• Morocco/Moroccan Proverbs
    • rbs line-height:150%;font-family:Tahoma"> Truth Proverbs Love truth even if it harms you, and hate lies even if they serve you Believe what you see and lay aside what you hear A known mistake is better than an un...
    • Ethiopian Proverbs
    • rbs “When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” "Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them.” "He who conceals his disease can not expect to be cured.” “What one hopes for is ...
    • Greek proverbs
    • rbs Many words are poverty. A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Act quickly, think slowly. As l...
    • Egyptian Proverbs
    • rbs   A beautiful thing is never perfect. A man's ruin lies in his tongue. Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune. Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. Bed is th...
    • Ancient Egyptian Proverbs
    • rbs E gyptian Proverbs were a very important part of the Ancient religion of Egypt, one of the main religious concepts the Egyptians had was "know thyself." Their spiritual aspect of this concept held that...
    • Armenian Proverbs (2)
    • (2) He who can not pray at home will celebrate mass somewhere else. He who looks for a friend without a fault will never find one. He who speaks a lot learns little. He's looking for the donkey while sitting on it...
    • Armenian Proverbs (1)
    • (1) You are as many a person as languages you know. How can one start a fast with baklava in one's hand. The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers. Clouds that thunder do not always rain. He who...
    • Austrian Proverbs
    • rbs Proverbi dalla tradizione popolare austriaca A light is still a light-even though the blind man can not see it. If you shoot your arrows at stones, you'll damage them. The earth doesn't shake when the fle...
    • Famous Latin Proverbs
    • ad praesens ova cras pullis sunt meliora . Eggs today are better than chickens tomorrow ...
    • Korean Proverbs
    • rbs A kitchen knife cannot carve its own handle. A nobleman's calf does not know how a butcher kills. Carve the peg by looking at the hole. Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water. Cast not pearls to swine. Cat...
    • French Proverbs
    • Vouloir, c'est pouvoir. Idiomatic translation: Where there's a will there's a way...
    • Irish Proverbs
    • rbs A bald head is soon shaven. A good denial is the best point in law. A house can't be kept without talk. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. Be jogging while your boots are still...
    • Indian Proverbs
    • rbs Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. Anger ends in cruelty. Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. Blaw the wind ne'er so fast, it wi...
    • Persian Proverbs
    • rbs A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't. A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. A broken sleeve holdeth the arm back. A thief is a king till he's caught. A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf. ...
    • Arabic Proverbs
    • All sunshine makes a desert. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. Ask the experienced rather than the learned. Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
    • African Proverbs
    • Usually when war songs are sung they arouse a fighting spirit in men or arouse them to do some daring deeds; ...
    • English proverbs in Alphabetical form (C to Z)
    • Z) C Chance favors the prepared mind. Curiosity killed the cat. Cut your coat according to your cloth. D Desperate times call for desperate measures. Different sores must have different salves. Do unto others as y...
    • English proverbs in Alphabetical form
    • orm A An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A poor workman blames his tools. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A burnt child dreads fire. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. A chain is no stronger than its ...
    • Brazilian proverbs
    • rbs Don't carry all your eggs in one basket. Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the river. Don't hang your hat higher than you can reach. Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one....
    • Japanese Proverbs
    • rbs One kind word can warm three winter months The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Time spent laughing is time spent with th...
    • British proverbs
    • rbs Haste makes waste. A good mind is in a good body.  The early bird catches the worm.  What goes around comes around.  The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Hunger is the best sau...
    • Chinese Proverbs
    • Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it. (Do something that is totally unnecessary and spoil what you already have done.) An ant may well destroy a whole dam. (If a small problem is overlooked, it could...
    • Palestinian Proverbs
    • The empty gives the way to the full. Do good and throw it in the sea. This who digs an evil hole will fall into it. Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother. The house is our father's and the stranger...
    • Native American proverbs (1)
    • (1) It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest. Anishinabe Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are goi...
    • Romanian proverbs (4)
    • (4) Mai bine un mãgar care te poartã decât un cal care te trânteste. Means: Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. Moartea unora este viata altora. Means: One man's ...
    • Romanian proverbs (3)
    • (3) Faptele grãiesc mai apãsat decât vorbele. Means: Actions speak louder than words. Deeds, not words. Unde vezi mãtãnii multe, departe, sã nu te muste. Means: Beads about the neck...
    • Romanian Proverbs (2)
    • (2) La mâncare sã ai cumpãtare si la bãuturã sã fii cu mãsurã. Means: Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. Prin depãrtare dragostea se uitã. Mea...
    • Romanian proverbs (1)
    • (1)   Fã-te frate cu dracu pânã treci puntea. means:Call the Bear 'uncle' till you are safe across the bridge. The Danger past and God forgotten. Faptele grãiesc mai apãsat decât vorbe...
    • Gypsy Proverbs (2)
    • (2) We are all wanderers of this earth, our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are full of dreams. The dog that trots about finds a bone. Misfortune doesn't walk on the earth, but on top of people. He is born i...
    • Gypsy Proverbs
    • rbs A man must put grain in the ground before he can cut the harvest. Fair they go, and always their heels behind them.   You have to dig deep to bury your Daddy. Never eat at the table of a Priest.  The ...
    • Arab Proverbs (3)
    • (3) He who does not recognise the falcon grills it Regrettable deeds are performed through ignorance We as people eat to live and not live to eat. One must eat to live, and not live to eat. How tight can life b...
    • Arab Proverbs (2)
    • (2) Birds alight among their like Birds of a feather flock together v     What comes with ease goes with ease. Easy come, easy go. v      Man plans and God manages. (...
    • Arab Proverbs (1)
    • (1) All sunshine makes a desert. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. Ask the experienced rather than the learned. Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. Dwell ...
    • Haitian Proverbs (2)
    • Haiti is a non-literate culture. 80% or more of the people neither read nor write. Consequently, wisdom is oral. There are no detailed philosophical systems inHaiti. People hand down their knowledge and express it in ...
    • Haitian Proverbs (1)
    • (1) Haiti is a non-literate culture. 80% or more of the people neither read nor write. Consequently, wisdom is oral. There are no detailed philosophical systems in Haiti. People hand down their knowledge and express it in...
    • Italian Proverbs (1]
    • Non è tutto oro quello che luce. All that glitters is not gold. Non fare il male ch'è peccato; non fare il bene ch'è sprecato. Don't do evil because it's a sin; don't do good because it's wasted. Non giudica...
    • Italian Proverbs (3)
    • Il riso fa buon sangue. Laughter is the best medicine. Il silencio è d'oro e la parola è d'argento. Speech is silver, silence is golden. Il tempo è denaro. Time is money. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali...
    • Italian Proverbs (2)
    • Chi dorme non piglia pesci. The early bird catches the worm. Chi fa da sá, fa per tre. Do it yourself if you want it done right. Chi fa falla, e chi non fa sfarfalla. Those who act make mist...
    • Russian Proverbs (5)
    • This is a collection of Russian proverbs and sayings supplied from the bookA Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings by author M. Dubrovin, Moscow, "Prosvesheniye", 1993. There will be trouble if th...
    • Russian Proverbs (4)
    • (4) This is a collection of Russian proverbs and sayings supplied from the bookA Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings by author M. Dubrovin, Moscow, "Prosvesheniye", 1993. You needn't be afraid of a b...
    • Russian Proverbs (3)
    • (3) This is a collection of Russian proverbs and sayings supplied from the bookA Book of English and Russian Proverbs and Sayings by author M. Dubrovin, Moscow, "Prosvesheniye", 1993. A man is judged by his deeds...
    • Russian Proverbs (1)
    • (1) Без муки нет науки.  Adversity is a good teacher. Без отдыха ...
    • Ireland Proverbs (3)
    • (3) There'll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot. Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him. A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe. In winter the milk goes to the cow's horns. M...
    • Ireland Proverbs (2)
    • (2) Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. As the old cock crows the young cock learns. Humor to a man is like a feather pillow. It is filled with what is easy t...
    • Ireland Proverbs (1)
    • (1) What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Every patient is a doctor after his cure. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. Soft words butter no parsnips but they won't harden the heart of the cab...
    • Italian Proverbs (1)
    • (1) A buon intenditor poche parole. A word to the wise is sufficient. A caval donato non si guarda in bocca. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. A chi dai il dito si prende anche il braccio. Give them an...
    • Hungarian Proverbs
    • erbs Ki mint veti ágyát, úgy alussza álmát. You will sleep as you make your bad. You will get what you are preparing for (what you deserve) Addig jár a korsó a k&uac...
    • Albanian proverbs (4)
    • (4) Po nuk e pate të ligën brënda, s'të vjen nga jashtë. If you do not have malice inside, it will not come from outside. Po nuk qau fëmija, nuk i jep nëna sisë. --South If a child does not cry, his mother wil...
    • Albanian proverbs (3)
    • (3) Kush s'punon, dheut i rëndon. Who does not work, is heavy to the earth. Kush zë brumë do të gatuajë. Who makes the dough will also cook. Liria i ka rrënjët në gjak. Freedom has roots in blood. Lim...