Great Throughts Treasury

"To plant an insect into one's ear."

"To get out of the bed on the wrong side."

"To be silent is golden, to speak is silvern."

"To an earthenware dish a wooden spoon."

"To pour clean water into the glass."

"To err is human."

"To pull somebody by a wire."

"To whom God gives an office, adds also senses to it."

"Today it is enough to do it by one finger, tomorrow it will be necessary by ten nails."

"Truth cannot be hid under a bushel."

"Truth is scraped out even by a hen."

"Today to me, tomorrow to you."

"Try and combine the pleasant with the useful."

"Trouble does not come alone."

"Try to be in good company, even when you are alone."

"Truth may be told in a joke too."

"Two pipers cannot get on in one tavern."

"Two dogs can hardly agree on one bone."

"Two sharp swords cannot be is one sheath."

"Until we are only poorly paid, we shall also poorly work."

"We do not care for the little and the great is of no importance."

"We do not live to eat, but we eat to live."

"Unwillingness ends in groaning."

"What does not exist, cannot cause any trouble."

"We shall write it in soot in the chimney."

"Wait, it is not that bad."

"Watch her mother before you marry a girl."

"What fails to succeed, should not be forced."

"We have seen a hare, we shall have no luck."

"What has that got to do with it."

"What he gains at the toll, loses at the customs."

"What is noticed by his eyes, will not be left there by his hands."

"What is on his heart, that is on his tongue."

"What Jove may do, the ox may not."

"What is delayed may happen later."

"What you do not wish for yourself, do not do it to your fellowmen either."

"What we keep silence about, does not exist."

"What was given by God to one, cannot be taken away by man."

"What was stolen by the house, will be returned by it."

"What's gone, is gone."

"What you have cooked, you should eat as well."

"When a wolf is mentioned, he is already walking round the garden."

"When ambition ends, happiness begins."

"Where is by now the snow of last year."

"Where need is great, help is nearby."

"Where one trusts, there he gets fat."

"Where pig is proffered, go round with a sack."

"Where there is no bridge the smallest plank is of great value."

"Where there are many masters the servant becomes mad."

"Where there is smoke, there is fire."