Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter K - part 1
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Karma is the mother and karma is the father.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Keep a stiff upper lip.
Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Keep a thing seven years and you'll always find a use for it.
Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard.
Keep both eyes open before you are married and afterwards close only one.
Keep counsel of thyself first.
Keep counsel, thyself first.
Keep fire away from straw.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Keep good company and you shall be of the number.
Keep learning because knowledge is the key to power.
Keep no more cats than will catch mice.
Keep no more cats that will catch mice.
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.
Keep not two tongues in one mouth.
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
Keep several balls in the air.
Keep some till more come.
Keep something for a rainy day.
Keep something to do but not something to eat, for food will turn sour but work won't.
Keep straw, its time will come.
Keep the common road, and thou'rt safe.
Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.
Keep to the little ones, and the big ones will not bite you.
Keep watch for the appearing mushroom.
Keep well with your neighbours, whether right or wrong.
Keep within compass.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Keep your chin up.
Keep your ears wider and your mouth narrower.
Keep your eye on girls that don't tell their mothers everything.
Keep your eye on the ball.
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game.
Keep your eye upon the goal.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. (18th Century).

Keep your mouth, and keep your friend.
Keep your nose out of another's mess.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
Keep your own counsel.
Keep your own fish guts for your own sea maws.
Keep your own fish-guts for your own sea-maws.
Keep your secret in your own gourdy.
Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
Keep your sickness until Friday and don't fast.
Keep your tents apart and your hearts together.
Keep your weather-eye open.
Keep yourself from opportunities and God will keep you from sins.
Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an eel by its tail.
Keeping an eye on the sail.
Keeping from falling is better then helping up.
Keeping the finger on the wrist.
Keeping yourself and your food clean, you'll get more from it.
Kettledrum sounds dulcet when heard from afar.
Kick away the ladder and your feet are left dangling.
Kicking in an open door.
Kill a chicken before a monkey.
Kill a cow to donate shoes.
Kill no more than you can salt, or you will have tainted meat.
Kill not the goose that lays the golden egg.
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Kill one to warn a hundred.
Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey.
Kill them. For the Lord knows those who are His.
Killing a man to save the world, does not save the world.
Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
Kind words and few are a woman's ornament.
Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
Kind words conquer.
Kind words don't wear out the tongue.
Kind words heal friendship's wounds.
Kind words will unlock an iron door.
Kindle not a fire you cannot put out.
Kindness begets kindness.
Kindness breaks no bones.
Kindness succeeds where force will fail.
Kindness, like grain, increase by sowing.
Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.
King's entreaties are commands.
Kings don't come back on what they say.
Kings have long arms.
Kings have long hands.
Kings have many ears and eyes.
Kings have many ears and many eyes too.
Kings have no friends.

Kings learn wisdom from associating with wise men.
Kings love the treason, but not the traitor.
Kinsmen are born, but friendship is a gift of the gods.
Kiss the hand of your enemy if you cannot chop it off: Envy has no rest.
Kiss the hand that you cannot bite.
Kiss the hand you can not cut.
Kisses are the messengers of love.
Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.
Kissing goes by favor.
Kissing goes by favour.
Knaves and fools divide the world.
Knock on wood.
Knotty timber must have sharp wedges.
Knotty timber requires sharp wedges.
Know all and you will pardon all.
Know each other as if your were brothers; negotiate deals as if you were strangers to each other.
Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart.
Know thyself!' (, from the Greek 'gnothi seauton', on the at ). 'See also: Temet nosce.
Know what you say, but don't say all that you know.
Know you not that kings have long arms?.
Know yourself' (Rendering in the movie of the Greek 'gnothi seauton', from the at . Traditionally rendered in Latin as: 'Nosce te ipsum!').
Know, cabbages, that there is spinach in the stew.
Knowing hens lay even in nettles.
Knowing of the hat and the brim.
Knowing where Abraham gets the mustard.
Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.
Knowledge adds pain.
Knowledge creates mysteries.
Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Knowledge is better than riches.
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power. (17th Century).
Knowledge is the best charity.
Knowledge is the foundation of art.
Knowledge is the foundation of skill.

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.
Knowledge that is not replenished diminishes every day.
Knowledge uses up no space.
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
Kurds should never expect foreign support for only their true friends, the mountains, have protected them from the invaders' atrocities.

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


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