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- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb
- Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
- Man has responsiblity, not power.
Native American Proverb (Tuscarora)
- A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin Proverb
- A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart,
his next to escape the censures of the world.
English Proverb
- A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
Egyptian Proverb
- A man who chases two rabbits catches none.
Roman Proverb
- The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.
Chinese Proverb
- A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
Kenyan Proverb
- Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Greek Proverb
- Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
Chinese Proverb
- Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
- Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.
Russian Proverb
- Money leant to a friend must be recovered from an enemy.
German Proverb
- Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty.
Latin Proverb
- The more laws the less justice.
German Proverb
- The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.
Zulu Proverb
- A mother never bites her child to the bone. (Manman pa janm mode pitit li jouk nan zo.)
Haitian Proverb
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- The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Japanese Proverb
- Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
Chinese Proverb
- The net of the sleeper catches fish.
Greek Proverb
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb
- Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything
sitting that you can do lying down.
Chinese Proverb
- Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
Scottish Proverb
- Never fall out with your bread and butter.
English Proverb
- Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Proverb
- Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb
- Never rely on the glory of the morning or the smiles of your
mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb
- Never squat with your spurs on.
Texan Proverb
- Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from
you all his joys.
Jewish Proverb
- Never write a letter while you are angry.
Chinese Proverb
- Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
American Proverb
- The night rinses what the day has soaped.
Swiss Proverb
- A nimble sixpence is better than a slow shilling.
English Proverb
- No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Jamaican Proverb
- A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
English Proverb
- No man can paddle two canoes at the same time.
Bantu Proverb
- No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.
Ukrainian Proverb
- No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Arab Proverb
- No matter how hard you try, a bull will never give milk.
Ukrainian Proverb
- No need to teach an eagle to fly.
Greek Proverb
- No one can be caught in places he does not visit.
Danish Proverb
- No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Proverb
- No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
Danish Proverb
- No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Spanish Proverb
- No wind is too cold for lovers.
Ukrainian Proverb
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- Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
Greek Proverb
- Of a compliment only a third is meant.
Welsh Proverb
- Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best.
Chinese Proverb
- Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage.
Italian Proverb
- Old birds are hard to pluck.
German Proverb
- One cannot both feast and become rich.
Ashanti Proverb
- One coin in the money box makes more noise than when it is full.
Arab Proverb
- One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
German Proverb
- One drink is just right; two is too many; three are too few.
Spanish Proverb
- One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him
Chinese Proverb
- One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.
German Proverb
- One generation plants trees, another gets the shade.
Chinese Proverb
- One hand cannot applaud.
Arab Proverb
- One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb
- One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb
- One minute of patience, ten years of peace.
Greek Proverb
- One nail drives out another.
German Proverb
- One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in
avoiding calamities.
Chinese Proverb
- Only fools are glad when governments change.
Romanian Proverb
- Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
Indian Proverb
- The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Jewish Proverb
- An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
Spanish Proverb
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- The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.
Philippine Proverb
- The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
- A parasite can not live alone
African(Ovambo) Proverb
- The partner of my partner is not my partner.
Legal Maxim
- The partridge loves peas, but not those that go into the pot with it.
African(Wolof) Proverb
- Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk robe.
Chinese Proverb
- Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
French Proverb
- A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful.
Malagasy Proverb
- Peace and a well-built house cannot be bought too dearly.
Danish Proverb
- Peace makes plenty.
English Proverb
- A peacock has too little in its head, too much in its tail.
Swedish Proverb
- A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Spanish Proverb
- People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
French Proverb
- The peoples pencil has no eraser. (Kreyon pep la pa gen gonm.)
Haitian Proverb
- A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Sioux Proverb
- Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Greek Proverb
- A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.
Greek Proverb
- The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone.
Italian Proverb
- Poverty is death in another form.
Latin Proverb
- Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling God what you want.
French Proverb
- Prayers go up and blessings come down.
Yiddish Proverb
- Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Jewish Proverb
- Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
German Proverb
- A proverb never lies, it is only its meaning which deceives.
German Proverb
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