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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows
public opinion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A wise man may learn of a fool.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A wise man should never give his wife too much rein.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wise man, a strong man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A wolf often lies concealed in the skin of a lamb. ["Yours
truly," is not always true.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A wolf's head (on which a price was put). [An outlaw. A Pariah.
Fair game for anybody.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A woman and a glass are always in danger.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German, Spanish)
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A woman and a hen are soon lost through gadding.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A woman and a melon are hard to choose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman and a ship ever want mending.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman conceals only what she does not know.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A woman hath nine lives like a cat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A woman is to be from her house three times: when she is
christened, married and buried.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A woman keeps secret only what she does not know.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman may be ever so old, if she take fire she will jump.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A woman strong in flounces is weak in the head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A woman who accepts, sells herself; a woman who gives,
surrenders.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman who looks much in the glass spins but little.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman who loves to be at the window is like a bunch of grapes
on the wayside.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A woman's answer is never to seek.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire,
four times; her intelligence, eight times.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Sanskrit)
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A woman's first counsel is the best.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A woman's in pain, a woman's in woe, a woman is ill, when she
likes to be so.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A woman's place is in the home.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A woman's tears and a log's limping are not real.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A woman's tongue is her sword, and she does not let it rust.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A woman's vengeance knows no bounds.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A woman's work is never done.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the
better they be.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A word and a blow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A word and a stone once let go cannot be recalled.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A word from the mouth, a stone from a sling.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A word from the mouth, a stone from the hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A word is enough to the wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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A word is sufficient for the wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Russian)
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A word once out flies everywhere.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A word to the wise is enough.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian, Portuguese)
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A word to the wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French, Portuguese)
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A wound foreseen paint the less.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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