Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter C - part 2
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Crooked wood is straightened with fire.
Cross even a stone bridge after you've tested it.
Cross in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.

Cross the bridge when you reach it.
Cross the river among a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you.
Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.
Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.
Crows are black everywhere.
Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.
Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
Crows do not peck out crow's eyes.
Crows everywhere are equally black.
Cry and the whole world cries with you.
Cry not out before you are hurt.
Cuddly lamb suckles from two ewes. (Similar to 'Flattery will get you everywhere.').
Cuddly lamb sucks two ewes. (Similar to 'Flattery will get you anywhere.').
Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger.
Cultivate a heart of love that knows no danger.
Cultivate not a barren soil.
Cultivate the garden within.
Cunning has little honour.
Cunning is better than force.
Cunning is better than strength.
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
Cunning men's cloaks sometimes fall.
Cunning surpasses strength.
Cupidity has no peak.
Cure thyself.' An exhortation to medical doctors or experts in general.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Curious Varvara's nose was torn off.
Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.
Cursed cows have short horns.
Curses are like chickens, they always come home.
Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.
Curses are like processions: they return to whence they set out.
Curses on accounts with relations.
Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
Custom and law are sisters.

Custom becomes law.
Custom follow or country flee.
Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.
Custom is a second nature.
Custom is a tyrant.
Custom is stronger than law.
Custom is the guide of the ignorant.
Custom makes all things easy.
Customers are jade; merchandise is grass.
Customs are stronger than laws.
Cut down the tree that you are able to.
Cut off the dog's tail, he remains a dog.
Cut your bird's feather, so that it doesn't leave you for.
Cut your coat according to your cloth.
Cut your coat to suit your cloth.
Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse.

These are Proverb Examples from around the world, some have been translated from their original language to english.


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