 African Proverbs*
- If you want peace in the house, do what your wife wants.
- Talking doesn't fill the basket in the farm.
- Don't insult the crocodile until you cross the water.
Bulgarian Proverb*
- A tree falls the way it leans.
English Proverbs*
- A man can only die once.
- A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
- A fly may sting a horse and make him wince.
- A lawyer never goes to law himself.
- A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm.
- Each day provides its own gifts.
French Proverbs*
- A black hen lays a white egg.
- A healthy man is a successful man.
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- A bad bush is better than an open field.
- A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her
boots on.
- A summer's sun is worth the having.
- A teacher stands in fear of teaching.
- A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
Jewish Proverbs*
- The sun will set without thy assistance.
- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the
greatest violence.
- He is not called wise who knows good and ill, but he who can
recognize the two evils the lesser.
- Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little
hills.
- Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
Russian Proverbs*
- After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.
- An indispensable thing never has much value.
- An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
- A field held in common is always ravaged by bears.
- A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves.
- A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.
Spanish Proverbs*
- It Is Better To Conceal One's Knowledge than to reveal one's
ignorance.
- Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is
surely the best.
- God will listen to you whatever cloak you wear.
- A blustering Night, A fair day follows.
- A Rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.
- If you pay not a servant his wages then he will pay
himself.
- Never advise anyone to go to war or marry.
Latin Proverbs*
- Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
- If you have a jester, keep your wit till you have use for
it.
- If the wind will bot serve, take to the oars.
- What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.
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Indian Proverbs*
- Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him
for not having given its wings.
- Large desire is endless poverty.
- One "no" averts seventy evils.
- Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his
moccasins.
- The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
- A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.
- Be first at the feast, and last at the fight.
- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- A good bark year makes a good wheat year.
- If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite
disaster.
Chinese Proverbs*
- One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing
bird will come.
- "Judge not the horse by his saddle."
- When walking through a melon patch,
don't adjust your sandals.
- The mediocre doctor treates imminent illnesses, the good
doctor cures actual ailments, the superior doctor prevents
illnesses.
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step.
- Don't build a new ship out of old wood.
- He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves.
- You must have crossed the river before you may tell the
crocodile he has bad breath.
- If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you
for two - Chinese saying
- Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of
standing still.
- To guess is cheap. To guess wrong is expensive - Old
Chinese Proverb
- A man without a smiling face must not open shop.
- A bird can roost but on one branch,a mouse can drink not
more than its fill from a river.
- A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without
imperfections.
- A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to
make a home.
- Before dinner,let us explore the southern plains and climb the northern mountains. After dinner,there are snakes in the southern plains and tiger in the northern mountains.
- A murder may be forgiven, an affront never.
- A needle is not sharp at both ends.
- A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
Japanese Proverbs*
- Better to be crystal and to be a broken, than to be a tile
upon the housetop.
- A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
- Fortune will call at the smiling gate.
- A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.
- An ant hole may collapse an embankment.
- Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
- Breeding rather than birth.
Irish Proverbs*
- Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it.
- A house can't be kept without talk.
- A bald head is soon shaven.
- Evening is speedier than morning.
- A good denial, the best point in law.
- A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the
corners.
Afghan Proverb*
- A tree does not move unless there is wind.
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