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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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