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| Latin Proverb - A
A bad father has never a good son.A barking stomach.A beardless boy would teach old men!A beaten track is a safe one.A bird is distinguished by its note.A biting cur wears a torn skin.A blockhead, a dolt, a donkey, a leaden-headed fellow.A bow too much bent is broken.A busybody is always malevolent.A candle under a bushel. [Unrevealed merit or skill.]A captive they insult with impunity.A cautious man will observe the indications of character which nature reveals in others.A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.A clear conscience is a wall of brass.A combined defence is the safest.A common shipwreck is a consolation to all.A contented man is always rich.A cough assists a musician when he hesitates.A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies.A crooked log is not to be straightened.A dancing pig.A dealer in rubbish sounds the praises of rubbish.A deity or a devil. [Either greater or less than man.]A delightful hallucination.A diligent man ever finds that something remains to be done.A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship.A divining rod.A dog as he sleeps barks as if on the track of the hare.A dog is worthy of his food.A dog returned to his vomit. [Going back to bad habits.]A dog that has once tasted the flesh cannot be kept from the skin.A donkey is known by his ears.A drop of luck is worth a cask of wisdom.A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is.]A faithless wife is shipwreck to a house.A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won.A fire is nourished by its own ashes. [Difficulties embolden rather than impede the brave.]A fisherman once stung will be wiser.A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve. [He mistakes friends for foes and foes for friends.]A fool talks of folly.A fox is known by this tail.A fox is not caught twice in the same trap.A foxy tongue. [Cunning speech. Crafty arguments.]A friend that will go to the scaffold with you.A gadding girl is rarely coy.A good beginning ensures a good ending.A good dinner helps deliberation.A good leader makes a good follower.A good name is like sweet smelling ointment.A good orator, but a very bad man.A good thing is esteemed more in its absence than in its enjoyment.A great anvil fears not noise.A great city. a great desert.A greater chatterbox than a raven.A grove [so called because you cannot see into it.]A guest should not remain for ever a guest.A hard knot requires a hard wedge.A hard life but a healthy one.A head without a tongue.A honey-comb in the mouth of a lion!A horse deprived of his food won't work.A hungry ass needs not a blow.A hungry man will listen to nothing.A jackdaw among the muses.A jealous woman will set a whole house on fire.A kindness bestowed on the good is never thrown away.A king or a donkey.A king or a slave.A learned man has always wealth in himself.A lengthy sermon is intolerable.A leopard does not change his spots.A letter once written cannot be recalled.A light supper is beneficial.A lover should be regarded as a person demented.A magpie aping a Syren!A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at eighty.A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.A man if he lives alone is either a god or a demon.A man is a king in his own house.A man is judged by his clothes.A man is judged of by his companions.A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.A man may lose what are his clearest rights by not demanding them.A man of few words but learned withal.A man of good natural plain common sense.A mere voice, and nothing more.A middle course is the safest.A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.A miser's son is generally a spendthrift.A monkey is not to be caught in a trap.A mouse in pitch. [A man engaged in useless and perplexing inquiries.]A necessary evil. [e.g., a wife.]A Nero at home, a Cato abroad.A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow. [The reverse of "To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse."]A noisy useless fellow.A partnership with a lion. [The lion takes all.]A passing remark.A perfect whipping-top for changing sides.A pestilence follows a famine.A picture is a poem wanting words.A plank in a wreck.A poet is born, not made.
[Lat., Poeta nascitur, non fit.]A poor cask often holds good wine.A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you; that is life.A precipice is in front, a wolf behind.A prospering man should remain at home.A proud man who will not bend the knee.A reproach to the doctors. [An incurable malady.]A rich man is either a rogue or a rogue's heir.A ridiculous accident has often been the making of many.A ring of gold in a sow's nostril.A rogue says "Yes" to what a rogue says.A sardonic laugh. [An unnatural laugh.]A sceptre is one thing, a ladle another.A self-conceited fellow.A service done to the unwilling is no service.A sick mind cannot endure any harshness.A silent woman is always more admired than a noisy one.A slave yesterday, to-day a freedman.A small competence is best.A small gift, but well-timed.A snake lies concealed in the grass.A soft-spoken compliment is honied poison.A store-house of evil is a woman if she is depraved.A strong remedy for evils is ignorance of them.A surgeon tries his experiments on the heads of orphans.A suspicious mind sees everything on the dark side.A sword anointed with honey.A sword of lead in a scabbard of ivory.A three-halfpenny fellow.A tree often transplanted does not thrive.A trifling pledge of no small friendship.A triple rope is not easily broken.A troubled heart is a worm to the bones.A useless pitcher does not get broken.A voice and nothing besides.
[Lat., Vox et praeterea nihil.]A want of pence stops all your marketing.A weak foundation destroys the work.A wealthy man can err with impunity.A well which is drawn from is improved. [Art is improved by practice.]A wheel not greased will creak. [Those who are not properly paid will not work without grumbling.]A wise man should never give his wife too much rein.A wolf in his belly.A wolf often lies concealed in the skin of a lamb. ["Yours truly," is not always true.]A wolf's head (on which a price was put). [An outlaw. A Pariah. Fair game for anybody.]A woman for a general, and the soldiers will be women.A word is sufficient for the wise.About everything and something else.Abuse does not invalidate usefulness.According to the nature of his sin shall a man be punished.Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.Acting is the forte of all their race.Add not fire to fire.Admiring himself like a peacock.After clouds sunshine.After darkness comes light.After the fashion of a mouse. [i.e., living off others.]After the manner of Mandrabulus [i.e., going from worse to worse].After this; therefore on account of this.
[Lat., Post hoc; ergo propter hoc.]Again and again I beg and pray of you to live merrily: should aught distress you, dismiss it from your minds.Aim at a certain issue.Alas for those that get the worst of it!Alas! how much smaller a thing it is to be with others, than to remember thee!Alas! I suffer from self-inflicted wounds!Alexander the Great was but of small stature.All are not harpers, who hold the harp.All claim kindred with the prosperous.All clouds are not rain clouds.All flute-players are mad; when once they begin to blow, away goes reason.All is in vain unless Providence is with us.All is not false which is publicly reported.All lay load on the willing horse.All men grieve, and if you ask them the reason why, they cannot tell it.All power is impatient of a partner.All that meal comes not from your own sack.All the hours wound you, the last one kills. [Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat.]All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.All things are not good for all.All things come not to pass which the mind has conceived.Always ready.Among the blind a one-eyed man is a king.An aching for wine--a wine-ache.An ambassador without authority.An ancient custom, not of to-day or yesterday.An ape is an ape, though decked with gold.An ass in the skin of a lion.An ass is beautiful in the eyes of an ass; a sow in those of a sow; and every race is attractive to itself.An eel, held by the tail, is not yet caught.An elephant does not catch mice.An empty vessel makes the most sound.An evil comes from a neighbouring evil.An evil doer abhors the light of day.An evil gain is equal to a loss.An excess of caution does no harm.An idle youth becomes in age a beggar.An ill-assorted couple.An industrious life is the best security for food in old age.An inquisitive man is always ill-natured.An object of pity even to a foe.An old fox is not caught in a snare.An old fox is not to be caught in a trap.An old lion is better than a young ass.An old woman dancing makes a great dust. [Anything out of season is obnoxious.]An old woman would dance!An onion will not produce a rose.An opportunity is found with difficulty and easily lost.An ox [eating his head off] in the stall.An ungrateful man is a tub full of holes.An unguarded speech reveals the truth.Anger is a transient madness.Antiquity is entitled to respect.Anxious about the shoe, but disregarding the foot. [Careful about external appearances, but regardless of the culture of the mind.]Any man can steer in a calm.Arms are of little service abroad unless directed by the wisdom of counsellors at home.Arrogance is intolerable.Art lies in concealing art.
[Lat., Ars est celare artem.]As a man has lived, so will he die.As in a mirror.As in a picture.As like as bees.As much by strength as by skill. [Brute force.]As numerous as the leaves of the oak, or the waves which wash the island.As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the wicked man by his deeds.As the wolf loves the lamb.As thick as hail.As to the juror or the witness, bribe both.As you have arranged the thread so must you weave it.Assistance given when it is not required, is as bad as an injury.At once a good general and a stout soldier.At the bar of one's own conscience.Athanasius against the world.
[Lat., Athanasius contra mundum.]Attempt nothing beyond your strength.Avoid bawling in conversation or in play.Avoid gambling.Away with grieving, only fit for women. |
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