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- A half-truth is a whole lie.
Jewish Proverb - The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
Russian Proverb - A handfull of patience is worth a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb - Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while
adversity is often as the rain of spring.
Chinese Proverb - A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Turkish Proverb - The heart that loves is always young.
Greek Proverb - He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
Latin Proverb - He is rich who owes nothing.
French Proverb - He that does not ask will never get a bargain.
French Proverb - He that is of a merry heart hasth a continual feast.
Biblical Proverb - He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Biblical Proverb - He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.
Dutch Proverb - He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.
Colombian Proverb - He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like.
English Proverb - He who searches for pearls should not sleep.
Lybian Proverb - He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb - He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
German Proverb - He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb - He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.
Italian Proverb - He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.
Russian Proverb - He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Arab Proverb - He who hurries can not walk with dignity.
Chinese Proverb - He who is not impatient is not in love.
Italian Proverb - He who knows little quickly tells it.
Italian Proverb - He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
Italian Proverb - He who puts up with insult invites injury.
Jewish Proverb - He who respects his parents never dies.
Greek Proverb - He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods into his barn.
Danish Proverb - He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds.
Dutch Proverb - He who would leap far must first take a long run.
Danish Proverb - Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in
the shade?
Benjamin Franklin - Hours are Time's shafts,
and one comes winged with death.
Scottish Clock Motto
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- If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of
water.
Yiddish Proverb - If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin - If there is no wind, row.
Latin Proverb - If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
Spanish Proverb - If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
Haitian proverb - If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.
Russian Proverb - If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb - If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb - Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'.
(If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.)
Russian Proverb - If you can't go over, you must go under.
Jewish Proverb - If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.
American Proverb - If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of
he game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Chinese proverb - If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran - If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Native American Proverb (Minquass) - If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb - If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it.
Chinese Proverb - If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb - If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.
Yiddish Proverb - If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
Haitian proverb - If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Romanian Proverb - If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin - If you would live healthy, be old early.
Spanish Proverb - If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
Spanish Proverb - If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't
suspect him.
Chinese Proverb - If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin - If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
French Proverb - Ignorance is bliss.
American Proverb - In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
Legal Proverb - In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft.
Chinese Proverb - In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity
not one in twenty.
English Proverb - In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are kings
Macedonian Proverb
Thanks Margarita for submitting this one! -ed - In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed,
for they that sleep catch no fish.
English Proverb - It is easier to pull down than to build up.
Latin Proverb - It is not a fish until it is on the bank.
Irish Proverb - It is not enough to aim.; you must hit.
Italian Proverb - It is the great north wind that made the Vikings.
Scandanavian Proverb - It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin
it.
Latin Proverb
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- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb - Judge not the horse by his saddle.
Chinese Proverb
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- Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
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- L'amour fait passer les temps. Les temps faite passer l'amour.
(Love makes time pass. Time makes love pass.)
French Sundial Motto - A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
German Proverb - Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb. - Let every fox take care of his own tail.
Italian Proverb - Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
English Proverb - Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Biblical Proverb - Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
Native American Proverb (Blackfoot) - Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
Native American Proverb - Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but,
follow no one absolutely.
Chinese Proverb - A little pot boils easily.
Dutch Proverb - Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arab Proverb - Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Spanish Proverb - Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Latin Proverb - Lomhlaba Unzima, Lohmhlaba. [This world is a harsh place, this
world.]
Zulu Proverb - Long absent, soon forgotten.
Romanian Proverb - Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the
family.
Jewish Proverb - Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Russian Proverb - Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Swedish Proverb - Love rules without rules.
Italian Proverb - Love tells us many things that are not so.
Ukranian Proverb - Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
German Proverb - The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees
half with the eye and half with the fancy.
Persian Proverb
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- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb - Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb - Man has responsiblity, not power.
Native American Proverb (Tuscarora) - A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb - A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart,
his next to escape the censures of the world.
English Proverb - The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
Chinese Proverb - Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
- Greek Proverb
- Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
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- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb - Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything
sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese Proverb - Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
Scottish Proverb - Never fall out with your bread and butter.
English Proverb - Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Proverb - Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb - Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your
mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb - Never squat with your spurs on.
Texan Proverb - Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from
you all his joys.
Jewish Proverb - Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb - Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
American Proverb - No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Jamaican Proverb - No need to teach an eagle to fly.
Greek Proverb
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Proverb - No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
Danish Proverb
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- Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
Greek Proverb - One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German Proverb - One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
Spanish Proverb - One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb - One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in
avoiding calamities.
Chinese Proverb - Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
Indian Proverb
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- Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling God what you want.
French Proverb
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- Ready money works great cures.
French Proverb - The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb - A rich man has no need of character.
Hebrew Proverb
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- Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
American Proverb - Set a thief to catch a thief.
French Proverb - Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Sweedish Proverb - Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb - Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Spanish Proverb - A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of
study.
Chinese Proverb - The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arabic Proverb - Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb - A snake deserves no pity.
Yiddish Proverb - Speak of the devil and he appears.
Italian Proverb - Spread the table and contention will cease.
English Proverb
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- Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve
me, and I'll understand.
Native American Proverb - A true friend, is one that will take a bullet for you in the war.
Italian Proverb
Kindly submitted to quotesandsayingscollection.com by Massimo Raimondi, from a book on Mussolini - Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Russian proverb - There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
French Proverb - There is no flying without wings.
French Proverb - There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French Proverb - There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth
Venezuelan Proverb - There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
Sufi Proverb - Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Chinese Proverb - Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Italian Proverb - Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Malayan Proverb - Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man
who thinks he is wise.
Welsh Proverb - To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a
true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb - To change and change for the better are two different things.
German Proverb - To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Proverb - To know and to act are one and the same.
Samurai Proverb - To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb - A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
American Proverb - Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat
in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb - Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori proverb
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- Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
Romanian Proverb - Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Spanish Proverb - Use power to curb power.
Chinese Proverb - Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Proverb - Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb
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- Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a
nightmare.
Japanese Proverb - Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat. (All the [hours] wound you, the last
one kills)
Latin Proverb
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- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb - Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the
brow.
Spanish Proverb - We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
French Proverb - What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb - We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
French Proverb - What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
Romanian Proverb - What the people believe is true.
Native American Proverb (Anishinabe)
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
- French Proverb
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb - What you give you get, ten times over.
Yoruba Proverb - When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.
Swedish proverb - When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Hindu Proverb - When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius - When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
Romanian Proverb - When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Chinese Proverb - When friends ask, there is no tomorrow.
Miscellaneous Proverb - When in doubt, Gallop!
Proverb of the French Foreign Legion - When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.
Swiss Proverb - When spiders unite they can tie down a lion.
Ethiopian Proverb - When the fox preaches, look to the geese.
German Proverb - When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb - When two quarrel, both are to blame.
Dutch Proverb - When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our
reach.
French Proverb - When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb - When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
Jewish Proverb - When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of
bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb - When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
Texan Proverb - When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
Chinese Proverb - Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Spanish Proverb - Where there is a sea there are pirates.
Greek Proverb - Where there is love, there is pain.
Spanish Proverb - Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.
German Proverb - Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius - Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
Italian Proverb - Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb - The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Arab Proberb - Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Japaneses Proverb - The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.
German Proverb - The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.
Polish Proverb - Words must be weighed, not counted.
Polish Proverb
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- You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping
accomodation.
Kenyan Proverb - Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
Danish Proverb - Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Jewish Proverb - You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo Proverb - You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your
grandfather was.
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