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After dinner, rest; after dinner walk a mile.
Arab Proverb

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
Swedish Proverb

All sins cast long shadows.
Irish Proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb


Bad is never good until worse happens.
Danish Proverb

Bed is the poor man's opera.
Italain Proverb

Better be quarreling than lonesome.
Irish Proverb

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Italian Proverb

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.
Persian Proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb


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The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned.
Japanese Proverb


Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
English Proverb

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
The Talmud

Deliberate often--decide once.
Latin Proverb

A dimple in the chin; a devil within.
Irish Proverb

Don't offer me advice; give me money
Spanish Proverb


The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arab Proverb

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Moorish Proverb

Every invalid is a doctor.
Irish Proverb

Every path has its puddle.
English Proverb

Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
(tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse)
French Proverb

The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Proverb

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
German Proverb


A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverb

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine.
Polish Proverb

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Spanish Proverb


Go and wake up your cook.
Arab Proverb

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.
Japanese Proverb

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.
German Proverb

God will be present, whether asked or not.
Latin Proverb

Gossip needs no carriage.
Russian Proverb

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.
Polish Proverb

Great men are not always wise.
Biblical Proverb

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Polish Proverb


A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
Biblical Proverb

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Biblical Proverb

He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb

He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
Colombian Proverb

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
German Proverb


If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see.
Spanish Proverb

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.
Saudi Proverb

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Jewish Proverb

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Russian Proverb

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Yiddish Proverb

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
Turkish Proverb

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs.
Russian Proverb

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
Jewish Proverb

In the ant's house, the dew is a flood.
Old Proverb

Invalids live longest.
German Proverb

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.
Greek Proverb

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees.
Arab Proverb


The journey is the reward.
Tao Proverb


Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
Spanish Proverb

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


A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
Egyptian Proverb

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
Chinese Proverb


The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Japanese Proverb

The net of the sleeper catches fish.
Greek Proverb


Old birds are hard to pluck.
German Proverb

One cannot both feast and become rich.
Ashanti Proverb

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him
Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Jewish Proverb

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
Spanish Proverb


The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
Old Proverb

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Sioux Proverb


No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Spanish Proverb

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Portuguese Proverb

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Russian Proverb


The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb

The silent dog is the first to bite.
Old Proverb

The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arab Proverb

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Biblical Proverb

The sun sets without thy assistance.
The Talmud


Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
Malay Proverb

Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Spanish Proverb

Time gives good advice.
Maltese Proverb

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
Spanish Proverb

To own is to fear.
Spanish Proverb

Truth is the safest lie.
Yiddish Proverb

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Proverb

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Scottish Proverb


Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure.
Portuguese Proverb


We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
English Proverb

We so not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Haida Proverb

What can't be cured, must be endured.
Old Proverb

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
English Proverb

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
African Proverb

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
Swedish Proverb

When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
Nigerian Proverb

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian Proverb

When you live next to the cemetary, you cannot weep for everyone.
Old Proverb

A white wall is the fool's paper.
French Proverb

Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.
German Proverb

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
German Proverb

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
French Proverb

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

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
Spanish Proverb

Worries go better with soup than without.
Yiddish Proverb


You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.
Russian Proverb

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

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