Proverbs By Language

"二兎を追う者は一兎も得ず"

"目は口ほどに物を言う"

"この父にしてこの子あり"

"小打も積もれば大木を倒す"

"虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず"

"艱難にあって初めて真友を知る"

"井戸の中の独言も三年たてば知れる"

"Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreasefh."

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

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

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

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

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

"Reckless youth makes rueful age."

"Diligent youth makes easy age."

"It is not wise to open old wounds."

"If anything can go wrong, it will."

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

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

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

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

"Tread on a worm and it will turn."

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

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

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

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

"A woman's work is never done."

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

"Many words will not fill a bushel."

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

"Fine words butter no parsnips."

"Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves."

"A word spoken is past recalling."

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

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

"Touch wood. (20th century)"

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

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

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

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

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

"The wish is father to the thought."

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

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

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

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

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

"Good wine needs no bush."

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

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