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Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Acting is the forte of all their race.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Actions speak louder than words.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Hungarian)
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Adam got a hoe, and Eve got a spinning-wheel, and thence come all
our nobles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Adam must have an Eve, to blame for his own faults.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Add not fire to fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Admission by the defendant is worth a hundred witnesses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Hebrew)
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Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Adventures are to the adventurous.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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Adversity comes with instruction in his hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Welsh)
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Adversity flatters no man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Adversity is the foundation of virtue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Romanian)
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Adversity makes a man wise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Advice is least heeded when most needed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Advice is not compulsion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Advice should be viewed from behind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Swedish)
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Advice should precede the act.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Advice to all, security for none.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity
teach him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ethiopian)
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Advisers are not givers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Advisers are not the payers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Advising is easier than helping.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Advising is often better than fighting.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Affectation is a greater injury to the face than small-pox.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Affinity is a mysterious thing, but it is spicy!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
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Afraid of his own shadow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
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After a feast a man scratches his head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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After a storm comes a calm.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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After a thrifty father, a prodigal son.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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After breaking my head you bring plaister.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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After Christmas comes Lent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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After clouds comes clear weather.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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After clouds sunshine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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After dark all cats are leopards.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Zuni)
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After darkness comes light.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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After dinner, rest; after supper walk a mile.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arab)
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After ebb comes flood, and friends with good.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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After great droughts come great rains.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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