Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter O - part 3
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One falsehood leads to another.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
One family builds the wall, two families enjoy it.
One farts, and another goes to a resort.

One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors.
One finger alone cannot even kill a louse.
One finger can't lift a pebble.
One fisherman recognizes another from afar.
One flea does not hinder sleep.
One flower does not make a garland.
One flower will not make a garland.
One foe is too many, and a hundred friends are too few.
One fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
One fool is enough in a house.
One fool makes a hundred.
One fool makes many.
One fool may ask more questions than seven wise men can answer.
One fool may ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
One fool praises another.
One fool tangles and ten wise men cannot untangle.
One foot cannot stand on two boats.
One foot is better than two crutches.
One foot is better then two stilts.
One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.
One for the road.
One funeral makes many.
One generation builds the street on which the next will walk.
One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
One generation plants the trees, the next eats the fruit.
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
One gentle word opens a gate of iron.
One gets what one orders.
One goat cannot carry another goat's tail.
One God and so many enemies.
One God, one wife, but many friends.
One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.
One good daughter is worth seven sons.
One good deed has many claimants.
One good forewit is worth two afterwits.
One good morsel and a hundred vexations.
One good punch on your enemy's nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders.
One good turn deserves another. One good turn deserves another.
One good word puts out the flames better than a bucket of water.
One good word quenches more heat than a bucket of water.
One grain does not full the granary, but it helps its companion.
One grievance borne, another follows.
One grows used to love and to fire.

One hair of a maiden's head pulls harder than ten yoke of oxen.
One hair of a woman draws more than a bell-rope.
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
One half the world knows not how the other half lives.
One half the world laughs at the other half.
One half the world laughs at the other.
One hand cannot applaud.
One hand can't clap.
One hand can't raise a child.
One hand for oneself and one for the ship.
One hand full of money is stronger than two hands full of truth.
One hand must wash the other, or both will be dirty.
One hand washes the other and both of them wash the face.
One hand washes the other and both wash the face.
One hand washes the other, and both the face.
One hand washes the other. One hand washes the other.
One hand will not clap.
One hangs the thief who stole altyn(3 kopecks), and honors the one who stole poltinnik(50 kopecks).
One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.
One has only to die to be praised.
One head is good; two heads are better.
One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer.
One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.
One hour's sleep before midnight is better than three after it.
One hour's sleep before midnight is better than two after it.
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.
One hour's sleep before midnight, is worth two after.
One house cannot keep two dogs.
One hundred alcoholics are better than one gambler.
One hunts the hare, and another eats it.

One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.
One idiot threw a stone in the well, forty wise people could not get it out.
One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage.
One indian less, one extra tortilla.
One is born, one dies; the land grows.
One is certain only of death.
One is never soiled but by filth.
One is never too old to yearn.
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
One joy can drive away a hundred sorrows.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
One kindness is the price of another.
One kisses the nurse for the sake of the child.
One knavery is met by another.
One knife keeps another in its sheath.
One knife whets another.
One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.
One knows not for whom he gathers.
One knows where the shoe is too tight.
One lamp can't light two houses.
One law for the rich and another for the poor.
One lawsuit begets another.
One learns by failing.
One lie can fill a sack; a second will empty it again.
One lie draw ten after it.
One lie makes many.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
One likes the mother, another one the daughter.
One likes the priest, and one likes the priest's wife.
One link broken, the whole chain is broken.
One little arrow does not kill a serpent.
One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
One living pope is better than ten dead.
One log does not burn long by itself.
One lost, two found.
One love drives out another.
One maiden is better than four widows.
One man alone is prey to the wolf.

One man beats the bush, another catcheth the bird.
One man can burn water, whereas another cannot even burn oil.
One man cut the barrage, and a thousand people fell into the river.
One man excels in one thing, another in another.

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


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