Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter T - part 10
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The owl sings to the nightingale.
The owl thinks her children the fairest.
The owner?s eye fattens the horse.

The ox comes to the yoke at the call of his feeder.
The ox saying 'horned' to the donkey.
The ox spoke and said 'Moo.'.
The ox that butted me tossed me into a good place.
The ox that tossed me threw me into a good place.
The ox when most weary is most surefooted.
The ox without a bell is soon lost.
The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.
The pain of the little finger is felt by the whole body.
The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
The palm of your hand will not obscure the sun.
The pan says to the pot: Keep off, or you'll smutch me.
The panther and the sheep never hunt together.
The pardon arrives after the man was hung.
The pardon may be more severe than the penalty.
The parrot utters one cry, the quail another.
The parson christens his own child first.
The passing hour is sometimes a mother, sometimes a stepmother.
The past is for God, the future for the Tsars.
The past is the future of the present.
The path is made by walking.
The path of a liar is short.
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote.
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.
The path of duty lies in what is nearby, but men look for it in things far off.
The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.
The patient one always wins.
The patient person eats the ripe fruit.
The patient who names a doctor his heir makes a big mistake.
The paunch warm, the foot sleepy.
The pearls of a bride on her wedding day are the tears that will be shed later.
The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right.
The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.
The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.
The pen can kill a man; no knife is needed.

The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart.
The pen wounds deeper than an arrow.
The penalty attaching to evil deeds should be thought of in time.
The pencil of God has no eraser.
The pencil of God has not an eraser.
The pensioner gets the wages of the death.
The peony is beautiful, yet it is supported by a stalk.
The people make the town.
The people want to be deceived.
The people's voice is God's voice.
The person afraid of bad luck will never know good.
The person that eat late, will not eat spoiled food.
The person who asks for little deserves nothing.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs.
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness will not attain great happiness.
The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
The person who has burned their fingers often asks for tongs.
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.
The person who is tired will find time to sleep.
The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.
The person who loves sorrow will always find something to moan about.
The person with burned fingers asks for tongs.
The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs.
The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
The piece is kept for whoever is going to eat it.
The pig prefers mud to clean water.
The pig's tail will never make a good arrow.
The pike grows big on small fry.
The pine stays green in winter, wisdom in hardship.
The pious are in the care of the gods.
The pipe is nearer than the wife.
The pitcher goes often to the well and gets broken at last.
The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last.
The pitcher goes so often to the well that it gets broken at last.
The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.
The pitcher which goes too often to the well gets broken.
The pitcher will go to the well once too often.
The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place.
The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.
The plagiarist turns the body inside-out and changes the bones.
The plan executed, reason comes to our assistance!.
The plant God favors will grow even without rain.
The plant often removed cannot thrive.
The pleasure of doing good is the only one that will not wear out.
The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.

The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries.
The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor.
The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting more.
The plowshare only cuts deep where the ground is soft.
The plumber's house always leaks.
The point in question is yet undecided.
The point of the needle must pass first.
The poison is in the tail' (as in a ) commonly said 'Beware of which you cannot see.
The poison of asps is under their lips.
The pool has dried up, and the fish is in trouble.
The poor always smell.
The poor and the stingy pay twice.
The poor are excused from washing with soap.
The poor are the silent of the land.
The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don't know what poverty means.
The poor eat meat when they bite their tongues.
The poor have no time to spare.
The poor lack much, but the greedy more.
The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.
The poor man and the rich man do not play together.
The poor man eats at double cost.
The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail every year.
The poor man seeks for food, the rich man for appetite.
The poor man seeks only a crumb, then finds he still hungers.
The poor man wants much, the miser everything.
The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
The poor man's corm always grows thin.
The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.
The poor will be tilted for a long time, before he falls.
The poor-houses are filled with the honestest people.
The poorer you are, the more devils you meet.
The poorer, the more generous.
The poorhouse is filled with honest people.
The pope and a peasant know more than the pope together.
The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.
The portion that a man keeps for himself is usually not the smallest.
The position in which we were before the war.
The post of honor is the post of danger.
The pot boils best on your own hearth.
The pot calling the kettle black.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The pot goes so many times to the fountain that one day it will break.
The pot goes so many times to the fountain that someday it will not be back.
The pot reproaching the kettle, the side of both is black.
The pot that boils too much loses its flavour.
The pot that calls the kettle black.
The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.

The potter eats from broken plates.
The potter sleeps soundly, for no one would steal clay.
The power of habit is great.
The power of the crocodile is in the water.
The power of the hoe stays on the farm.
The powerful are never faithful.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.
The praise of fools is censure in disguise.
The prayer of the innocent has no wings.
The preacher must be like a chicken who always has an egg in reserve.
The presence of the doctor is the beginning of the cure.
The prettiest birds are in a cage.
The prettiest girl in the world can only give what she has.
The prettiest of shoes makes a sorry hat.
The pride of the poor does not endure.
The priest does not eat rice every day.
The priest errs at the altar.
The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.
The priest to his book, the peasant to his plough.
The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.
The prolonged visit of no guest is pleasant.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proportion of things thrill the eye.
The prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Proverbs 1:32.
The provoking pertinacity of a fly.
The prudent embark when the sea is calm -- the rash when it's stormy.
The public improves the speaker's speech.
The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble.
The pumpkin vine never bears watermelons.
The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.
The purpose sanctifies the means.
The purse of loved ones is tied with a gossamer thread.
The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.
The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
The quarrel of the sheep doesn't concern the goats.
The quarrel that doesn't concern you is pleasant to hear about.
The queen bee has no sting.
The quiet are guilty.
The quiet cat also drinks milk.
The quoit attracts them more than philosophy.
The rabbi drinks the wine and asks the others to be happy.
The rabbit has different eyes from the owl's.
The rabble is not influenced by reason, but blind impulse.
The race is not always to the swift.
The rack can extort a false confession from the innocent.
The ragged says to the naked: why don't you get dressed?.
The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
The rain does not all fall on one roof.
The rain follows after the forest.

The rain wets the leopard's spots but does not wash them off.
The rainbow would be even more beautiful if the show was not for free.
The rat betrayed by his own track perishes.
The rat cannot call the cat to account.
The rat does not leave the cat's house with a bellyful.
The rat that has but one hole is soon caught.
The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught.
The rat that knows but one hole is soon caught by the cat.
The rat which has but one hole is soon caught.
The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf basket, still both are full of holes.
The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both are full of holes.
The raven always thinks that her young ones are the whitest.
The raven chides blackness.
The raven is fair when the rook is not by.
The raven sees its chickens as falcons.
The raven won't peck out the eye of another raven.
The razor against the grindstone.
The real capital of a man is a mirror worth two cents.
The real hero doesn't say that he is one.
The real nettle will sting early.
The real owners of the land are not yet born.
The real scholar is not afraid to ask questions of his pupil.
The real unlucky one will sprain his thumb when he blows his nose.
The real world is a special case.
The rebellious dwell in a dry land. Psalm 68:6.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
The reception has more value than the invitation.
The relationship between a daughter and her parents is enduring; the relationship with a son is attenuated after he marries.
The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.
The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
The remedy for injuries is to forget them.
The remedy for love is--land between.
The remembrance of past pleasures adds to present sorrows.
The repeated stroke will fell the oak.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and somtimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.
The reserve are engaged.
The reserve doesn't weight your pocket.
The resistance only makes him attack more ferociously.
The rest of the world does not know what newlyweds know.
The results justify the deed', or 'The ends justify the means.
The revenge of an idiot is without mercy.
The revenge that is postponed is not forgotten.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
The reward of a thing rightly done is to have done it.
The reward of silence is certain.
The rich are always complaining.
The rich become deaf and the mighty blind.
The rich eat kebab, the poor inhale smoke.
The rich eat when they want, the poor when they can.
The rich get richer, and the poor get babies.
The rich have many friends.
The rich have medicines the poor have health.
The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
The rich man has more relations than he knows.
The rich man has more relations than he knows about.
The rich man is the one who pays his debts.
The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.
The rich man may wear old clothes.
The rich man never dances badly.
The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.
The rich man transgresses the law, and the poor man is punished.

The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
The rich never have to seek out their relatives.

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


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