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English speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings, Famous Quotes or Proverbs on the Family
A
o As you sow, so shall you reap.
o The apple doesn't fall far from the tree (Meaning: Like father, like son).
B
o Be it ever so humble there's no place like home.
o The best of friends must part.
o The best things in life are free.
o Better be quarreling than lonesome.
o Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within.
o Better one house spoiled than two.
o Birth is much, but breeding is more.
o Blood is thicker than water (Meaning: familial ties are stronger than any other kind.).
o Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth (Meaning: born in a rich family).
o Boys will be boys (Meaning: boys are traditionally expected to misbehave, while girls are not.).
o A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
C
o Charity begins at home.
o The child is father to the man (Meaning: What is true of a child will still be true when it grows up; or, early experiences shape future character.)
o Children are a poor man's riches. Or, Children are poor men's riches.
o Children should be seen and not heard.
o Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
o A chip off the old block (Meaning: Like father, like son.).
o Cleanliness is next to godliness.
o A constant guest is never welcome.
D
o Don't bite the hand that feeds you (Meaning: Do not act in such a way as to leave yourself no alternative or no opportunity to "retreat." Or don't criticize those that you are dependent on -- like your parents or your employers).
o Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
E
o East or West? Home is best.
o An Englishman's home is his castle.
o Every branch blossoms according to the root from which it sprung.
o Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
o Every family has at least one black sheep.
o Every finger has not the same length, nor every son the same disposition.
o Every mother's child is handsome.
o Every mother thinks her own gosling a swan.
o Experience is the mother of wisdom.
F
o A false friend and a shadow stay only while the sun shines.
o A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.
o The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
o A friend's eye is a good mirror.
o A friend in need is a friend indeed.
o A friend is never known till needed.
o A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile.
o The friend that can be bought is not worth buying.
o A friend to all is a friend to none.
o Friendless in life, friendless in death.
o Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
G
o God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. [Jewish proverb]
o A good name is a second inheritance.
o Great oaks from little acorns grow.
H
o He that spareth his rod hateth his son. [Old Testament]
o "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." [Mae West]
o A house divided cannot stand.
o Home is where he hangs his hat.
o Home is where the heart is.
I
o If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
o If you love the children of others, you will love your own even better.
o Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
o In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
o It's better to be on your own than with people you don't like.
o It's easy to become a father, but hard to be one.
o It takes a village to raise a child.
K
Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.
Keep your friendships in repair.
L
o Learning is better than house and land.
o Lend your money and lose your friend.
o Like breeds like.
o Like father, like son.
o Like mother, like daughter.
o Little friends may prove great friends.
o The longest mile is the last mile home.
o Love conquers all.
o Love is blind.
o Love makes the world go round.
o Love sees no faults.
o Love will find a way.
M
o A man's home is his castle.
o A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
o Marriages are made in heaven.
o Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
o My house is my castle.
N
o No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.
o No man tells the truth about himself, only his neighbors do.
O
o One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends two few.
o One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
P
o Praise the young and they will blossom.
R
o Relatives are friends from bitter necessity.
S
o A small family is soon provided for.
o A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life.
o Spare the rod, spoil the child (Meaning: Lack of deserved discipline develops undesired behavior in a child. Sometimes used to justify corporal punishment).
T
o Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
o There's a black sheep in every family.
o There is no distance too great between friends for love gives wings to the heart.
o There's no place like home.
o They are scarce of news that speak ill of their mother.
o A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, an sympathizes with your troubles evenw hen they're not so bad.
o Trust is the mother of deceit.
W
o When children stand quiet, they have done some damage.
o When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
o Who keeps his tongue keeps his friends.
o A woman's place is in the home.
o A woman's work is never done.
o Where there is no trust there is no love.
Y
o You can judge a man by the company he keeps.
o You can't please everyone.
o Youth will be served.
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French speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: French Proverbs or Folk Sayings on the Family
A
o Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
C
o The child may be rocked too hard.
o Children have more need of models than critics.
o A coal man is master of his own house.
D
o Dogs don't make cats (English equivalent: Like father, like son.).
F
o A father is a banker provided by nature.
H
o A hedge between keeps friendship green.
L
o in English translation: The little fish will grow.
- Meaning: Boys will be men one day.
- French original: Petit poisson deviendra grand.
T
o in English translation: There's nothing small near oneself.
- Meaning: There's no place like home.
- French original: Il n'y a pas de petit chez soi.
Y
o in English translation: Youth must happen.
- Meaning: Youth must have its fling, Or Boys will be boys.
- French original: Il faut que jeunesse se passe.
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Spanish speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on the Family
A
o in English translation: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
- Meaning: Like father, like son.
- Spanish original: De tal palo, tal astilla.
B
o A brother's wrath and the wrath of a devil are one and the same.
C
o in English translation: Character and presence from the cradle to the tomb.
- Spanish original: Genio y figura hasta la sepultura.
o Children's love is like water in a basket.
H
o in English translation (literally): He who sleeps with kids wakes up with their piss. Or, Whom sleepest with children, waketh with their piss.
- Meaning: We have to accept how people are when we deal with them.
- Spanish original: Quien con minos se acuesta, meado se levanta.
I
o in English translation: If God doesn't give children to you, the devil will give you nephews.
- Spanish original: Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda.
L
o Life without a friend is death without a witness.
M
o in English translation: A mother-in-law would be bitter even if made of sugar.
o Spanish original: Suegra ni aun de azucar es buena.
N
o in English translation: No one should stick his hands between married couples or brothers.
- Meaning: No one should try to interfere in family matters.
- Spanish original: Entre casados y hermanos, ninguno meta las manos.
T
o Take your time in choosing friends, and take even more time in changing them.
o in English translation (literally): Those who go to bed with babies get up damp.
- English equivalent: Lie down with dogs and you wake up fleas.
- Spanish original: El que con ninos se acuesta, molido se despierta.
o Those who have friends are rich.
o Three daughters and a mother are four devils for a father.
o in English translation: The tiger's son comes out painted. - English equivalent: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Or, Like father, like son.
- Spanish original: Hijo de tigre sale pintado.
W
o in English translation: Who doesn't cry doesn't nurse.
- Meaning: If you never ask for help probably you will never receive it.
- Spanish original: Quien no llora, no mama.
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German speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: German Proverbs or Folk Sayings on the Family
A
o in English translation: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
- Meaning: Like father, like son.
- German original: Der apfel fallt nicht weit vom stamm.
B
o in English translation: Blood is thicker than water.
- Meaning: Familial ties are stronger than monetary ones.
- German original: Blut is dicker als wasser.
D
o in English translation: Do not bite into the hand which feeds you.
- German original: Beib nicht in die hand, die dich futtert.
E
o in English translation: The egg wants to be smarter than the hen.
- German original: Das ei will kluger sein als die henne.
F
o A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.
o A fence makes love more keen.
G
o A good name is a rich inheritance.
H
o A hug a day keeps the demons at bay.
O
o The old man saves, his son is a spendthrift.
o One father can better nourish ten children than ten children can nourish one father.
P
o The parents' death is often the children's good fortune.
o Parents love their children more than do children their parents.
Y
o You can do anything with children if only you play with them.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list of proverbs about families, parenting, in-laws and other subjects was taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887). The book is available for free at www.archive.org.
Babe.
1. A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure.
Tupper.
2. A babe is a mother's anchor. She cannot
swing far from her moorings. Beecher.
3. A babe is an angel whose wings decrease as
his legs increase. Fr.
5. At first babes feed on the mother*s bosom, but
always on her heart. Beecher,
6. None of us like the crying of another person's
baby. Punch.
7. Too many nurses spoil the broth of a boy.
Punch,
8. To the well-bred doctor all babies are angels.
Punch,
9. Where God sends babies he sends penny loaves.
Child.
1. A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel,
{By running round in the open air) Sp.
2. A child's back must be bent early. Dan.
3. A child's sorrow is short lived. Dan.
4. A child may have too much of his mother's
blessing.
5. A child that can walk is a Jama (god) to the
child in the cradle.
6. A chip of the old block.
7. A naughty child must be roughly rocked.
8. A pet child has many names. Dan.
9. A Sunday's child never dies of the plague.
Fr.
10. A suspicious parent makes an artful child.
11. As each one wishes his children to be, so they
are. Terence.
12. Better the child cry than the old man. Dan.
13. Children and chicken must ever be picking.
14. Children and drunken men speak the truth.
Dan.
15. Children and fools are prophets. Fr.
16. Children and fools have merry lives.
17. Children and fools tell truth.
18. Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts.
19. Children are poor men's riches.
20. Children are to be cheated with cockles and
men with oaths.
21. Children are what the mothers are.
22. Children are what they are made. Fr.
23. Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men
for silver and gold.
24. Children, fools, and drunkards tell the truth.
Ger.
26. Children increase the cares of life but mitigate
the remembrance of death.
27. Children like tender osiers take the bow,
And as they first are fashioned always grow.
Juvenal.
28. Children married, cares increase. Sp,
29. Children must be circumvented with words,
men with oaths. Lysander.
30. Children pick up words as pigeons peas.
And utter them again as God shall please.
31. Children should be seen, not heard.
32. Children suck the mother when they are
young, and the father when they grow up.
33. Children tell in the highway what they hear
by the fireside. For,
34. Children when little make parents fools, when,
great, mad.
35. Child's pig, father's hog.
36. Every man is to be envied who is fortunate
with his children. Euripides.
37. From children expect childish acts. Dan,
38. From many children and little bread good
Lord deliver us.
39. Give a child till he craves and a dog while his
tail doth wag and you'll have a fair dog but foul
knave.
40. Give a child his will and a whelp his fill and
neither will thrive.
41. Give to a pig when it grunts and to a child
when it cries, and you'll have a fine pig and a bad
child Dan,
42. Gold must be beaten and a child scourged.
43. Gude bairns get broken brows.
44. Happy is the child whose father went to the
devil; died rich.
45. He knows not what love is that has not children. Ital.
46. He remembers his ancestors but forgets to
feed his children.
47. He that does not beat his child will afterwards
beat his own breasts. Turk,
48. He that loves his child chastises him. Dutch,
49. He who hath children hath neither kindred
nor friends.
50. How did you rear so many children ? By being
fondest of the little ones. Por.
51. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child. Shaks,
52. I hate all children of precocious talent.
Cicero.
53. If the child cries let the mother hush it, if it
will not be hushed, let it cry. Sp,
54. If the child does not cry, the mother does not
understand it. Russian,
55. If the child does not cry they give him not
suck. M, Greek,
56. If you have wicked children of what use is
money, and if good, again what use is it. Turk.
57. Ill bairns are at best heard at home.
58. It is a wise child that knows its own father.
Ger, Sfi., Dan.
59. Let a child have its will and It will n<>t cry. ,
Dan,
60. Little children and headaches, great children
and heartaches.
61. Little children, little sorrows; big children,
great sorrows.
62. Male children are the pillars of a house.
Greek,
63. Many children and little bread is a painful
pleasure. Sp,
64. Married life without children is as the earth
deprived of the sun's rays. Latin,
65. No ape but swears he has the handsomest
children.
66. Of glasses and children one never has too
many.
67. Of listening children have your fears,
for little pitchers have great ears. Dutch,
68. One is always somebody's child, that is a
comfort.
69. Our neighbor's children are always the worst.
Ger,
7O. Pretty children sing pretty songs. Dan,
71. Quickly toothed and quickly go,
Quickly will mother have woe.
72. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
73. The best horse needs breaking and the aptest
child needs teaching.
74. The burnt child dreads the fire.
75. The child is father to the man. Wordsworth,
76. The child names the father, the father
knows him. Livonian.
77. The child saith nothing but what he heard at
the fireside.
78. The child should be instructed in the arts
that will be useful to the man. Spartan King,
79. The child that trembles at a rod will never
dare to look upon a sword.
80. The child who gets a step-mother also gets a
step-father. Greek,
81. The dearer the child, the sharper must be the
rod. Dan,
82. The eternal child dwells in fine natures.
De Quincey,
83. The two best books to a child are a good
mother's face and life.
84. There are no children now*a-days. Fr.
85. There is not so much comfort in having
children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
86. Thy child that is no child leave upon the
water and let him swim.
87. 'Tis better to bind your children to you by
gentleness than fear.
88. To save a father is a child's chief honor.
Byron,
89. Train up a child in the way he should go.
90. What children hear at home soon flies
abroad.
91. What the parents spin the children must reel.
Ger.
92. When children stand quiet they have done
some harm.
93. When the child Cuts its teeth death is on the
watch. Sp.
94. When the child is man we bum the rod.
95. When the child is christened come god
fathers enough. Fr,
FAMILY
1. A small family is soon provided for.
2. He that has no fools, knaves or beggars in
his family was begot by a flash of lightning.
3. It costs something to support a family, how-
ever small. Ger.
4. It is better to be the best of a low family than
the worst of a noble one.
5. Once a buffoon, never a good father of a family.
6. So yourself be good, a fig for your grand-
father.
7. So yourself be good, a fig for your grand
mother.
8. Upon my family at home decides my character abroad.
9. Where can one be happier than in the bosom
of his family.
Father.
1. A father lives after death in his son.
Sanscrit.
2. A father loves his children in hating their
faults. Fr.
3. A father's blessing cannot be drowned in
water nor consumed by fire. Russian,
4. A father's love for all others is air. Sp,
5. A father maintains ten children better than
ten children one father. Ger.
6. An ill father desireth not an ill son.
7. As the field, so the crops; as the father, so
the sons. Ger,
8. Fathers in reclaiming a child should outwit
him and seldom beat him.
9. He does not sing his father's song; dots
not imitate his father.
10. It is not the anger of the father but his silence
that the well-born son dreads. Chinese,
11. Our fathers find their graves in our short
memories and sadly tell us how we may be buried
in our survivors.
12. Our fathers who were wondrous wise,
Did wash their throats before they washed
their eyes.
13. The father a saint, the son a devil.
Iial, Sp., For.
14. The father in praising his son extols himself.
Chinese,
15. The father sighs more at the death of one
son than he smiles at the birth of many. .
16. The father to the bough, the son to the
plough.
17. The father's virtue is the child's best inheritance.
18. You may thank God your father was born
before you.
Friend.
1. A clear bargain, a dear friend. Ital,
2. A courageous is better than a cowardly friend.
3. A fair weather friend changes with the wind.
Sp, For,
4. A faithful friend is the true image of the
deity. Napoleon.
5. A false friend and a shadow attend only
when the sun shines. Franklin,
6. A false friend has honey in his mouth, gall in
his heart. Ger,
7. A false friend is worse than an open enemy.
Ger.
8. A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort,
but a friend is both.
9. A foe to God was never true friend to man. Young
10. A friend and look to thyself.
11. A friend as far as conscience allows.
12. A friend at one's back is a safe bridge.
Dutch.
13. A friend cannot be known in prosperity nor
an enemy be hidden in adversity.
14. A friend in n?ed is a friend in deed.
15. A friend in the market is better than money
in the chest.
16. A friend is best found in adversity.
17. A friend is better than money in the purse.
Dutch.
18. A friend is never known till needed.
19. A friend is not known till he is lost.
20. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
21. A friend is often best known by his loss.
Ger.
22. A friend is one who jumps down and puts on
the drag when he finds you are going down hill too
fast. Punch.
23. A friend is to be taken with his faults. Par.
24. A friend? one soul, two bodies. Oriental.
25. A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
Shaks
26. A friend that you buy with presents will be
bought from you.
27. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
28. A friend to my table and wine is no good
neighbor. Fr.
29. A friend without faults will never be found.
30. A friend's dinner is soon dressed. Dutch,
31. A friend's faults should be known but not
abhorred. For,
32. A friend's faults may be noticed but not
blamed. Dan,
33. A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile.
34. A good friend is better than silver and gold.
Dutch.
35. A good friend is my nearest relation.
36. A good friend never offends.
37. A good-natured friend is often only an enemy
in disguise. Punch,
38. A man may see his friend need but winna
see him bleed.
39. A man without a friend is only half a man.
40. A plaster house, at horse at grass,
A friend in words, are all mere grass. Dutch.
41. A ready way to lose your friend is to lend
him money.
42. A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
43. A rich friend is a treasure.
44. A sure friend is known in a doubtful case.
45. A table friend is changeable. Fr:
46. A thousand friends are few, one foe many.
Turk.
47. A treacherous friend is the most dangerous
enemy. Fielding,
48. A true friend does sometimes venture ta be
offensive.
49. A true friend is above all things sure capital.
Ger.
50. A true friend is better than a relation. Turk.
51. A true friend is forever a friend.
Geo. McDonald,
52. A true friend is known in the day of adversity. Turk.
53. A true friend is the nectar of life. Tamil,
54. Admonish your friends in private, praise them
in public. Syrus,
55. Aft counting keeps friends lang thegither.
56. Ah 1 how good it feels, the hand of an, old
friend . Longfellow,
57. All are not friends who speak one fair.
58. An old friend is better than two new ones.
Ger, Russian.
59. An untried friend is like an uncracked nut.
Russian.
60. At weddings and funerals friends are discovered from kinsfolk.
61. Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings
and destroys you with his beak. Sp.
62. Be a friend to thyself and others will be so
63. Be blind to the failings of your friends but
never to their vices. Tacitus.
64. Behold thy friend and of thyself the pattern
see.
65. Before you make a friend eat a peck of salt
with him. Scotch,
66. Better a good friend than silver and gold. Ger.
67. Better an open enemy than a false friend.
Dan.
68. Better foes than hollow friends. ShcLks,
69. Better have a friend on the road than gold or
silver in your purse. Fr.
70. Better have a friend in the market-place than
money in your coffer. For.
71. Between two friends, a notary and two wit-
nesses. Sp,
72. Beware of a reconciled friend as of a devil.
Sp.
73. Bought friends are not friends in deed.
74. By requiting one friend we invite many.
75. Can't 1 be your friend, but I must be your
fool too?
76. Defend me from my friends, I can defend
myself from my enemies.
77. Desertion of a calumniated friend is an im-
moral action. Dr. Johnson,
78. Even reckoning keeps long friends.
79. Everybody's companion is nobody's friend.
Ger.
80. Everybody's friend and nobody's friend is all
one. Sp., Por.
81. Everybod3r's friend is everybody's fool.
Ger, Dutch, Dan.
82. Eye-friend, false friend; ? eye-friend, back
enemy. Ger,
83. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Bible,
84. Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
85. Fall sick and you will see who is your friend
and who is not. Sp,
86. Familiar paths and old friends are the best.
Ger.
87. False friends are worse than open enemies.
88. Few there are that will endure a true friend.
89. Fire and water are not more necessary than
friends are.
90. Fresh fish and poor friends grow soon ill-favored.
91. Friends agree best at a distance. Fr.
92. Friends and mules fail us at hard passes.
Gallician,
93. Friends are far from a man who is unfortunate. Latin.
94. Friends are like fiddle strings: they must not
be screwed too tight.
95. Friends are like melons ; shall I tell you why ?
To find one good you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet.
96. Friends are not so soon got or recovered as
lost.
97. Friends are the nearest relations.
98. Friends become foes and foes are reconciled.
Latin.
99. Friends got without desert are lost without
cause.
100. Friends living far away are no friends.
Greek.
101. Friends may meet but mountains never greet.
102. Friends need no formal invitation.
103. Friends tie their purse with a cobweb thread.
Ital.
104. Give out that you have many friends and believe that you have but few. Fr,
105. Go slowly to the entertainments of thy friends
and quickly to their misfortunes. Chilo,
106. God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will keep myself. Ital.
107. Good neighbors and true friends are two things.
108. Happy men shall have many friends.
109. Have but few friends though much acquaintance.
110. He is a fair weather friend.
111. He is my friend who grinds at my mill:
Sp,, For.
112. He is my friend that succoreth me, not he
that pitieth me.
113. He is no friend that eats his own by himself
and mine with me. For,
114. He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Tennyson.
115. He never was afrkntf who ceased to be so
for a slight cause. For,
116. He never ,was a friend who has ceased to be
one. Fr,
117. He is a friend at sneezing time, the most that
can be got from him is a " God bless you." Ital.
118. He that seeks to have many friends never
has any. Ital.
119. He that trusts a faithless friend has a good
witness against him. Sp.
120. He that would have many friends should try
a few of them. Ital
121. He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never
be a dangerous enemy.
122. He who for his own sake would expose a
friend deserves not to have one. Rousseau
123. He who has a good nest finds good friends.
For.
124. He who has a thousand friends, has not a
friend to spare.
He who has one enemy shall meet him every-
where. Persian.
125. He who has many friends has no friends.
Aristotle.
126. He who has no enemy has no friend. Ger.
127. He who is everybody's friend is either very
poor or very rich. Sp.
128. He who is his own friend is a friend to all
men.
129. He who is wanting but to one friend loseth a
great many by it.
130. He who makes friends of all keeps none.
131. He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.
132. Here's to our friends and hang up the rest of
mankind.
133. Hit him again, he has no friends.
134. I am on good terms with the friend who eats
his bread with me. Sp,
135. I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Bible.
136. I will be thy friend but not thy vices' friend.
137. I would rather have a dog my friend than
enemy. Ger,
138. If you had had fewer friends and more enemies you had been a better man.
139. If you have one true friend you have more
than your share.
140. If you want enemies excel others, if you want
friends let others excel you.
141. If you wanted me an' your meat, you would
want a guide friends.
142. In time of prosperity friends will be plenty.
In time of adversity not one amongst twenty.
143. It is a good friend that is always giving
though it be never so little.
144. It is as bad to have too many friends as no
friend at all. Latin.
145. It is better to decide a difference between
enemies than friends, for one of our friends will
certainly become an enemy, and one of our enemies
a friend. Bias.
146. It is good to have friends everywhere*
147. It is important but hot easy to distinguish a
true friend from an agreeable enemy. Petrarch,
148. It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends
than to be deceived by them. Fr,
149. It is no small grief to a good nature to try
his friends. Euripides,
150. It is no use hiding from a friend what is
known to an enemy. Dan.
151. Keep your mouth and keep your friend. Dan,
152. Let him who is wretched and beggared try
everybody and then his friend. Ital.
153. Let not one enemy be little in thy eyes, nor a
thousand friends be many in thy sight. Hebrew,
154. Let our friends perish provided our enemies
fall with them. {An atrocious maxim of the Greeks
and Romans^
155. Let us be friends and put out the devil's eyes.
156. Let us be friends, let our purses be at variance. M, Greek.
157. Little intermitting makes guide friends.
158. Make no friend of thy thrall. Northmen.
159. Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor
thyself to thy friend.
160. Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbor. Dan.
161. Many friends and few helpers in need. Ger.
162. Many humble servants but' not one true
friend.
163. Many kinsfolk, few friends.
164. May God not prosper our friends that they
forget us. Sp,
165. My friend is he who helps me in time of
need. Ger,
166. My friend's enemy is often my best friend.
167. No better friend than the man himself. Ger,
168. No friend a friend until he shall prove a
friend. Beaumont and Fletcher.
169. No longer foster, no longer friend.
170. Nothing is more annoying than a tardy
friend. Plautus.
171. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
{This maxim is illustrated by the fable of the bear
and the man,) La Fontaine,
172. Old friends and new reckonings. Fr.
173. Old friends are best. Selden,
174. Old friends and old ways ought not to be
disdained. Dan.
175. Old friends and old wine are best.
176. Old friends are not to be paid with gold.
Ger.
177. Old tunes are sweetest and old friends are
surest.
178. On the choice of friends of good or evil
name depends. Gray.
179. One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good. Ger.
180. One enemy is too much for a man in a great
post and a hundred friends are too few.
181. One God no more, but friends good store.
182. One seldom finds white ravens and true
friends. Ger,
183. One should fly a laughing enemy and a flattering friend. Ger,
184. Prove thy friends ere thou have need.
185. Rather have a little one for your friend, than
a great one for your enemy. Ital
186. Save me from my friends.
187. So long as fortune sits at the table friends sit
there. Ger.
188. Sweet language will multiply friends.
Spectator,
189. Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy
may not know. Dan,
190. Tell your friend your secret and he will set
his foot on your neck. Ital. Sp,, Por,
191. The best friend often becomes the worst
enemy. Ger,
192. The best looking-glass is an old friend. Ger,
193. The best of friends must part.
194. The enemy of my friend is often my best
friend. Ger,
195. The false friend is like the shadow of a sun-
dial. Fr,
196. The friend looks at the head, the enemy at
the foot. Turk.
197. The friends thou hast and their adoption
tried, Grapple to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Shaks.
198. The goods of friends are in common.
Pythagoras.
199. The greatest affliction that can befall a man
is the unkindness of a friend. Fielding.
200. The greatest blessing is a pleasant friend.
Horace.
201. The hireling is gained by money, the true
friend by an obliging behavior. Chinese.
202. The interested friend is a swallow on the roof.
{Prepared to leave on the appearance of winter^ Fr.
203. The oldest friend is the best friend for a man.
Plautus.
204. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Emerson.
205. The ornament of a house is the friends who
frequent it. Holmes.
206. The voice is powerful of a faithful friend.
Homer.
207. There is no living without friends. Por.
208. There is no more hold of a new friend than
of a new fashion.
209. There's no living without friends. Por.
210. They are rich who have friends.
Sp., Por., Latin,
211. They are rich who have true friends.
212. They cease to be friends who dwell afar off.
Latin.
213. Tis easier to preserve a friend than to re-
cover him when lost.
214. To a friend's house the road is never long.
Dan.
215. To be every one's friend is to be every one's
fool. Ger,
216. To preserve a friend three things are required:
to honor him present, praise him absent, and assist
him in his necessities.
217. Treat your friend as if you knew that he will
one day become your enemy. Laberius,
218. Trust not the praise of a friend nor the con-
tempt of an enemy. Ital,
21.9. Try your friend ere you trust him.
220. Try your friend with a falsehood and if he
keep it a secret tell him the truth. Ital.
221. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend
you betray your own. Syrus,
222. We can live without a brother but not with-
out a friend. Ger.
223. We can live without our friends but not
without our neighbors.
224. We must ask what is proper from our friends.
Cicero,
225. We shall never have friends if we expect to
have them without fault.
226. We should behave toward our friends, as we
should wish them to behave toward us. Aristotle,
227. We should have many well wishers but few
friends. Spectator,
228. When a friend asketh there is no to-morrow.
229. When friends meet, hearts warm.
230. When good cheer is lacking, our friends will
be packing.
231. When there are two friends to one purse, the
one sings, the other weeps. Sp,
232. Where friends, there riches. Ger. For,
233. Where shall a man have a worse friend than
he brings from home.
234. Where two faithful friends meet, God makes
up a third.
235* Wherever you see your friend trust yourself.
236. Wherever you see your kindred, make much
of your friends.
237. Who has no friends only half lives. Ger,
238. Who has true friends is rich. Ger,
239. Who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy. Shaks,
240. Who makes friends of all keeps none. Ger,
241. Who would have many friends let him test
but few. Ital
242. Without a friend the world is a wilderness.
243. Your candid friend has never anything pleas-
ant to say to you ; he reminds you of his pet virtue
by wounding you with it.
Friendship.
1. A broken friendship may be soldered but will
never be sound.
2. A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friend-
ship. Latin,
3. A generous friendship no cold medium
knows. Homer,
4. A hedge between keeps friendship green. Ger
5. A lost friendship is an enmity won. Ger,
6. A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends ;
The whole world is too narrow for two foes.
Persian.
7. Disparity of fortune is. the bane of friendship.
8. Do not allow the grass to grow on the road of
friendship. Madame Geoffrin,
9. Concealed grudges are dangerous in friend-
ship.
10. Female friendships are of rapid growth. Bea.
11. Friendship cannot stand aye on ae side.
12. Friendship and company are a bad excuse for
ill actions.
13. Friendship and importunate begging feed at
the same dish.
14. Friendship always benefits, love sometimes
injures. Seneca.
15. Friendship consists not in saying "What's
the best news?"
16. Friendship increases in visiting friends but
not in visiting them seldom.
17. Friendship is a plant which one must often
water. Ger.
18. Friendship is a sheltering tree. Coleridge.
19. Friendship is love with understanding. Ger.
20. Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.
21. Friendship is stronger than kindred. Syrus.
22. Friendship b the balm as well as the seasoning of life. Richardson,
23. Friendship is the most sacred of all moral
bonds.
24. Friendship is the perfection of love.
25. Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul,
Sweet'n of life, and solder of society !
Blair.
26. Friendship rises but with fortune and sets
when men go downward. Aaron Hill,
27. Friendship should be unpicked not rent. ItaL
28. Friendship that flames goes out in a flash,
29. Friendship, the older it grows the stronger it is.
30. Friendships are cheap when they can be
bought by dropping the hat. ItaL
31. Friendships multiply joys and divide grief fe.
32. In royal breasts both enmity and friendship
should always give way to policy. Maga,
33. In the division of inheritance friendship
standeth still. Dutch,
34. Judge before friendship then confide 'till
death, Well foth thy friend, but nobler far for thee.
Young,
35. Life has no pleasure nobler than that of
Friendship. Dr, Johnson,
36. Little presents maintain friendship. Fr,
37. N6 friendship lives long that owes its rise to
the pot.
38. Nothing can be sweeter than friendship.
Petrarch.
39. One should sacrifice everything to friendship except honor and justice.
40. Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again. Ger.
41. Pyladesand Orestes died long ago and left
no successors. (These were ancient Greeks celebrated
for their friendship for each other).
42. Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved.
Ital, Dan,
43. Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
44. Suffering for a friend doubleth friendship.
45. The friendship of a great man is a lion at the
next door.
46. The friendship of a great man is like the
shadow of a bush soon gone. Fr.
47. The friendship of the great is fraternity with
lions. Ital
48. The friendships of the world are wind. Bea,
49. There can be no friendship where there is no
freedom.
50. There is scarcity of friendship but none of
friends.
51. To live in friendship is to have the same de-
sires and the same aversions. Sallust,
52. To preserve friendship one must build walls.
Ital.
53. True friendship is imperishable. Pythagoras.
54. What is friendship but a name, a charm that
lulls to sleep. A shade that follows wealth or fame, and
leaves the wretch to weep? Goldsmith.
55. When friendship goes with love it must play
second fiddle. Ger.
Mother.
1. A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.
Latin,
2. A fond mother produces mischief. Sp.
3. A good mother does not hear the music of
the dance when her children cry. Ger.
4. A light heeled mother makes a heavy (lazy)
heeled daughter.
5. A mother is a mother all the days of her life,
A father is a father 'till he gets a new wife.
6. A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive. Coleridge.
7. A mother's attachment, a dog's attachment.
Tamil.
8. A mother's heart is always with her children.
Ger.
9. A mother's love changes never. Ger.
10. A mother's love is best of all. West African.
11. A mother's love the best love, God's love the
highest love. Ger.
12. A mother's love will draw up from the depths
of the sea. Russian.
13. A tender-hearted mother makes a scabby
daughter. Ital.
14. An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter. Dutch.
15. An old mother in a house is a hedge. Ger.
16. Better the child cry than the mother sigh.
Dan.
17. Each has a part and both all {Victor Hugo
speaking of maternal affections).
18. Every mother's child is handsome.
19. Every one can keep house better than her
mother till she trieth.
20. Forget not the mother that fondled you at the
breast. Cingalese.
21. From the father comes honor, from the
mother, comfort. Dutch,
22. He who takes the child by the hand takes
the mother by the heart. Dan.
23. Mothers' darlings are but milksop heroes.
24. Mother's love is ever in its spring. Fr.
25. Mother's truth keeps constant youth,
26. No mother is so wicked but she desires to
have good children. Ital.
27. One tear of a mother can blot out a thousand
complaints against her. Alexander,
28. The good mother saith not, " will you } " but
gives.
29. The mother's breath is aye sweet.
30. The mother knows best whether the child be
like the father.
31. The mother of a timid son never weeps.
Turk.
32. The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better. Sp.
33. The mother of a coward does not often weep.
Nepos,
34. There is no mother like the mother that bore
us. Sp,
35. What is sucked in with the mother's milk
runs out in the shroud. Sp.
36. When yet was ever found a mother,
Would give her booby for another. Gay,
37. Whom will he help that does not help his
mother. Turk,
38. God could not be everywhere, therefore he
made mothers. {Ben Hur,) Wallace,
Grandmother.
1. The Grandmother's correction makes no impression.
Mother-in-law.
I. A mother-in-law is like the dry rot : far easier
to get into a house than to get it out again. Punch,
2. If my mother-in-law dies, I will fetch some-
body to flay her. Por,
3. Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, ? storm and
hail. Ital.
4. My mother-in-law is dead, my hearth is en-
laid. M. Greek,
5. Of all the old women that ever I saw.
Surest bad luck to my mother-in-law*
6. The best mother-in-law is she on whom your
geese feed (on the grass that grows on her grave),
7. The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk. Sp,
8. The guide man's mother is always in the guide
wife's gait (way).
9. The husband's mother is the wife's devil. Ger,
10. The mother-in-law does not remember she
was once daughter-in-law. Sp,^ Par,
11. The mother-in-law must be entreated and the
pot. must be let stand. Sp,
12. There is no good mother-in-law, but she that
wears a green gown [the turf of the church-yard),
{KeUefs Proverbs.). Ger.
Neighbor.
1. A bad neighbor is as great an evil as a good
one is a blessing. Hesod,
2. A bad year passes, a bad neighbor remains
always. M. Greek.
3. A good neighbor is a precious thing. Ger,
4. A good neighbor is a good morrow.
5. A good neighbor is better than a brother afar
off. Dan.
6. A good neighbor is better than a jewel in a
chest. Ger.
7. A good neighbor is the safest guide. Ger.
8. A great man and a great river are often ill
neighbors.
9. A man may take a neighbor's part
Yet no has cash to spare him. Bums,
10. A near neighbor is better than a distant
cousin.
11. An unpeaceable man hath no neighbor.
12. Better a near neighbor than a distant cousin.
Ital
13. Better is a neighbor that is near than a
brother that is far off. Bible,
14. Better is my neighbor's hen than mine. For,
15. Better learn by your neighbor's skaith than
by your own.
16. Between neighbors' gardens a hedge is not
amiss. Sp,
17. Does your neighbor bore you lend him a
sequin, Ital.
18. Every man's neighbor is his looking-glass.
19. He who has a good neighbor has a good
morning. Ger., Dan.
20. He who has a bad neighbor is fain to praise
himself. Dan.
21. Here's talk of the Turk and the Pope, but its
my next neighbor that does me the harm.
22. If a man would know what he is let him
anger his neighbor. Ger.
23. It is not as thy mother says but as thy neighbors say.
24. Keep well with your neighbors whether right
or wrong. Ger.
35. My neighbor's goat gives more milk than
mine. Pior,
36. My neighbor's hen lays more eggs than mine.
sp.
37. One cannot keep peace longer than his
neighbor will let him. Ger.
28. Neighbor once over the hedge, neighbor over
it again. Ger,
29. Neighbor's right, God's right.
30. No neighbor is the best. Ger.
31. No one is rich enough to do without a neigh-
bor. Dan.
32. The bad neighbor gives a needle without
thread. Sp, Par.
33. The neighbor's cow gives the most milk. Ger,
34. The neighbor's hen lays the largest eggs. Ger.
35. The neighbor's misfortunes to us are only
dreams. Ger.
36. The neighbor's wife is always the handsomest.
Ger.
37. There are three bad neighbors : great rivers,
great lords, and great roads. Dan.
38. What is it to me how my neighbor lives. Ger.
39. What my neighbor eats does my stomach no
good. Sp.
40. When thou seest thy neighbor's house in
flames go warm by it.
41. When your neighbor's house is on fire look to
your own. M. Greek.
43. You may love your neighbor and yet not hold
this stirrups.
43. You must not throw stones into your neighbor's garden. Fr.
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A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER.
FATHER AND SON PROVERBS
A branch brings forth a fig. (Ancient Hebrew).
A chip of the old block, like the seed of the trooper, if he is
not up to very much, still he is above the average. (Behar).
A lion's whelp resembles its sire, but tell me in what
respect do you resemble a prophet? (Persian).
A monkey's young ones. (Kashmiri).
As the father so the son. (Sanskrit, Telugu, Kumaun,
Garhwal).
As flour so the gruel. (Tamil).
As the nest so the bird, as the father so the child.
(Serbian).
As the old cock crows so the young bird chirrups.
(English).
As the old bird sings so the young ones twitter. (German,
Danish).
As the potter so the pitcher and as the father so the son,
(Marathi).
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
(Latin).
Even the child of a thief is characterized by thievish propensities. (Tamil).
Foxes sons of foxes. (Hebrew).
He has of his father ? i.e. He is like his father. (Russian.)
He is a child of his father. (Modern Greek).
He is a lion the son of a lion. (Hebrew).
He is cut out of his father's eyes ? i.e. He is like his
father. (Frisian).
He is his father's son. (Telugu, Latin).
He is the son of his father? (Latin, English) .
If the father is a fisherman the children look into the water.
(Russian).
Is he not the son of that father? (Telugu) .
My father was a thief, I am of the same nature. (Assamese).
Such a father such a son. (English, Portuguese, Telugu).
Such as his ? referring to his likeness to his father. (Kumaun, Garhwal).
The big dog's nature will be in the pup. (Gaelic).
The brave are born from the brave and good. (Latin).
The child for whom the father dances Ufie dances Agidi. (Ibo).
The father is known from the child. (German).
The fish is rotten from the head ? i.e. The child partakes
of the nature of its parents. (Persian).
The old one sings, the young ones pipe. (Dutch).
The rope dancer's son is always turning summersaults.
(Indian).
The son of a brave is brave. (Osmanli).
The son of a tailor will sew as long as he lives. (Behar).
The son of a tyrant will be a t3rrant as the sword when
broken becomes a dagger, (Persian).
The son of a wolf will be a wolf even if it grows up with man. (Osmanli).
The son of Hyn is a Jinn ? i.e. a bad man. (Osmanli).
The son resembles his father and the colt his sire, if not
exactly so, yet in a certain degree. (Hindustani).
The young ravens are beaked like the old. (Dutch,
Arabian).
Thou art thy father's own son. (English).
Vessels of the same kiln. (Hindustani).
Weights of the same bag. (Kumaun, Garhwal).
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PROVERBS
As is the mother such is the child ; as is the yam such is the
cloth. (Tamil).
As mother so daughter; as the mill so the flour. (Pashto).
Bad crow, bad egg. (Greek, Sanskrit).
Durag's stick (i.e. according to her height) and as mother
so daughter. (Kashmiri).
Ewe followeth ewe, as the acts of the mother so are the
acts of the daughter. (Hebrew).
From the sow comes but a little pig. (Gaelic).
Gusie sow, gudely calf . (Scotch).
Like crow, like egg. (English).
Mother a witch, daughter also a witch. (German).
Pull a girl by her sleeve she always resembles her mother
? i.e. try to pull or influence a girl to be like someone
else , she will still be like her mother. (Arabian) .
See the mother comprehend the daughter. (Pashto).
She hath a mark after her mother. (English, Telugu).
She's her mother over again. ((Scotch, English).
That which is the mother's is the daughter's.
This proverb is used to refer not only to the daughter's property but also to her disposition and habits. (Tamil).
The leaf that the big goat eats the kid eats. (Ibo).
The skein corresponds with the thread and the daughter
resembles her mother. (Hindustani).
The young ones of the duck are swimmers. (Arabian).
The young pig grunts like the old sow. (English).
Turn the jar on its mouth and the daughter will come up
like her mother.
The Syrian water jar is shaped so that whether it
stands on its base or on its mouth it looks about
the same. (Syrian.)
A branch bringing forth a fig. (Hebrew).
A calf takes after its mother and a foal its sire, if not in ail
points still in a few. (Behar).
A child is a child though the son of a prophet. (Persian).
A herb grows according to its root. (Syriac).
Arrows from one quiver. (Hindustani).
As the auld cock crawd the young cock learns. (Scotch,
English).
As the seed so the sprout. (Sanskrit).
As the teacher so will the scholar be. (Kashmiri).
As the king such are his subjects. (Tamil).
At last the wolf's cub becomes a wolf. (Pashto).
A wild goose never laid a tame egg. (Irish).
Before taking a woman in marriage ascertain the character
of her mother; before buying a cow ascertain the
quality of its milk. (Tamil).
Being born a tiger will it become a cat? (Tamil).
Being born a tiger will it be without claws? (Tamil).
Big and small baskets and fans are made of the same
bamboo. (Kumaun, Garhwal).
By the child one sees what sort of a man his father is.
(German).
Choose cloth by its edge; a wife by her mother. (Persian) .
He is not the son of that father. (Telugu).
He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living. (English,
French).
He who takes his lineage from the ground himself becomes
ox-tender ? i.e. He who is low born must engage in
some lowly occupation. (Osmanli).
If you put sour milk into a leather bag, for one hundred
years, it will still be sour milk ? i.e. as sour milk will
remain sour milk, so bad blood will remain bad blood
through successive generations. (Persian).
If you wish to know a prince look at his ministers ; if you
wish to understand the man himself look at his
parents, but if you wish to know a father observe his
son. (Chinese).
It is "pan" from the same tree, how will it be different?
(Assamese) .
Like priest like people. (English).
Look at the mother before affiancing the daughter. (Serbian, Tamil).
Look at the mother take the daughter. (Osmanli).
Nature will out. (English).
Observe the edge and take the linen; observe the mother
and take the daughter. (Turkish).
Plant a mango and eat a mango ; plant a tamarind and eat a
tamarind. (Hindustani).
That which does not resemble its master is spurious.
(Syriac).
The branch of a rose wherever it grows is always a rose. (Persian).
The calf is like the cow and the colt is like its father ? if
not entirely yet certainly in some degree. (Hindustani).
The child had a rid tongue like its father. (English).
The comparison of a gray goose to his mother. (Gaelic).
The daughter of a bad cow, the grandchild of a good one. (Gaelic).
The daughter of a crab does not give birth to a bird. (Chinese, Oji).
The devils like his dam. (English).
Dam in this proverb refers to a mother, though the
word is sometimes applied in old literature to a
wife. The devil is the father of lies. See John 8:44 (English).
The devil's child the devil's luck. (English) .
The donkey colt by force of growing becomes a donkey.
This proverb is generally applied to one who exaggerates in telling a story.
The faults of a mother are visited on her children. (Tamil).
The future crop is known in the grain. (Tamil).
The hen scratches and the chickens learn. (Kashmiri).
The mother a radish, the father an onion and the son a
saffron flower ? i.e. The son of a worthless father
and mother will be worthless. (Panjabi).
The mother was an innkeeper and the son is Father Khan
? i.e. The mother is of a common grade and her son
puts on the airs of a conqueror though he himself is
common. (Panjabi).
The muddy fountain spurts forth muddy water. (English) .
The rose from rose is born, the thorn from thorn. (Pashto).
The serpent brings forth nothing but little serpents.
(Arabian).
The spawn of frogs will become frogs. (Japanese).
The thieving dog's pup may not be a thief yet, but he will
sniff about ? i.e. The thieving dog's pup may not be
an actual thief but he will have a thieving propensity.
(Pashto).
They are all loaves of one batch or cakes of the same
griddle, whether small or great ? i.e. They are all of
the same descent or family. (Hindustani).
They are seeds out of the same bowl. (Telugu) .
The young of a cuckoo will be a cuckoo and cause the crow
grief and disappointment ? i.e. will put ashes on the
face, that being the common sign of mourning and
distress of mind in the East.
The meaning is that a cuckoo will be a cuckoo even
though brought up by a crow foster-mother. (Behar).
The young of a snake is a snake and its young one is a scorpion. (Tamil).
What is bred in bone won*t out of the flesh. (English).
We may not expect a good whelp from a bad dog. (Hebrew).
Whence is this twig? From this shrub. ? i.e. Bad children
spring from bad parents, and good children from
good parents. (Modem Greek).
Who shall teach young fish to swim? (Hindustani).
Will a plant differ from the seed? (Telugu) .
Will a child ? daughter? fail to follow its mother's track?
(Telugu).
CONTRADICTING PROVERBS
A beggar's son struts like a peer. (Hindustani).
A diligent mother has a lazy daughter. (German).
A dog had a young one which grew worse than his father.
(Syrian).
A light heeled mother makes a heavy heeled daughter.
(English).
A slating cow has often had a good calf. (English).
A son like the mother, and the daughter like the father.
(Gaelic).
Diligent mother, idle daughter. (Portuguese).
From good parents a black calamity was born. (Pashto).
From the thorn bush comes the rose. (Hebrew).
He died as a dog and freed us of service, but he left a
whelp behind that was worse than his father. (Hindustani) .
Many a good cow hath but a bad calf. (English).
Many a good father has a bad son. (English).
Parched maize is the excellent offspring of millet ? i.e.
A good child of worthless parents. (Hindustani).
Parents who have no equals rear children unlike them-
selves ? i.e. Good parents rear children unlike themselves. (Hebrew).
The active mother makes the lazy daughter. (Gaelic).
The father, a petty merchant, the son a lord.
This proverb is used contemptuously in speaking
of an upstart. (Hindustani).
The father wore a mallet about his neck, the son a precious
necklace. (Hindustani).
The wise man is father of the fool. (West African).
What does the beetle beget? Insects worse than itself.
Sometimes this proverb is quoted: "What does
the scorpion beget? Insects worse than itself." (Hebrew).
You are no son like the father. (Gaelic).
You'll never fill your father's shoes. (English).
A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND IN DEED
THE CHARACTERISTICS AND HABITS OF FRIENDS
A courageous is better than a cowardly friend. (English).
A rat and a cat friendship. (Gugerat) .
A rich friend is a treasure. (English).
Friends are one soul in two bodies. (Turkish).
Friends agree best at a distance. (Scotch).
Friendship consists not in saying: " What's the best news."
(English).
Friendship is love with understanding. (Gennan) .
Friends may meet, but mountains never greet ? i.e.
Friends may agree but haughty people seldom do. (English).
Friends tie their purses with cobweb threads. (Italian).
Friendship with a fool is the embrace of a bear. (Persian) .
The ass's friendship is kicking. (Afghan).
The friend looks at the head; the enemy at the foot. (Turkish).
There can be no friendship where there is no freedom.
(English).
When friendship goes with love it must play second fiddle.
(German).
THE VALUE OF FRIENDS
A friend at court is worth a penny i' the purse. (Scotch).
A friend at hand is better than relations at a distance.
(Japanese).
A man without a friend is a left hand without the right.
(Hebrew).
A thousand friends are few, one foe many. (Turkish).
A true friend is better than a relation. (Turkish).
It is as bad to have too many friends as no friends at all.
(Latin).
It is with the eye of others we see our own defects.
(Chinese).
I would rather have a dog my friend than enemy.
(German).
One God no more, but friends a good store. (English).
One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can
do you good. (German).
One enemy is too much for a man in a great post, and a
hundred friends are too few. (English).
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
(English).
Rather have a little one for your friend than a great one
for your enemy. (Italian).
There is no living without friends. (Portuguese).
They are rich who have friends. (Latin, English, Spanish,
Portuguese).
True friends are of service to one in prison or (in distress),
since at one's table even enemies appear friends.
(Persian).
We can live without a brother, but not without a friend.
(German).
We can live without our friends but not without our
neighbors. (English).
When friends meet hearts warm. (Scotch).
Where friends, there riches. (German, Portuguese).
Who has no friends only half lives. (German).
Without a clear mirror a woman cannot know the state of
her face ; without a true friend a man cannot discern
the nature of his actions. (Chinese).
CHOOSING OF FRIENDS AND MAKING FRIENDSHIPS
A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be
sound. (English).
A friend is to be taken with his faults. (Portuguese).
A new pair of breeches will cast down an old coat ? i.e.
A new friend may take the place of an old one. (Scotch).
A hedge between keeps friendship green. (German) .
Can't I be your friend but I must be your fool too. (English).
Friendships are cheap when they can be bought by dropping the hat. (Italian).
Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. (English).
Give out that you have many friends and believe that you
have but few. (French) .
Happy men should have many friends. (English).
Have but few friends though much acquaintance. (English).
He that would have many friends should try a few of them. (Italian).
He who seeks to have many friends never has any. (Italian).
In poverty one learns to know his friends. (German).
Let not one enemy be little in thy eyes nor a thousand
friends be many in thy sight. (Hebrew).
My friend's enemy is often my best friend. (German)
Sudden friendship sure repentance. (English).
Who makes friends of all keeps none. (German).
THE TESTING OF FRIENDSHIP
A bad friend is like a smith, who, if he does not burn you
with fire will injure you with smoke. (Arabian).
A fool or unlearned is an enemy to himself, how is he a
friend to others? (Arabian).
A friend is best known in adversity. (English, Portuguese,
Arabian, Turkish).
A friend is never known till a man has need. (English,
Scotch, French, Italian, Dutch).
An untried friend is like an uncracked nut. (Russian).
A sure friend is known in a doubtful matter. (Latin) .
At marriages and funerals friends and kinsfolk are known.
(English).
Before you make a friend eat a peck of salt with him.
(Scotch).
Better lose a jest than a friend. (English).
Fall sick and you will see who is your friend and who is
not. (Spanish).
Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed
too tight. (English).
Good neighbors and true friends are two things. (English).
He is not a friend who in the time of distress and helplessness
takes his friend by the hand. (Persian).
He is a relation or friend who renders essential service.
(Hindustani).
He is my friend who succoreth me, not he that pitieth me.
(English).
He is my friend who grinds at my mill ? i.e. He is my
friend who shows me a real kindness. (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
Who has no enemy has no friend. (German).
In poverty one learns to know his friends. (German).
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in times of
adversity not one in twenty. (English).
My friend is he who helps me in time of need. (German).
One should fly a laughing enemy and a flattering friend.
(German).
Prosperity gets followers but adversity distinguishes them.
(English, French).
Prove thy friends ere thou have need. (English).
Three things are not known except in three points: courage
except in war, the wise except in anger and a friend
(except in adversity. (Arabian).
Trust not the praise of a friend nor the contempt of an
enemy. (Italian).
Try you: friends before you have need of them. (Scotch).
Try your friend ere you trust him. (English).
Try your friend with a falsehood and if he keeps it a secret,
tell him the truth. (Italian).
Who would have many friends let him test but few.
(Italian).
THE TREATMENT OF FRIENDS
A dear bargain, a dear friend. (Italian).
A friend's faults may be noticed but not blamed. (Danish) .
A friend's faults should be known but not abhorred.
(Portuguese).
By requiting one friend we invite many. (English).
Even reckoning maketh long friends. (English).
Fall out with a friend for a trifle. (English).
Friendship should be to picked not rent. (Italian).
He who is wanting but to one friend loseth a great many
by it. (English).
Is it right to forsake old friends in reliance on new ones?
(Tamil).
It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be
deceived by them. (French).
It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an
enemy. (Danish).
Keep your mouth and keep your friend. (Danish).
Let our friends perish provided our enemies fall with them.
He cannot be a true friend who permits those he calls
friends to be sacrificed that he may secure the down-
fall of his enemies. (Latin, Greek).
Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy
friend. (English).
Old friends and new reckonings. (French).
Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained.
(Danish).
Old friends are not to be paid with gold. (German).
To preserve a friend three things are necessary: To honor
him present, praise him absent, and assist him in his
necessities. (Italian).
When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow. (Spanish).
Friendship is a plant which one must often water. (German).
Little presents maintain friendship. (French).
One should sacrifice ever3rthing to friendship except honor
and justice. (French).
Patched up friendship seldom becomes whole again. (German).
Reconciled friendship is a wound ill salved. (Italian,
Danish).
To preserve friendship one must build walls. (Italian).
Friendship cannot stand aye on one side. (Scotch).
Suffering for a friend doubles the friendship. (English).
FALSE FRIENDS AND FLEETING FRIENDSHIPS
A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship. (Latin).
A fair-weather friend changes with the wind. (Spanish, Portuguese).
A false friend and a shadow attend only when the sun
shines. (American).
A false friend has honey in his mouth; gall in his heart.
(German).
A false friend is worse than an open enemy. (English, German).
A friend as far as conscience allows. (English).
A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. (English).
A friend is often best known by his loss. (German).
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from
you. (English).
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody. (Spanish).
A friend to my table and wine is no good neighbor.
(French).
A fu' purse never lacks friends. (Scotch).
All are not friends who speak one fair. (English).
A lost friendship is an enemy won. (German).
A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words are all
mere glass. (Dutch).
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money.
(English).
A reconciled friend is a double enemy. (English).
Better an open enemy than a false friend. (Danish).
Better a toom (empty) house than an ill tenant; better
no friend than a false friend. (Scotch).
Between friends a bug in the eye ? i.e. In matters of
trade do not trust a friend's honesty. (Spanish).
Between two friends, a notary and two witnesses.
(Spanish).
Beware of a reconciled friend as of a devil. (Spanish).
Everybody's companion is nobody's friend. (German).
Everybody's friend and nobody's friend is all one. (Spanish, Portuguese).
Everybody's friend is everybody's fool. (Dutch, German, Danish).
Eye friend false friend; eye friend back enemy. (German) .
Friends and mules fail us at hard places. (Gallican).
Friends are far from a man who is unfortunate. (Latin).
Friends become foes and foes are reconciled. (Latin).
Friends living far away are no friends. (Greek).
God keep me from my friends, from my enemies I will
keep myself. (Italian).
God will remain, friends will not. (Afghan).
Having wine and having meat one has many friends;
in seasons of misfortune not one is to be found.
(Chinese).
He is a friend at sneezing time, the most that can be got
from him is a "God bless you." See Curiosities in
Proverbs, p. 354. (English, Italian).
He is no friend that eats his own by himself and mine with
me. (Portuguese).
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight
cause. (Portuguese).
He never was a friend who has ceased to be one. (French) .
He that trusts a faithless friend has a good witness against
him. (Spanish).
He who has a good nest finds good friends. (Portuguese).
He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very
rich. (Spanish).
I am on good terms with the friend who eats his bread with
me. (Spanish).
Let him who is wretched and beggared try everybody and
then his friends. (Italian).
Let us be friends, let our purses be variance. (Modem
Greek).
Many friends and few helpers in need. (German).
Many humble servants but not one true friend. (English).
Many kinsfolk and few friends. (English).
May God not prosper our friends that they forget tis.
(Spanish).
No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot.
(English).
No longer foster, no longer dear man. (English).
One seldom finds white ravens and true friends. (German).
Poverty parteth friends. (English).
Pylades and Orestes died long ago and left no successors.
(English).
Save me from my friends. (English).
She devoted herself with every demonstration of affection,
but when the time of need arrived made her retreat.
(Hindustani).
So long as fortune sits at the table friends sit there. (German).
Table friendship soon changes. (English).
Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know.
(Danish).
Tell your friend your secret and he;ll set his foot on your
neck. (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese).
The best friends often become the worst enemies. (German).
The false friend is like the shadow of a sundial. (French).
The friendship between fire and water. (Telugu) .
The friendship of the base is a wall of sand. (Urdu).
The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions. (Italian).
The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush,
soon gone. (French).
The interested friend is a swallow on the roof ? prepared
to fly when winter weather comes. (French).
There is no more hold of a new friend than of a new fashion.
(English).
They cease to be friends who dwell afar off. (Latin).
When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.
(English).
When my vine was laden with grapes my friends were
many, when the grapes were finished my friends
disappeared. (Arabian).
When there are two friends to one purse, the one sings, the
other weeps. (Spanish).
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings
from home. (English).
While the pot boils friendship lasts. (Latin).
TRUE FRIENDS AND ABIDING FRIENDSHIP
A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend
is both. (English).
A friend at one's back is a safe bridge. (Dutch).
A friend ? even to the altar. (Latin).
A friend in the market is better than money in the chest.
(English).
A friend is better than money in the purse. (Dutch).
A friend's dinner is soon dressed. (Dutch).
A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile. (English).
A good friend is better than silver and gold. (German,
Dutch).
A good friend is my nearest relation. (English).
A good friend never offends. (English).
A man may see his friend need but winna see him bleed.
(English).
An old friend is a month for a black day. (Osmanli).
An old friend is better than two new ones. (German,
Russian).
A true friend is above all things sure capital. (German).
A true friend is better than a relation. (Turkish) .
A true friend is known in the day of adversity. (Turkish).
A true friend is the nectar of life. (Tamil).
A true man is he who remembers his friend when he is
absent, when he is in distress and when he dies.
(Arabian).
Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys
you with his beak. (Spanish).
Better have a friend in the market place than money in
your coffer. (Portuguese).
Better have a friend on the road than gold or silver in your
purse. (French).
Familiar paths and old friends are the best. (German).
Friendship, the older it grows the stronger it is. (English) .
Here's to our friends and hang up the rest of our kindred.
(English).
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare;
he who has one enemy shall meet him somewhere. (Persian).
If ye wanted me and your meat, ye would want one guide
friend. (Scotch).
If you have one true friend you have one more than your
share. (English).
In distress will the faithful friend be seen. (Welsh).
It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be ever
so little. (English).
Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbor. (Danish).
Old friends are not to be paid with gold. (German).
The best looking glass is an old friend. (German).
The enemy of my friend is often my best friend. (German) .
The hireling is gained by money, a true friend by an obliging behaviour. (Chinese).
To a friend's house the road is never long. (Danish).
True love kyths (appears) in time of need. (Scotch).
Who has true friends is rich. (German). -
A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS
Variant Proverbs
A man's character is judged by the character of his companions. (Arabian).
A man is judged by his companions. (Latin).
Show me your company and I'll tell thee what thou art.
(Spanish).
Tell me the company you keep and Til tell you what you are.
(French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch).
Tell me whom you love and I'll tell you who you are.
(Louisiana Creole).
Tell me with whom thou goest and I'll tell thee what thou
doest. (English).
Tell me with whom you go and I'll tell you your value.
(Modern Greek).
Tell me with whom you live and I'll tell you what you are.
(Spanish, French, Dutch and Italian).
You may know him by the company he keeps. (English).
ALLIED PROVERBS
A loose horse is sure to stand near the chaff house ? i.e.
An idle man can be found in the hatmts of his associates. (Behar).
Attach thyself to honorable people and men will bow to
thee. (Hebrew).
A wicked companion invites us all to Hell. (English).
He who associates with a suspicious person will himself
be suspected. (Arabian).
If bad be the raven, his company is no better. (Gaelic).
If you drink milk under a date tree they will say it is toddy.
(Telugu).
Join with good men and you will be one of them. (Spanish).
Keep company with the good and you will be one of the
number. (Portuguese).
Smoke is no less an evidence of fire than that a man's
character is that of the character of his associates.
(Arabian).
Take your son to the market place and see with whom he
associates. (Syrian).
With whom you are such one you are. (Syrian).
9. Animals & FATE AND FORTUNE
A MAN MAY BRING HIS HORSE TO WATER BUT HE CANNOT MAKE HIM DRINK
VARIANT PROVERBS
A man may lead a horse to the water, but four and twenty
cannot gar him drink. (Scotch).
If an ox won't drink you cannot make him bend his neck.
(Chinese).
In vain do you lead the ox to the water if he be not thirsty.
(English, French).
One man may lead a horse to water but twelve won't make
him drink. (Gaelic).
One may lead a horse to the water but twenty cannot make
him drink. (English).
You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty. (French) .
You may force a man to shut his eyes but you cannot make
him sleep. (Danish).
You may bring a horse to the river but he will drink when
and what he pleaseth. (English).
You may force an ox to water but you can't make him drink.
(Danish).
ALLIED PROVERBS
He must be strong to pull a rope against a stronger.
(Danish).
He who demands does not command. (Italian).
Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. (English).
Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will. (English) .
The fill belly does not believe in hunger. (Italian).
The well fed man does not believe in hunger. (Italian).
The will cannot be compelled. (Latin).
They may tie a Lingam round a man's neck however much
he resists it, but can they make him worship it?
(Telugu).
Thirty-three scores of gods joined together can make me
hold my nose, but can they make me say "Nirayana?"
(Telugu).
Undertake no more than you can perform. (English).
Who leads an ox to drink must first wet his own feet.
(Chinese).
Who has no thirst has no business at the fountain. (Dutch).
You cannot coax de mornin' glory to clime de wrong way
roun' de corn stalk. (American ? Negro).
A WHISTLING WOMAN AND A CROWING HEN ARE
NEITHER LIKED BY GOD NOR MEN
VARIANT PROVERBS
A bustling woman and crowing hen are neither fit for God
nor men. (Chinese).
A hen which crows and a girl who whistles bring the house
bad luck. (French).
A whistling wife and a crowing hen will call the old gentle-
man out of his den. (English).
A whistling wife and a crowing hen will come to God, but
God knows when. (English).
A whistling wife and a crowing hen will fight the devil out
of his den. (English).
A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for
God nor men. (English).
A whistling woman and a crowing hen are two of the unluckiest things under the sum. (English ? Cornwall).
A whistling woman and a crowing hen will fear the old lad
out of his den. (English).
A woman who talks like a man and a hen which crows like
a cock are no good to anyone. (French).
Girls whistling and hens crowing ? both are considered
unnatural and out of place. (Gaelic).
Whistling girls and crowing hens always come to some
bad ends. (English).
Whistling of women and crowing of hens ? two forbidden
things. (Gaelic).
ALLIED PROVERBS
If the hen crows instead of the cock there won't be peace
in the fowl yard. (Japanese).
If you be a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs. (Persian).
Fares the hapless family that shows a cock that's silent
and a hen that crows. (English).
It goes ill with the house where the hen sings and the cock
is silent. (Spanish).
It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
(English).
It is a sorry house in which the cock is silent and the hen
crows. (French, Italian).
It is said that even the hen reared by a talkative woman
crows. (Singalese).
It never goes well when the hen crows. (Russian).
That house is unhappy wherein the hen crows. (Bulgarian).
That were the hen crowing before the cock. (Gaelic).
The crowing of a hen is no rule ? i.e. Reliance cannot be
placed on the opinion of a woman. (Hindustani).
The hen is not a cock nor a woman a man. (Russian).
The hen should not crow like the cock. (Russian).
The house doth every day more wretched grow where the
hen louder than the cock doth crow. (French).
There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and
the cock is mute. (Italian).
What trust is there in a crowing hen? (Indian).
When girls whistle the devil laughs outright. (English-
Guernsey).
Where the hen crows the house falls to ruin. (Japanese).
Where the cock is the hen does not crow. (Portuguese).
BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
Variant proverbs
A bird of the same feather. (English).
A dove with a dove, a goose with a goose; for things of the
same species always go together. (Persian).
A jackdaw always sits near a jackdaw. (Greek).
Birds of a feather flock together and so with men ? ^like to
like. (Hebrew).
Birds of one feather are often together. (Irish-Ulster).
Birds of one feather flying together. (Irish-Ulster).
Birds of the same kind fly together ? pigeon with pigeon
and hawk with hawk. (Persian).
Each bird draws to its flock. (Gaelic).
Every bird goes with its own flock. (Irish-Ulster).
Every sheep with its fellow. (Spanish).
It is one of its own family that a bird roosts with. (Ashanti).
Pigeon with pigeon, hawk with hawk. (Persian).
Where geese are, will goslings be. (Gaelic).
A bully fights with his peers, not with the grandees. (Oji).
A fly to a fly. (Telugu).
All gems in one place, all the snails in another. (Telugu).
A man is known by the company he keeps. (English).
Blood is thicker than water. (English).
Common oysters are in one spot and pearl oysters in
another. (Telugu).
Go nine ridges and nine furrows to (assist) your own people
than you would to the stranger. (Irish).
He that walketh with the virtuous is one of them. (English).
Like a black faced villain joining an oily legged sinner.
(Telugu).
Like packsaddle like quilt. (Telugu).
Likeness is the mother of love. (Greek).
Like to like. (English).
Like to like the world over. (Hebrew).
No worm-eaten bean remains without finding a half blind
measure. (Arabian).
One camel kneels in place of another. (Arabian).
One saint knows another. (Hindustani).
One with a shaved head should go to a village of shaved
heads. (Marathi).
Set a thief to catch a thief. (English).
The degenerate palm goes among the unfruitful reeds.
(Hebrew).
The good seek the good and the evil the evil. (English).
They are hornbills, we are sparrows, how can we possibly
fly in the same flock? (Malayan).
Those who resemble each other assemble with each other.
(French).
When the fiend goes to the Sabbat, he lodges with the
sorcerer ? i.e. When the devil goes to customs, he
stays with wizards and witches. (Oji).
CONTRADICTING PROVERBS
Babhams, dogs and bards are always at variance with their
own caste. (Behar).
Babhams, dogs and elephants can never agree with their
own kind. (Behar).
Two birds of prey do not keep company with each other.
(Spanish).
Two nightingales do not perch on one bow. (Osmanli).
Two of a trade seldom agree. (English, Spanish).
Two proud men cannot ride on one ass. (English).
Two rope dancers do not play on one rope. (Osmanli).
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list was taken from "Aphorisms of Wisdom: or, a Complete Collection of the Most Celebrated Proverbs in the English, Scotch, French, Spanish, Italian, and other languages: Ancient and Modern," selected by Thomas V. Fuller, M.D., (GLASGOW: (R. & D. MALCOLM, 1814).
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound.
A constant guest is never welcome.
A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort; but a friend is both.
A friend in court is as good as a penny in pocket.
A friend is never known till needed.
A friend in the market is better than money in the chest.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.
A man among children will be long a child, a child among
men will be soon a man.
A man may love his house and yet not ride on the ridge.
A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.
A poor man gets a poor marriage.
A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
A rich friend is a treasure.
A small family is soon provided for.
All are not friends that speak one fair.
An ill father desireth not an ill son.
As a wise child maketh a happy father, so a wise father
maketh a happy child.
Beauties without fortunes have sweethearts plenty, but
husbands none at all.
Call me cousin, but cozen me not.
Children and fools tell truth.
Children and fools have merry lives.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold
and silver.
Children have wide ears and long tongues.
Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance of death.
Children suck the mother when they are young, and the
father when grown up.
Children, when little, make parents fools, when great, mad.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Commend not your wife, wine, nor house.
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares.
Every one as they like, fast the woman said when she kissed her cow.
Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth.
Every one can tame a shrew but he that has her.
Friends are not so soon got or recovered, as lost.
Friends are the nearest relations.
Friends got without desert, will be lost without cause.
Friendship and company are a bad excuse for ill actions.
Friendship and importunate begging feed not at the same dish.
Friendship consists not in saying, What's the best news?
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.
Friendship is the most sacred of all moral bonds.
Friendship is the perfection of love.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is.
Friends may meet, but mountains never.
Friends need no formal invitation.
God gave him no children, but the devil furnished him
with abundance of bastards.
God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass.
He remembers his ancestors, but forgets to feed his children.
He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back
without kindred.
He that marries a wife and three children marries four thieves.
He that marrieth for wealth sells his liberty.
I am not sorry that my son loses at play, but that he will
seek his revenge.
It is harder to marry a daughter well, than to bring her up well.
Marriage and hanging go by destiny.
Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping chargeable.
Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves.
Marry come up my dirty cousin!
More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
The mother-in-law, remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law.
The mother knows best whether the child be like the father.
Wife and children are bills of charges.
Wife and children are hostages given to fortune.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list of proverbs about families was taken from the book, "CLASSICAL AND FOREIGN QUOTATIONS, LAW TERMS AND MAXIMS, PROVERBS, MOTTOES, PHRASES, AND EXPRESSIONS FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, ITALIAN, LATIN, SPANISH, AND PORTUGUESE" [selected] by WM. FRANCIS HENRY KING (LONDON: WHTTAKER and SONS, 1889). The book is available for free at www.archive.org.
243. Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum. (Z.) Pub. Syr.
Unless you, make allowances for your friend 's foibles, you betray your own.
247. Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias.
(Z.) Decim. Laber. 1
Live with your friend as if you knew he might some day become your enemy.
1241. Domum pusillam rempublicam. (L.) Sen. Ep. 49.
Every household is a republic in miniature, or, as we
should say, a miniature kingdom.
1242. Domus arnica domus optimus. (L.) A friend's house is
the best house.
1243. Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium. (L.) Law
Max. Every man's house is his castle.
1439. Est enim [sc. verus amicus] tanquam alter idem. (L.)
Cic. Am. 21, 80. A true friend is a sort of second self.
2147. II vaut mieux etre fou avec tous, que sage tout seul. (Fr.)
Prov. It is better to be mad in company with everybody,
than wise all alone.
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The East | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Eastern Proverb or Folk Saying on the Family (Parenting)
o The rain of tears is necessary for the harvest of learning. | Contributed by: Image courtesty of The New York Public Library, Digital Gallery #1524879
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