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Could a man foresee events he would never be poor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Could everything be done twice, everything would be done better.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Councils of war never fight.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Counsel before action.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick
horse.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Counsel is nothing against love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Count not what is lost but what is left.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Count your blessings.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Counterfeit coin passes current at night.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Coupled sheep drown one another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Courage is often caused by fear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Azerbaijani)
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Courage mounteth with occasion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Azerbaijani)
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Court not companionship with tigers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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Courtesie is cumbersome to them that ken it not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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Courtesy on one side can never last long.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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Courtesy that is all on one side cannot last long.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Courts grant not their favours as men are good and deserving.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Covet not the property of others.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Covetousness bursts the bag.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Covetousness is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with
earth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Cow of many--well milked and badly fed.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Coward against coward, the assailant conquers.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Cowards have no luck.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Cowards may die many times before their death.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Cowards win no laurels.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Cows have no business in horseplay.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Jamaican)
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Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Crafty advice is often got from a fool.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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Crap or get off the pot.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
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Crazy wheels run longest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Creaking carts last the longest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Cream doesn't rise to the top, it works its way up.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Credit is better than ready money.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Credit is dead, bad pay killed it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your
own.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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