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Your wife and sheep early at home. - Proverb, (Portuguese) Your windmill dwindles into a nutcrack. - Proverb "Your words are fair," said the wolf, "but I will not come into the village." - Proverb, (German) Youth and age will never agree. - Proverb Youth and white paper take any impression. - Proverb Youth does not mind where it sets its foot. - Proverb, (Irish) Youth has a small head. - Proverb, (Irish) Youth is wasted on the young. - Proverb Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance. - Proverb, (French) Youth may stray afar yet return at last. - Proverb, (French) Youth must be served. - Proverb Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever. - Proverb, (Irish) Youth will be served. - Proverb Youth will have its course. - Proverb Yule is come, and Yule is gone, And we have feasted well; So Jack must to his flail again, And Jenny to her wheel. - Proverb Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools. - Proverb, (Ancient) Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. - Proverb, (English) Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light. - Proverb, (English) Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. - Proverb Zeal without prudence is frenzy. - Proverb There's no sauce like appetite. [Fr., Il n'est sauce que d'appetit.] - Proverb, (French) Every man is the architect of his own fortunes. - Pseudo-Sallust His fore feet though you sever, his grip he'll make good. - Punch And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. - Francis Quarles Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold. - Francis Quarles When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire. - Francis Quarles The next way home's the farthest way about. - Francis Quarles, Emblems (bk. IV, em. 2, ep. 2) A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) I am just going to leap into the dark. - Francois Rabelais Others set carts before the horses. - Francois Rabelais Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] - Francois Rabelais, Gargantua (ch. V) How well I feathered by nest. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. II, ch. SVII) He did not care a button for it. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. II, ch. XVI) Strike the iron whilst it is hot. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. II, ch. XXXI) Performed to a T. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. IV, ch. LI) Make three bites of a cherry. - Francois Rabelais, Works (bk. V, ch. XXVIII) You shall never want rope enough. - Francois Rabelais, Works--Prologue to the Fifth Book No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Plaideurs (I, 1) A friend in need is a friend indeed. - John Ray (Wray) If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. - John Ray (Wray), English Proverbs The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.] - prob. first used by Richard, quoted in the "Menagiana", 1713 The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. - Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (st. 3) Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) IX, 9, 12 The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 4, 13) But few prize honour more than money. - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus) Displaying page 396 of 414 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 [396] 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414
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