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A little water is a sea to an ant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Afghan)
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A living ass is better than a dead doctor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A living dog is been than a dead lion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A load of March dust is worth a ducat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A loaded wagon creaks; an empty one rattles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A lock is better than suspicion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A lonely person is at home everywhere.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A long tongue betokens a short hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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A looker on sees more of the game than a player.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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A lord of straw devours a vassal of steel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A lord without land, is like a cask without wine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A lordly taste make a beggar's purse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A lovelorn cook oversalts the porridge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A lover should be regarded as a person demented.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A lover's anger is short-lived.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A loving man, a jealous man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests
potatoes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Greek)
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A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Greek)
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A mad dog cannot live long.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A mad parish, a mad priest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A maid who laughs is half taken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore
is worse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at
eighty.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A man assailed is half overcome.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A man can die just once.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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A man can't do more than he can do.
What says Don Ferdinando?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Navaho)
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A man cannot carry all his kin on his back.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A man cannot jump over his own shadow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A man comes from the dust and in the dust he will end--and in the
meantime it is good to drink a sip of vodka.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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A man conducts himself abroad as he has been taught at home.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A man dances all the same, though he may dance against his will.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A man does not always aim at what he means to hit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there
himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Turkish)
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A man does not wander far from where his corn is roasting.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Nigerian)
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A man forewarned is as good as two.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A man gains nothing by vain glory but contempt and hatred.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A man has learned much who has learned how to die.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A man has two ears and one mouth that he hear much and speak
little.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A man if he lives alone is either a god or a demon.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
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A man in not known till he cometh to honour.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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