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- Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side.
French Proverb
- A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.
Irish Proverb
- R -
- Rats know the way of rats.
Chinese Proverb
- A razor may be sharper than an ax, but it cannot cut wood.
African(Annang) Proverb
- Ready money works great cures.
French Proverb
- Remember the rain that made your corn grow. (Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou)
Haitian Proverb
- Rent and Taxes never sleep.
German Proverb
- The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
Japanese Proverb
- Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.
German Proverb
- Revenge is a confession of pain.
Latin Proverb
- The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
- A rich man has no need of character.
Hebrew Proverb
- A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
Portuguese Proverb
- The rich worry over their money, the poor over their bread.
Vietnamese Proverb
- The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
Russian Proverb
- Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Chinese Proverb
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- Salt doesn’t boast that it is salted. (Sel pa vante tèt li di li sale.)
Haitian Proverb
- Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
American Proverb
- Self-praise is nno praise at all.
English Proverb
- Set a thief to catch a thief.
French Proverb
- Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
Sweedish Proverb
- The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
- A shroud has no pockets.
German Proverb
- Sickness shows us what we are.
Latin Proverb
- The silent dog is the first to bite.
Old Proverb
- Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb
- Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Spanish Proverb
- A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of
study.
Chinese Proverb
- The sinning is the best part of repentance.
Arabic Proverb
- Sleep faster, we need the pillows.
Jewish Proverb
- Slow fire ah boil hard cow-heel.
Guyanese Proverb
- Smelling good is expensive. (Santi bon koute che.)
Haitian Proverb
- Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb
- A snake deserves no pity.
Yiddish Proverb
- So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right.
Chinese Proverb
- Sorrow is the child of too much joy.
Chinese Proverb
- Speaking French doesn't mean you are smart. (Pal franse pa di lespri pou sa.)
Haitian Proverb
- Speak of the devil and he appears.
Italian Proverb
- Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Biblical Proverb
- A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Welsh Proverb
- Spread the table and contention will cease.
English Proverb
- The stitch is lost unless the thread is knotted.
Italian Proverb
- Strew no roses before swine.
Dutch Proverb
- Success has many friends.
Greek Proverb
- Summer is the mother of the poor.
Italian Proverb
- The sun sets without thy assistance.
The Talmud
- Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
Swedish Proverb
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- A teacher is better than two books.
German Proverb
- Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve
me, and I'll understand.
Native American Proverb
- Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Russian Proverb
- Tell nothing to thy friend that thy enemy may not know.
Danish Proverb
- That which doesn't kill you makes you fat. (Sa ki pa touye ou, li angrese ou.)
Haitian Proverb
- There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
French Proverb
- There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles if the result is twins.
Chinese Proverb
- There is no flying without wings.
French Proverb
- There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French Proverb
li>There is no prayer which does not have an "Amen". (Nanpwen lapriye ki pa gen "Amen.")
Haitian Proverb
- There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.
French Proverb
- There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
Russian Proverb
- There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.
French Proverb
- There is not enough room for two elephants to sit in the same shade.
African(Ovambo) Proverb
- There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth
Venezuelan Proverb
- There is no wise response to a foolish remark.
Runmanian Proverb
- There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Italian Proverb
- There is one who kisses, and the other who offers a cheek.
French Proverb
- There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
Sufi Proverb
- They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them.
Danish Proverb
- Think much, speak little, write less.
French Proverb
- Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Swedish Proverb
- Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
Malay Proverb
- Those who do not study are only cattle dressed in men's clothes.
Chinese Proverb
- Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Chinese Proverb
- Those who lose dreaming are lost.
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
- Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Italian Proverb
- Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood.
Chinese Proverb
- A thousand regrets do not cancel one debt.
Turkish Proverb
- Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Malayan Proverb
- Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man
who thinks he is wise.
Welsh Proverb
- Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Spanish Proverb
- Time gives good advice.
Maltese Proverb
- To a friend's house the road is never long.
Danish Proverb
- To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a
true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb
- To change and change for the better are two different things.
German Proverb
- To compare is not to prove.
French Proverb
- To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Proverb
- To know and to act are one and the same.
Samurai Proverb
- To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
- Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
Spanish Proverb
- To own is to fear.
(Tener es temer.)
Spanish Proverb
- To the good listener, half a word is enough.
Spanish Proverb
- To want to forget something is to remember it.
French Proverb
- The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.
English Proverb
- To understand your parents' love, bear your own children.
Chinese Proverb
- Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
French Proverb
- A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
American Proverb
- Trees often transplanted never prosper.
Arab Proverb
- Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat
in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb
- Truth is the safest lie.
Yiddish Proverb
- Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Proverb
- A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Greek Proverb
- Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori proverb
- Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
Scottish Proverb
- Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
Spanish Proverb
- Two watermelons can not be held under one arm.
Turkish Proverb
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