Proverbs in English

Where shall the ox go, but he must labour?
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth
One sheep follows another
Who will bell the cat?
No feast like a miser’s
To an unrequited love, absence and oblivion
Full stomach, contented heart.
The labourer is worthy of his hire
Don’t go to any wedding or christening if you are not invited
A word to the wise is enough
Money makes the pot boil
Hunger never saw bad bread
For a good service, a bad return
When one is tired, all beds are good
It is too late to shut the stable-door after the horse has bolted.
My old mare would have a new crupper
After meat comes mustard.
A young trooper should have an old horse
For a new horse, and old rider
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
to meet one’s Waterloo
Such cup, such cover
Each bird likes his own nest best
There’s no house built big enough for two families
What goes around comes around
Soft pace goes far.
Respect your elders
Put a stout heart to a stey brae
Familiarity breeds contempt
A little bird is content with a little nest
Patience is a plaister for all sores
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood
He that pays aforehand has never his work well done
God helps them that help themselves
It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy
Outside show, inside woe
Half a loaf is better than none
Great gifts are for great men
The more haste, the worse speed
The highest standing the lower the fall
After drought cometh (comes) rain.
The higher up, the greater the fall
Desperate diseases must have desperate cures
It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast
Learn something new every day
Everything comes to him who waits
Needs must when the devil drives.
It’s dogged as does it
Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight
Handle with care women and glass
Red sky at night shepherd’s delight
Make hay while the sun shines
To a boiling pot, flies come not
A blind man may sometimes hit the mark
Third time lucky
You are as old as you feel
There’s no fool like an old fool
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
What’s done can’t be undone
There is no use crying over spilt milk
Better be out of the world than out of the fashion
Soil and friendship must be cultivated
Fortune favours the brave
A traveller may lie by authority
What can’t be cured must be endured
An idle youth, a needy age
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
Full of courtesy and full of crafts
To dead men and absent there are no friends left
Something is better than nothing
The owl thinks all her young ones beauties.
Other times, other manners
Tell it to the marines
Miserly father has a thriftless son
The sleeping fox catches no poultry
For mad words, deaf ears
Half a loaf is better than no bread
Knotty timber require sharp wedges
The lean dog is all fleas
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
Set a thief to catch a thief
To a young heart, everything is fun
It takes money, to make money
When not very windy, use the paddles to sail
To a demand in haste, a delayed answer
He that handles honey shall feel it cling to his fingers.
A dozen trades, thirteen miseries
Beggars can’t be choosers.
He that tells a secret is another’s servant
When God does not give you offspring, the devil gives you nephews
Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs
If the shoe fits, wear it
God helps those who help themselves
No gain without pain
The early bird catches the worm
Cut your coat according to your cloth
You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs
A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth
The sleepy fox has seldom feathered breakfasts
The King is dead. Long live the King!
It’s good fishing in troubled waters
He who rings the church bells is safe
Time and straw make medlars ripe
Great gifts for great men
A young physician fattens the churchyard
A good lawyer, an evil neighbour
As you sow, so you reap
April weather, rain and sunshine, both together
Nothing in excess is best
I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
Where the will is ready, the feet are light
Woman’s makeup and mackerel sky last the same as a cloudy spell
Affection blinds reason
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
Lowly sit, richly warm
No summer, but has its winter
For age and want, save while you may, no morning sun lasts all day
Running water washes clean
Rain in May makes the hay
Standing pools gather filth
Cold water and hot bread kill people
The mill cannot grind with water that is past
Running water washes clean
Scald not your lips in another man’s pottage.
Spilled water cannot be gathered up
Friends, if often used, wear out
Love your friend with his faults
Best to bend while a twig
He who is absent is always in the wrong
He that feareth every bush must never go a-birding
Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains
When fortune smiles, embrace her.
A good paymaster needs no surety
The workman is known by his tools
An ox is taken by the horns, a man by the tongue
After a hundred years we shall all be bald
Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat
All griefs with bread are less
Don’t even give water to an enemy
The owl thinks all her young ones beauties
Truth will out
At the game’s end we shall see who gains
He who speaks much of others burns his tongue
Strike while the iron is hot
Virtue is more important than blood
The devil took the shy man to the palace
You cannot shift an old tree without it dying
To madmen and air, free will
The worst pig often gets the best pear
Hide nothing from thy minister, physician, and lawyer
A good marksman may miss
Fear has magnifying eyes
Look after children and sick people
No flying from fate.
Call a spade a spade
Let sleeping dogs lie
Borrowed garments never sit well
If you itch for something, scratch for it
Do right and fear no man
Custom makes all things easy
It’s easy to make a frog jump into water when that’s what he wants to do
Fools live poor to die rich
To a fault forgive once, but no more
Give him an inch, and he’ll take an ell.
Great braggers little doers
Where there’s a will there’s a way
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
When the river rumbles, rocks are coming down the stream
It takes all sorts to make a world
The eyes look at what they want well
There goes Sancho on his nag
One law for the rich and another for the poor
Keep good men company, and you shall be of the number
He that endures, is not overcome
A friend to all is a friend to none
He who asks more of a friend than he can bestow deserves to be refused
When fortunes begins to frown, our friends will be packing
True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare; false ones like autumn leaves, found everywhere
Bought friends are not friends indeed
Friend that doesn’t give and knife that doesn’t cut, if lost it doesn’t matter
A reconciled friend is a double enemy
Old friends and old wine and old gold are best
Lend your money and lose your friend.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
It is good to have some friend both in Heaven and Hell
Son-in-law’s friendship is like the sun in winter
Love is the true price of love
Love of a child, is like water in a basket
A mother’s love is best of all
Love without return is like a question without an answer
Love of lads and fire of chats is soon in and soon out
Love is never without jealousy
Love is not found in the market
The new love drives out the old love
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love
Love and a cough can’t be hid
Walk all night and wake up at an inn
Pride feels no cold.
When in doubt do nothing
Night brings counsel
Praise a fair day at night
Before you marry, ‘tis well to tarry.
Business before pleasure.
Better a late mulberry tree than an early almond tree full of flowers
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees
A liar is sooner caught than a cripple
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.
A leap year is never a good sheep year
A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year
A snow year, a rich year.
A snow year, a rich year
New year, new life
He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss
He that knows not when to be silent knows not when to speak
Jack of all trades and master of none
He’s a friend that speaks well on’s behind our backs
It is safe riding in a good haven
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
She is well married who has neither mother in law, nor sister in law by her husband
They are rich who have true friends
Plough with children and you will reap burrs
The fly on the wheel
Men may meet but mountains never
A fool who is silent is counted wise
A golden key opens any door.
The common horse is worst shod.
Rub a galled horse and he will kick
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
He hasn’t hatched out yet and he already has a spur
An ape is an ape, a varlet is a varlet, though they be clad in silk and scarlet
Though old and wise be still advised
There may be blue and better blue
All is grist that comes to the mill
God helps those who help themselves.
Everything or nothing
A honey tongue, a heart of gall.
The still pig gets all the slop.
Kisses are keys
A bad penny always comes back.
When meat is in, anger is out.
Every tub must stand upon its own bottom
All’s well that ends well
Lookers on see most of the game.
Love does much but money does all.
He who lives well is the best preacher
‘Tis a good ill that comes alone.
Ill gotten goods never thrive
With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair
One wedding brings another
Goodness / kindness diminishes authority
The drunkard’s cure is drink again.
A stout heart crushes ill luck
A fall of snow in May is worth a ton of hay
That delay is good which makes the way the safer
An old ox makes a straight furrow.
It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb
The bigger, the better
A good horse should be seldom spurred
Like mother, like daughter.
Every sheep with its like
Every tub smells of the wine it holds.
Every peddler speaks well of his pack.
There is a time for everything
A place for everything and everything in its place
Like blood, like goods and like age make the happiest marriage.
Too much pudding will choke a dog.
A fool is born every minute
No day passeth passes without some grief.
Every cock crows on his own dunghill
Even a worm will turn.
Every man to his own taste.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
After a storm comes a calm.
Every man to his trade
Birds of a feather flock together.
Every herring must hang by his own gill
Every sheep with its like.
Every man drags water to his own mill.
Every path has a puddle
The bird loves her nest
A man’s house is his castle.
Every man for himself and God for us all
Men speak of the fair as things went with them there.
When we suffer a great loss, we must bear our cross.
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
A tree is known by its fruit
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Everyone sees with the eyes God has given him
Words fly, writings remain.
Mud sticks
Time and tide wait for no man
When the need is highest, help is nighest
The heaviest baggage for a traveller is an empty purse
He who is content in his poverty, is wonderfully rich
To sing bad and to keep on
Easy got, easy gain: short joy, long pain
The tongue talks at the head’s cost.
Fair face, foul heart.
Love without trumphets
A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass
Ram is the best meat for a gentleman to eat
Like blood, like goods and like age make the happiest marriage
If you don’t live in the house you don’t know when it leaks
The back door robs the house
A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of
The house in a corner and the vineyard in a spot
Built house, grave opened
Home is home though it’s never so homely.
House without woman and firelight is like a body withouth soul or spirit
Wedding and ill wintering tame both man and beast
Eat little at dinner, less at supper, sleep aloft, and you will sleep oft
Disgraces are like cherries: one draws another
Win a good reputation and sleep at your ease.
The kick of the dam hurts not the colt
He that eats till he is sick, must fast till he is well
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
Cold food and hot drink, do not contribute to have a good stomach
Such as the priest, such is the clerk.
Such beef, such broth.
As a man lives, so shall he die; as a tree falls, so shall it lie.
As you sow, so you reap
Two is company, three is a crowd
Happiness is not perfect until it is shared
Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick.
Buy what you do not want and you will sell what you cannot spare
No woman is ugly if she is well-dressed
To make a cat’s-paw of one
While the pot boils, friendship blooms
Good clothes open all doors
Love should not be trifled with.
Loving comes by looking
What you see is what you get
With noisy people, not much to do
Beauty won’t make the pot boil
Many hands make light work
Take the will for the deed.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Don’t trust the weak appearance of the wolf or the disappearance of the cat; they’ll both make a comeback
When glory comes, memory departs
God help them that help themselves
One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
I can rely on my money but I may not rely on my friend
Necessity knows no law
Patience, money and time bring all things to pass
Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow
Fine feathers make fine birds
Know thyself
Advice is not a popular thing to give
It is easier to give advice than to take it
Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is
A shameless beggar must have a short denial
A merry heart does good like a medicine
A good word costs no more than a bad one.
If a thing is done wrong it is far better that it had not been done at all
Promise is debt.
Manners and money make a gentleman
You can’t saw wood with a hammer
I gave you a stick to break my own head with.
As the year is, the pot must seeth
Like crow, like egg.
Like master, like man
New lords, new laws.
Like mother, like daughter.
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard
The good old days
A cold April and a wet May fills the barn with grain and hay.
The best things in life are free.
The devil finds work for idle hands to do
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
When the cat’s away, the mice will play
When round the moon there is a brugh, the weather will be cold and rough
There is no smoke without fire
If the lion’s skin cannot, the fox’s shall
Speak well of your friends, of your enemies say nothing
When the head acheth all the body is the worse
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
When the she-wolf is hunting crickets, it is bad for her and worse for her kindred
When the fox preaches, beware of the geese.
When thy neighbour’s house is on fire, beware of thine own.
March in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear.
Make hay while the sun shines
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the wood
When one door shuts, another opens
The more noble, the more humble
Short reckonings make long friends.
There is no fool like an old fool
So many men, so many opinions.
Tell your sorrow to those who know it
Short reckonings make long friends.
Rest is a good thing
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die
Mind your own business
Lend your horse and you may have back his skin
Jack of all trades, and master of none
Monkey see, monkey do.
Diet cures more than the doctor
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth
Give and take is fair play
Gifts break a rock.
The flesh is aye fairest that is fartherst from the bone
Give me bread and call me fool
Give and you shall receive.
Fools bite one another but wise men agree together
Constant dripping wears away the stone.
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.
To kick against the pricks
Make haste slowly.
To weep for joy is a kind of manna
Love your friend, but look to yourself
They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind
A good seed makes a good crop.
A good seed makes a good crop.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Ingratitude is worse than witchcraft
Of money, wit and virtue, believe one fourth of what you hear
Where nothing is, nothing can be had.
Lovers are madmen
Fear the Greeks bearing gifts
Suppers kill more than the greatest doctors can cure
Fair exchange is no robbery
To err is human, to persist in it, beastly
Hope keeps man alive
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
Discussion is the anvil upon which the spark of the truth is struck
There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
The belly teaches all arts.
Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.
The wolf eats counted sheep.
The cost takes away the taste
Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see
You are what you eat
God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.
Love and eggs should be fresh to be enjoyed
From forty on don’t wet your belly
One enemy is too much for a man; and a hundred friends too few
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Of an evil crow, an evil egg
You can laugh at me but not at my money
Every man is mad on some point
All cats are grey in the dark.
The father a saint, the son a devil
Like father, like son
Hunger makes hard beans sweet
A small spark makes a great fire
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
Many a shabby colt makes a fine horse
From those who lie much, people run away
You can’t make a silk purse of a sow’s ear
So many men, so many opinions.
A good seed makes a good crop.
Like carpenter, like chips.
It takes all sorts to make a world
Better a barn filled than a bed
You can’t grow figs from thistles
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Saying and doing are two things.
God defends me from still water, and I’ll keep myself from the rough.
Love and hate are the two closest emotions
When the tree is fallen, everyone goes to it with his hatchet.
There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil
From leather, straps are made
From word to deed is a great space
Of two evils choose the lesser.
The best food is from the see the grouper and from the land the lamb
He who readily takes oath seldom swears to the truth
The older the wiser.
A friend in need is a friend indeed
Two in distress make sorrow less
Unlucky at cards, lucky in love
Rob Peter to pay Paul.
What you’ve never had you never miss
Slow and easy wins the race
When wine is in, wit is out.
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile
After cheese comes nothing
Time ends all things
He that drinks not wine after salad, is in danger of being sick
It is too late to shut the stable-door after the horse has bolted.
The devil lurks behind the cross.
Condem the sin, not the sinner
Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night.
May days are devil’s days: as soon as day breaks, night comes again
One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow
No sooner said than done
Blessed is the month that begins with the Saints day and ends with Saint Andrew
Truth finds foes where it should find none
Thou art a bitterbird, said the raven to the starling.
Thou art a bitterbird, said the raven to the starling.
Milk says to wine,»Welcome friend.»
The pot calls the kettle black.
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Self-praise is no recommendation
If money go before, all ways lie open
Money begets money.
Money makes the man
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God permits the wicked, but not forever
God sends cold after clothes.
Birds of a feather flock together
He that speaks well, fights well
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Divide and rule
When wine is in, the wit is out
Where force prevails, right perishes
Long illness and death at the end
When the head aches, the body needs food
A dead wife’s the best goods in a man’s house
To change one’s mind
When the sun rises, the disease will abate
When in Rome do as the Romans do
Love is a sweet torment.
A beaten path is a safe one
Love is never without jelousy
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Where there’s a will there’s a way
One master in a house is enough.
Always taking out of the meal tub and never putting in soon comes to the bottom.
Old fires are easily rekindled
What goes around comes around.
Least expected, sure to happen.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window
The devil dances in an empty pocket
Never interfere with nothin’ that don’t bother you
One sheep follows another.
Still waters run deep
Sleep over it or you may weep over it.
A flood in April, a flood in May, and a flood to take away the hay.
Two is company, three is a crowd.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Two sparrows upon one ear of corn are not likely to agree.
Birds of a feather flock together
He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar.
Olive oil heals everything
Drinking water neither makes a man sick, not in debt, nor his wife a widow
Eagles don’t catch flies
Love is blind
No love like the first love
Love has reasons which the reason cannot understand
Love levels all the inequalities.
Rice, fish and cucumber are born in water and die in wine
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Avarice is never satisfied.
You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
The face is index of the heart
Bad news travel fast
Bad news travels fast; good news is scarcely heard
Good is to be sought out and evil attended
Desperate cuts must have desperate cures
Good wine needs no bush.
The best things come in small packages
There is time to speak and a time to be silent.
Good wine needs no bush.
The ox without its cowbell gets lost quickly
An ox, when he is loose, licks himself at pleasure
The ass (goes) first so that it can’t run away
Before thou marry be sure of a house wherein to tarry
Marriage is a lottery.
Eating and scratching, it’s all in the beginning.
After meat comes mustard.
A woman’s advice is no great thing, but he who won’t take it is a fool
The heart has no wrinkles
To give and keep, there is need of wit
Contempt is the sharpest reproof
A man’s wish overcomes his fear
After joy comes sorrow
The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; the devil was well, the devil a saint was he.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Manners and money make a gentleman.
Money has no smell
Love and eggs should be fresh to be enjoyed
A burnt child dreads the fire.
You can have too much of a good thing
The end justifies the means
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest
A penny saved is a penny earned
Clothes make the man.
The cowl does not make the monk
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
That that comes of a cat will catch mice.
Man is the only animal that stumbles over the same stone twice
A woman is flax, man is fire, the devil comes and blows the bellows
Man is wolf to man
Man proposes, God disposes
Man and bear the uglier, the more attractive
Fish and guests smell after three days.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Winter is not passed until April goes by
After death, the doctor.
Trust not a woman when she weeps
The crying of the heirs, is joy bursting
Wolves may lose their teeth, but they never lose their nature
The fox preys furthest from his hole.
Even the fool becomes sane when he’s punished
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
We can always bear our neighbours’ misfortunes
Ill comes in by ells and goes out by inches
A young barber and an old physician
A dog is a man’s best friend
The best cart may overthrow.
Liars should have good memories
Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener
A servant and a cock should be kept but a year
We must live with the living and not with the dead
It’s a small world
The master’s eye makes the horse fat
You should never touch your eye but with your elbow
The danger past, God is forgotten
Idle folks have the least leisure
The dog in the manger won’t eat the oats or let anyone else eat them
An old dog barks not in vain
A fisherman with a rod eats more than what he gets
The fish always stinks from the head downwards
Big fish eat little fish
That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait
The master’s footsteps fatten the soil and his foot the ground
Death is the great leveller
The poet is born, not made
The first step is the hardest.
If at thirty you haven’t settle down, you won’t have any properties
No bees, no honey; no work, no money
Forewarned is forearmed
Those who eat and sing must be missing some sense
He that buys and lies feels it in his purse
He that speaks ill of a mare will buy her
Tell the truth and shame the devil
Marriage is a lottery
To trust oneself is good- not to trust oneself is better
As they brew, so let them bake
Constant dropping wears away a stone.
Every man to his trade
He that travels far, knows much
The magistrate should obey the law, the people should obey the magistrate
Haste makes waste
You have to be quick off the mark
He who doubts nothing knows nothing
He that travels far, knows much
The magistrate should obey the law, the people should obey the magistrate
Haste makes waste
You have to be quick off the mark
He who doubts nothing knows nothing
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth
Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer
First come, first served
Who gives a gift sells well, if the receiver understands it well
Breakages must be paid for
Who eats his cock alone, must saddle his horse alone
Who’s got a cape escapes
Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
God-fathers oft give their blessings in a clout
He who has an uncle in Alcala has neither an uncle nor anything else
He who stumbles but doesn’t fall moves forwards
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
He that is born to be hanged, shall never be drowned
The devil take the hindmost
Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart
A despicable man, the more he is begged, the more proud he becomes
Knowledge is no burden
The wise seek wisdom, the fool has found it
To go out of the inn is the best way to pass the day
Like the tailor that sewed for nothing and found thread himself
Sleep is the brother of death
Time is a great healer
Time is money
Time will tell
Lost time is never found again
Time brings everything to light
Time is a great healer
The devil take the hindmost
He that drinks beer, thinks beer
Opportunity makes the thief
A shut mouth catches no flies
The problem is in good hands
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
In a fiddler’s house all are dancers
The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.
In the poor’s house, happiness lasts little
In a full house, dinner is quickly made
Don’t show your abilities in public
December cold with snow, good for rye
Virtue is found in the middle
Even in the best wine there are lees
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Every sin carries its own punishment
It is like casting your net in a river without fish
May is the best month all the year round
A barber learns to shave by shaving fools
A wise head makes a closed mouth
All’s fair in love and war
Always room for one more
Manners maketh man
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A little too late is much too late
Variety is the spice of life.
Mind no business but your own
There are no birds in last year´s nest
A Friday’s sail always fails
A green Christmas, a white Easter
In October keep the woodshed full of wood
In October spread and cover the land with manure
Better at home than a mile from it
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, in time of adversity, not one in twenty
In the season of melon, short sermon
In other people’s land the cow butts the ox
In every country dogs bite
It’s good sometimes to hold a candle to the devil
Men may meet but mountains never
So many servants, so many enemies
A good friend never offends
Change of pasture makes fat calves
Between two brothers have two witnesses and a voting.
Put not thy hand between the bark and the tree
In love is no lack
When the cuckoo comes, he eats up all the dirt
Youth and age will never agree
Put not thy hand between the bark and the tree
The postern door makes thief and whore
One does the scathe, and another has the scorn
Envy feeds on the living; it ceases when they are dead
It never rains but it pours
We learn by mistakes
No news is good news
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls
The last straw will break the camel’s back
He that washes an asse’s head loseth both his soap and his labour
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The remedy is worse than the disease
Out of the frying pan into the fire
A new broom sweeps clean.
Listeners never hear any good of themselves
Content is happiness
Two of a trade never agree
Nothing venture, nothing have
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
This and nothing, nothing at all
Naturally false: black hair and blond bear
Mad February, with its twenty eight days
February fill dyke, be it black or be it white
They that have no other meat bread and butter are glad to eat
The greyhound that starts many hares, kills none
The belly carries the legs
Look out for the man that does not talk and the dog that does not bark
Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake
Good men work for contemptible heirs
A penny saved is a penny earned
A cat in gloves catches no mice
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
The gull comes against the rain
The leopard cannot change his spots
When the peacock loudly bawls, soon we’ll have both rain and squall
Drop by drop the lake is drained
Drop by drop the pitcher is full
Much bruit, little fruit
Grain by grain and the hen fills her belly
Look out for the man that does not talk and the dog that does not bark
War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
By talking, people understand one another
Every ass loves to hear himself bray
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you
A good deed is never lost
It is the farmer’s care that makes the field bear
Have the miracle done, let the devil do it!
The hope of reward sweetens labor
He fasts enough that has had a bad meal
Cast ne’er a clout till May be out
Remain doing what you’ve been doing and you will remain receiving what you’ve been receiving
Death is the utmost boundary of our lives
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil
There are more days than sausage
There are people who enters as Pope and leaves out as Cardinal
A good life makes a good death
Do what you ought, come what may
The reward of a good deed is to have done it
Do as you’re bidden and you’ll never bear blame
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait
It is a wise child that knows his own father
The child is father to the man
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched
Put another man’s child in your bosom, and he’ll creep out at your elbow
Grown up children, double work
The man who flatters you is a liar: the greater the flattery, the bigger the liar
Poor folks are glad of porridge
Forewarned is forearmed
Old man, everyday a new pain
Honour to whom honour is due
Honour and profit lie not in one sack
Scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours
Out of the frying pan into the fire
Out of the frying pan into the fire
Three things drive a man out of his home: smoke, rain, and a scolding wife
He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon
Many go out for wool and come home shorn
The wrath of brothers is the wrath of devils
New cage, dead bird
Juan Palomo, I cook it and I eat it
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the wants great
Love your friend, but look to yourself
Out of sight, out of mind
Grasp all, lose all
Poor people weddings are all noises
The purse without money is leather
A good deed comes back a thousand fold
Prosperity forgets father and mother
The leopard cannot change his spots
A bed is always a good field: if you don’t sleep, you can always be lying on it
The gray hair deceives, the tooth lies, the wrinkle leaves no doubt
The eyes are the windows of the soul
Charity begins at home
A fat kitchen makes a lean purse
After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile
Custom rules the law
It is easier to pull down than to build up
A bad workman always blames his tools
Curiosity killed the cat
Diligence is the mother of good luck
The salad must have little vinegar and a good oil dressing
Hope is the last thing to be lost
The exception proves the rule
Experience is the mother of knowledge.
Faith will move mountains
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
Fatness is not fairness, but many defects disguise
Blood will have blood
Beauty is but a blossom
Like cow, like calf.
To have bread at home is no problem
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it
Information is power
If only youth had the experience, an old age had the strength
Talk is cheap
The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Diamond cut diamond
It is truth that makes a man angry
Ill weeds grow apace
The rotten apple injures its neighbours
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
Content is happiness
Few words are best
Hunger is the best sauce
A liar is sooner caught than a cripple
Familiarity breeds contempt
Death is the great leveller
A good wife makes a good husband
A slight woman always looks young
Tell a woman and you tell the world
Gold rules the world
A woman and a glass are ever in danger
Wine, women and song will get a man wrong
Women and sardines are better if small
A modest woman and a stand stew
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast
Necessity breaks iron
The night is made for thinking and the day for working
Opportunity makes the thief
All lay load on the willing horse
He that is born to be hanged shall never die drowned
A good example is the best sermon
Speech is silver, silence is golden
A word and a stone let go cannot be called back
They can do least who boast louder
Perseverance kills the game.
No viper so little, but has its venom
Spring quickens the blood
Great griefs are mute
A soft answer turneth away wrath
Health is not valued till sickness comes
Blood boils without fire
The mother in law and the doctor the further away the better
The luck of the ugly one, the pretty one envies
The die is cast
To love the treason, but hate the traitor
Union is strength
Cover the desire for vengeance with the appearance of calm
Truth may run fine but will not break
Truths and roses have thorns about them
Truth is the daughter of time
Truth and oil always come to the top
Life is no a bed of roses
Good broth may be made in an old pot
The wineyard and the colt let them be bred by other people
A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other
The sluggard’s convenient season never comes
A black cape farmer does not prosper
Practice makes perfect
A long thread, a lazy taylor
A barking dog never bites
A little rain stills a great wind
Appearances are deceptive.
Weapons, the farthest, the best
Jesters do oft prove profets
Comparisons are odious
Things take time
Short reckonings make long friends
Misfortunes never come singly.
Industrious mothers make lazy daughters
Bad news travels fast
Spring mornings are sweet to sleep
Words fly, writings remain
Walls have ears
Haste makes waste
Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know
A book that is shut is but a block
He that lends, gives
Old wounds soon bleed
Children cry for their right, but old people for their wrong
Penny wise and pound foolish
That which is well done is twice done
All good things must come to an end
Brevity is the soul of wit.
what is eaten is what is safest
There’s no great loss without some gain
Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue
He that lends, gives
What is found is not stolen
What is inherited is a gift and what is bought is made with a big effort
He is no fool who parts with what he cannot keep to get what he shall not lose
What is yours is mine, what’s mine is my own
Of all the virtues, gratitude has the shortest memory
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire
Promise is debt
One man’s meat is another man’s poison
Plenty makes dainty
A good beginning makes a good ending
What costs little is little respected
What is done in the night, appears in the day
What children hear at home, soon flies abroad
What’s learnt in the cradle, lasts till the tomb
Years know more than books
The common horse is worse shod
What is fashionable, does not make you feel uncomfortable
Brain is worth more than brawn
A woman can’t drive her husband but she can lead him
Nature will have her course
The more cost, the more honour
What nature doesn’t give you, Salamanca will not lend it to you
It’s always the unexpected that happens
Scald not your lips in another man’s pottage
It’s illegal, immoral or it makes you fat
What you do not eat, do not give it to your relatives
What is good for the goose is good for the gander
Everything must have a beggining.
Its swings and roundabouts
No sweat, no sweet
What costs little is little respected
What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb
What must be, must be
One man’s meat is another man’s poison
Dog does not eat dog
A sheep is crazy if it confesses to the wolf
He is wise who talks but little
The friends of my friends are also my friends
Time devours all things
Sometimes one can’t see the wood for the trees
Jelousy is a bad advicer
Easy come, easy go
All griefs with bread are less
Extremes meet
Money is better spent than spared
Unbidden guests are more welcome when they are gone
An awful experience has to be passed through quickly
Business is business
Children and fools tell the truth
An upright judge has more regard for justice than for man
Other times, other customs
Any port in a storm
Dont wash your dirty linen in public
When round the moon there is a brugh, the weather will be cold and rough
There are as many good stepmothers as white ravens
Two in distress make sorrow less
Truth finds foes where it makes none
Talk is cheap
The worst store is a maid unbestowed
Command wants no equal
Empty hands allure no hawks
Dexterity comes by experience
Cold hands warm heart
Tomorrow is another day
Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings
May you die in bed at ninety-five years, shot by a jealous husband
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
Money talks
An ox shits more than a hundred swallows
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one
Better an open enemy than a false friend
Hunger increases the understanding
Let your will roar when your power can but whisper
Where there’s a will there’s a way
Eat to live, not live to eat
Honey catches more flies than vinegar
A poor freedom is better than rich slavery
The devil knows many things because he is old
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another’s
A tooth in the mouth is worth two in the plate
Beauty draws more than oxen
God’s help is better than early rising
More rain, more rest
Something is better than nothing
A friend in the market is better than money in the chest
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman
A good hope is better than a bad possession
Good name is better than riches
Health is worth more than learning
It’s better to please than being funny
(To) Give a thing or take a thing, to wear the devil’s gold ring
Better be alone than in bad company
Better to pay the butcher than the doctor
A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice
The sauce is better than the fish
Better an hour early than a minute late
Better the devil you know than the devil you dont’ know.
Brain is worth more than brawn
It’s better to die with honor than to live in infamy
Blood is thicker than water
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is
Better play a card too much than too little
Better to beg than to steal, but better to work than to beg
Lose a leg rather than a life
Take away my good name and take away my life
A living dog is better than a dead lion
Little and good fills the trencher
It is worth more to turn once red than a hundred times yellow
By asking one learns
Prevention is better than cure
A live coward is better than a dead hero
Better leave than lack
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well
Knowledge is better than riches
Better be the head of a yeomanry than the tail of a gentry
Better mule driver than donkey
Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse
Better be envied than pitied
If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher
Sweat and be saved
Better late than never
Better to have than to want
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Here’s to our friends and hang up the rest of our kindred
Agree, for the law is costly
One today is worth two tomorrows
Better some of a pudding than none of a pie
Four eyes see more than two
Marriage and hanging go by destiny.
A snow-storm in May is worth a waggon-load of hay
Physician, heal thyself
It is better to give than to receive
Better licking than kicking
Half a loaf is better than none
An old oven lights better than a new one
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as to your bread
A sound mind, a sound body
Give little and expect big rewards in return
The happiest wife is not she that has the best husband, but she that makes the best of what she gets
Better to live well than long
A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident
An Englishman’s house is his castle
While there’s life, there’s hope
Toilers are crowned with success (aprox.)
False coin is not identified at night
Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight
Much ado about nothing
The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Too many cooks spoil the broth
Many a little makes a mickle
Many are called, but few are chosen
The fox may grow grey, but never good
‘Die Marta, die full’, it is used when you satisfy a whim regardless of the consequences
Dead is the bee that produced the honey and the wax
When the mother-in-law dies, sorrow does not last long
A dead dog bites not
The sickest is not the nearest to the grave
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels
House goes mad when women gad (aprox.)
Women, wind and fortune are given to change
Those who do not know how to swim, get drowned
There is nothing new under the sun
To be in danger of swimming and swimming and perhaps drowning before we reach land
You cannot get blood from a stone
Forebear not sewing because of birds
Nothing is perfect
A prophet is not without honour save in his own country
No man is content with his lot
Who that may not as they will, must will as they may
No man is born wise or learned
Nobody can be the judge and the prosecution
No man can serve two masters
Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms
Praise at parting
Keep your nose out of other people’s business
Lawyer´s houses are built on the heads of fools
Straight folks never make broken promises
Neither a wedding without singing nor a burial without crying
Share not pears with your master, neither in jest or in earnest
«Manger», He that’s ashamed to eat is ashamed to live
Never hope nor believe anything you cannot see
A man who gives credit loses friends, money and customers
Seeing is believing
Choose none for thy servant who has served thy betters
It’s better to have bread left over than run short of wine
There is neither an ungly young woman nor a beautiful old lady
No pot without fatty salt pork, no sermon without augustinian
Beg from beggars and you’ll never be rich
There is never a Saturday without sunshine
Neither our father dies nor do we have dinner
All are not those who are in but the people who are in are not all
Avoid all bribes
Walls have ears
Old wives were aye good maidens
The day I break my faith with friends, that day my right to friends ends
The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion’s
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained, ceases to be a wonder
Nobody learns from the mistakes of others
A good name is better than riches
A dog in the kitchen desires no company
Don’t sing your triumph before you have conquered
The time to pick berries is when they are ripe
If you do not eat because you have eaten before, you have not wasted your time
Birth is much but breeding more
He who gives is twice blessed
Never quit certainty for hope
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
Do not cast your pearls before swine
Saying and doing are two things.
To appear so does not prove a thing to be so
One keep clean is worth ten make cleans
The richest man is he who wants least.
Save and have
I’ts worthwhile losing an anchovy, if you want to catch a salmon
All that glitters is not gold
The lion is not so fierce as he is painted
Love is blind
No gain without pain.
No rose without a thorn
A horse stumbles that hath has four legs
No land without stones or meat without bones
A golden key opens every door.
No day so clear but hath dark clouds
Call no man happy until he dies
The worth of a thing is what it will bring
No day passes without some grief
Money answers all things
There is no little enemy
There’s no joy without alloy: grief is mixed with the keenest bliss
There is no wheat without chaff
There was never a beauty without aid
There’s no smoke without fire
The longest day must have an end
Every cloud has a silver lining
The noblest revenge is to forgive
Where the will is ready, the feet are light
A penny saved is a penny earned
Of saving, comes having
Necessity is the mother of invention
No honey without gall
No rose without a thorn
He who plays with a cat must expect to be scratched
No woman is ugly if she is well dressed (aprox.)
Cloudy mornings may turn to clear evenings
A bad Jack may have as bad a Jill
Hard words break no bones
If you won’t work, you shan’t eat
Two of a trade never agree
There’s none so blind as those that will not see.
None so deaf as those who will not hear.
A hungry man is an angry man
Pay as you go and nothing you’ll owe
All green things are gay
Example is better than precept
When you can tread on nine daisies at once, spring has come
Don’t put the cart before the horse
Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet
Appearences are deceptive
No use crying over a dead man but over the alive one
Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged
Black is black and white is white
Don’t sell the skin till you have caught the bear
There’s no rule without exception
No rose without a thorn.
Health is better than wealth
No joy without annoy
When you plot mischief for others, you’re preparing trouble for yourself
It is not the burden, but the over-burden that kills the beast
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence (aprox.)
Because you rise early doesn’t mean it will be daylight
The priest does not remember when he was sacristan
Work for your bread if you eat your cheese for nothing
Rome was not built in a day
Honey is not for the ass’s mouth
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
No man can sup and blow together
I cannot be in York and London at the same time
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs
You can’t please everyone
He that has a head of wax must not walk in the sun
Man does not live by bread alone
No like is the same
He who laughs last laughs longest
To one who understands, few words are needed
All truths are not to be told
Life isn’t all beer and skittles
The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley
That’s torn it!
New lords, new law
Give neither salt nor advice till you are asked for
Don’t say, I’ll never drink of this water, how dirty soever it be.
It’s never too late to try
A bad Jack may have as bad a Jill
One man’s meat is another man’s poison
Second parts were never any good
A good beginning is half the task.
The end crowns the work
Actions speak louder than words
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
Think no shame of your craft
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Out of sight, out of mind
Blue eyes, true eyes
Olive tree and olive, all is one
pot that boils too much spoils the broth
When the beans get too thick the pot burns
None can pray well but he that lives well
Another person will make me look good
A bleating sheep loses a bite
If one sheep has left the fold, all the rest will follow
Patience and shuffle
From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in two generations
Each bird likes his own nest
A word and a stone let go cannot be called back
From words to deeds is a great space
Words and feathers are tost by the wind
What bread men break is broke to them again (aprox.)
Bread with bread, fool’s meal
Today gold and to-morrow dust
The heart that loves is always young
A bad workman always blames his tools
The cure for old age is the grave
The man born to misfortune will fall on his back and fracture his nose
Just to give you an idea
Pain is beauty
He who pays the piper calls the tune
There is a remedy for all things but death
Love your relations but live not near them
The result of bad and long labor is a daughter
Little by little one goes far.
A fault confessed is half redressed
When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own
After the danger everybody is wise
Falling twice is worse than falling once
A barking dog never bites.
The envious man grows lean
A fisherman that fishes a fish, a fisherman is
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Knaves imagine nothing can be donde without knavery
Blessed is who expects the worst, for he shall not be disappointed
The best pleasures of all last but a time
Let’s hope you have lawsuits, and that you win them
Poverty is no crime
By little and little the bird makes his nest
Toilers are crowned with success (aprox.)
Few and wide a part
Money is power
So many men, so many opinions.
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right
Be ready with your bonnet but slow with your purse
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as to your bread
The bird is known by his note, the man by his words
There’s no smoke without fire
No smoke without fire
Many a man has risen above principle for the sake of interest
That’s why they sell the cow; both get benefit
Least said, soonest mended
The tongue talks at the head’s cost
If you are charitable, you catch the plague
Like father, like son
Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake
St Andres the King, three weeks and three days before Christmas begins
Be patient with a bad neighbour: he may move or face misfortune
Plenty makes dainty
St Swithin’s day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain
St Thomas Gray, St Thomas Gray, the longest night and the shortest day
Loyalty loses its meaning if its memory is short
What looks good can be harmful
By their fruits you shall know them
Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar
One chickpea doesn’t spoil the pot
In one ear and out the other.
The leopard cannot change his spots
A miss is as good as a mile
It is dogged that does it
Better to ask the way than to go astray
Eating and drinking want but a beginning.
Be slow to promise and quick to perform
Promises and piecrusts are made to be broken
Be quick but never hurry, for hurry brings disaster
A hog given on credit grunt all year round
An open door may tempt a saint
If the horse plough, let’s saddle up the ox!
The best is the enemy of the good
Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing
Where there’s a will there’s a way
It’s good sheltering under an old hedge
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword
He that would hang his dog, gives out first that he is mad
Look before you leap
Who spits against heaven it falls in his face
That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait
He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea
First come, first served
He that runs fast will not run long
Wine is the discoverer of secrets
Who goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns
Love me little, love me long
Tie it well and let it go
He that is well sheltered is a fool if he stir out in the rain
Love me, love my dog
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it
As you sow, so you reap
You’ve got to be cruel to be kind
Seek and ye shall find
Silence gives consent.
Haste trips up his own heels
A cure for all sorrows is conversation
He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut
He that eats the King’s goose must be choked with the feathers
Whoever eats the ripe ones, can also eat the unripe ones
Save today, safe tomorrow
If you play with fire, you get burnt
If you get dressed with somebody else’s clothes, you will get naked in the street
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas
Live with a lame and you will limp
He who gives his belongings before he dies is worth a knock in the forehead with a mallet
He that washes an asse’s head loseth both his soap and his labour
He gives twice that gives quickly
A young idler, an old beggar
A traveller may lie by authority
He who disowns his family is left by God
Out of debt, out of danger
He who gives up being your friend it is because he never was a friend
Who leaves the main path tries to take a short cut but at the end he takes the long way round
He who binds does not wrangle
He who says what he likes, shall hear what he doesn’t like
If you run after two hares, you catch neither
He sups who sleeps
He that measureth oil, shall annoint his fingers
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth
He is a fool that takes a fool’s advice
It ain’t half so bad if you can afford it
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day
He who is mad is hopless
Listeners never hear any good of themselves
A waiting appetite kindles many a spite
Everything comes to him who waits
He who is free of guilt should throw the first stone
Love sees no faults
He who promises runs in debt
Who went to Seville lost his seat
If you have been a cook before being a friar, you know very well what goes on in the kitchen
Those who hide can find
If the gambler can change, then there is a medicine for leprosy
If you won’t work you shan’t eat
You can only do your best
Once a thief, always a thief
A hungry man smells meat afar
Every law has a loophole
Times change and we with them
He who set a trap for me fell in it
If you get married far away is either deceived or deceiving
Always late never succeed
Bite your lip
Ill gotten goods never thrive
As a man lives, so shall he die; as a tree falls, so shall it lie
As you make your bed, so you must lie on it
The track of evil thought is crooked and has no end
He who does evil comes to an evil end
Who puts more effort loses more
The more you get the more you want
A worthless person, a man of iniquity (aprox.)
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Sleep is the greatest thief, for it steals half one’s life
Talk much and err much
He that promises too much means nothing
Who bend down too much at the end he shows the bottom
There are problems everywhere
Once a knave, always a knave
He who does not repair a leak in the roof, has to repair the whole house at the end
Not to advance is to recede
Who is not lame, limps
If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion
Who has not seen Seville has yet to see a wonder
Who does not listen to advice, does not get old
If you do not pretend, you die
If you cannot walk, then run
He that cannot beat the ass, beats the saddle
If you cannot bite, never show your teeth
He that knows not when to be silent knows not when to speak
Don’t hide your light under a bushel
Nothing venture, nothing have
Nothing venture, nothing have
As you sow, so you reap
In trust is treason
Little wit in your head makes much work for the feet
If you don’t have a house of your own, then you live in any neighbourhood
If you do not have brothers and sisters, you neither have feet nor hands
He who has not a godfather does not get christened
You cannot lose what you haven’t got
If you didn’t make a knot at the end of the thread, you missed a stich
Out of debt, out of danger
Who pays rules
Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that has nothing
It is bad preaching to deaf ears
Lend your money and lose your friend
He who comes first grinds first
Who does his utmost is also able to do less important things
He who will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
Every man to his trade
No fight, no win
Avoidance is the only remedy
He who laughs last, laughs longest.
He who steals from a thief gets a hundred years of pardon
Who is evil in his own country is evil abroad
He who excuses himself accuses himself
If the cap fits, wear it
Who shelters under a tree gets twice as wet
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Don’t put off to tomorrow what you can do today
Last up, worst dressed
If you wake up late, you have to run all day long
He who gives you a bone does not want you dead
Who gives a gift buys you
He that would not sail till all dangers are over must not put to sea
All that time is lost that might be better employed
He who owns the gold makes the rule
A trade in hand finds gold in every land
Homer sometimes nods
He that hath a good neighbour hath a good morrow
He who is ill open his purse and be patient
He who has a son, don’t go shouting at thieves
He that has lands, has quarrels
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure
He who has a neighbour has an enemy
He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning
He who denies all confesses all
All covet, all lose
The person who takes is obliged to give
Who is in business and does not understand squanders his money
The person who steals is never faithfully
Know your limitations and go not beyond them
The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never
Old saws speak truth
Enough is great riches
When women quarrel, they tell each other the truth
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers
A King’s request is an order
He who speaks little is wise (parc.)
So many men, so many opinions.
I went out of my house and I got ashamed, I came back to mine and I stayed well
Out of the frying pan into the fire
An ill wound may be cured, not an ill name
Give a thing, and take a thing, to wear the devil’s gold ring
A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt.
You can tell the sin, but not the sinner
Like father, like son
Ever drunk, ever dry
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead
A cold and wet june spoils the rest of the year
In September there are floods or draughts
If you do not love your neighbour, put your goats in his olive grove
Water is the only drink for a wise man
They do not love that do not show their love
Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
If the sky falls we shall catch larks
If the big man were brave, the small one patient and the blonde loyal, everybody would be equal
Bad products are sold to stupid people
If the child cries, let her mother calm him, if he doesn’t stop, leave him crying
Thunder in November, a fertile year to come
A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all (aprox.)
If you make it cheap, you will sell more than four
If envy were a fever, all mankind would be ill
If the mountain won’t come to Mahomet, Mahamet must go to the mountain
Bitter pills may have blessed effects
No weather is ill if the wind be still
If you can’t beat them, join them
Like it or lump it
Envy never enters an empty house
He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea
If you want good turnips, you have to sow them in July
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens
If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him
If you would be well served, serve yourself
You have to give and take
He that will live in peace and rest, must hear and see and say the best
Clothe thee warm, eat little and drink enough and thou shalt live
If your wife orders you to throw yourself from a roof, pray her it is not too high
After rain comes sunshine
The thread breaks where it is weakest
He that speaks much is much mistaken
If you sit in your own place, nobody will make you stand up
Nothing worries worry like work
There is no flying without wings
Without bread and wine, there is no good love
There is no accounting for tastes
The hen lays on eggs
Winter sun is slow and weak
A March sun sticks like a lock of wool
The morning sun never lasts a day
We only live once
Dreams are wishes your heart makes
No man can sup and blow together
Mother-in-law and daughter in-law are a tempest and hail storm
There is no pain so great that time will not soften
I bear and say nothing for the time being
Like master, like man.
They are two of a kind
Death devours lambs as well as sheep
If you enquire too much you can get into deep trouble
Both the one who robs the orchard and the one who keeps and eye on are sinners
Did the devil love his son so much that he ended up taking him an eye out
He is most loved that hath (has) most bags
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
Forewarned is forearmed
To make the bullets for another to shoot
Everything hath its time
Everything comes, everything is tiresome and everything ends
New things are fair
Love will find a way
Everything is contagious but beauty
Everything has its pros and its contras
All roads lead to Rome
We are all Eve’s children, the only difference is the silk
It never rains but it pours
After a storm comes a calm.
You can lead a horse to drink but you can’t make him drink
A full belly neither fights nor flies well.
Full stomach, contented heart.
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock
If you want to keep a secret, keep it to yourself
If you admit an offense, you will be offended again
One mule scrubs another
One nail drives out another
One grain fills not a sack, but it helps his fellow
The more doctors, the more diseases
A father for a hundred sons but not a hundred sons for a father
A lawsuit brings others
To err is human.
Like a needle in a bottle of hay
He hath a cloak for his knavery
One thing is to thread and another to sew
One swallow does not make a summer
A picture is worth a thousand words
One hand washes the other
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock
A white wall will serve as a fool’s letter
The sane is deceived once and the fool twice
Marriage equals hell and bankruptcy (aprox.)
One beats the bush and another catches the bird
The horse thinks one thing and he that saddles him another
One and nothing, all is one
One beats the bush and another catches the bird
One sows, another reaps
The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down
House goes mad when women gad
One sews, another reaps
To be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those who possess more
One beats the bush and another catches the bird
Practice makes perfect
Grapes with cheese taste like a kiss
Love is sweet in the beginning, but sour in the ending
Good finds good
You can see a mote in another’s eye but cannot see a beam in your own.
Life without a friend is death without a witness
Peter is old to be goatherd
Wind and happiness don’t last long
Bitter pills may have blessed effects
Wine for its colour, bread for its smaell and taste will tell you the rest
Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick.
More haste, less speed.
Let the hen live though it be with her pip
If you are not chaste, be cautious
A tired mare, finds a meadow
The cobbler should stick to his last
Search, and you will find
Give an inch and they will take a mile
Crease is beautiful
Search, and you will find
Every cloud has a silver lining
The last shall be first, and the first last

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