Work
Dry pants catch no fish (Bulgarian)
He who does not wish to soil his hands and feet will have inactive teeth (Albanian)
Laziness goes so slowly that poverty overtakes it (Dutch)
Roast doves fly into no-one’s mouths (German)
One must walk a long time behind a wild duck before one picks up an ostrich feather (Danish)
Ambition
The smaller the lizard, the greater its hope of becoming a crocodile (Ethiopian)
Don’t be deceived by the whiteness of the turban, soap can be bought on credit (Turkish)
He who advances by leaps and bounds, by leaps and bounds falls into the ditch (India)
Human Nature
What you can’t have, abuse (Italian)
If two men keep a horse it is thin, if two families keep a boat, it leaks (Chinese)
There is no economy in going to bed early to save candles, if the results be twins (Chinese)
Love, a cough, smoke and money cannot long be hid (French)
Crab walk too much, he get in crab soup (Creole)
If you are not skillful in dancing, then you can strike the gong (Burmese)
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind (Bulgarian)
(Source : Peculiar Proverbs by Stephen Arnott)
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