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A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A turn of the key is better than the conscience of a friar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear
it's a cat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A used plough shines, standing water stinks.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A useless pitcher does not get broken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A usurer, a miller, a banker, and a publican, are the four
evangelists of Lucifer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain
returns all sounds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A vagabond monk never spoke well of his convent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A vicious dog must be tied short.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A visitor comes with ten blessings, eats one, and leaves nine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Kurdish)
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A voluntary burthen is no burthen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A waiting appetite kindles many a spite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A wall between increases love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A want of pence stops all your marketing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A warm January; a cold May.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A watched clock never tells the time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A watched pot never boils.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A weak foundation destroys the work.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wealthy man can err with impunity.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Turkish)
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A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
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A well which is drawn from is improved. [Art is improved by
practice.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A well-formed figure needs no cloak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A well-wisher sees from afar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A wheel not greased will creak. [Those who are not properly paid
will not work without grumbling.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor
men.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A white glove often conceals a dirty hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A white wall is the fool's paper.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French, Italian)
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A whitewashed crow soon shows black again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A wicked book cannot repent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A wicked companion invites us all to hell.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A wicked dog must be tied short.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his master.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A wife is not a pot, she will not break so easily.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A wife's advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who
refuses to take it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A willful man must have his way.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wise falcon hides his talons.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wise head hath a close mouth to it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wise head makes a close mouth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wise man and a fool together, know more than a wise man alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog
traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A wise man does at first what a fool must do at last.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
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