Google
|
|
The Proverbs are arranged by geographical/national locations.
Select the first character of the geographical location/nation that you want to look at:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
|
| Proverb - C
Ca' me, ca' thee.Cadgers are aye cracking of crooksaddles.
[Carriers are always talking of pack-saddles.]Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.Call me cousin, but cozen me not.Call no man happy till he dies.Call not a surgeon before you are wounded.Call your husband cuckold in jest, an he'll never suspect you.Calm weather in June sets corn in tune.Can a mill go with the water that's past?Can a mouse fall in love with a cat?Can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground.Candlemas day, put beans in the clay; put candles and candlesticks away.Cards are the devil's books.Care is no cure.Care killed the cat.Cast ne'er clout till May be out.Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.Cast not out the foul water till you bring in the clean.Cast not pearls to swine.Cat will after kind.Catch not at the shadow, and lose the substance.Catching's before hanging.Cats eat what hussies spare.Cauld kail het again.
[Cold cabbage warmed up.]Change of weather is the discourse of fools.Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.Charity covers a multitude of sins.Charity excuseth not cheating.Chasten thy son while there is hope.Che sara, sara.
[What will be, will be.]Cheats never prosper.Child's pig, father's pork.Children and chickens must be always picking.Children and fools
Shouldn't play with edged tools.Children and fools have merry lives.Children and fools tell the truth.Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.Children have wide ears and long tongues.Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.Children pick up words, as pigeons peas,
And utter them again as God shall please.Children should be seen and not heard.Children: one is one, two is fun, three is a houseful.Choleric men are blind and mad.Choose a horse made, and a wife to make.Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.Choose for yourself and use for yourself.Choose neither woman nor linen by candle-light.Choose none for thy servant who have served thy betters.Christmas comes but once a year.
But when it comes it brings good cheer.Church work goes on slowly.Cider is treacherous because it smiles in the face and then cuts the throat.Civility costs nothing.Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers maketh a greater.Cleanliness is next to godliness.Clergymen's sons always turn out badly.Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin.Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.Coals to Newcastle.Coin a phrase.Cold broth hot again, that loved I never;
Old love renew'd again, that loved I ever.Cold hands, warm heart.Cold of complexion, good of condition.Cold pudding settles love.Cold weather and crafty knaves come out of the north.Come day, go day, God send Sunday.Come live with me and you'll know me.Come not to counsel uncalled.Comes in at the end with a wet sail.Coming events cast their shadow before.Command your man and do it yourself.Command your wealth, else that will command you.Common blame is a common liar.Companions in misfortune.Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.Conceited goods are quickly spent.Confess and be hanged.Confession is good for the soul.Conscience is the chamber of justice.Conscience makes cowards of us all.Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.Consideration is the parent of wisdom.Constant dropping wears away a stone.Constant occupation prevents temptation.Consult with your pillow.Content is more than a kingdom.Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches
into gold.Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.Cool words scald not the tongue.Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.Councils of war never fight.Counsel breaks not the head.Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse.Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse.Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy.Count your blessings.Courage mounteth with occasion.Courtesie is cumbersome to them that ken it not.Courtesy on one side can never last long.Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.Cousin-germans--quite removed.Covetous men's chests are rich, not they.Covetousness brings nothing home.Covetousness bursts the sack.Cowards may die many times before their death.Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.Cream doesn't rise to the top, it works its way up.Credit keeps the crown of the causeway.Credit lost is like a broken looking-glass.Creditors have better memories than debtors.Crimes may be secret, yet not secure.Criminals are punished, that others may be amended.Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.Cross the stream where it is ebbest.Cross the stream where it is shallowest.Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.Crosses are ladders which lead to heaven.Crows are black everywhere.Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves.Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.Cry not out before you are hurt.Cultivate the garden within.Cunning is no burden.Curiosity is ill manners in another's house.Curiosity killed the cat.Cursed cows have short horns.Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.Custom in infancy becomes nature in old age.Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.Custom makes all things easy.Custom without reason is but ancient error.Cut your coat to suit your cloth. |
|
|