| 01/01/year |
A candle lights others and consumes
itself.  |
| 01/02/year |
In every country the sun rises
in the morning.  |
| 01/03/year |
Borrowing is sorrowing.  |
| 01/04/year |
The used key is always bright.  |
| 01/05/year |
The burnt child dreads the fire.  |
| 01/06/year |
Look which way the cat jumps!  |
| 01/07/year |
Where love is, there's no lack.  |
| 01/08/year |
Small leaks sink big ships.  |
| 01/09/year |
In the coldest flint, there is
hot fire.  |
| 01/10/year |
The boughs that bear most, hang
lowest.  |
| 01/11/year |
Who knows not how to swim, sinks
to the bottom.  |
| 01/12/year |
Either mend or end.  |
| 01/13/year |
In time the savage bull doth
bear the yoke.  |
| 01/14/year |
He that gropes in the dark finds
that he would not.  |
| 01/15/year |
Better an open enemy than a false
friend.  |
| 01/16/year |
In Golgotha there are skulls
of all sizes.  |
| 01/17/year |
In the night how easy is a bush
supposed a bear.  |
| 01/18/year |
The cat would eat fish but dare
not wet her feet.  |
| 01/19/year |
In trust is treason.  |
| 01/20/year |
Come uncalled, sit unserved.  |
| 01/21/year |
Into the mouth of a bad dog often
falls a good bone.  |
| 01/22/year |
Each bird loves to hear himself
sing.  |
| 01/23/year |
It will come in an hour that
will not come in a year.  |
| 01/24/year |
They who begin many things, finish
but few.  |
| 01/25/year |
He that handles a nettle tenderly
is soonest stung.  |
| 01/26/year |
Every heart has its own ache.  |
| 01/27/year |
Too much water drowns the miller.  |
| 01/28/year |
He who greases his wheels helps
his oxen.  |
| 01/29/year |
Every beggar is descended from
some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.  |
| 01/30/year |
The evening crowns the day.  |
| 01/31/year |
A man who never makes mistakes
never makes anything.  |
| 02/01/year |
Fire and water are good servants,
but bad masters.  |
| 02/02/year |
In every country, dogs bite.  |
| 02/03/year |
The sea has fish for every man.  |
| 02/04/year |
It is a silly goose that comes
to the fox's sermon.  |
| 02/05/year |
Tread on a worm and it will turn.  |
| 02/06/year |
Feather by feather, the goose
is plucked.  |
| 02/07/year |
To climb the ladder, begin at
the bottom.  |
| 02/08/year |
Four and twenty tailors cannot
make a man.  |
| 02/09/year |
He that handles thorns thorns
shall prick his fingers.  |
| 02/10/year |
It is too late to spare when
all is spent.  |
| 02/11/year |
Don't burn your house to warm
your hands.  |
| 02/12/year |
The trap that wishes to catch
a mouse should never smell of blood.  |
| 02/13/year |
Foul water will quench a fire
as soon as fair.  |
| 02/14/year |
Let not your tongue cut your
own throat.  |
| 02/15/year |
Travel makes a wise man better,
but a fool worse.  |
| 02/16/year |
Trust not a new friend nor an
old enemy.  |
| 02/17/year |
It is hard striving against a
stream.  |
| 02/18/year |
If your head is wax, don't walk
in the sun.  |
| 02/19/year |
God reaches us good things by
our own hands.  |
| 02/20/year |
A liar must have a good memory.  |
| 02/21/year |
Two dogs strive for a bone, and
a third runs away with it.  |
| 02/22/year |
Health is better than wealth.  |
| 02/23/year |
Little and often fills the purse.  |
| 02/24/year |
Bitten by a serpent, afraid of
a rope.  |
| 02/25/year |
Let your purse be your master.  |
| 02/26/year |
Great thieves hang little ones.  |
| 02/27/year |
Lie you for me, and I'll swear
for you.  |
| 02/28/year |
He that has but one eye must
be afraid to lose it.  |
| 02/29/year |
Haste trips up its own heels.  |
| 03/01/year |
Little dogs have long tails.  |
| 03/02/year |
The fox may grow grey, but never
good.  |
| 03/03/year |
A bully is always a coward.  |
| 03/04/year |
Half the truth is often a great
lie.  |
| 03/05/year |
Longest at the fire soonest finds
cold.  |
| 03/06/year |
Hear and see and say but little.  |
| 03/07/year |
When your hand is in the lion's
mouth, you must take it out as well as you can.  |
| 03/08/year |
Little fish are sweet.  |
| 03/09/year |
High places have their precipices.  |
| 03/10/year |
Many things are lost for want
of asking.  |
| 03/11/year |
The frog in the well knows nothing
of the ocean.  |
| 03/12/year |
If you have no money you need
no purse.  |
| 03/13/year |
The goat must graze where she
is tied.  |
| 03/14/year |
A good miller knows how to grind
whichever way the wind blows.  |
| 03/15/year |
If you shipped with the devil,
you must sail with the devil.  |
| 03/16/year |
Love is sweet at the beginning
but sour in the ending.  |
| 03/17/year |
Who hath once the fame to be
an early riser may sleep till noon.  |
| 03/18/year |
Sparks have their heat and flies
their spleen.  |
| 03/19/year |
Love your neighbor, but don't
pull down your hedge.  |
| 03/20/year |
There is a scorpion under every
stone.  |
| 03/21/year |
Make no fire, raise no smoke.  |
| 03/22/year |
Who has spice enough may season
his meat as he pleases.  |
| 03/23/year |
It is good to have some friends
in both heaven and hell.  |
| 03/24/year |
He has feathered his nest, he
may fly when he will.  |
| 03/25/year |
He sits not sure who sits too
high.  |
| 03/26/year |
It is a foolish sheep that makes
the wolf his confessor.  |
| 03/27/year |
Hold fast when you have it.  |
| 03/28/year |
Who burns most shines most.  |
| 03/29/year |
Daub yourself with honey and
you'll be covered with flies.  |
| 03/30/year |
They that deal in dirt have foul
fingers.  |
| 03/31/year |
I've got a wolf by the ears;
I can neither hold him nor let him go.  |
| 04/01/year |
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.  |
| 04/02/year |
Who eats the king's goose shall
be choked with the feathers.  |
| 04/03/year |
The last drop makes the cup run
over.  |
| 04/04/year |
He had a finger in the pie when
he burnt his nail off.  |
| 04/05/year |
They that hide can find.  |
| 04/06/year |
One barking dog sets all the
street a-barking.  |
| 04/07/year |
Hope well and have well.  |
| 04/08/year |
A wise man by day is no fool
by night.  |
| 04/09/year |
Who fears the gallows shall never
be a good thief.  |
| 04/10/year |
As near as bark to tree.  |
| 04/11/year |
Hope deferred makes the heart
sick.  |
| 04/12/year |
He that's born to be hanged will
never be drowned.  |
| 04/13/year |
The wolf doesn't count the sheep.  |
| 04/14/year |
Bad meat never made good soup.  |
| 04/15/year |
A busy man is tempted by but
one devil; an idle man, by many  |
| 04/16/year |
Life is sweet, hunger sharp.  |
| 04/17/year |
If fools went not to market,
bad wares would not be sold.  |
| 04/18/year |
A lie has short legs but a scandal
has wings.  |
| 04/19/year |
Who died half a year ago is as
dead as Adam.  |
| 04/20/year |
More grows in the garden than
the gardener ever sowed.  |
| 04/21/year |
He that is carried down the stream
need not row.  |
| 04/22/year |
Men fear death as children to
go in the dark.  |
| 04/23/year |
More serpent than dove.  |
| 04/24/year |
No like is the same.  |
| 04/25/year |
Follow the river and you'll get
to the sea.  |
| 04/26/year |
The longest day must have an
end.  |
| 04/27/year |
Ill goes the boat without an
oar.  |
| 04/28/year |
He that is hated of his subjects
cannot be counted a king.  |
| 04/29/year |
No love is foul, nor prison fair.  |
| 04/30/year |
It is a good friend that speaks
well of us behind our backs.  |
| 05/01/year |
Many strokes fell great oaks.  |
| 05/02/year |
Hope is a good breakfast but
a bad supper.  |
| 05/03/year |
Men know where they were born,
not where they shall die.  |
| 05/04/year |
If I must be hanged, I'll choose
my gallows.  |
| 05/05/year |
He that is his own counsel has
a fool for a client.  |
| 05/06/year |
It's a good horse that never
stumbles.  |
| 05/07/year |
Great businesses turn on a little
pin.  |
| 05/08/year |
Money is a good servant but a
bad master.  |
| 05/09/year |
I can tell best where my own
shoe pinches me.  |
| 05/10/year |
No man can flay a stone.  |
| 05/11/year |
As welcome as water into a ship.  |
| 05/12/year |
Great winds blow on high hills.  |
| 05/13/year |
All fetters are bad, even if
they be made of gold.  |
| 05/14/year |
A man must sometime set a candle
before the devil.  |
| 05/15/year |
He that is ill to himself will
be good to nobody.  |
| 05/16/year |
It is in vain to cast your net
where there is no fish.  |
| 05/17/year |
I never loved them that find
fault with my shoes, and give me no leather.  |
| 05/18/year |
Every bee's honey is sweet.  |
| 05/19/year |
It is a bold mouse that nestles
in the cat's ear.  |
| 05/20/year |
Hope is the poor man's bread.  |
| 05/21/year |
Greedy folks have long arms.  |
| 05/22/year |
Fool haste is no speed.  |
| 05/23/year |
Hold with the hare and run with
the hounds.  |
| 05/24/year |
He that is long a-giving does
not know how to give.  |
| 05/25/year |
There's no remedy but patience.  |
| 05/26/year |
Ill gotten, ill spent.  |
| 05/27/year |
Every oak has been an acorn.  |
| 05/28/year |
It takes a good many shovelfuls
of earth to bury the truth.  |
| 05/29/year |
I taught you to swim and now
you'd drown me.  |
| 05/30/year |
Never the rose without the thorn.  |
| 05/31/year |
Who waits for dead men's shoes
goes long barefoot.  |
| 06/01/year |
No sweet without some sweat.  |
| 06/02/year |
What is my turn today may be
yours tomorrow.  |
| 06/03/year |
First try and then trust.  |
| 06/04/year |
He who wants nothing is rich
enough.  |
| 06/05/year |
No sun without a shadow.  |
| 06/06/year |
As well be hanged for a sheep
as for a lamb.  |
| 06/07/year |
No wisdom like silence.  |
| 06/08/year |
Hasty love is soon hot and soon
cold.  |
| 06/09/year |
No man is hurt but by himself.  |
| 06/10/year |
When the staff is crooked, the
shadow cannot be straight.  |
| 06/11/year |
He that is surprised with the
first frost feels it all the winter after.  |
| 06/12/year |
None knows the weight of another's
burden.  |
| 06/13/year |
Great weights hang on small wires.  |
| 06/14/year |
Who knows nothing doubts nothing.  |
| 06/15/year |
Money is round and rolls away.  |
| 06/16/year |
If today will not, tomorrow may.  |
| 06/17/year |
As long runs the fox as he has
feet.  |
| 06/18/year |
Dogs gnaw bones they cannot swallow.  |
| 06/19/year |
Nearest the heart, nearest the
mouth.  |
| 06/20/year |
Ill news comes unsent for.  |
| 06/21/year |
A cat in gloves catches no mice.  |
| 06/22/year |
Never ask pardon before you are
accused.  |
| 06/23/year |
Fortune can take from us nothing
but what she gave.  |
| 06/24/year |
Nothing dries sooner than tears.  |
| 06/25/year |
It is a great point of wisdom
to find out one's own folly.  |
| 06/26/year |
Coming events cast their shadows
long before them.  |
| 06/27/year |
The mouse with just one hole
is quickly taken.  |
| 06/28/year |
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds
make haste.  |
| 06/29/year |
Everybody's business is nobody's
business.  |
| 06/30/year |
More have repented speech than
silence.  |
| 07/01/year |
I will keep no more cats than
will catch mice.  |
| 07/02/year |
Never catch at a falling knife
or a falling friend.  |
| 07/03/year |
I know which way the wind blows.  |
| 07/04/year |
If wishes were butter-cakes,
beggars might bite.  |
| 07/05/year |
It is a hard winter when one
wolf eats another.  |
| 07/06/year |
He's got the fiddle, but not
the fiddlestick.  |
| 07/07/year |
Poverty is easy to praise but
hard to bear.  |
| 07/08/year |
Nothing enters a close hand.  |
| 07/09/year |
Better bend than break.  |
| 07/10/year |
Ill will never said well.  |
| 07/11/year |
Of all wars peace is the end.  |
| 07/12/year |
If two men ride on a horse, one
must ride behind.  |
| 07/13/year |
It is a sad burden to carry a
dead man's child.  |
| 07/14/year |
Eagles fly alone.  |
| 07/15/year |
They that sleep with dogs shall
rise with fleas.  |
| 07/16/year |
Nothing seek, nothing find.  |
| 07/17/year |
In a calm sea, every man is a
pilot.  |
| 07/18/year |
As the days lengthen, the cold
strengthens.  |
| 07/19/year |
Old pottage is sooner heated
than new made.  |
| 07/20/year |
It is a foolish fish that is
caught twice with the same bait.  |
| 07/21/year |
He that is down can fall no lower.  |
| 07/22/year |
One foe is too many and a hundred
friends too few.  |
| 07/23/year |
Better a lean peace than a fat
victory.  |
| 07/24/year |
It is no time to stoop when the
head is off.  |
| 07/25/year |
Nothing is stolen without hands.  |
| 07/26/year |
If men become sheep, the wolf
will devour them.  |
| 07/27/year |
He that forsakes measure, measure
forsakes him.  |
| 07/28/year |
It is not with saying "honey,
honey" that sweetness comes into the mouth.  |
| 07/29/year |
If you fear the grass don't walk
in the meadow.  |
| 07/30/year |
One hand is no hand.  |
| 07/31/year |
Our of debt, out of danger.  |
| 08/01/year |
Who kills a man when drunk shall
be hanged when sober.  |
| 08/02/year |
It is wit to pick a lock and
steal a horse, but it is wisdom to leave them alone.  |
| 08/03/year |
Save your breath to cool your
porridge.  |
| 08/04/year |
We must do as we can, when we
can't do as we would.  |
| 08/05/year |
I'll make him dance without a
fiddle.  |
| 08/06/year |
It's an ill bird that fouls its
own nest.  |
| 08/07/year |
He that knows little often repeats
it.  |
| 08/08/year |
It's as cheap sitting as standing.  |
| 08/09/year |
If you cannot bite, never show
your teeth.  |
| 08/10/year |
A door must either open or shut.  |
| 08/11/year |
Mischief hatch, mischief catch.  |
| 08/12/year |
It is as natural to die as to
be born.  |
| 08/13/year |
'Tis better to be stung by a
nettle than pricked by a rose.  |
| 08/14/year |
All cats are alike grey in the
night.  |
| 08/15/year |
He that falls today may rise
tomorrow.  |
| 08/16/year |
One lie makes many.  |
| 08/17/year |
Sooner fall than rise.  |
| 08/18/year |
If you cut down the woods, you'll
catch the wolf.  |
| 08/19/year |
One of these days is none of
these days.  |
| 08/20/year |
Every path has its puddle.  |
| 08/21/year |
The sea refuses no river.  |
| 08/22/year |
Never is a long day.  |
| 08/23/year |
If you lie upon roses when young,
you'll lie upon thorns when old.  |
| 08/24/year |
God gives the milk but not the
pail.  |
| 08/25/year |
He never lies but when the holly
is green.  |
| 08/26/year |
Lend your money and lose your
friend.  |
| 08/27/year |
A scalded cat fears cold water.  |
| 08/28/year |
King have many ears and many
eyes.  |
| 08/29/year |
He who never rode, never fell.  |
| 08/30/year |
I will not keep a dog and bark
myself.  |
| 08/31/year |
Lawyers' houses are built on
the heads of fools.  |
| 09/01/year |
Four eyes see more than two.  |
| 09/02/year |
Laws are like cobwebs, which
may catch small flies but let wasps break through.  |
| 09/03/year |
It is cheap enough to say, "God
help you."  |
| 09/04/year |
Good horses make short miles.  |
| 09/05/year |
If you pay not a servant his
wages, he will pay himself.  |
| 09/06/year |
It is easier to pull down than
to build.  |
| 09/07/year |
Faults are thick where love is
thin.  |
| 09/08/year |
It's easy to be wise after the
event.  |
| 09/09/year |
I'll not pull the thorn out of
your foot and put it into my own.  |
| 09/10/year |
It is good fishing in muddy waters.  |
| 09/11/year |
Fire that's closest kept burns
most of all.  |
| 09/12/year |
It is not work that kills, but
worry.  |
| 09/13/year |
Those who rise late must trot
all day.  |
| 09/14/year |
No garden without weeds.  |
| 09/15/year |
Better sit still than rise and
fall.  |
| 09/16/year |
The smallest hairs have their
shadows.  |
| 09/17/year |
He would cheat his own father
at cards.  |
| 09/18/year |
Time and place give best advice:
out of season, out of price.  |
| 09/19/year |
Go farther and fare worse.  |
| 09/20/year |
There's nothing so bad but it
might have been worse.  |
| 09/21/year |
Good news knocks hard at the
door.  |
| 09/22/year |
Crooked logs make straight fires.  |
| 09/23/year |
Never take a stone to break an
egg.  |
| 09/24/year |
They stumble who run in the night.  |
| 09/25/year |
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.  |
| 09/26/year |
No great loss but some small
profit.  |
| 09/27/year |
Idle people have the least leisure.  |
| 09/28/year |
Great trees keep down the little
ones.  |
| 09/29/year |
Pains to get, care to keep, fear
to lose.  |
| 09/30/year |
A wild goose never laid a tame
egg.  |
| 10/01/year |
What's past help should be past
grief.  |
| 10/02/year |
Patience is a flower that grows
not in everyone's garden.  |
| 10/03/year |
Friends are thieves of time.  |
| 10/04/year |
Pour not water on a drowned mouse.  |
| 10/05/year |
Put it on thick and a little
will stick.  |
| 10/06/year |
Seek trouble and you will surely
find it.  |
| 10/07/year |
A good shepherd must fleece his
sheep, not flay them.  |
| 10/08/year |
He that gapeth until he be fed,
well may he gape until he be dead.  |
| 10/09/year |
Put an old cat to an old rat.  |
| 10/10/year |
Dead men don't bite.  |
| 10/11/year |
If you steal for others you shall
be hanged yourself.  |
| 10/12/year |
One today is worth two tomorrows.  |
| 10/13/year |
Early up and never the nearer.  |
| 10/14/year |
Seek any port in a storm.  |
| 10/15/year |
He rides sure that never fell.  |
| 10/16/year |
Promises are either broken or
kept.  |
| 10/17/year |
He that's always shooting must
sometimes hit.  |
| 10/18/year |
Grasp all, lose all.  |
| 10/19/year |
One sheep follows another.  |
| 10/20/year |
Puff not against the wind.  |
| 10/21/year |
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders
sees the further of the two.  |
| 10/22/year |
One's too few, three too many.  |
| 10/23/year |
The horse thinks one thing, and
the rider another.  |
| 10/24/year |
He goes a great voyage that goes
to the bottom of the sea.  |
| 10/25/year |
One thief robs another.  |
| 10/26/year |
Hungry flies bite sore.  |
| 10/27/year |
It is the pace that kills.  |
| 10/28/year |
God defend me from my friends;
from my enemies I can defend myself.  |
| 10/29/year |
Don't put your hand between the
bark and the tree.  |
| 10/30/year |
I cannot be your friend and your
flatterer too.  |
| 10/31/year |
He that steals honey should beware
of the sting.  |
| 11/01/year |
Rue and thyme grow both in the
same garden.  |
| 11/02/year |
Good will should be taken for
part payment.  |
| 11/03/year |
Don't set the fox to keep the
geese.  |
| 11/04/year |
Put your trust in God, but keep
your powder dry.  |
| 11/05/year |
Lazy folks lack no excuses.  |
| 11/06/year |
Gut no fish till you get them.  |
| 11/07/year |
Touch pitch and be daubed with
it.  |
| 11/08/year |
Save a thief from the gallows
and he will cut your throat.  |
| 11/09/year |
He is a gentle horse that never
cast his rider.  |
| 11/10/year |
Scatter with one hand, gather
with two.  |
| 11/11/year |
Ill news comes often on the back
of worse.  |
| 11/12/year |
An oak is not felled at one stroke.  |
| 11/13/year |
If you toil so for trash, what
would you do for treasure?  |
| 11/14/year |
Opportunity makes the thief.  |
| 11/15/year |
Who travels far will know much.  |
| 11/16/year |
Have not thy cloak to make when
it begins to rain.  |
| 11/17/year |
Scald not your lips in another
man's porridge.  |
| 11/18/year |
If it were not for hope, the
heart would break.  |
| 11/19/year |
He that does you an ill turn
will never forgive you.  |
| 11/20/year |
If each would sweep before his
own door, we should have a clean street.  |
| 11/21/year |
Shrouds have no pockets.  |
| 11/22/year |
If money be not thy servant,
it will be thy master.  |
| 11/23/year |
Score twice before you cut once.  |
| 11/24/year |
It is too late to shut the stable
door when the steed is stole.  |
| 11/25/year |
If the beard were all, the goat
might preach.  |
| 11/26/year |
He that will be rich before night
may be hanged before noon.  |
| 11/27/year |
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.  |
| 11/28/year |
Second thoughts are best.  |
| 11/29/year |
If my aunt had been a man, she'd
have been my uncle.  |
| 11/30/year |
Seldom seen, soon forgotten.  |
| 12/01/year |
Half a loaf is better than no
bread.  |
| 12/02/year |
If you're afraid of leaves, don't
go into the woods.  |
| 12/03/year |
If one sheep leap over the ditch,
all the rest will follow.  |
| 12/04/year |
Send a fool to market and a fool
he will return.  |
| 12/05/year |
He cannot speak well that cannot
hold his tongue.  |
| 12/06/year |
Set the saddle on the right horse.  |
| 12/07/year |
What one will not, another will.  |
| 12/08/year |
Have but few friends, though
many acquaintances.  |
| 12/09/year |
You need a long spoon if you
would sup with the devil.  |
| 12/10/year |
Shallow waters make the greatest
sound.  |
| 12/11/year |
He that will steal an egg, will
steal an ox.  |
| 12/12/year |
Ships fear fire more than water.  |
| 12/13/year |
If each mended one, all would
be mended.  |
| 12/14/year |
The tide never goes out so far
but it always comes in again.  |
| 12/15/year |
He that comes first to the hill
may sit where he will.  |
| 12/16/year |
Six feet of earth make all men
equal.  |
| 12/17/year |
If the devil finds a man idle,
he'll set him to work.  |
| 12/18/year |
So got, so gone.  |
| 12/19/year |
The little thieves hang for it,
while the great ones sit upon the bench.  |
| 12/20/year |
He is not free that draws his
own chain.  |
| 12/21/year |
To eat the fruit you must climb
the tree.  |
| 12/22/year |
Some folk look up and others
look down.  |
| 12/23/year |
Every mile is two in winter.  |
| 12/24/year |
Spilt wine is worse than water.  |
| 12/25/year |
If the sky fall, there will be
catching of larks!  |
| 12/26/year |
He that fears death lives not.  |
| 12/27/year |
When the ox falls, there are
many that will help to kill him.  |
| 12/28/year |
Straight trees have crooked roots.  |
| 12/29/year |
Pray don't burn my house to roast
your eggs.  |
| 12/30/year |
Take time while time is, for
time will away.  |
| 12/31/year |
The fate of the swimmer is to
be taken by the sea.  |