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H -
- 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
-I-
- 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 hindred 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
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- 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
-J-
- A journey of a thousand
miles begins with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
- Judge not the horse
by his saddle.
Chinese Proverb
-K-
- Keep your broken arm
inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
-L-
- L'amour faite 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
-M-
- 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
-N-
- 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
-O-
- 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
-P-
- Pray, pray very much;
but beware of telling God what you want.
French Proverb
-R-
- 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
-S-
- 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
-T-
- 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
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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
-U-
- 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
-V-
- 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
-W-
- 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
-Y-
- 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.
Irish Proverb
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