Proverbs by language

"A diabolo, qui est simia dei."

"Abbati, medico, patronoque intima pande."

"Quidquid praecipies esto brevis."

"Acquirit qui tuetur."

"Acta non verba."

"Ancipiti plus ferit ense gula."

"Aegrescit medendo."

"Aegroto dum anima est, spes est."

"Aeque pars ligni curvi ac recti valet igni."

"Age quod agis."

"Aliis si licet, tibi non licet."

"An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (alternatively: regatur orbis)"

"Aliquando dormitat Homerus."

"Aliquis in omnibus est nullus in singulis."

"Arcem ex cloacâ facĕre."

"Aries cornibus Iasciviens."

"Atqui, ex lotio est."

"Auctoritas non veritas facit legem"

"Audaces fortuna iuvat."

"Audentes fortuna juvat."

"Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace)."

"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam."

"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant."

"Bellum se ipsum alet."

"Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur."

"Bis dat qui cito dat."

"Brevis oratio penetrat coelos; Longa potatio evacuat scyphos."

"Canus honoretur, puer ad documenta citetur."

"Carpe diem."

"Carthago delenda est."

"Cave ab homine unius libri."

"Citius venit malum quam revertitur."

"Cito maturum cito putridum."

"Cogitationes posteriores sunt saniores."

"Consilio, quod respuitur, nullum subest auxilium."

"Consuetudinis magna vis est"

"Consuetudo altera natura est"

"Contritium praecedit superbia."

"Cor boni concilii statue tecum non est enim tibi aliud pluris illo."

"Corruptio optimi pessima"

"Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges"

""Credula est spes improba."

"Crede quod habes, et habes."

"Cui caput dolet, omnia membra languent."

"Cuilibet fatuo placet sua calva."

"Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. —"

"Curae canitiem inducunt."

"Custode et cura natura potentior omni."

"De gustibus non est disputandum."

"De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum."

"De mortuis nil nisi bonum [dicendum est]."

"Deus quem punire vult dementat."

"Diem vesper commendat."

"Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem."

"Dii facientes adiuvant."

"Dives aut iniquus est, aut iniqui heres."

"Dives est qui sibi nihil deesse putat."

"Divide et impera."

"Docendo discimus."

"Duabus ancoris fultus."

"Ductus Exemplo"

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

"Dulce pomum quum abest custos."

"Dulcior illa sapit caro, quae magis ossibus haeret."

"Dum canem caedimus, corrosisse dicitur corrium."

"Dum lusus bonus est, ipsum dimittere fas est."

"Dum satur est venter, gaudet caput inde libenter."

"Dum spiro, spero."

"Dum vivimus, vivamus!"

"Dum vita est, spes est."

"Ecce omnis, qui dicit vulgo proverbium, in te assumet illud dicens: Sicut mater, ita et filia ejus."

"Effectus sequitur causam."

"Eodem cubito, eadem trutina, pari libra."

"Errare humanum est."

"Ex granis fit acervus."

"Et ipsa scientia potestas est."

"Ex malis moribus bonae leges natae sunt."

"Ex nihilo nihil fit."

"Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis."

"Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta."

"Extremis malis extrema remedia."

"Expecta bos olim herba."

"Facilis descensus Averni."

"Factis ut credam facis."

"Festina lente!"

"Fides facit fidem."

"Fidite Nemini"

"Finis origine pendet."

"Forma bonum fragile est."

"Fortes fortuna iuvat"

"Fraus hominum ad perniciem, et integritas ad salutem vocat."

"Fronti nulla fides."

"Generosus equus non curat canem latrantem."

"Gloriosum est iniurias oblivisci."

"Gutta cavat lapidem"

"Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo; sic homo fit sapiens non bis, sed saepe legendo."

"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo"

"Historia est vitae magistra."

"Hodie mihi, cras tibi."

"Homines quod volunt credunt."

"Homo cogitat, Deus iudicat."

"Honor sequitur fugientem."

"Hortamur fari, quo sanguine cretus."

"Hostium munera, non munera."

"Ignavum fortuna repugnat."

"Ignorantia legis non excusat"

"Imperare sibi maximum imperium est."

"Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit."

"Incus robusta malleum non temnit."

"In dubio, abstine."

"In dubio pro reo."

"In iudicando criminosa est celeritas."

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas"

"In nullum avarus bonus est, in se pessimus."

"In propria causa nemo debet esse iudex."

"In risu agnoscitur fatuus."

"In vino veritas."

"Inimicum quamvis humilem docti est metuere."

"Innumeras curas secum adferunt liberi."

"Intemperans adulescentia effetum corpus tradit senectuti."

"Inter gladium et iugulum."

"Interdum stultus bene loquitur.'"

"Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis ."

"Ira furor brevis est."

"Longum iter est per praecepta , breve et efficax per exempla."

"Iucundum est narrare sua mala."

"Latet anguis sub herbis in herba."

"Latet enim veritas, sed nihil pretiosius veritate."

"Lumen soli mutuum das."

"Macte animo! Generose puer sic itur ad astra!"

"Mala herba cito crescit"

"Mala hostibus eveniant."

"Mali principii malus finis."

"Malo arboris nodo malus clavus and cuneus infigendus est."

"Malum consilium quod mutari non potest."

"Malo nodo malus quaerendus cuneus. A bad wedge is to be preferred to a bad knot."

"Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono."

"Manus manum lavat."

"Mater artium necessitas."

"Maxima debetur puero reverentia"

"Medicus curat, natura sanat"

"Melium est nomen bonum quam divitae multae."

"Memento mori."

"Mendacem memorem esse oportet."

"Mens regnum bona possidet."

"Merx ultronea putet."

"Misera fortuna, qui caret inimico."

"Mobiles ad superstitionem perculsae semel mentes"

"Mulgere hircum."

"Mulier est hominis confusio."

"Multum clamoris, parum lanae."

"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur."

"Ne eligat is qui donum accipit."

"Ne puero gladium."

"Ne quid expectes amicos, quod tute agere possis."

"Ne quid nimis"

"Sutor, ne ultra crepidam"

"Nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi."

"Nemo iudex in causa sua."

"Nescis quid serus vesper vehat."

"Nihil ægrius quam disciplinam accipimus."

"Nihil est opertum quod non revelabitur, et occultum quod non scietur."

"Nihil sub sole novum."

"Nitidae vestes ornatiorem reddunt."

"In nocte consilium."

"Nomen est omen."

"Non alios suo modulo metiri."

"Non capiunt lepores tympana rauca leves."

"Nocere facile est, prodesse difficile."

"Non nobis solum nati sumus."

"Non opus est follo suspendere tympana collo."

"Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus, difficilia sunt."

"Non scholae, sed vitae discimus."

"Non semper erit aestas."

"Nulla poena sine lege"

"Nulla regula sine exceptione."

"Nulli tacuisse nocet, tutum silentii premium."

"Nullus est dolor quod longinquitas non minuat Dolorem dies longa consumit."

"Nullus est liber tam mallus, ut non aliqua parte prosit."

"Oblata arripe."

"Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros."

"Oculus animi index."

"Omnia cum pretio."

"Omnibus se accomodat rebus, omnia novit."

"Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est."

"Oratores fiunt, poetae nascuntur."

"Optimi natatores saepius submerguntur."

"Optimum medicamentum quies est."

"Otia dant vitia."

"Pacta sunt servanda"

"Par pari refertur."

"Pars est beneficii quod petitur si cito neges."

"Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum."

"Pede poena claudo."

"Periculum in mora."

"Philosophum non facit barba."

"Plus ultra"

"Piscem vorat maior minorem."

"Post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis."

"Potius sero quam numquam."

"Praemonitus, praemunitus."

"Praesentem mulge, fugientem quid insequeris."

"Praestat cautela quam medela."

"Publica fama non semper vana."

"Pulverulenta novis bene verritur area scopis."

"Qualis pagatio, talis laboratio."

"Qualis rex, talis grex."

"Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu."

"Quantum satis."

"Que capit, ille facit"

"Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur"

"Quem dii odere, paedagogum fecere (also Quem dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt)"

"Qui audet adipiscitur."

"Qui dormit non peccat"

"Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem"

"Quidquid discis, tibi discis"

"Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur"

"Quieta non movere"

"Qui habet aures audiendi audiat"

"Qui me amat, amet et canem meum."

"Qui multum habet, plus cupit."

"Qui nimis capit, parum stringit."

"Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit."

"Qui non proficit, deficit."

"Qui primus venerit, primus verat."

"Qui pro innocente dicit, satis est eloquens."

"Qui rogat, non errat."

"Qui scribit, bis legit."

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

"Qui tacet consentire videtur."

"Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit."

"Qui transtulit sustinet."

"Qui vitulum tollit, taurum subduxerit idem ."

"Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare."

"Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur."

"Quod nocet, saepe docet"

"Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die."

"Rem tene verba sequentur."

"Repetita iuvant."

"Repetitio est mater studiorum."

"Roma die uno non aedificata est"

"Salus aegroti suprema lex."

"Salus populi suprema lex esto."

"Sapere aude."

"Sapiens dominabitur astris."

"Sapiens omnia sua secum portat"

"Sapientia abscondita et thesaurus invisus quae utilitas in utrisque."

"Sapientia est potentia."

"Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem."

"Senatores boni viri, senatus autem mala bestia"

"Sermo hominum mores et celat et indicat idem."

"Sepem vir calcat ibi plus ubi passio exstat."

"Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit draco."

"Si amicus tuus mingit, minge; nisi mingere vis, mingere finge!"

"Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more, si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi."

"Si hîc esses, seires qua me vellicent."

"Sic Parvis Magna."

"Silent leges inter arma."

"Similia similibus."

"Si vis pacem, para bellum."

"Si vis pacem, para iustitiam."

"Simia est simia, etiamsi purpura vestiatur."

"Some remedies are worse than the disease."

"Stultorum est se alienis immiscere negotiis."

"Sua cuique sponsa, mihi mea; suum cuique pulchrum."

"Summum ius summa inuria."

"Sunt facta verbis difficiliora"

"Sunt pueri pueri pueri puerilia tractant"

"Sutor, ne ultra crepidam!"

"Suum cuique Pulchrum."

"Tarde venientibus ossa."

"Tempora aptari decet."

"Tempori parce!"

"Tempus fugit."

"Tempus fugit, aeternitas manet."

"Tempus fugit, amor manet."

"Timendi causa est nescire."

"Tres faciunt collegium."

"Tolle, lege; Tolle, lege!"

"Tunc tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet."

"Ut salutas (saltus), ita salutaberis."

"Ubi bene, ibi patria"

"Ubi concordia, ibi victoria."

"Ubi dubium, ibi libertas."

"Ubi fumus, ibi ignis."

"Ulula cum lupis, cum quibus esse cupis."

"Uni navi ne committas omnia."

"Una hirundo non facit ver."

"Unum castigabis, centum emendabis."

"Usus magister est optimus."

"Ut ameris, amabilis esto."

"Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas."

"Ut sementem feceris, ita metes."

"Ut sis nocte levis, sit cena brevis!"

"Uxor formosa et vinum sunt dulcia venena."

"Varitatio delectat."

"Vasa inania multum strepunt."

"Vasa vana plurimum sonant."

"Ventis secundis, tene cursum."

"Verba docent, exempla trahunt."

"Verba volant, scripta manent."

"Verit eo caudam, qua decidit arbore, malum."

"Veritas odium paret"

"Veritas vos liberabit"

"Veritatem dies aperit."

"Vincit omnia veritas."

"Vincit qui patitur. - motto Berea College, Berea, KY"

"Vir fugiens et denuo pugnabit."

"Vita brevis, ars longa."

"Viveri bis, vitâ posse priori frui."

"Vivit post funera virtus."

"Vulpes pilum mutat, non mores!"

"读书须用意，一字值千金"

"宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来"

"Jiŭ fā xīn fù zhī yán."

"听取所有人的意见，从每一只鹅身上摘下一根羽毛，但绝对不要跟随任何人。"

"人无千日好，花无百日红"

"病來如山倒，病去如抽絲"

"冰冻三尺，非一日之寒"

"凡事豫则立，不豫则废"

"三十年河东，三十年河西"

". 盲 , 引 眾 , 盲 。 , 相 將 入 火坑"

"大路不走走捷徑,通常反而要繞路"

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Long absent, soon forgotten."

"The absent are always in the wrong. (1640)"

"Accidents will happen in the best families. (19th century)"

"Admiration: our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"He who does not advance goes backwards."

"Advice most needed is least heeded."

"Advise none to marry or go to war. (1640)"

"Advisers run no risks."

"All is fair in love and war. (17th century)"

"All is well that ends well. (14th century)"

"America is God's melting-pot. (Israel Zangwill)"

"Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. (Francis Bacon)"

"Do not let sunset find you still nursing your anger."

"To apologize is to lay the foundation for a further offense. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Applause is the echo of a platitude. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel. or One scabbed sheep mars the whole flock."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

"A rotten apple injures its companions."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away--if you have good aim."

"The best art conceals art."

"When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray. (Strauss 1994, p. 1221)"

"Don't make clothes for a not yet born baby. (Strauss 1994, p. 683)"

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

"Bad is the best choice."

"A bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit."

"A bad workman quarrels with his tools. (1640)"

"Good laws have sprung from bad customs."

"Bait the hook well and the fish will bite."

"Barking dogs seldom bite. (16th century)"

"His bark is worse than his bite. (17th century)"

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty (John Keats)"

"As you make your bed, so you will sleep on it."

"Some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you."

"If you can't beat them, join them."

"The best is cheapest."

"The good is the enemy of the best."

"A beggar can never be bankrupt. (1639)"

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death; Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil."

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

"A good beginning makes a good ending. (14th century)"

"Well begun is half done."

"A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow."

"Better a lean peace than a fat victory. (17th century)"

"Better is the enemy of good."

"Better late than never."

"Better underdone than overdone."

"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. (Matthew; bible quote). (Strauss, 1998 p. 170)"

"Deal gently with the bird you mean to catch."

"Fine feathers make fine birds. (Simpson , 2009)"

"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest."

"It is the early bird that gets the worm."

"Don't bark if you can't bite."

"Don't bite off more than you can chew."

"Don't bite the hand that feeds you."

"Good blood always shows itself."

"A book is a friend."

"A great book is a great evil."

"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. (Francis Bacon)"

"Books think for me. (Charles Lamb)"

"Classic, a book which people praise and don't read. (Mark Twain)"

"Fear the man of one book. (Strauss 1994, p. 851)"

"Like author, like book. (John Ray)"

"No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon)"

"A rising tide lifts all boats."

"To be all in the same boat. (16th century)"

"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots."

"Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"The boughs that bear most hang lowest."

"Better bow than break."

"Much bran and little meal."

"None but the brave deserve the fair."

"Fortune favors the brave."

"Half a loaf is better than no bread."

"Don't cross a bridge before you come to it."

"A broken watch is right two times a day."

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

"A new broome sweepeth cleane."

"The younger brother the better gentleman."

"You can't milk a bull."

"A bully is always a coward."

"To burn the candle at both ends. (1678)"

"Business is business."

"Everyone's business is no one's business."

"Mind your own business."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Buy cheap, sell dearǃ (Thomas Lodge)"

"If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly."

"If you buy quality, you only cry once."

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

"Don't burn the candle at both ends."

"He that is worst may still hold the candle."

"Paddle your own canoe."

"A cat may look at a king."

"All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet."

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

"The more you stroke the cat's tail, the more he raises his back. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1184)"

"When the cat is away, the mice will play. (16th century) (Citatboken)"

"No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. (Sir Thomas Browne)"

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Or, a chain is no stronger than its weakest link"

"Charity begins at home. (14th century)"

"Cold as charity. (14th century)"

"Cheaters never prosper."

"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

"The child is father to the man."

"Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares."

"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

""Never count your children twice." An old saying from the Anglo-Welsh border, where it was believed to be unlucky to do so. This saying arises from old superstition, which may have been contributed to in part by the terrain, which is rugged, hilly and sparsely populated; the region is also often subject to dense fog and disappearances under mysterious circumstance were not uncommon. Hence, the unlucky nature as on the second count, it was believed one child would most likely have disappeared; lost forever to the hills."

"Onward, Christian soldiers! (S. Baring-Gould)"

"Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeple."

"Circumstances alter cases."

"The people are the city. (William Shakespeare)"

"Good clothes open all doors."

"Carrying coals to Newcastle."

"The coast is clear. (17th century)"

"Cobblers children are worst shod."

"Shoemaker, stick to your last."

"As the old cock crows, so crows the young."

"All colours will agree in the dark. (Francis Bacon)"

"Counsel is no command. (Strauss, 1994 p. 675)"

"Who has not served cannot command. (Strauss, 1994 p. 758)"

"Common sense is not so common."

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

"Better to be alone than in bad company. (Strauss, 1998 p. 162)"

"Misery loves company."

"Two is a company; three is a crowd."

"Two is company, three is none. (19th century)"

"Comparisons are odious. (15th century)"

"Confidence begets confidence. (Strauss 1994, p. 187)"

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."

"He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and keep. (Strauss 1994, p. 1001)"

"Counsel is no command."

"Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. (Strauss, 1994 p. 661)"

"Keep your own counsel."

"Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1044)"

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. (John F. Kennedy)"

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. (Nathan Hale)"

"Our country, right or wrongǃ (Stephen Decatur)"

"Courage lost, all lost. (Strauss 1994, p. 675)"

"Coward: one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Give credit where credit is due."

"To shed crocodile tears."

"Crows will not pick out crows eyes."

"There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip."

"What can't be cured must be endured. (14th century)"

"Other times, other customs."

"The customer is always right."

"Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Praise the day at sunset."

"Enjoy the present day, trusting little to what tomorrow may bring."

"The day is short and the work is long. (15th century)"

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

"In the long run we are all dead."

"It's safer to commend the dead than the living."

"Deep calls to deep. (Strauss 1994, p. 695)"

"In the deepest water is the best fishing. (1616)"

"The best defence is a good offence. (Strauss, 1994 p. 518)"

"Delays are dangerous. (14th century)"

"There is danger in delay. (Strauss, 1998 p. 695)"

"A parish demagogue. (P. B. Shelley)"

"First deserve, then desire."

"Away goes the devil if he finds the door shut against him."

"Better the devil you know (than the one you don't)."

"Give the devil his due."

"Idle hands are the devil's playthings."

"If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon."

"Talk of the devil and he's sure to appear."

"Where God has a church the devil will have his chapel."

"Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself."

"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. (Mieder 2006, p. 906)"

"Discretion is the better part of valor."

"Discussion: a method of confirming others in their errors. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Cure the disease and kill the patient. (Francis Bacon)"

"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."

"We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. (Sir Thomas Browne)"

"Better go about than fall into the ditch. (Ward, 1842 p. 11)"

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

"If you want a thing done right, do it yourself."

""Well done" is better than "well said"."

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. (1640)"

"Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer."

"Never lie to your doctor."

"A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. (1659)"

"A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. (Strauss, 1998 p. 103)"

"All are not thieves that dogs bark at."

"Barking dogs seldom bite."

"Brag is a good dog, but holdfast is better."

"̈*̈ "If your gonna impress someone it should be yourself.""

"The dogs bark but the caravan passes on. (Strauss, 1998 p. 340)"

"Dogs wags their tails, not as much to you as to your bread. (Strauss, 1994 p. 710)"

"Every dog has his day. (1546)"

"Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it."

"He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad."

"If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas."

"Variant: A man is known by the company he keeps."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Let sleeping dogs lie. (14th century)"

"Love me, love my dog."

"The guilty dog barks the loudest."

"Eat your own dog food."

"The door swings both ways."

"When one door closes, another door opens. or God never closes one door without opening another."

"When in doubt, don't. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1223)"

"When in doubt, do nothing."

"When in doubt, leave it out."

"Dreams go by contraries."

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made of."

"What's drinking? / A mere pause from thinking. (Lord Byron)"

"Constant dropping wears away the stone."

"Once a drunkard always a drunkard. (Strauss, 1994 p. 771)"

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

"Dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two."

"In at one ear and out at the other. (14th century)"

"Take heed what you say. Walls have ears. (James Shirley)"

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (1639)"

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... (Rudyard Kipling)"

"Easier said than done. (15th century)"

"It's easy to be wise after the event."

"Good eating deserves good drinking."

"You don't shit where you eat."

"Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves."

"Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow."

"Eggs and oaths are soon broken. (Strauss, 1998 p. 765)"

"He that steals an egg will steal an ox. (Strauss, 1994 p. 962)"

"You can't have an omelette unless you break the egg."

"Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Empty vessels make the greatest sound."

"All's well that ends well."

"Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end. (Strauss, 1994 p. 600)"

"Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many. (Strauss 1994, p. 71)"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"If you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you."

"There is no little enemy. (Strauss 1994, p. 718)"

"We carry our greatest enemies within us."

"Energy is Eternal Delight. (William Blake)"

"An Englishman's house (home) is his castle. (17th century)"

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time. (William Blake)"

"Every maybe hath a may not be."

"Every rose has its thorn."

"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

"What everybody says must be true. (Strauss 1994, p. 77)"

"Avoid evil and it will avoid thee. (Strauss, 1994 p. 520)"

"Evil begets evil."

"Of two evils choose the least."

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

"Example is better than correction."

"The exception proves the rule."

"All experience is an arch, to build upon. (Henry Adams)"

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Experience is the best teacher."

"The eye looks but it is the mind that sees. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1175)"

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. (Strauss 1998, p. 713)"

"Fair play's a jewel."

"Common fame is seldom to blame. (Strauss 1998, p. 662)"

"Don't fall before you're pushed."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

"Far from eye, far from heart. (14th century)"

"Fashion: a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"The fat is in the fire."

"Faults are thick where love is thin. (1659)"

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

"It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees."

"Good fences make good neighbors."

"First come, first served."

"The first step to health is to know that we are sick."

"First things first."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

"The last will be first, and the first last."

"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without."

"Seek and ye shall find."

"You always find something in the last place you look."

"A burnt child dreads the fire."

"Do not add oil to the fire."

"Fight fire with fire."

"No fire without some smoke. (1546)"

"There is no smoke without fire. (15th century, Citatboken)"

"All is fish that comes to the net."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught."

"If you got it, flaunt it."

"Go with the flow."

"Say it with flowers. (Patrick O'Keefe)"

"You can catch more flies with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar."

"A fool is ever laughing."

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (William Blake)"

"Better foolish by all than wise by yourself."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

"Fools live poor to die rich."

"The first chapter of fools is to think themselves wise. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Every fool is pleased with his own folly."

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"He is a fool that forgets himself. (14th century)"

"He that leaves certainty and sticks to chance, When fools pipe, he may dance."

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. (William Blake)"

"Knaves and fools divide the world."

"Natural folly is bad enough, but learned folly is intolerable. (1732)"

"A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all sit near him. (Strauss, 1994 p. 136)"

"The last fool never dies. (14th century)"

"There's no fool like an old fool. (1546)"

"A wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does."

"Forewarned, forearmed."

"Forgive and forget."

"To err is human, to forgive divine. (Alexander Pope)"

"If fortune favours, beware of being exalted; if fortune thunders, beware of being overwhelmed."

"Fire, quoth the fox, when he pissed on the ice."

"Set the fox to mind the geese."

"The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe."

"A friend cannot be known in prosperity nor an enemy be hidden in adversity."

"A friend is best found in adversity."

"A good friend never offends."

"A true friend does sometime venture to be offensive."

"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."

"All are not friends who speak one fair."

"Be a friend to thyself, and others will befriend thee."

"Bought friends are not friends indeed."

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead."

"False friends are worse than open enemies."

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."

"Friends are thieves of time. (17th century)"

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! (William Shakespeare)"

"He is my friend who grinds at my mill."

"He is my friend that succoreth me, not he that pitieth me."

"If you want enemies excel others, if you want friends let others excel you."

"It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little."

"It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. (1640)"

"No longer foster, no longer friend."

"Our friends are our mirrors and show us ourselves."

"Perfect friendship cannot be without equality."

"When thy friend asks, let there be no to-morrow."

"With friends like that, who needs enemies?"

"Stolen fruit is the sweetest. (Strauss, 1994 p. 835)"

"You know the tree by its fruit."

"Garbage in, garbage out."

"A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds."

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration."

"It takes three generations to make a gentleman. (Robert Peel)"

"Once a gentleman, always a gentleman. (Charles Dickens)"

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Luke 12:48"

"Give and take is fair play."

"Give, and ye shall receive."

"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard."

"He gives twice who gives in a trice."

"Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee. (Strauss 1994, p. 832)"

"Don't go between the tree and the bark. (Strauss, 1998 p. 204)"

"What goes up must come down."

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

"God helps the rich, the poor can beg. (1659)"

"God is, and all is well."

"God is on the side of the strongest battalions. (Kin 1955, p. 255)"

"God sends fortune to fools. (1546)"

"God works in mysterious ways."

"God's a good man. (William Shakespeare)"

"Whom God will destroy, he first make mad. (Strauss 1994, p. 841)"

"All that glisters is not gold. or All that glitters is not gold."

"All good things must come to an end."

"Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening."

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

"If you can't be good, be careful."

"Only the good die young."

"Rich men seem happy, great and wise, all which the good man only is."

"The best goods are cheapest in the end. (Kelly, 1859 p, 95)"

"Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs."

"Every man thinks his own geese swans."

"Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)"

"What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously."

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you."

"That government is best which governs least."

"The grass is always greener on the other side."

"Grasp all, lose all. (Strauss, 1994 p. 884)"

"Great events cast their shadows before them."

"Great minds agree. (Strauss, 1994 p. 882)"

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

"Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)"

"Fretting cares make grey hairs. (Strauss, 1994 p. 631"

"Never do things by halves."

"Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing."

"One hand washes the other."

"Handsome is that handsome does. (1670) (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"Hard words break no bones. (Strauss, 1998 p. 17)"

"Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. (Strauss, 1994 p. 753)"

"You must not run after two hares at the same time."

"Make haste slowly."

"Hawks will not pick out Hawk's eyes."

"He that can have patience can have what he will. (Strauss, 1994 p. 87)"

"He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. (Ward, 1842 p. 54)"

"Two heads are better than one.'"

"We should not expect to find old heads on young shoulders. (Strauss, 1994 p. 77)"

"When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1117)"

"Who falls short in the head must be long in the heels."

"Health is better than wealth. (16th century)"

"Health is wealth."

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

"The heart sees farther than the head."

"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! (Humphrey Gilbert)"

"A hedge between keeps friends green."

"Men leap over where the hedge is lower."

"Take heed you find not what you do not seek."

"And thou unfit for any place but hell. (William Shakespeare)"

"Come hell or high water."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (William Shakespeare)"

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"But what is past my help, is past my care. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Every little helps."

"He who hesitates is lost."

"If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. (Francis Bacon)"

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."

"History repeats itself."

"If you're in a hole, stop digging."

"Home is where the heart is."

"Home sweet home. (H. R. Bishop) Laine, Jarkko (toim.): Suuri sitaattisanakirja. Otava, 1989, p. 157. ISBN 9511109618"

"What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? Air. (William Shakespeare)"

"Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreasefh."

"He who lives on hope will die fasting ."

"Hope for the best — prepare for the Worst."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)"

"A horseǃ a horseǃ My kingdom for a horseǃ (William Shakespeare)"

"A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse."

"Don't change horses in midstream."

"Don't put the cart before the horse."

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

"I'll hear it from the horse's mouth."

"It's a good horse that never stumbles."

"Look not a gift horse in the mouth."

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

"A golden bit does not make the horse any better. (Strauss, 1998 p. 52)"

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."

"Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse."

"Hospitality: the virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"All things are soon prepared in a well ordered house."

"My house is my castle. (Edward Coke)"

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

"Ignorance is bliss."

"The ignorant always adore what they cannot understand."

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

"Imitation is the highest form of flattery."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results."

"Don't have too many irons in the fire. (16th century) (Citatboken)"

"Iron sharpens iron. (Whiting, 1997 p. 235)"

"It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Strike while the iron is hot. or Make hay while the sun shines."

"No man is an island."

"If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well."

"Joy shared, joy doubled: sorrow shared, sorrow halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 249)"

"Hasty judgment leads to repentance. (Strauss, 1994 p. 196)"

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Justice pleaseth few in their own house."

"Without justice, courage is weak."

"Kindness, like grain, increases by sowing."

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

"The king can do no wrong. (17th century)"

"Know thyself."

"Learning is the eye of the mind."

"Knowledge is power. (17th Century)"

"A good mind possesses a kingdom. (Strauss, 1998 p. 58)"

"'If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Faint heart never won fair lady."

"It ain't over till the fat lady sings."

"Joan is as good as my lady in the dark."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"The land of the free, and the home of the brave. (Francis Scott Key])"

"It's a long lane that has no turning."

"That's not good language that all understand not."

"He laughs best who laughs last."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."

"Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free."

"To be on one's last legs. (16th century)"

"Less is more."

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. (Francis Bacon)"

"A lie can go halfway around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

"Life begins at forty."

"Life imitates art."

"Life is what you make of it."

"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."

"Look on the sunny side of life."

"The best things in life are free."

"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place."

"Like cures like. (Strauss, 1994 p. 648)"

"Don't wash your dirty linen in public. (Strauss, 1994 p. 702) (19th century, Citatboken, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1967, p. 189, ISBN 91-27-01681-1)"

"A losing trade, I assure you, sir; literature is a drug. (George Borrow)"

"Little by little and bit by bit."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Live and let live."

"Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. (Jane Austen)"

"Loose lips sink ships."

"All is not lost that is in danger."

"Use it or lose it."

"Love and ambition admit no fellowship."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. (Aphra Behn)"

"Love is blind."

"Love laughs at locksmiths."

"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

"Love me little, love me long. (1546)"

"Those have most power to hurt us that we love. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (William Shakespeare)"

"Make the best of a bad bargain."

"A man's folly ought to be his greatest secret."

"A man's home is his castle."

"A man's worst enemies are often those of his own house. (Strauss, 1994 p. 52)"

"Do a man a good turn and he'll never forgive you."

"Good men are hard to find."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. (Thomas Browne)"

"Manners maketh the man."

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Wise men learn by other men's harms, fools by their own."

"Ne'er cast a clout till May be out."

"Many a mickle makes a muckle."

"Many things are lost for want of asking."

"A young man married is a young man marred."

"Marry in haste, and repent at leisure."

"Measure twice, cut once."

"It's never too late to mend."

"Might is right. (14th century)"

"Men talk only to conceal the mind. (Strauss 1994, p. 1088)"

"Mind your own business. (Strauss, 1998 p. 719)"

"Mind your P's and Q's. or British: Mind your manners."

"Out of sight, out of mind. (13th century)"

"The longest mile is the last mile home."

"It's no use crying over spilt milk. (Strauss, 1994 p. 631)"

"The best place for criticism is in front of your mirror."

"Misfortunes never come singly. (14th century, Citatboken)"

"A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile."

"Don't make the same mistake twice."

"The mob has many heads, but no brains. (1732)"

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."

"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. (Hilaire Belloc)"

"Money is a good servant, but a bad master. (17th century)"

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. (Francis Bacon)"

"Money makes the mare go."

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. (Aphra Behn)"

"Money talks."

"Put your money where your mouth is."

"Time is money."

"More haste, less speed. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)"

"The more the merrier. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1094)"

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

"Don't make a mountain out of a molehill."

"Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse. (Strauss, 1994 p. 568)"

"Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open."

"Much is expected where much is given. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1095)"

"Where there's muck there's brass."

"For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost."

"The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. (Whatling, 2009) From the Japanese, "deru kugi wa utareru.""

"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. (Sir Thomas Browne]]"

"Nature is beyond all teaching. (Strauss, 1994 p. 764)"

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon)"

"Necessity is mother of invention. (Roger Ascham)"

"Never lie to your lawyer."

"Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today."

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

"No man can serve two masters."

"No man is an island."

"No man is indispensable. (Strauss, 1998 p. 319)"

"No means no."

"Lose nothing for want of asking. (Mawr, 1885 p. 116)"

"Nothing for nothing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1111)"

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful! (Samuel Beckett)"

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained. (Manser, 2007 p. 207)"

"You don't get nothing for nothing."

"There is luck in odd numbers."

"He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut."

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"Old habits die hard."

"Take care of number one."

"The only free cheese is in the mouse trap."

"The only stupid question is the one that is not asked."

"Opportunity makes the thief. (13th century)"

"From big oaks little acorns grow."

"It ain't over till it's over."

"The world is your oyster."

"Good things come in small packages."

"You get what you pay for."

"There is no greater torment than to be alone in paradise. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1106)"

"Never ask pardon before you are accused."

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. (John Arbuthnot)"

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

"Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"There's no peace for the wicked."

"Those who wish to live in peace, must hear, see, and say nothing."

"The pen worse than the sword. (Robert Burton)"

"A penny for your thoughts."

"Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves."

"Penny wise, pound foolish."

"Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves."

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"The voice of the people is the voice of god. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1164)"

"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. (William Blake)"

"When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke."

"Bitter pills may have blessed effects."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"It's a cracked pitcher that goes oftenest to the well."

"Little pitchers have big ears. (Strauss 1994, p. 653)"

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon)"

"Better play a small game than to stand out."

"He had need rise early who would please everybody."

"Poets are born, but orators are trained. (Strauss, 1998 p. 331)"

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"A little pot is easily hot."

"Shit or get off the pot. ( W., 1975)"

"A watched pot never boils."

"Come away; poverty's catching. (Aphra Behn)"

"Poverty is the reward of idleness."

"Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Practice what you preach."

"Precepts teach, examples move."

"You can't be a little pregnant."

"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"All those men have their price. (Robert Walpole)"

"Every man has his price."

"Everything is worth its price. (Strauss, 1994 p. 800)"

"I know my price. (William Shakespeare)"

"Pride comes before the fall. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1148)"

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. (William Blake)"

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. (Adam, 2010 p. 25)"

"A problem shared is a problem halved. (Strauss, 1994 p. 351)"

"An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise."

"Perverts the Prophets, and purloins the Psalms."

"He that swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity."

"As proud as a peacock. (14th century)"

"As proud as Lucifer. (14th century)"

"Proverbs run in pairs."

"Now Barabbas was a publisher. (Lord Byron)"

"Punishment is lame but it comes. (Strauss, 1994 p. 682)"

"A civil question deserves a civil answer."

"Slow and steady wins the race. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1155)"

"A rag and a bone and a hank of hair."

"Like a red rag to a bull."

"Rats desert a sinking ship. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"Reality is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

"What you sow is what you reap."

"Reason does not come before years. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"The remedy is worse than the disease. (Francis Bacon) (Citatboken, Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 1967, p. 56, ISBN 91-27-01681-1)"

"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

"There is small revenge in words, but words may be greatly revenged."

"To forget wrong is the best revenge."

"Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

"Riches are for spending. (Francis Bacon)"

"There is no royal road to learning."

"He makes a rod for his own back. (14th century)"

"At Rome one must do the Romans do."

"Name not a rope in his house who hanged himself."

"Rules were meant to be broken."

"Least said, soonest mended."

"He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. (Strauss, 1994 p. 898)"

"There are none so blind as they who do not want to see. (Strauss, 1998 p. 320)"

"What you see is what you get."

"Proffer'd service stinks. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1149)"

"Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance. (Strauss, 1998)"

"Shame take him that shame thinketh. (Strauss, 1994 p. 806)"

"He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by the wolf."

"One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb."

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

"No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it."

"To know where the shoe pinches. (14th century)"

"Eighty percent of life is showing up."

"The show must go on."

"Silence gives consent. (14th century)"

"Silence is the virtue of fools. (Francis Bacon)"

"The rest is silence. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet)"

"Keep it simple, stupid. (KISS)"

"There's a sin of omission as well as commision."

"The sky's the limit."

"As slippery as an eel. (15th century)"

"There's daggers in men's smiles. (William Shakespeare)"

"When you call me that, smileǃ (Owen Wister)"

"By perseverance the snail reached the arc."

"If you snooze you lose."

"A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life."

"O, God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soulǃ (A soldier before the battle of Blenheim in 1704)"

"As you sow, so you reap."

"Sow thin, shear thin. (Strauss, 1998 p. 1158)"

"To sow one's wild oats. (16th century)"

"Call a spade a spade."

"It is not what you say, it is the way you say it."

"Variety is the spice of life."

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."

"While the grass grows the steed starves. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1228)"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

"A drowning man will clutch at a straw."

"Cross the stream where it is shallowest."

"Old streets a glamour hold. (K. W. Baker)"

"Strike when the iron is hot. (14th century)"

"A store is no sore."

"Confidence is the companion of success."

"Failure is the stepping stone for success."

"Nothing succeeds like success."

"One secret of success is to know how to deny yourself and other people."

"Success is a journey not a destination."

"There is nothing new under the sun."

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. (Joseph Addison)"

"There is a superstition in avoiding superstition. (Francis Bacon)"

"A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. (Francis Bacon)"

"One swallow does not make a summer."

"Good swimmers are often drowned. (Strauss, 1994 p. 879)"

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

"Live by the sword, die by the sword."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Take things as you find them. (Strauss 1994, p. 722)"

"He that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not. (Francis Bacon)"

"He that talks to himself, speaks to a fool. (1721)"

"It takes two to tango. (Oshry, 1996 p. 59)"

"Without temptation there is no victory."

"Once a thief always a thief. (Strauss, 1994 p. 771)"

"Set a thief to catch a thief."

"If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. (1616)"

"The worth of a thing is what it will bring."

"Things done cannot be undone. (1546)"

"Think before you speak."

"First thoughts are best."

"Second thoughts are the best."

"Thought is freeǃ (William Shakespeare)"

"Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down."

"Nature, time, and patience are three great physicians."

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

"Time and tide wait for no man."

"Time flies."

"Time flies when you're having fun."

"Time himself is bald. (William Shakespeare)"

"Time is precious. (Paczolay, 1997 p. 428)"

"There is no time like the present. (18th century) (Citatboken)"

"There is nothing more precious than time and nothing more prodigally wasted. (Strauss 1994, p. 722)"

"To choose time is to save time. (Francis Bacon)"

"Avoid the pleasure which will bite tomorrow."

"Never put off till tomorrow what can be done today."

"Tomorrow is another day."

"A still tongue makes a wise head."

"A bad workman blames his tools."

"Do not play with edged tools. (Strauss, 1994 p. 716)"

"Jack of all trades and master of none."

"A good name is the best of all treasures. (Strauss, 1998 p. 20)"

"People only throw stones at trees with fruit on them."

"The apple never falls far from the tree."

"There is no tree but bears some fruit. (Mawr, 1885 p. 131)"

"He that waits on another man's trencher, makes many a late dinner."

"Never trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you."

"So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag. And smile, smile, smile. (George Asaf)"

"If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die."

"Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 p.b72"

"A half truth is a whole lie."

"Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. (Strauss, 1994 p. 221)"

"The truth shall set you free, or The truth will set you free."

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. (Henry St. John)"

"Truth may be blamed, but it shall never be shamed."

"Truth seeks no corners."

"Don't try to be someone you're not."

"You never know what you can do until you try."

"It takes two to make a quarrel."

"Two heads are better than one."

"He that stays in the valley will not get over the hill."

"Variety is the soul of pleasure. (Aphra Behn)"

"Let every vat stand upon its own bottom. (William Bullein)"

"Empty vessels make the most sound."

"The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray. (Manser, 2007 p. 286)"

"Where vice goes before, vengeance follows after."

"It takes a village to raise a child."

"Virtue which parleys is near a surrender."

"Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"

"Wait and see. (Herbert Asquith)"

"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk."

"Learn to walk before you run."

"Walk softly, carry a big stick."

"Walk the talk. (Manser, 2007)"

"War is too important to be left to the generals."

"Willful waste makes woeful want."

"Still water runs deep."

"Wade not in unknown waters."

"What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

"All the wealth I had ran in my veins; I was a gentleman. (William Shakespeare)"

"Wealth rarely brings happiness. (Strauss, 1994 p. 670)"

"Go West, young man, go West! (John Soule)"

"Set a herring to catch a whale. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1134)"

"Don't try to reinvent the wheel."

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

"A cheerful wife is the spice of life. (Strauss, 1998 p. 20)"

"A man's best fortune or his worst is a wife. (Strauss, 1994 p. 65)"

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. (Strauss, 1994 p. 655)"

"He that will thrive must first ask his wife."

"The cobbler's wife is the worst shod."

"There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."

"Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife."

"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon)"

"He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay."

"Take the will for the deed. (Strauss, 1994 p. 881)"

"Where there is a will, there is a way."

"Slow and steady wins the race."

"He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind."

"For when the wine is in the wit is out. (Thomas Becon)"

"Life is too short (to drink bad wine)."

"Good wine needs no bush."

"Wine in , truth out. (16th century)"

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (William Blake)"

"Some are wise and some are otherwise. (1659)"

"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

"The wish is father to the thought."

"He who is not with me is against me."

"Willful waste makes woeful want. (Wolfgang, 1992 p. 925)"

"The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb. (Strauss, 1994, p. 68)"

"There is no other purgatory but a woman. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

"Touch wood. (20th century)"

"You cannot see the wood for trees. (1546)"

"A deluge of words and a drop of sense."

"A word spoken is past recalling."

"Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves."

"Fine words butter no parsnips."

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

"Many words will not fill a bushel."

"No need of words, trust deeds. (Strauss, 1994 p. 91)"

"A woman's work is never done."

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

"Many hands make light work. (Speak, 2009)"

"No man is born into this world, whose work is not born with him. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1107)"

"Quick at meat, quick at work. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1150)"

"Tread on a worm and it will turn."

"It takes all sorts of people to make a world."

"Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone."

"Take all things as they come and be content."

"He is worth his weight in gold. (16th century)"

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

"It is not wise to open old wounds."

"Diligent youth makes easy age."

"Reckless youth makes rueful age."

"They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young."

"Young men may die, old men must. (16th century)"

"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. (16th century)"

"Young saint, old devil. (15th century)"

"Youth and age will never agree. (16th century)"

"井の中の蛙大海を知らず"

"二兎を追う者は一兎も得ず"

"井戸の中の独言も三年たてば知れる"

"艱難にあって初めて真友を知る"

"虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず"

"小打も積もれば大木を倒す"

"この父にしてこの子あり"

"目は口ほどに物を言う"

"義は険しい山よりも重く、死は大鳥の羽よりも軽い"

".(אַכט איז ניט קיין אמת) זיבן איז אַ ליגן"

".אַ קלוגער פֿאַרשטײט פֿון אײן װאָרט צװײ"

".אַחרי מות קדושים"

".‎אױף אײן שלאָג פֿאַלט קײן בױם ניט אום"

".אױף פֿײַער זאָל מען קײן בױמל ניט גיסן"

"‎אַמאָל איז די רפֿואה ערגער פֿאַר דער מכּה‫.‬"

".אַז דער שטײן ליגט אױף אײן אָרט װערט ער אױך באַװאַקסן מיט גראָז"

".אַז מען לעבט, דערלעבט מען"

".בעסער הערן קללות איידער הערן נעבעך"

".פֿאַר אַ צאַפּ האָט מען מורא פֿון פֿאָרנט, פֿאַר אַ פֿערד פֿון הינטן, פֿאַר אַ נאַר פֿון אַלע זײַטן"

".‎פֿון אַ חזיר־שװענצל קען מען קײן שטרײַמל ניט מאַכן"

".דער מענטש טראַכט און גאָט לאַכט"

".דאָס עפּעלע פֿאַלט ניט װײַט פֿון בײמעלע"

".אַ באַרג מיט אַ באַרג קומט זיך ניט צונױף, אָבער אַ מענטש מיט אַ מענטשן יאָ"

".די צײַט איז טײַערער פֿון געלט"

"געשװיגן הײסט אױך גערעדט‪.‬"

".שטיל װאַסער גראָבט טיף"

"Akta dig för fiendegåvor."

"Alla goda ting är tre."

"Alla känner apan, men apan känner ingen."

"Alla sätt är bra utom de dåliga."

"Alla veta råd, förutom den i våndan står."

"Alla vägar bär till Rom."

"Alla är vi barn i början."

"Alla vill vara herrar, men ingen vill bära säcken."

"Allt är inte guld som glimmar."

"Allt/allting/var sak har sin tid."

"Alltför ödmjukt är förklädd högfärd."

"Anfall är bästa försvar."

"Arbete gör sömnen ljuf ( söt . )"

"Arga katter får rivet skinn."

"Att skiljas är att dö en smula."

"Att försvara ett fel är att fela igen."

"Att våga är att tappa fotfästet en stund, att inte våga är att förlora sig själv."

"Av barn, fyllon och dårar får man höra sanningen."

"Av intet blir intet."

"Av skadan blir man vis."

"Avund hindrar sin Herre mest ."

"Avundsjukan vilar aldrig."

"Bara döda fiskar följer strömmen."

"Barn gör som du gör, inte som du säger."

"Behandla andra som du själv vill bli behandlad."

"Betala lika med lika."

"Blod är tjockare än vatten."

"Blott Sverige svenska krusbär har."

"Borsta framför din egen dörr först."

"Borta bra men hemma bäst."

"Bra karl reder sig själv."

"Bränt barn skyr elden."

"Bäst hålla upp medan leken är god."

"Bättre brödlös än rådlös."

"Bättre dåligt minne än dåliga minnen."

"Bättre ett ärligt nej än ett falskt ja."

"Bättre förekomma än förekommas."

"Bättre en fågel i handen än tio i skogen."

"Bättre ensam än i dåligt sällskap."

"Bättre fly än illa fäkta."

"Bättre sent än aldrig."

"Bättre stämma i bäcken än i ån."

"Bättre tiga än illa tala."

"Bättre älskat och förlorat än att aldrig ha älskat."

"Bäst att smida medan järnet är varmt."

"Bäst att ta det säkra för det osäkra."

"Bäst bli klok av annans skada."

"Daggen faller både på lort och lilja."

"Delad glädje är dubbel glädje (och delad sorg är halv sorg)."

"Den dagen, den sorgen."

"Den drucknes tal är den nyktres tankar."

"Den enes död, den andres bröd."

"Den som alltid vet bäst lär sig aldrig något."

"Den som gapar efter mycket, mister ofta hela stycket."

"Den som ger sig in i leken, får leken tåla."

"Den som gräver en grop åt andra faller ofta själv däri."

"Den som gör sig sjelf till får blifver af vargar uppäten."

"Den som lever får se."

"Den som sover syndar icke."

"Den som spar han har."

"Den som tiger han samtycker."

"Den som viskar han ljuger."

"Den som vågar han vinner."

"Den som väntar på något gott, väntar aldrig för länge."

"Den spik som sticker ut blir slagen."

"Den som är fri från synd skall kasta första stenen."

"Det angår också dig när det brinner i grannens vägg."

"Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig."

"Det blir som det blir."

"Det dunkelt sagda är det dunkelt tänkta."

"Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder."

"Det goda är ej nytt, och det nya är ej alltid gott."

"Det gäller att smida medan järnet är varmt."

"Det kommer inga stekta sparvar flygande i din mun."

"Det man inte har i huvudet får man ha i benen."

"Det man inte vet mår man inte dåligt av."

"Det man förlorar på gungorna tar man igen på karusellen."

"Det ska böjas i tid det som krokigt ska bli."

"Det som börjar med en knappnål slutar oftast med en silverskål."

"Det som inte dödar, härdar."

"Det som göms i snö kommer fram vid tö."

"Det vattnet du hämtar ur bäcken lär dig känna källan."

"Det viktigaste är inte att vinna, utan att kämpa väl."

"Det är aldrig för sent."

"Det är bäst att bita i det sura äpplet."

"Det är ingen ko på isen."

"Det är inte ens fel när två träter."

"Det är lätt att skära breda remsor av andras läder."

"Det är lätt att vara efterklok."

"Det är mänskligt att fela men gudomligt att förlåta."

"Det är saligare att giva än att taga."

"Det är skillnad på folk och folk."

"Det är skönare lyss till den sträng som brast än att aldrig spänna en båge."

"Det är som mörkast innan gryningen."

"Det är tanken som räknas."

"Dra inte alla över en kam."

"Dra sitt strå till stacken."

"Droppen kan urholka stenen."

"Där vinet går in går vettet ut."

"Efter regn kommer solsken."

"Efteråt är intet råd."

"Egen härd är guld värd."

"Egenkär är ingen kär."

"Egennytta är en bottenlös bytta."

"Egennyttan vill gerna ha första dansen."

"Eget beröm luktar illa."

"Eget samvete är mer än tusende tungor."

"Egna fel åro svåra att se."

"Elda inte för kråkorna."

"En bild säger mer än tusen ord."

"En dålig hantverkare skyller på sina verktyg."

"En dvärg är en dvärg, stod han en på högsta berg."

"En fågel i handen är bättre än tio i skogen."

"En gnutta osaklighet sparar tonvis med förklaringar."

"En kedja är inte starkare än dess svagaste länk."

"En knuten näve kan varken ge eller ta."

"En plats för var sak och var sak på sin plats."

"En gång är ingen gång."

"En gång, ingen gång — två gånger, en vana."

"En olycka kommer sällan ensam."

"En sann vän är någon du kan dela tystnaden med."

"En svala gör ingen sommar."

"En vandring på tusen mil börjar alltid med ett steg."

"Ensam är stark."

"Envar är sin egen lyckas smed."

"Ett gott skratt förlänger livet."

"Ett idag är mer än två imorgon."

"Ett mjukt svar stillar vreden."

"Ett qvintin förstånd är bättre än ett centner lärdom."

"Ett rent samvete är bästa huvudkudden."

"Fattig mans råd får sällan något gälla."

"Finns det hjärterum, finns det stjärterum."

"Friskt vågat, hälften vunnet."

"Fråga min broder, om jag är en tjuv."

"Fruktan hindrar rådslag."

"Föga skämt som icke har något allvar med sig."

"För en oxe bör man akta sig framtill, för en åsna baktill, och för en jesuit på båda sidor."

"För lata svin är marken alltid frusen."

"Förbjuden frukt smakar alltid bäst."

"Förbjuden väg är ofta hårt sliten."

"Först till kvarn får först mala."

"Gammal kärlek rostar aldrig."

"Gammal är äldst."

"Genom sig själv känner man andra."

"Genvägar är ofta senvägar."

"Gerningar tala högre än ord."

"Goda varor behöfva ingen skylt."

"Gräset är alltid grönare på andra sidan (staketet)."

"Gräv där du står."

"Guld blindar många, kärleken blindar alla."

"Gå inte över ån efter vatten."

"Gåfvor och gengåvfor vara längst."

"Gör inte en höna av en fjäder."

"Gör om, gör rätt."

"Han går långt, som går sakta."

"Han har varit i Rom men inte sett Påven."

"Har man sagt A får man säga B."

"Har man tagit fan i båten får man ro honom i land."

"Hastig rikedom gör mannen misstänkt."

"Hellre en fågel i handen än tio i skogen."

"Hellre fria en skyldig än fälla en oskyldig."

"Hoppet är det sista som lämnar människan."

"Hungern är bästa kryddan."

"Hur man än vänder sig har man ändan bak."

"Hustrun bör väljas med öronen, inte med ögonen."

"Hut går hem."

"Huvudkudden är bästa rådgivaren."

"Hvad gagnar mycket veta och intet göra."

"This world, where much is to be done and little to be known."

"Hvarhelst vår Herre har en kyrka der bygger satan ett kapell."

"Hälsan tiger still."

"Hämnden är ljuv."

"Här ligger en hund begraven."

"Högfärd är alla lasters drottning."

"Högmod går före fall."

"Höra mycket och tala sparsamt är en hjeltedygd."

"I de blindas rike är den enögde kung."

"I de lugnaste vattnen går de fulaste fiskarna."

"I krig och kärlek är allt tillåtet."

"I mörker är alla katter grå."

"I nöden prövas vännen."

"I vinet kommer sanningen fram."

"I öknen är sanden billig."

"Ibland kan man inte se skogen på grund av alla träd."

"Idel solsken gör öken."

"Inga nyheter är goda nyheter."

"Inga träd växer till himmelen."

"Ingen rök utan eld."

"Ingen är oumbärlig."

"Ingen är profet i sitt eget land/i sin egen hemstad."

"Ingenting är nytt under solen."

"Inget kalas utan kras."

"Inget ont som inte har något gott med sig."

"Inget är så bra att det inte kan göras bättre."

"Ju fler kockar desto sämre soppa."

"Ju mera man smeker katten ju högre sätter han rumpan."

"Ju närmare källan, desto klarare vatten."

"Ju senare på kvällen, desto vackrare folk."

"Kaka söker maka."

"Kasta inte pärlor för svin."

"Kasta inte ut barnet med badvattnet."

"Kasta inte sten i glashus."

"Klaga inte över för lite vind - lär dig segla."

"Kommer tid, kommer råd."

"Kläderna gör mannen."

"Kärlek, rök, hosta och pengar låta icke dölja sig."

"Kärleken böriar på sigh sielff ."

"Kärleken är blind."

"Kärt barn har många namn."

"Köp inte grisen i säcken."

"Lag är gjord för folkets bästa."

"Lagt kort ligger."

"Landets seder, landets heder."

"Lat skräddare tar en lång tråd."

"Lika barn leka bäst."

"Lita inte till en annan, det du själv kan göra."

"Liten tuva stjälper ofta stort lass."

"Lyckan kan inte köpas för pengar."

"Lyckan kommer lyckan går."

"Lyckan står den djärve bi."

"Lägg inte alla ägg i samma korg."

"Lägg inte sten på börda."

"Lärdom är mer värt än guld."

"Lätt fånget, lätt förgånget."

"Lättare döljer en vis sin visdom än en dåre sin dårskap."

"Lättare sagt än gjort."

"Låt inte gräset gro under fötterna."

"Låt inte vargen vakta fåren."

"Låt maten tysta mun."

"Lögn är ej långt ifrån tjuvnad."

"Lögnaren blir bara trodd en gång."

"Makt och mod vilja ha vett i följe."

"Man bör inte hafva en hund till ovän."

"Man kan tvinga hästen till vattnet men inte att dricka."

"Man måste lära sig krypa innan man kan gå."

"Magen mättas förr än ögat."

"Man får ta saken i egna händer."

"Man får ta seden dit man kommer."

"Man har aldrig roligare än vad man gör sig."

"Man hör vad man vill höra."

"Man lär så länge man lever."

"Man lär sig av misstagen."

"Man kan inte både äta kakan och ha kakan kvar."

"Man kan inte lära gamla hundar sitta."

"Man måste rätta munnen efter matsäcken."

"Man saknar inte kon förrän båset är tomt."

"Man ska inte bjuda bagarbarn på bullar."

"Man skall inte byta häst mitt i strömmen."

"Man ska inte buga för dumheten bara för att den är gammal."

"Man ska inte döma hunden efter håren."

"Man ska inte gjuta olja på elden."

"Man ska inte gråta över spilld mjölk."

"Man trampar masken så länge att han vill värja sig."

"Man tröttnar aldrig på att arbeta för sig själv."

"Man är alltid sig själv närmast."

"Medan gräset gror, dör kon."

"Medgång bör tänka på motgång."

"Mister du en så står dig tusen åter."

"Morgonstund har guld i mund."

"Mycket vill ha mer."

"Måla inte fan på väggen."

"Många bäckar små, blir till en stor å."

"Många händer göra arbetet lätt."

"Många hugg fälla eken."

"Många små posar fylla snart en såck."

"Människan spår, men gud rår."

"Nya kvastar sopar bäst."

"Nytta med nöje förenad ger bästa trefnad."

"Någon måtta får det vara."

"Något för något, intet för intet."

"När det regnar manna från himlen har den fattige ingen sked."

"När det regnar på prästen, så droppar det på klockaren."

"När fan blir gammal blir han religiös."

"När Gud kommer med döden, kommer fan med arvingarna."

"När man talar om trollen så står de i farstun och lyssnar."

"När musen är mätt, smakar mjölet beskt."

"När nöden är som störst är hjälpen som närmast."

"När katten är borta dansar råttorna på bordet."

"Nära skjuter ingen hare."

"Nöden har ingen lag."

"Nöden är uppfinningarnas moder."

"Om en blind leder en blind, så faller de båda i gropen."

"Om kvällen får den late brått."

"Om man ger någon ett finger vill han ha hela handen."

"Omväxling förnöjer."

"Onda seder göra goda lagar."

"Ondt samvete fruktar alltid det värsta."

"Ont krut förgås inte så lätt."

"Ont skall med ont fördrivas."

"Orsak nog till krig, när man måste värja sig."

"Osvuret är bäst."

"Otack är världens lön."

"Pengar luktar inte."

"Pengar växer inte på träd."

"Pengar öppnar alla portar utom himmelens."

"Pennan har godt minne."

"Prisa inte dagen förrän solen har gått ner."

"På rullande sten växer ingen mossa."

"Politiker är som krokodiler, stora i käften men saknar öron."

"Prisa varsamt, lasta sparsamt."

"Rom byggdes inte på en dag."

"Ropa inte hej förrän du är över bäcken."

"Ryktet dräper mannen."

"Sanningen älskar ljuset"

"Synden straffar sig själv."

"Sagt ord och kastad sten kan inte tas tillbaka."

"Sakta men säkert."

"(För) sent skall syndaren vakna."

"Själv är bästa dräng."

"Skam den som ger sig."

"Skadeglädjen är den enda sanna glädjen."

"Skenet bedrar."

"Skjut inte dig själv i foten."

"Skjut inte upp till morgondagen det du kan göra idag."

"Skomakare, bliv vid din läst."

"Skrattar bäst som skrattar sist."

"Skynda långsamt."

"Skåda inte given häst i mun."

"Slutet gott, allting gott."

"Smakar det så kostar det."

"Smaken är som baken, delad."

"Smedens häst och skomakarens ungar är sämst skodda."

"Små smulor är också bröd."

"Små sår och fattiga vänner ska man inte förakta."

"Smäda (icke) på den döda."

"Snålheten bedrar visheten."

"Som de gamla sjunga, så kvittra de unga."

"Som fan läser bibeln."

"Som man bäddar får man ligga."

"Som man ropar (i skogen) får man svar."

"Som man sår får man skörda."

"Som man är klädd blir man hädd."

"Somliga straffar Gud direkt."

"Sovande bonde får drömmande dräng."

"Spill inte krut på döda kråkor."

"Spotta inte i motvind."

"Stor i orden, liten på jorden."

"”Surt”, sade räven (om rönnbären)."

"Svårigheter finns till för att övervinnas."

"Så länge det finns liv finns det hopp."

"Sådan herre, sådan dräng/slav/hund."

"Sådan moder, sådan dotter."

"Sådan fader, sådan son."

"Såga inte av den gren du sitter på."

"Sälj inte skinnet förrän björnen är skjuten."

"Sök och du skall finna."

"Ta tjuren vid hornen."

"Tala är silver, tiga är guld."

"Tala med bönder på bönders vis och med de lärde på latin."

"Tiden går fort när man har roligt."

"Tiden läker alla sår."

"Tillfället gör tjuven."

"Tomma tunnor skramlar mest."

"Tro ej din vän , förrän i ätit upp en halfspann salt tillsammans."

"Tron kan försätta berg."

"Trägen vinner."

"Tänk efter före."

"Tvungen kärlek, sminkad skönhet och vårdagssnö vara icke länge."

"Två fel gör inte ett rätt."

"Tålamod är konsten att hoppas."

"Ulfven får nog orsak med lammet, fastän det dricker nederst i bäcken."

"Undantaget bekräftar regeln."

"Var dag har nog av sin egen plåga."

"Var fågel sjunger efter sin egen näbb."

"Var skall sleven vara om inte i grytan?"

"Var smed har sin sed."

"Varav hjärtat är fullt talar munnen."

"Varje moln har en silverkant."

"Varnad är väpnad."

"Verkligheten överträffar dikten."

"Source: Holm (1981), p. 171"

"Viljan kan försätta berg."

"Vill man vara fin får man lida pin."

"Villig häst bör man inte sporra."

"Vis är den som råd lyder, men oråd skall ingen lyda."

"Visdomen har långa öron och kort tunga."

"Väck inte den björn som sover."

"Vägen till helvetet är kantad med goda föresatser."

"Vännens örfil är ärligt menad, fiendens kyssar vill bedra."

"Vägen till mannens hjärta går genom magen."

"Väggarna har öron."

"Världen är liten."

"Åsnan känns igen på öronen, den dumme på sina ord."

"Älska mig när jag minst av allt förtjänar det, för det är då jag behöver det som mest."

"Ändamålet helgar medlen."

"Äpplet faller inte långt från trädet."

"Är det inte det ena så är det det andra, sa flickan som blödde näsblod."

"Är huvudet dumt får kroppen lida."

"Är gud med dig, ho kan då vara mot dig?"

"Ärlighet varar längst."

"Äras den som äras bör."

"Äta bör man annars dör man."

"Även den bäste/mästaren kan fela."

"Även dåren tros vis om han tiger."

"Även en blind höna kan hitta ett korn."

"Även små grytor har öron. or Små grytor har också öron."

"Även solen har sina fläckar."

"Öga för öga, tand för tand."

"Ögonen vill ha mer än magen."

"Övning ger färdighet."

"אין הנחתום מעיד על עיסתו"

"אין עשן בלי אש"

"אל תסתכל בקנקן, אלא במה שבתוכו"

"אל תקנה חתול בשק"

"טוב להיות זנב לאריות מאשר ראש לשועלים"

"טובה ציפור אחת ביד משתיים על העץ"

"כי בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה"

"כל המרחם על אכזרים סופו שיתאכזר על רחמנים"

"תכו נגד ברזל בעודו חם"

"מה ששנוא עליך - אל תעשה לחברך"

"מרוב עצים לא רואים את היער"

"נאה דורש - נאה מקיים"

"סנונית אחת אינה מבשרת את בוא האביב"

"על דאטפת אטפוך וסוף מטיפייך - יטופון (Mishnah Avot 2,7)"

"צוחק מי שצוחק אחרון"

"צרות באות בצרורות"

"רחוק מהעין - רחוק מהלב"

"תפסת מרובה - לא תפסת"

".נפלה האבן על הקדרה, אוי לקדרה. נפלה הקדרה על האבן, אוי לקדרה"

"בכל החזיתות שאנו מטילים על אחרים אנחנו מדגימים את הפוטנציאל שלנו, דרך הילדים שלנו אנחנו מגלים את המציאות שלנו. - לורנס קלמן, כדי ללבות עמ 'נשמה"

"Live long and prosper."

"Nothing that is is unimportant."

"Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you."

"Infinite diversity in infinite combination."

"Your mind to my mind... your thoughts to my thoughts..."

"Only Nixon can go to China."

"May your journey be free of incident."

"In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace."

"Nothing unreal exists."

"Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide."

"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

"We are here to serve."

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one."

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."

"A Vulcan never bluffs."

"One man can summon the future."

"One man cannot summon the future."

"Kaiidth. ("What is, is.")"

"Logic dictates that to race a prized stallion one must first break it."

"उल्टा चोर कोतवाल को डांटे"

"हाथ कंगन को आरसी क्या"

"जान है तो जहान है"

"जंगल में मोर नाचा किस ने देखा ?"

"जिस की लाठी उसकी भैंस"

"घर का भेदी लंका ढाये"

"बंदर क्या जाने अदरक का स्वाद"

"अब पछताए होत क्या जब चिड़िया चुग गई खेत"

"नाच न जाने, आँगन ठेढ़ा"

"दूर के ढोल सुहावने लगते हैं"

"घर की मुर्गी दाल बराबर"

"जल में रहकर मगर से बैर ठीक नहीं"

"जाति ना पूछो साधु की; पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान."

"इश्क अंधा होता है"

"All are not thieves that the dogs bark at."

"All are not friends that speak us fair."

"All things come to those who wait."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers."

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

"All for one and one for all."

"A staff is quickly found to beat a dog."

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

"A rotten apple injures its neighbors."

"People are not satisfied with what they have, people are satisfied with what they don't have."

"Bend the willow while it is young"

"The best things come in small packages."

"Big thunder, little rain."

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"

"Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes."

"The belly has no ears."

"Better to be alone than in bad company."

"Bloom where you are planted."

"Boys will be boys."

"By hook or by crook."

"The calm (comes) before the storm."

"Catch not a shadow and lose the substance."

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

"The child is father to the man."

"Cometh the hour, cometh the man."

"Common sense is not so common."

"Confidence begets confidence."

"Courage lost, all lost."

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Deep calls to deep."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

"Different strokes for different folks."

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face."

"Don't have too many irons in the fire."

"Don't make clothes for a not yet born baby."

"Don't mend what ain't broken."

"Do not play with edged tools."

"Doctors make the worst patients."

"Don't carry coals to Newcastle."

"Don't go between the tree and the bark."

"Each to his own taste"

"The early bird catches the worm. But the second mouse gets the cheese."

"An empty vessel makes the most noise"

"An Englishman's home is his castle."

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"The ends justify the means."

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

"Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked."

"Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself."

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

"Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

"Fifty percent of something is better than one hundred percent of nothing."

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

"A fox smells its own lair first. Or: A fox smells its own stink first."

"Fretting cares make grey hairs."

"From those to whom much is given, much is expected."

"Fortune favours the brave."

"Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it. (or ...he'll repay you for it.)"

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

"God cures and the physician takes the fee."

"A golden bit does not make the horse any better."

"Good swimmers are often drowned."

"Good things come to those who wait."

"Grasp all, lose all."

"Great minds agree."

"Hard words break no bones."

"The head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"He who dares wins."

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

"Handsome is what handsome does."

"I complained I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet."

"If it can't be cured, it must be endured."

"If it's too good to be true, then it probably is."

"If God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings."

"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

"If something can go wrong, it will."

"If the truth hurts, you are not living right."

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"If you make yourself into a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you."

"If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail."

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

"Ignorance is bliss."

"In one ear and out the other."

"In order to get where you want to go, you first have to leave where you are."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"It's a cracked pitcher that goes longest to the well."

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

"It's an ill wind that blows no good."

"It's better to be safe than sorry."

"It's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt."

"It's better to give than to receive."

"It's cheaper to keep her."

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

"It's no use crying over spilt milk."

"It's the early bird that gets the worm."

"It's the empty can that makes the most noise."

"It takes all sorts to make a world."

"Jack of all trades and master of None. (18th century)"

"Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. (17th century)"

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

"Justice delayed is justice denied. (Legal Proverb, India)"

"Keep your mouth shut and your ears open."

"Kill your darlings."

"Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns."

"Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing."

"A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"The law is a jealous mistress."

"Law is the solemn expression of legislative will."

"Lead by example."

"Least said sooner mended."

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

"Let the cobbler stick to his last."

"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on."

"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas."

"Life imitates chess. - Garry Kasparov"

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

"Life is too short."

"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die."

"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be."

"Like cures like."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget."

"Love is stronger than any addiction, baby. Hell, it is one. - Madea"

"A man's home is his castle."

"A mans worst enemies are often those of his own house."

"Man proposes but God disposes."

"Many rats cannot all at once dig a hole for their home."

"Mind your P's and Q's."

"Misfortunes never come singly."

"Missing the wood for the trees."

"Money cannot buy happiness."

"(Love of) Money is the root of all evil."

"Money makes the world go around."

"More haste, less speed."

"The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. The less you know, the more you study."

"The nail that sticks up will be hammered down."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"Never cast a clout till May be out."

"Never judge a book by its cover."

"Never say never - Justin Bieber"

"Never wear a brown hat in Friesland."

"A new broom sweeps clean."

"A night with Venus and a life with mercury."

"No man is born into this world, whose work is not born with him."

"No man is indispensable."

"No time like the present."

"Noblesse oblige."

"There are none so blind as they who will not see."

"Nothing to be feared in life, but understood."

"An old dog will learn no tricks."

"One grain of sand can tip the scale."

"One man's junk is another man's treasure."

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. - Ronald Reagan"

"One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. - English, 17th century"

"Out of the frying pan into the fire."

"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero."

"One rotten apple will spoil the whole barrel."

"One scabbed sheep mars the whole flock."

"One swallow doesn't make a summer."

"Opportunity knocks only once."

"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit."

"Out of small acorns grow mighty oaks."

"One should fight fire with fire."

"Perfect Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. (a.k.a The six P's)"

"The pitcher which goes too often to the well gets broken."

"Poets are born, but orators are trained."

"Practice before you preach."

"Pride comes before the fall. (Pride comes before a fall.)"

"Proverbs run in pairs."

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride it to death."

"Put a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil."

"Reality is often stranger than fiction."

"Repetition is the mother of memory."

"A rising tide lifts all boats."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"The rotten apple injures its neighbors."

"Say something nice or say nothing at all."

"Seeing is believing."

"Self trust is the first secret of success."

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, he eats for the rest of his life."

"Shit or get off the pot."

"Shoemaker, not above the sandal"

"Silence is golden."

"Someone who gossips to you will gossip about you."

"Something is better than nothing."

"Still waters run deep."

"Stolen fruit is the sweetest."

"Success (only) comes after every necessary precaution."

"Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties."

"Take an old dirty, hungry, mangy, sick and wet dog and feed him and wash him and nurse him back to health, and he will never turn on you and bite you. This is how man and dog differ."

"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger."

"The dogs bark but the caravan goes on."

"The man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one."

"The teacher has not taught, until the student has learned."

"There is no smoke without fire."

"There are no small parts, only small actors."

"There is a thin line between love and hate."

"There's always a calm before a storm."

"There's no time like the present."

"There is only eight years between success and failure in politics."

"A thief thinks everyone steals."

"This, too, shall pass."

"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

"Time and tide wait for none."

"'Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."

"To each, his own."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"To know the road ahead ask those coming back."

"Too many arguments destroyed marriage negotiations"

"Too much of one thing, good for nothing."

"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

"Truth will out."

"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value."

"Two wrongs don't make a right."

"Unity is strength."

"Unprepare to prepare, be prepared to be unprepared."

"Use it up, wear it out, make do with, or do without."

"The voice of the people is the voice of god."

"Walk the walk and talk the talk."

"We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that drop."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"When a thing is done advice comes too late."

"When one door closes, another door opens."

"When the cat is away, the mice will play."

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. http://www.bartleby.com/66/73/25873.html"

"The whole dignity of man lies in the power of thought."

"A woman is like a tea bag; you'll never know how strong she is until she's in hot water."

"Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle."

"Worship the Creator not His creation."

"The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them."

"Work is worship."

"You always admire what you really don't understand, et al. (2007). The Book of Positive Quotations, Fairview Press."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

"You can't see the forest for the trees' mean"

"A baker's dozen."

"A flea in his ear."

"A thorn in the flesh."

"Bag and baggage."

"Barkis is willin'."

"Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes."

"Better a bad excuse, than none at all."

"Big-endians and small-endians."

"But me no buts."

"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!"

"Diamonds cut diamonds."

"Every one stretcheth his legs according to his coverlet."

"Every why hath a wherefore."

"Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind."

"Fitted him to a T."

"Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended."

"God save the mark!"

"Go to Jericho. Let them all go to Jericho, And ne'er be seen againe."

"Go West, young man! Go West."

"Go West, young man, and grow up with the country."

"Harp not on that string."

"He can give little to his servant that licks his knife."

"He comes not in my books."

"Here's metal more attractive."

"Hide their diminished heads."

"Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles."

"Honey of Hybla."

"I have you on the hip."

"In the name of the Prophet—figs."

"Leap out of the frying pan into the fire."

"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none."

"Love, and a Cough, cannot be hid."

"Make three bites of a cherry."

"Many a smale maketh a grate."

"Mariana in the moated grange."

"Moche Crye and no Wull."

"Needle in a bottle of hay."

"Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring."

"No better than you should be."

"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street."

"Originality provokes originality."

"Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy … he stopped to deliberate…. At last he cried out: "The die is cast" and immediately passed the river."

"Performed to a T."

"Pons Asinorum."

"Present company excepted."

"Push on—keep moving."

"Put himself upon his good behaviour."

"Put your toong in your purse."

"Quo vadis?"

"Safe bind, safe find."

"Smell a rat."

"So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd."

"Sop to Cerebus."

"So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette."

"Strike the iron whilst it is hot."

"That was laid on with a trowel."

"The fat's all in the fire."

"The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head."

"The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye."

"The short and the long of it."

"The total depravity of inanimate things."

"Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us."

"Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife."

"Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush."

"Through thick and thin."

"Though last, not least in love."

"Thursday come, and the week is gone."

"'Tis a stinger."

"'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather."

"'Tis neither here nor there."

"To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb."

"To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot."

"Turn over a new leaf."

"Walls have tongues, and hedges ears."

"Westward-ho!"

"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

"What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely."

"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a gander."

"What is the matter with Kansas?"

"What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others."

"When a dog is drowning, every one offers him drink."

"Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table."

"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."

"Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad."

"Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools."

"Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another."

"Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?"

"You whirled them to the back of beyond."

"Алты́нного во́ра ве́шают, а полти́нного че́ствуют."

"Аппети́т прихо́дит во вре́мя еды́."

"Арте́льный горшо́к гу́ще кипи́т."

"Ах, судья, судья: четыре полы, восемь карманов."

"Ахал бы дядя, на себя глядя."

"Ба́ба с во́зу — кобы́ле ле́гче."

"Ба́бушка (гада́ла, да) на́двое сказа́ла ( — то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет)."

"Беда́ (никогда́) не прихо́дит одна́."

"Без кота́ мыша́м раздо́лье."

"Без труда́ не вы́тащишь и ры́бку из пруда́."

"Береги́ пла́тье сно́ву, а честь смо́лоду."

"Бережёного Бог бережёт."

"Бери́сь дру́жно, не бу́дет гру́зно."

"Бли́зок локото́к, да не уку́сишь."

"Блин не клин, брюха не расколет."

"Бог дал, Бог и взял."

"Бог правду видит, да не скоро скажет."

"Бог тро́ицу лю́бит."

"Бодливой корове Бог рог не даёт."

"Болту́н — нахо́дка для шпио́на."

"Большо́му кораблю́ — большо́е пла́вание."

"Брюхо — злодей: старого добра не помнит."

"Бу́дет и на на́шей у́лице пра́здник."

"Бума́га всё сте́рпит."

"Была́ не была́."

"Вали́ на се́рого, се́рый всё свезёт."

"Вашими бы устами да мед пить."

"В гостя́х хорошо́, а до́ма лу́чше."

"В дождь избы́ не кро́ют, а в вёдро и сама́ не ка́плет."

"В до́ме пове́шенного не говоря́т о верёвке."

"Век живи́ — век учи́сь."

"Вели́к те́лом, да мал де́лом."

"Видна́ пти́ца по полёту."

"Ви́дит о́ко, да зуб неймёт."

"Вино́ вину́ твори́т."

"В нога́х правды не́т."

"В убо́гой го́рдости дья́волу уте́ха."

"Во́лка но́ги ко́рмят."

"Волк в ове́чьей шку́ре."

"Волко́в боя́ться — в лес не ходи́ть."

"Во́р у вора́ дуби́нку укра́л."

"Во́рон во́рону глаз не вы́клюет."

"Вот где соба́ка зары́та."

"Вре́мя — лу́чший до́ктор"

"В семье́ не без уро́да."

"Всё хорошо́, что хорошо́ конча́ется."

"Вспомнила бабушка, как девушкой была."

"Всяк кули́к своё боло́то хва́лит."

"Вся́кому о́вощу своё вре́мя."

"Всяк сверчо́к знай свой шесто́к."

"В тесноте́, да не в оби́де."

"В Ту́лу со свои́м самова́ром (не е́здят)"

"В чужо́й монасты́рь со свои́м уста́вом не хо́дят."

"В чужо́м глазу́ сори́нку заме́тно, а в своём — бревна́ не вида́ть."

"Где то́нко — там и рвётся."

"Гла́дко бы́ло на бума́ге, да забы́ли про овра́ги (, а по ним шага́ть)."

"Глаза́ боя́тся, а ру́ки де́лают."

"Говоря́т, что кур доя́т (, а пошли́ и ти́тек не нашли́)."

"Го́лод не тётка (, пирожка́ не поднесёт)."

"Го́лой овцы́ не стригу́т."

"Голь на вы́думку хитра́."

"Горба́того моги́ла испра́вит."

"Гром не гря́нет, мужи́к не перекре́стится."

"Гусь свинье́ не това́рищ."

"Дай с ногото́к - попро́сит с локото́к."

"Дарёному коню́ в зу́бы не смо́трят."

"Даю́т - бери́, а бьют - беги́."

"Дву́м смертя́м не быва́ть, одно́й не минова́ть."

"Дели́ть шку́ру неуби́того медве́дя."

"Де́ло ма́стера бои́тся."

"До бога высоко, до царя далеко."

"До́брое бра́тство — лу́чшее бога́тство."

"До́брое сло́во и ко́шке прия́тно."

"Долг платежо́м кра́сен."

"До́ма и сте́ны помога́ют."

"Дорога́ ло́жка к обе́ду."

"До́рого яи́чко ко Христо́ву дню."

"Дру́жба дру́жбой, а слу́жба слу́жбой."

"Дру́жба дру́жбой, а табачо́к (де́нежки) - врозь."

"Друг познаётся в беде́."

"Дурака́м зако́н не пи́сан (, е́сли пи́сан, то не чи́тан, е́сли чи́тан, то не по́нят, е́сли по́нят, то не так)."

"Дура́к завя́жет — и у́мный не развя́жет."

"Дурако́в не се́ют, не жнут, са́ми родя́тся."

"Е́дешь на́ день, хле́ба бери́ на неде́лю."

"Ели-пили, веселились. Подсчитали — прослезились."

"Е́сли бы да кабы́ да во рту росли́ грибы́ (бобы́)(, то был бы не рот, а огоро́д)."

"Если бы молодость знала, если бы старость могла."

"Если бы не закон, не было бы и преступника."

"Если бы у бабушки были яйца, она была бы дедушкой."

"Если хочешь быть красивым, поступи в гусары."

"Жизнь прожи́ть — не по́ле перейти́."

"Запретный плод сладок"

"Зако́н что ды́шло, куда́ повернёшь - туда́ и вы́шло."

"Заста́вь дурака́ Бо́гу моли́ться - он (себе́) лоб расшибёт (и други́м но́ги поотшиба́ет)."

"За чем пойдёшь, то и найдёшь."

"За что боро́лись, на то и напоро́лись."

"За что купи́л, за то и продаю́ (, не лю́бо - не слу́шай, а врать не меша́й)."

"Зна́ет ко́шка, чьё мя́со съе́ла."

"И волки сыты, и овцы целы."

"И много — мало, и мало — хватит."

"Из двух зол выбира́ют ме́ньшее."

"Из огня́ да в полымя́."

"Из пе́сни сло́ва не вы́кинешь."

"Искру́ туши́ до пожа́ра, беду́ отводи́ до уда́ра."

"Исподво́ль и ольху́ согнёшь."

"Ищи́ ве́тра в по́ле."

"И один в поле воин."

"Как ау́кнется — так и откли́кнется."

"Ка́шу ма́слом не испо́ртишь."

"Клин кли́ном вышиба́ют."

"Когото́к увя́з - всей пти́чке пропа́сть."

"Козла́ бо́йся спе́реди, коня́ — сза́ди, а лихо́го челове́ка — со всех сторо́н."

"Конь о четырёх нога́х, да (и тот) спотыка́ется."

"Коней на переправе не меняют"

"Копе́йка рубль бережёт (, а рубль го́лову стережёт)."

"Куда́ конь с копы́том, туда и рак с клешнёй."

"Кто с чёртом обедать хочет, должен запастись длинной ложкой."

"Куда́ ни кинь, везде́ (всё, всю́ду) клин."

"Куй желе́зо, пока горячо́."

"Ла́сковый телёнок двух ма́ток сосёт."

"Лбом сте́нку не расшибёшь."

"Лежа́чего не бьют."

"Лес ру́бят — ще́пки летя́т."

"Лиха́ беда́ нача́ло."

"Ло́жка дегтю по́ртит бо́чку мёда."

"Лу́чшее — враг хоро́шего."

"Лу́чше оди́н раз уви́деть, чем сто раз услы́шать."

"Лу́чше по́здно, чем никогда́."

"Любо́вь зла́, полю́бишь и козла́."

"Мно́го — не ма́ло."

"Молоде́ц про́тив ове́ц, а про́тив молодца́ — и сам овца́."

"Муж в Тверь — жена в дверь."

"Мя́гко сте́лет, да жёстко спать."

"Напрямик — ближе, кругом — скорее."

"Незваный гость хуже татарина."

"Не ищи беды – беда сама тебя найдет"

"Не делай из мухи слона"

"На безры́бье и рак — ры́ба [, на безлю́дье и си́день — челове́к]."

"На Бо́га наде́йся, а сам не плоша́й."

"На брю́хе шёлк, а в брю́хе щёлк."

"На вкус и цвет това́рищей нет."

"На во́ре ша́пка гори́т."

"На всех не угоди́шь"

"На вся́кого мудреца́ дово́льно простоты́."

"Назва́лся гру́здем — полеза́й в ку́зов."

"На кривой суд образца нет."

"На ловца́ и зверь бежи́т."

"На миру́ и смерть красна́."

"На то и щу́ка [в мо́ре], что́бы кара́сь не дрема́л."

"На чужо́й карава́й рот не разева́й."

"Нашла́ коса́ на ка́мень."

"На языке́ мёд, а на се́рдце — лёд."

"Не бо́ги горшки́ обжига́ют."

"Не бо́йся соба́ки, что ла́ет, а бо́йся той, что молчи́т и хвосто́м виля́ет."

"Не́ было бы сча́стья, да несча́стье помогло́."

"Не́ было у ба́бы хлопо́т, так купи́ла порося́."

"Не всё коту́ ма́сленица, (бу́дет и вели́кий пост)."

"Не всё то зо́лото, что блести́т."

"Не говори́ гоп, пока́ не переско́чишь (перепры́гнешь)."

"Не да́вши сло́ва — крепи́сь, а да́вши — держи́сь."

"Не за то во́лка бьют, что сер, а за то, что овцу́ съел."

"Не зна́я бро́ду, не су́йся в во́ду."

"Не име́й дру́га пота́тчика, а име́й дру́га попере́чника."

"Не ме́сто кра́сит челове́ка, а челове́к — ме́сто."

"Не мечи́те би́сер пе́ред сви́ньями."

"Не ошиба́ется тот, кто ничего́ не де́лает."

"Не плюй в коло́дец — пригоди́тся [воды] напи́ться."

"Не по́йман — не во́р."

"Не рой друго́му я́му, сам в неё попадёшь."

"Не спра́шивай ста́рого, спра́шивай быва́лого."

"Нет ды́ма без огня́."

"Нет ху́да без добра́."

"Ни к селу́, ни к го́роду."

"Ни ры́ба, ни мя́со [ни кафтан, ни ряса]."

"Но́вая метла по-но́вому метёт."

"Обе́щанного три го́да ждут."

"Обже́гшись на молоке́, ду́ют на́ воду."

"Овчи́нка вы́делки не сто́ит."

"Оди́н в по́ле [—] не во́ин."

"Оди́н с со́шкой — се́меро с ло́жкой."

"Оди́н сын – не сын, два сы́на – по́лсына, три сы́на – сын."

"Одна́ речь — не посло́вица."

"Одна́ ча́рка - на здоро́вье, друга́я - на весе́лье, тре́тья – на вздор."

"От во́лка бежа́л, да на медве́дя попа́л."

"От добра́ добра́ не и́щут."

"От трудо́в пра́ведных не наживёшь пала́т ка́менных."

"Охо́та пу́ще нево́ли."

"Пей, да де́ло разуме́й."

"Пе́рвый блин (всегда́) ко́мом."

"Пло́х тот солда́т, кото́рый не мечта́ет стать генера́лом."

"Пова́дился кувши́н по́ воду ходи́ть, (тут ему́ и го́лову сломи́ть)."

"Пови́нную го́лову и меч не сечёт."

"Повторе́нье - мать уче́нья."

"Пожале́л волк кобы́лу, оста́вил хвост да гри́ву."

"Поживём - увидим."

"Помира́ть, так с му́зыкой."

"По одёжке встреча́ют, по уму́ провожа́ют."

"Посади́ свинью́ за стол — она́ и но́ги на сто́л"

"По́сле дра́ки кулака́ми не ма́шут."

"Поспеши́шь – люде́й насмеши́шь."

"Привычка – вторая натура"

"Простота́ ху́же воровства́."

"Пу́ганая воро́на куста́ (теле́жного скри́па/со́бственной те́ни) бои́тся."

"Пья́ному мо́ре по коле́но (, а лу́жа — по́ уши)."

"Работа не волк - в лес не убежит."

"Раз на раз не прихо́дится."

"Рука́ ру́ку мо́ет [, вор во́ра кр́оет]."

"Ры́ба и́щет, где глу́бже, а челове́к — где лу́чше."

"Рыба́к рыбака́ ви́дит издалека́."

"С волка́ми жить, по-во́лчьи выть."

"Своя́ но́ша не тя́нет."

"Своя́ руба́шка бли́же к те́лу."

"Свя́то ме́сто пу́сто не быва́ет."

"С глаз доло́й — из се́рдца вон."

"Седина́ в бо́роду, бес в ребро́."

"Се́меро одного́ не ждут."

"Семь бед — оди́н отве́т."

"Семь вёрст до небе́с и всё ле́сом."

"Семь раз отме́рь, оди́н отре́жь."

"Семь топоро́в вме́сте лежа́т, а две пря́лки врозь."

"С кем поведёшься, от того́ и наберёшься."

"Ско́лько во́лка ни корми́, он всё в лес смо́трит."

"Ско́ро ска́зка ска́зывается, да не ско́ро де́ло де́лается."

"Сла́вны бу́бны за гора́ми (а к нам приду́т, как луко́шко)."

"Сло́во не воробей, вылетит — не поймаешь."

"Сло́во — се́ребро, молча́ние — зо́лото."

"Слу́хом земля́ по́лнится."

"С ми́ру по ни́тке — го́лому руба́ха."

"Соловья́ ба́снями не ко́рмят."

"Сня́вши го́лову, по волоса́м не пла́чут."

"Соба́ка на се́не: и сама́ не ест, и други́м не даёт."

"Соро́ка на хвосте́ принесла́."

"Ста́рость - не ра́дость."

"Ста́рый друг лу́чше но́вых двух."

"Суженого конем не объедешь"

"Сы́тый голо́дного не разуме́ет: одному́ суп жи́дкий, друго́му - же́мчуг ме́лкий."

"Там хорошо́, где нас нет."

"Твои́ми бы уста́ми да мёд пить."

"Терпе́ние и труд всё перетру́т."

"Терпи́, каза́к, атама́ном бу́дешь."

"Ти́ше е́дешь — да́льше бу́дешь."

"Тону́л – топо́р сули́л, а как вы́тащили – и топори́ща жаль (ста́ло)."

"Труд челове́ка ко́рмит, а лень — по́ртит."

"Ты бли́же к де́лу, а он про козу́ бе́лу."

"Убы́ток — уму́ прибы́ток."

"У ба́бы во́лос до́лог, да ум ко́роток."

"У стра́ха глаза́ велики́."

"Угово́р доро́же де́нег."

"Уката́ли Си́вку круты́е го́рки."

"Укоро́тишь – не воро́тишь."

"Ули́та е́дет, когда́-то бу́дет."

"У́мная голова́, да дураку́ доста́лась."

"У́мные ре́чи прия́тно и слу́шать."

"У семи́ ня́нек дитя́ без гла́зу."

"Ус в честь, а борода́ и у козла́ есть."

"Услу́жливый дура́к опа́снее врага́."

"Уста́ми младе́нца глаго́лет и́стина."

"Утопа́ющий за соло́минку хвата́ется."

"У́тро ве́чера мудрене́е."

"Уче́нье свет, а неуче́нье тьма."

"Хвали́лась сини́ца мо́ре заже́чь."

"Хвали́лся чёрт всем ми́ром владе́ть, а Бог ему́ и над свиньёй не дал вла́сти."

"Хва́стать – не коси́ть, спина́ не боли́т."

"Хлеб всему́ голова́."

"Хлеб за брю́хом не хо́дит (, а брю́хо за хле́бом)."

"Хлеб-соль ешь, а правду-матку режь."

"Хоро́ший това́р сам себя́ хва́лит."

"Хорошо тому жить, кому бабушка ворожит."

"Хоть гол, да прав."

"Хоть есть не́чего, да жить ве́село."

"Хоть кол (ему́) на голове́ теши́."

"Хре́н ре́дьки не сла́ще."

"Худо́й мир лу́чше до́брой ссоры."

"Худы́е ве́сти не лежа́т на ме́сте."

"Цыпля́т по о́сени счита́ют."

"Челове́к предполага́ет, а Бог располага́ет."

"Чем бы дит́я ни те́шилось, ли́шь бы не пла́кало."

"Чем да́льше в лес, тем бо́льше дров."

"Чему́ быть, того́ не минова́ть."

"Что бы́ло, то прошло́ (и быльём поросло́)."

"Что в лоб, что по́ лбу."

"Что (ни) го́род, то но́ров."

"Что име́ем — не храни́м, потеря́вши — пла́чем."

"Что напи́сано перо́м — не вы́рубить топоро́м."

"Что посе́ешь, то и пожнёшь."

"Что с во́зу упа́ло, то пропа́ло."

"Что у тре́звого на уме́, то у пья́ного на языке́."

"Чужа́я душа́ – потёмки."

"Чужу́ю беду́ рука́ми разведу́, (а к свое́й ума́ не приложу́)."

"Чья́ бы коро́ва мыча́ла, а твоя́ бы молча́ла."

"Ши́ла в мешке́ не утаи́шь."

"Это ещё цвето́чки, а я́годки впереди́."

"вот где собака зарыта."

"Я́блоко от я́блони недалеко́ па́дает."

"Язы́к до Кие́ва доведёт."

"Язы́к мой – враг мой (, пре́жде ума́ глаго́лет)."

"Я́йца ку́рицу не у́чат."

"Я не я, и ло́шадь не моя́ (, и я не изво́зчик)."

"Доверя́й, но проверя́й."

"Дурная голова ногам покоя не даёт, а хитрая жопа не даёт покоя ни ногам, ни рукам, ни голове."

"[W]hat one person has in mind, the other will pronounce."

"A bien petite occasion Se saisit le loup du mouton."

"À bois noueux, hache affilée."

"À chaque fou plaît sa marotte."

"À chaque oiseau son nid est beau."

"À goupil endormi rien ne tombe en la gueule."

"À grands maux, grands remèdes. / Aux grands maux, les grands remèdes."

"À mauvais ouvrier point de bon outil."

"À mauvaise tête bonnes jambes."

"À cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents (French) / la bride (Canadian)."

"À confesseurs, médicins, avocats, la vérité ne cèle de ton cas."

"À l'étroit mais entre amis."

"À l'œuvre, on connaît l'artisan."

"A peine sera bon maistre qui n'a esté serviteur."

"Aujourd'hui à moy, demain à toy."

"À raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage."

"À tort se lamente de la mer qui ne s'ennuie d'y retourner."

"À qui il a été beaucoup donné, il sera beaucoup demandé."

"Abondance de bien ne nuit pas."

"Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera."

"Amour, toux et fumée en secret ne sont demeurés."

"Après la pluie, le beau temps."

"A tout pourquoi il y a (un) parce que."

"À tout seigneur, tout honneur."

"A qui la tête fait mal, souffre par tout le corps."

"A vrai dire peu de paroles."

"Bacchus a noyé plus de gens que Neptune."

"Beaucoup de paille, peu de grains."

"Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais."

"Bien nourri et mal appris."

"Bois tordu fait feu droit."

"Bon cœur ne peut mentir."

"Bon est le médecin qui se peut guérir."

"Bon marché tire agent de bourse."

"Bon sang ne saurait mentir."

"Bonne enclume ne craint pas le marteau."

"Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée."

"Bonne volonté est reputé pour le fait."

"Bons nageurs sont à la fin noyés."

"C'est donner deux fois, donner promptement."

"C'est folie de commencer ce qu'on ne peut achever."

"C'est la paille et la poutre."

"C'est viande mal prête que lièvre en buisson."

"Ce que chante la corneille, chante le corneillon."

"Ce qui croît soudain, périt le lendemain."

"Ce que l'enfant écoute au foyer, est bientôt connu jusqu'au moutier."

"Ce que tout le monde dit doit être vrai."

"Ce qui est bon pour l'un est bon pour l'autre."

"Celui qui n'est pas avec moi est contre moi."

"Celui qui est lent à manger est lent à travailler."

"Celui que veut être jeune quand il est vieux, doit être vieux quand il est jeune."

"Celui qui fuit de bonne heure peut combattre derechef."

"C'est l'exception qui confirme la règle."

"C'est la poule qui chante qui a fait l'œuf."

"C'est le ton qui fait la chanson."

"C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron."

"C'est trop d'un ennemi et pas assez de cent amis."

"C'est vouloir prendre des lièvres au son du tambour."

"Ce n'est pas la vache qui crie le plus fort qui donne le plus de lait."

"Ce qui est fait n'est plus à faire."

"Ceux que Jupiter veut perdre, il commence par leur oter la raison."

"Chacun doit balayer."

"Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous."

"Chacun peut être riche en promesses."

"Chacun sent le mieux où le soulier le blesse."

"Chagrin partagé, chagrin diminué; plaisir partagé, plaisir doublé."

"Chaque chose vaut son prix."

"Chaque jour une pomme conserve son homme."

"Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même."

"Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide."

"Cherchons la femme."

"Chien qui aboie ne mord pas."

"Choisissez votre femme par l'oreille bien plus que par les yeux."

"Comme on fait son lit, on se couche."

"Comparaison n'est pas raison."

"C'est dans le besoin qu'on reconnaît ses vrais amis."

"Ce n'est pas aux vieux singes qu'on apprend à faire des grimaces."

"Coffre ouvert, rend le saint pervers."

"Coucher de poule et lever de corbeau écartent l'homme du tombeau."

"Courte priére pénètre les cieux ."

"De l'abondance du coeur la bouche parle."

"D'un costé Dieu poingt, de l'autre il vingt. (old French)"

"Dans le doute, abstiens-toi."

"De la mesure dont nous mesurons les autres nous serons mesurés."

"De mauvais grain jamais bon pain."

"De qui je me fie Dieu me garde."

"De tout s'avise à qui pain faut."

"Deux ancres sont bonnes au navire."

"Diviser pour régner."

"Don d'ennemi c'est malencontreux."

"Donnant donnant."

"Donner un oeuf pour avoir une fève."

"En peu d'heure Dieu labeure"

"En toute chose il faut considérer la fin."

"Entre l'arbre et l'écorce il ne faut pas mettre le doigt."

"Envie est toujours en vie."

"Faire d'une mouche un éléphant."

"Faire le pas plus long que la jambe."

"Faire un cygne d'un oison."

"Fais comme je dis, non comme j'agis."

"Fais ce que tu peux, si tu ne peux faire ce que tu veux."

"Faute avouée est à moitié pardonnée."

"Faute de mieux le roi couche avec sa femme."

"Femme bonne vaut une couronne."

"Ferveur de novice ne dure pas."

"Folle est la brebis qui au loup se confesse."

"Fuis le plaisir qui amène repentir."

"Gardez-vous des faux prophètes."

"Grand bruit, petite toison, dit celui qui tond le cochon."

"Gueux en selle galope à crever sa monture."

"Hâtez-vous lentement."

"Heureux sont les enfants dont les pères sont damnés."

"Il faut bien laisser le jeu quand il est beau."

"Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti ."

"Il faut donner au diable son dû."

"Il faut casser le noyau pour en avoir l'amande."

"Il faut être matelot avant d’être capitaine."

"Il faut être deux pour danser le tango."

"Il faut laisser aller le monde comme il va."

"Il faut laver son linge sale en famille."

"Il faut prêcher d'exemple."

"Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter."

"Il faut réfléchir avant d'agir."

"Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée."

"Il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud."

"Il n'est pas chance qui ne retourne."

"Il n'est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre."

"Il n'est rien tel qui balai neuf."

"Il n'est si bonne compagnie qu'on ne quitte."

"Il n'est si riche festin, où il n'y ait quelqu'un qui mal dîne."

"Il ne convient pas à fol qu'on lui rende cloche au col."

"Il ne faut jamais quitter le certain pour l'incertain."

"Il ne faut pas brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts."

"Il ne faut pas changer d'attelage au milieu d'un gué."

"Il ne faut pas confondre vitesse et précipitation."

"Il ne faut pas jeter les perles devant les poureaux."

"Il ne faut pas jouer avec le feu."

"Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la maison d'un pendu."

"Il n'ya a pas de secrets pour le temps."

"Il n'y a point d'église où le diable n'ait sa chapelle."

"Il n'y a point d'homme necessaire."

"Il n'y a que la foi que sauve."

"Il n'est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir."

"Il ne faut pas faire ces choses a moitié."

"Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences."

"Il ne faut pas mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier."

"Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu."

"Il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort."

"Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué."

"Il tirerait de l'huile d'un mur."

"Il vaut mieux suer que trembler."

"Il vaut mieux plier que rompre."

"Il vaut mieux qu'on dise "il court-là", qu'"il gît ici"."

"Il y a serpent caché sous des fleurs."

"Il y a péril en la demeure."

"Il ya anguille sous rouche."

"Jamais deux sans trois."

"Jamais paresseux n'eut grande écuelle."

"Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre."

"Jamais honteux n'eut belle amie."

"Jeter de l'huile sur le feu."

"Jeunneuse pauresse, viellise pouilleuse."

"Juge hâtif est périlleux."

"Juge l'oiseau à la plume et au chant, et au parler l'homme bon ou méchant."

"L'herbe est toujours plus verte dans le pré du voisin."

"L'histoire se répète."

"L'opinio est la reine du monde."

"La barbe ne fait pas le philosophe."

"La caque sent toujours le hareng."

"Le chemin le plus long est quelquefois le plus court."

"Le client a toujours raison."

"Le meilleur est toujours le moins cher."

"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien."

"La nécessité est la mère des inventions."

"L'argent est fait pour rouler."

"L'art est de cacher l'art."

"L'art est long, la vie est courte."

"L'attaque est la meilleure défence."

"L'envieux maigrit de l'embonpoint des autres."

"La belle plume fait le bel oiseau."

"La borne sied trèg bien entre les champs de deux frères."

"La confiance appelle la confiance."

"La femme du cordonnier est toujours mal chaussée."

"La fortune ne fait pas le bonheur."

"La nuit tous les chats sont gris."

"La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée."

"La parole s'enfuit, et l'écriture demeure."

"La punition boite, mais elle arrive."

"La répétition est la mère de la mémoire."

"La seconde pensée est la meilleure."

"La variété plaît."

"La vérité est dans le vin."

"La vérité se dit en badinant."

"La parole est l'ombre du fait."

"La patience est la vertu du sage."

"Langue muette n'est jamais battue."

"L'essentiel du courage c'est la prudence."

"Le fait juge l'homme."

"Le mal appelle le mal."

"Le meilleur n'en vaut rien."

"Le miel est doux, mais l'abeille pique."

"Les fous inventent les modes, et les sages les suivent."

"Le plus grand malheur ou bonheur de l'homme est une femme."

"La pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l'arbre."

"Le remède est pire que le mal."

"Le temps et l'usage rendent l'homme sage."

"Le trop de précautions ne nuit jamais."

"Les absents ont toujours tort."

"Les cordonniers sont les plus mal chaussés."

"Les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas."

"Les grands diseurs ne sont pas les grands faiseurs."

"Les soucis font blanchir les cheveux de bonne heure."

"L'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions."

"L'envie s'attache à la gloire."

"L'habit ne fait pas le moine."

"L'histoire se répéte."

"L'homme propose, et Dieu dispose."

"L'honnêteté est la meilleure politique."

"Loin des yeux, près du coeur."

"L'on passe la haie par où elle est plus basse."

"L'on ne saurait écorcher une pierre."

"L'or force le verrou."

"Le chien aboit, la caravane passe."

"La fortune sourit aux audacieux."

"Le fil ténu casse."

"L'espoir fait vivre."

"Les habitudes ont la vie dure."

"Les bons comptes font les bons amis."

"Le monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt."

"Les apparences sont trompeuses."

"Les grands voleurs pendent les petits."

"Les rats quittent le navire qui coule."

"La nuit porte conseil."

"La parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or."

"Loin des yeux, loin du cœur."

"Les murs ont des oreilles."

"Les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont les meilleures."

"Les premiers seront les derniers."

"Les volontés sont libres."

"Mettre la charrue devant les bœufs."

"Même le divine Homère sommeille quelquefois."

"Mieux vaut que entre fou avec tous que sage tout seul."

"Mieux vaut savoir que richesse."

"Mieux vaut peu que rien."

"Mieux vaut tenir que courir."

"Mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné."

"Mieux vaut faire que dire."

"Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir."

"Mieux vaut un présent que deux futurs."

"Mieux vaut un sage ennemi qu'un sot ami."

"Monter sur ses grands chevaux."

"Nature passe nourriture, et nourriture survainc nature."

"Ne meurs cheval, herbe te vient."

"Ne te mêle pas des affaires d'autrui."

"Ne touchez pas aux blessures guéries."

"Oignez vilain, il vous poindra. Poignez vilain, il vous oindra."

"On a que ce que l'on mérite."

"On ne tue pas le loup parce qu'il est gris, mais parce qu'il a dévoré la brebis."

"On naît poète, on devient orateur."

"On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même."

"On revient toujours à ses premières amours."

"On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne."

"On ne fait pas boire un âne qui n'a pas soif."

"On ne jette des pierres qu'a l'arbre chargé de fruits."

"On ne peut aider qui ne veut point écouter."

"On ne prend pas les oiseaux à la tartelle."

"On prend plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre."

"Oy, voy te tas, A tu veux vivre in paix."

"Par savoir vient avoir."

"Patience et longueur de temps font plus que force ni que rage."

"Patience passe science."

"Pendant le faveur de la fortune, il faut se préparer à sa défaveur."

"Personne ne peut être juge dans sa propre cause."

"Petit poisson deviendra grand."

"Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse."

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

"Point d’argent, point de Suisse."

"Pour estimer le doux, il faut goûter de l'amer."

"Pour un de perdu, deux de retrouvés."

"Prudence est la mère de súreté."

"Quand mes amis me prient il n'y a point de demain."

"Quand on dîne avec le diable, il faut se munir d'une longue cuiller."

"Quand on habite une maison de verre, il ne faut pas lancer des pierres."

"Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a."

"Quand on n'a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes."

"Quand on n'avance pas, on recule."

"Que trebuche et ne tombe pas avancer son chemin."

"Qui a age, doit être sage."

"Qui a bu, boira."

"Qui a froid souffle le feu."

"Qui a tête de cire ne doit pas s'approcher du feu."

"Qui aime Dieu est sûr en tout lieu."

"Que bien aime, tard oublie."

"Qui court deux lièvres à la fois, n'en prend aucun."

"Qui écoute aux portes, entend souvent sa propre honte."

"Qui m'aime aime mon chien."

"Qui mal commence, mal achève."

"Qui ne fait pas quand póte, nu face cand vrea."

"Qui ne risque rien n'a rien."

"Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander."

"Qui parle trop, manque souvent."

"Qui parle trop, personne ne l'écoute."

"Quj s'attend aux souliers d un mort court que de marcher longtemps nu pieds."

"Qui s'attend à l'accueil d'autrui, a souvent mal dîné."

"Qui s'attend à l'ecuelle d'autrui est sujet å mal dîner (a souvent mauvais dîner) (dîne souvent par coeur)."

"Qui se détourne évite le danger."

"Qui se resemble, s'assemble."

"Qui se sent - se mouche."

"Qui sème peu, peu récolte."

"Qui s'excuse, s'accuse."

"Qui trop embrasse mal étreint."

"Qui se croit sage est un grand fou."

"Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange."

"Qui sème le vent, récolte la tempête."

"Qui va doucement, va loin."

"Qui veut plaire à tout le monde doit se lever de bonne heure."

"Qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf."

"Rendre le bien pour le mal."

"Rejeter le bon et le mauvais."

"Revenons à nos moutons."

"Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour."

"Sans deniers Georges ne chante."

"Sans tentation, il n'y a point de victoire."

"Santé passe richesse."

"Se couper le nez pour faire dépit à son visage."

"Tallement des Réaux, Historiettes, Volume I, Chapter I (c. 1657–1659); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 639."

"Si souhaits fussent vrays, Pastoreaulx seraient roys."

"Si tu t'en fuis le, il te suivra, ce t'en fuiz, il s'en fuira. (old French)"

"Selon l'argent, la besogne."

"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait."

"Si la montagne ne va pas à Mahomet, Mahomet ira à la montagne."

"Si le ciel tombait il y aurait bien des alouettes prises."

"Si tous disent que tu es un âne, brais."

"Souvent on a coutume de baiser la main qu'on voudrait qui fût brûlée."

"Tant crie l'on Noël, qu'il vient. (old French)"

"Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'enfin elle se brise."

"Tel maître, tel valet."

"Tel père, tel fils."

"Telle mère, telle fille."

"Tirer les marrons de la patte du chat."

"Tout ce qui branle ne tombe pas."

"Tout chemin mène à Rome."

"Tout est bien que finit bien."

"Tout homme qui a compagnon d'office à un Maître."

"Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre."

"Trop enquérir n'est pas bon."

"Un ami est long à trouver et prompt à perdre."

"Un bon aujourd'hui vaut mieux que deux demain."

"Un clou chasse l'autre."

"Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil."

"Un mal et un péril ne vient jamais seul."

"Un oeuf aujourd'hui vaut mieux qu'un poulet."

"Un peu d'aide fait grand bien."

"Un point fait à temps en sauve cent."

"Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras."

"Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps."

"Une pomme gâtée en gâte cent."

"Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles."

"Vive la différence."

"Vouloir, c'est pouvoir."

"A' bhiast as mutha ag ithe na beiste as lugha."

"A' nighean mar a mathair."

"Am mac mar an t-athair."

"Aon ghlainne, chan fheàirrde ’s cha mhiste. Dà ghlainne, ’s fheàirrde ’s cha mhiste. Trì glainneachan, ’s miste ’s chan fheàirrde."

"A staigh air an dala cluais 's a mach air a' chluais eile (or an t-eile)."

"Bainne nan gobhar fo chobhar ’s e blàth, ’s e chuireadh an spionnadh sna daoine a bha."

"Cha bhòrd bòrd gun aran ach 's bòrd aran leis fhèin."

"Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh."

"Chan eil thu tuilleach 's sean airson ionnsachadh fhathast"