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Any water puts out fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Any water will put out fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Anyone who is satisfied to stand still should not complain when
others pass him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yoruban)
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Anyone who teases you loves you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Jewish)
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Anything will fit a naked man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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Apelles was not a master painter the first day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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Apes remain apes, though you cloth them in velvet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Appearances are deceitful.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Appearances are deceptive.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Appetite comes in eating.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Appetite comes with eating.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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April showers bring forth May flowers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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April weather, woman's love, rose-leaves, dice, and card-luck,
change every moment.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Are there not spots on the sun?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Argus at home, a mole abroad.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Arms and money require good hands.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Arms are of little service abroad unless directed by the wisdom
of counsellors at home.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Arms carry peace.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Arms, women, and books should be looked at daily.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Arrange your cloak as the wind blows.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
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Arrogance is intolerable.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Art and knowledge bring bread and honour.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Art holds fast when all else is lost.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Art is art, even though unsuccessful.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Art is long and life is short.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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As a man dresses so is he esteemed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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As a man eats, so he works.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As a man has lived, so will he die.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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As a thing is used, so it brightens.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As a tree falls, so shall it lie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As are the times, so are the manners.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As ass does not hit himself twice against the same stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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As both a good horse and a bad horse heed the spur, so both a
good woman and a bad woman need the stick.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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As demure as an old whore at a christening.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As for friars, live with them, eat with them, and walk with them;
then sell them as they do themselves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As fortune is sought, so it is found.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As good be an addled egg as an idle bird.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As good eat the devil as the broth he was boiled in.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As is the gardener, so is the garden.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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As is the king, so are his people.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As is the lover so is the beloved.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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As is the master, so is his dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good
mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a
good daughter-in-law.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As mony heads, as mony wits.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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As numerous as the leaves of the oak, or the waves which wash the
island.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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