, iron can be pulverized.
4682Worry does not let a man sleep, ordeals do not let him rest.
4683Years know more than books.
4684Yesterday is lived through, today is lived up to this moment.
4685You aim at magpies but shoot at crows.
4686You are always closest to yourself.
4687You are like the company you keep.
4688You are like your friends.
4689You are striking cold iron.
4690You are welcome to all we have.
4691You are what your friends are.
4692You begin to know how to by learning.
4693You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar.
4694You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.
4695You can do any job later.
4696You can even get used to life in hell.
4697You can go without food, but not without clothes.
4698You can mock the old but never the cripple.
4699You can never tell from the sky or a child's bottom.
4700You can put up with its kicks if a cow gives milk.
4701You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink.
4702You can tell a chicken by its eggs.
4703You can't break a wall with your head.
4704You can't catch the wind in a net.
4705You can't exchange an egg with an egg.
4706You can't get blood out of a stone.
4707You can't get cloth from chicken shit.
4708You can't get figs from thistles.
4709You can't get silk from shit, cloth from chicken shit.
4710You can't get silk from shit.
4711You can't get something for nothing.
4712You can't get two hides from one bull.
4713You can't have your cake and eat it too.
4714You can't hold two watermelons in one hand.
4715You can't kill a wolf with a nail.
4716You can't kill someone's habit.
4717You can't make a shtreimel from a pig's tail.
4718You can't make something beautiful by force.
4719You can't milk a bull.
4720You can't place your worries in a basket.
4721You can't put a cover on a mouth.
4722You can't serve wisdom with a ladle.
4723You can't swim far against the current nor walk fast up a hill.
4724You can't take it with you.
4725You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
4726You can't teach old dogs to sit.
4727You cannot buy time.
4728You cannot eat your cake and have it.
4729You cannot flay the same ox twice.
4730You cannot judge a tree by it bark.
4731You cannot know wine by the barrel.
4732You cannot make a cattle dog out of a wolf.
4733You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.
4734You cannot recover a lost moment.
4735You cannot run and pee at the same time.
4736You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
4737You cannot wash charcoal white.
4738You can’t expect perfection every time.
4739You can’t make an omelette without breaking an egg.
4740You can’t unring a bell.
4741You catch fish with both hands.
4742You do not get everything which you are meowing for.
4743You don't become rich with large earnings but with small costs.
4744You don't get anything for nothing.
4745You don't get nothing for nothing.
4746You don't get nothing for nothing; the only free cheese is in the mouse trap.
4747You don't have to teach your son; life will teach him.
4748You don't miss the cow until the stall is empty.
4749You don't need a mirror to look at the wound in your palm.
4750You don't want what you can't see.
4751You get what you pay for.
4752You give the wolf the wether to keep.
4753You have to correct your mouth according to your lunch pack.
4754You have to learn to crawl before you can learn to walk.
4755You hear what you want to hear.
4756You know much if you know how to live.
4757You leave work only under the turf.
4758You left them lost and bewildered.
4759You live according to your livelihood, you row according to the water.
4760You lost a sheep that you made a wolf its guardian, didn't you know that the wolf is a thief.
4761You made your bed, now lie in it.
4762You may become poorer but not thinner.
4763You might as well try to hold an eel by the tail.
4764You must learn to crawl before you can walk.
4765You must learn to creep before you go.
4766You must meet roughness with roughness.
4767You must not run after two hares at the same time.
4768You need a brother, without one you're like a person rushing to battle without a weapon.
4769You need money enough to keep the dogs from pissing on your feet.
4770You need to be strong to beat the devil.
4771You need to face your fears.
4772You never get tired of working for yourself.
4773You never have more fun than what you do.
4774You never know what you can do till you try.
4775You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
4776You never miss the well till it runs dry.
4777You reap what you sow.
4778You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
4779You see the penny's hole but not the larger coin's hole.
4780You should always sleep with one eye open.
4781You should forge while the iron is hot.
4782You should hammer your iron, while it is glowing hot;strike while the iron's hot.
4783You should not add oil to the fire.
4784You should not be born pretty but lucky.
4785You should not have enmity with the crocodile if you are living in the water.
4786You should not judge a dog by its fur.
4787You there and me here.
4788You were born once, you will die once; no one dies twice.
4789You will be judged by the standards you judge others by.
4790You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly.
4791You won't know someone unless you have eaten a sack of salt together.
4792You wouldn't believe it before you see it with your own eyes.
4793You'll never get anything new if you don't use the old!
4794You've asked for trouble.
4795You've made your bed, now lie in it.
4796Your brother is that who consoles you.
4797Your brother is who gives you honest advice.
4798Your brother is who's honest with you, not who believes you.
4799Your elbow is close at hand but you can't bite it.
4800Your enemies won't believe you and your friends won't need it.
4801Your lord is the lord of hearts.
4802Your nose is a part of you even if it was cut.
4803Your own cabin, your own rules.
4804Your own child how sweet, the other's but a wood ship.
4805Your own daughter is taught, the motherless learns her lesson.
4806Your own hide is the most valuable of all.
4807Your own land is the dearest, your own forest the sweetest.
4808Your own life is more valuable than another's.
4809Your own straw bed is better than a stranger's feather bed.
4810Your own whip and another's horse.
4811Your own woof, your own warp.
4812Your relatives are more deserving of your generosity.
4813Your wound has hairs of the same dog that bit you.
4814Youth is wasted on the young.
4815Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
4816Тоо many midwives deliver a sickly baby.