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One fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One fool is enough in a house.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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One fool makes a hundred.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese, Spanish)
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One fool makes many.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin, Danish, Dutch)
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One fool may ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One fool may ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One fool praises another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One foot is better than two crutches.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Romanian)
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One foot is better then two stilts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a
birth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One funeral makes many.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Nigerian)
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One God, one wife, but many friends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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One good deed has many claimants.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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One good forewit is worth two afterwits.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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One good turn deserves another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, French, German), also found in Beaumont and Fletcher, "Little French Lawyer", III, 2
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One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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One grain does not full the granary, but it helps its companion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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One grievance borne, another follows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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One grows used to love and to fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One hair of a maiden's head pulls harder than ten yoke of oxen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One half the world knows not how the other half lives.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One half the world laughs at the other half.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One half the world laughs at the other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One hand cannot applaud.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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One hand for oneself and one for the ship.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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One hand full of money is stronger than two hands full of truth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One hand must wash the other, or both will be dirty.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One hand washes the other, and both the face.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)
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One hand washes the other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin, German)
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One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one's
friends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One has only to die to be praised.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One has woven the thread, another has drawn it forth. [One man
invents, another develops the idea.)
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One hour's sleep before midnight is better than two after it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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One house cannot keep two dogs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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One hunts the hare, and another eats it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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One is never so rich as when one removes (from one house to
another).
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One is never soiled but by filth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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One is never too old to yearn.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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