Conduct | Proverbs in English

Proverbs:

Be with a man deaf and hearing, silent and speaking.: Hebrew

Boldly nominate a spade a spade.: Ben Jonson

Cast not away what you have for what you are not sure of.: *

Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.: *

Clear and round dealing is the honor of man’s nature.: *

Conceal thy domestic ills.: Thales

Conquer thyself.: Chinese

Cry no herring till you have it in the net.: Dutch

Cultivate a chaste imagination.: *

Do good and care not to whom.: Italian

Do good if you expect to receive it.: *

Do good to a knave and pray God he may not do the same to thee.: Danish

Do not all you can, spend not all you have, believe not all you hear, tell not all you know.: *

Do not change what you have said.: Hindu

Do not look upon the vessel but upon that which it contains.: *

Do not meddle with clandestine affairs.: Hindu

Do not publish people’s defects.: Hindu

Do not put in more warp than you can weave: Danish

Do not rip up old sores.: *

Do not take hold of a nettle, but if you do, grasp it tight.: Afghan

Don’t fall into the fire to be saved from the smoke.: Turkish

Don’t get so anxious that you kill yourself.: North American Indian

Don’t have too many irons in the fire or some will be sure to burn.: *

Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t make you rich.: Danish

Don’t pull hard enough to break the rope.: Portuguese

Don’t put your finger in too tight a ring.: French

Don’t rely on the label of the bag.: French

Don’t scuffle with the potter for he makes money by the damage.: Spanish

Don’t send away your cat for being a thief.: Spanish

Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite.: French

Don’t take too big a chip on a saplin’.: African American

Don’t wake the drunken man.: German

Don’t yoke the plough before the horses.: Dutch

Drive not away what never came near you.: Danish

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.: *

Employ thy time well, and since thou art not sure of a minute throw not away an hour.: Franklin

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.: Phædrus

If you cannot say it point to it with your finger.: French

If you cannot take it by the head take it by the tail.: Arabian

If you can’t get it in bushels take it by spoonfuls.: German

If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.: *

If you pursue two hares both will escape from you.: Modern Greek

If you stir up the mire you must bear the smell.: *

In a matter of life and death trust not even your mother, she might mistake a black bean for a white one.: Alcibiades

In a wood don’t walk behind another.: *

It is absurd for a man either to commend or depreciate himself.: Plutarch

Ne’er scad your lips in other fowk’s kale.: *

Ne’er tell your fae when your feet sleeps.: *

Never apologize for showing feeling.: *

Never be too much elated.: Latin

Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime to drink.: *

Never count four unless you have three in your bag.: *

Never cry hallo till you are out of the woods.: *

Never deny your assistance, nor ever do any body any hurt.: French

Never descend to vulgarity even in joking.: Latin

Never do by proxy what you can do yourself.: Italian

Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool.: German

Never grieve over spilt milk.: *

Never lose a tub for a ha’p-worth of tar.: *

Never mourn over the past nor mope over the future.: Rev. Dr. Crowley

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.: Sir William Jones

Never neglect small matters or expenses.: Italian

Never praise a ford till you are over.: *

Never put your arm out further than you can draw it back again.: Baillie Jarvis

Never put your thumb between your grinders.: *

Never refuse a good offer.: Latin

Never repent a good action.: Danish

Never rub against the grain.: *

Never spread your corn to dry before the door of a saintly man.: Spanish

Never take anything for granted.: Benjamin Disraeli

Never venture out of your depth till you can swim.: *

Of what does not concern you, nothing good or bad.: Italian

One should always conciliate.: German

One should break his arm to save his neighbor’s neck.: German

Produce much, consume little, labor diligently, speak cautiously.: Chinese

Rather contend for valor with the brave, than for wealth with the rich, or in rapaciousness with the covetous.: Cato

See that in avoiding cinders you step not on burning coals.: Latin

Tell no one what you would have known only to yourself.: Dutch

Tell not all you know, believe not all you hear, do not all you are able.: Italian

Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace.: Spanish

With your superiors, eat, drink, and rise fasting.: Modern Greek

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