Proverbs Around the World
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Chinese Proverb
The absent are always at fault.
Spanish Proverb
Praise the ripe field not the green corn.
Irish Proverb
Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.
Italian Proverb
Years and sins are always more than owned.
Italian Proverb
Nodding the head does not row the boat.
Irish Proverb
It is not good to be alone, even in Paradise.
Yiddish Proverb
There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale.
German Proverb
In America an hour is forty minutes.
German Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of
sorrow.
Chinese Proverb
It is a good answer which knows when to stop.
Italian Proverb
With nice appearance people want to be deceived.
German Proverb
To ask is no sin and to be refused is no calamity.
Russian Proverb
Many things are lost for want of asking.
English Proverb
A man without a wife is like
a man in winter without a fur hat.
Russian Proverb
The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams.
Belgian Proverb
Beauty and chastity are always quarreling.
Spanish Proverb
He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb
For a web begun God sends thread.
Italian Proverb
If you are bitter at heart,
sugar in the mouth will not help you.
Yiddish Proverb
Boasting is not courage.
African Proverb
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese Proverb
Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.
Yiddish Proverb
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
German Proverb
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
Armenian Proverb
A bad cause requires many words.
German Proverb
To change and to improve are two different things.
German Proverb
If you hear that a mountain has moved, believe; but if you hear that a man has
changed his character, believe it not.
Islamic Proverb
If you do not drive in sleet to the woods, singing, you have to drive crying.
Czech Proverb
The discontented child cries for toasted snow.
Arab Proverb
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.
Japanese Proverb
The town is new every day.
Estonian Proverb
When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
Hindu Proverb
If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.
Spanish Proverb
Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying.
Swiss-German Proverb
Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of
Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.
Arab Proverb
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
Chinese Proverb
Three helping one another will do as much as six men singly.
Spanish Proverb
Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German Proverb
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves.
Latin Proverb
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb
He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.
Hindu Proverb
Men can bear all things except good days.
Dutch Proverb
The wolf will hire himself out very cheaply as a shepherd.
Russian Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt.
Dutch Proverb
They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.
French Proverb
That's a wise delay which makes the road safe.
Spanish Proverb
From someone else's cart you have to get off halfway.
Polish Proverb
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
German Proverb
If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Yiddish Proverb
The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
A dream grants what one covets when awake.
German Proverb
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is
remote.
Japanese Proverb
The work will teach you how to do it.
Estonian Proverb
He need not search his pockets for words.
Russian Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Yiddish Proverb
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
German Proverb
Other people's eggs have two yolks.
Bulgarian Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German Proverb
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
Too far east is west.
English Proverb
It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
French Proverb
You have to dig deep to bury your Daddy.
Gypsy Proverb
The father in praising his son extols himself.
Chinese Proverb
When God wishes a man well, He gives him insight into his faults.
Islamic Proverb
Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
Scottish Proverb
Faults are thick where love is thin.
Danish Proverb
Fear is a fine spur, so is rage.
Irish Proverb
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb
The way one eats is the way one works.
Czech Proverb
When God gives hard bread He gives sharp teeth.
German Proverb
He who cannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.
Czech Proverb
There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense.
Irish Proverb
Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue.
German Proverb
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him.
German Proverb
In every pardon there is love.
Welsh Proverb
The offender never forgives.
Russian Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish Proverb
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
French Proverb
To give quickly is a great virtue.
Hindu Proverb
He who gives to me teaches me to give.
Danish Proverb
God's a good man.
English Proverb
Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.
Irish Proverb
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian Proverb
What grows makes no noise.
German Proverb
Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it.
Russian Proverb
Nowhere are there more hiding places than in the heart.
German Proverb
Better be kind at home than burn incense in a far place.
Chinese Proverb
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb
A kind word is like a Spring day.
Russian Proverb
Charity looks at the need and not at the cause.
German Proverb
He who is late may gnaw the bones.
Yugoslav Proverb
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much master of the world as he who
is ready to die.
Italian Proverb
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Danish Proverb
Life is an onion which one peels crying.
French Proverb
If you would understand men, study women.
French Proverb
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
Portuguese Proverb
Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.
French Proverb
Dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.
Arab Proverb
From the promise to the deed is a day's journey.
Bulgarian Proverb
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a
question remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
A good rest is half the work.
Yugoslav Proverb
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
Persian Proverb
If you go only once around the room, you are wiser than he who sits still.
Estonian Proverb
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
Yiddish Proverb
To be loved is the best way of being useful.
French Proverb
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
Chinese Proverb
Who is narrow of vision cannot be big of heart.
Chinese Proverb
The water that bears the ship is the same that engulfs it.
Chinese Proverb
He who can follow his own will is a king.
Irish Proverb
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Irish Proverb
The world is a sure teacher, but it requires a fat fee.
Finnish Proverb
Being young is a fault which improves daily.
Swedish Proverb