diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependabot.yml b/.github/workflows/dependabot.yml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e27017f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/dependabot.yml @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +name: dependabot validate + +on: + pull_request: + paths: + - ".github/dependabot.yml" + - ".github/workflows/dependabot-validate.yml" + +jobs: + validate: + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + + - uses: marocchino/validate-dependabot@v1 + id: validate + + - uses: marocchino/sticky-pull-request-comment@v2 + if: always() + with: + header: validate-dependabot + message: ${{ steps.validate.outputs.markdown }} + GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} diff --git a/.github/workflows/json_validate.yml b/.github/workflows/json_validate.yml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cccd8d09 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/json_validate.yml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +name: Validate JSONs + +on: + push: + branches: [ master ] + pull_request: + branches: [ master ] + +jobs: + verify-json-validation: + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + + - name: Validate JSON + uses: docker://orrosenblatt/validate-json-action:latest + env: + INPUT_JSONS: ./data/proverbs.json diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 396013b8..d7379c42 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ [![Tokei](https://tokei.rs/b1/github/AlexRogalskiy/proverbs?category=lines)](https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei) ![Mergify Status](https://img.shields.io/endpoint.svg?url=https://gh.mergify.io/badges/AlexRogalskiy/proverbs) [![Reviewed by Hound](https://img.shields.io/badge/Reviewed_by-Hound-8E64B0.svg)](https://houndci.com) -[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/334777292.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/334777292) +[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/346359381.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/346359381) [![dependencies Status](https://status.david-dm.org/gh/AlexRogalskiy/proverbs.svg)](https://david-dm.org/AlexRogalskiy/proverbs) [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexrogalskiy/proverbs/master/LICENSE?token=AH44ZFH7IF2KSEDK7LSIW3C7YOFYC) @@ -101,40 +101,93 @@ Here is a list of languages supported by Proverb API: | **Name** | **Value** | | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | | **English** | english | +| **Azerbaijani** | azerbaijani | | **Spanish** | spanish | +| **Sanskrit** | sanskrit | | **Danish** | danish | +| **Dutch** | dutch | +| **Burundian** | burundian | +| **Beninese** | beninese | +| **Dominican** | dominican | +| **Martiniquais** | martiniquais | +| **Gypsy** | gypsy | +| **Sri Lankan** | sri_lankan | +| **Jordanian** | jordanian | +| **Tibetan** | tibetan | +| **Tanzanian** | tanzanian | +| **Cypriot** | cypriot | +| **Walloon** | walloon | +| **Babylonian** | babylonian | +| **Haitian** | haitian | +| **Algerian** | algerian | +| **Myanmar** | myanmar | +| **Swahili** | swahili | +| **Iraqi** | iraqi | +| **Romanian** | romanian | +| **Ivorian** | ivorian | +| **Yemeni** | yemeni | +| **Serbian** | serbian | +| **Bedouin** | bedouin | | **Russian** | russian | -| **Arabic** | arabic | +| **Arabian** | arabian | +| **Belizean** | belizean | +| **Indonesian** | indonesian | +| **Jewish** | jewish | +| **Senegalese** | senegalese | +| **Senegalese** | senegalese | +| **Islamic** | islamic | | **French** | french | +| **Fijian** | fijian | | **Kenyan** | kenyan | +| **Malagasy** | malagasy | | **Latin** | latin | | **Moorish** | moorish | | **Swiss** | swiss | | **Turkish** | turkish | | **Ethiopian** | ethiopian | | **German** | german | +| **Mexican** | mexican | +| **Congolese** | congolese | +| **Malaysian** | malaysian | +| **Ghanaian** | ghanaian | +| **Maltese** | maltese | +| **Filipino** | filipino | | **Afghan** | afghan | | **Icelandic** | icelandic | | **Italian** | italian | | **Egyptian** | egyptian | +| **Hawaiian** | hawaiian | +| **Cambodian** | cambodian | +| **Creole** | creole | +| **Zen** | zen | +| **Sierra Leonean** | sierra_leonean | | **Armenian** | armenian | | **Yiddish** | yiddish | | **Thai** | thai | | **Burmese** | burmese | | **Greek** | greek | | **African** | african | +| **Cameroonian** | cameroonian | +| **Iranian** | iranian | | **New Zelander** | new_zelander | | **Cuban** | cuban | +| **Palestinian** | palestinian | | **Welsh** | welsh | | **Zulu** | zulu | | **Bantu** | bantu | | **Jamaican** | jamaican | | **Sudanese** | sudanese | | **Moroccan** | moroccan | +| **Vietnamese** | vietnamese | | **Indian** | indian | +| **Hebrew** | hebrew | +| **Czech** | czech | +| **Nigerian** | nigerian | +| **Tamilan** | tamilan | | **Chinese** | chinese | | **Portuguese** | portuguese | | **Swedish** | swedish | +| **Mongolian** | mongolian | | **Irish** | irish | | **Japanese** | japanese | | **Gaelic** | gaelic | @@ -143,6 +196,7 @@ Here is a list of languages supported by Proverb API: | **Luxembourgish** | luxembourgish | | **Hungarian** | hungarian | | **Macedonian** | macedonian | +| **Samoan** | samoan | Patterns in proverbs are provided by [Hero Pattern](https://github.com/lowmess/hero-patterns) package which is developed by [Lowmess](https://github.com/lowmess/): diff --git a/data/proverbs.json b/data/proverbs.json index f887785c..9221237e 100644 --- a/data/proverbs.json +++ b/data/proverbs.json @@ -1,4668 +1,35783 @@ { "english": [ { - "proverb": "\"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.\"", + "text": "\"Whoever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"He helps little that helps not himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "english" + }, + { + "text": "\"We walk by faith and not by sight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bible" + }, + { + "text": "\"Out of sight, out of mind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Old sins cast long shadows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Death is a shadow that always follows the body.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "english" + }, + { + "text": "\"Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. \"", + "description": "", + "category": "bible" + }, + { + "text": "\"Light in the streets, shadows in the house.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "south american" + }, + { + "text": "\"keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bible" + }, + { + "text": "\"The less people think the more they talk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there is no vision, people perish.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "biblical" + }, + { + "text": "\"People lend only to the rich.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Some people are born hammers, others anvils.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"What the people believe is true.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "native american" + }, + { + "text": "\"A priest sees people at their best, a lawyer at their worst, but a doctor sees them as they really are.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"stupid people always think they are right. wise people listen to advice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bible" + }, + { + "text": "\"The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn’t get along without them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "american" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don’t know what’s happening.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "american" + }, + { + "text": "\"People who have little to do are excessive talkers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ancient" + }, + { + "text": "\"He that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "english" + }, + { + "text": "\"They are fools whose sheep run away twice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"All men are fools, but all fools are not men.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "united states" + }, + { + "text": "\"Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"The heart of fools proclaims foolishness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "biblical" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man has a fool up his sleeve.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "united states" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s quite true there’s a fool born every minute. It’s also quite true they don’t die that fast.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sayings" + }, + { + "text": "\"Make it foolproof, and someone will make a better fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sayings" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fools live poor to die rich.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sayings" + }, + { + "text": "\"Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "english" + }, + { + "text": "\"There’s no fool like an old fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "traditional" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fool is always beginning to live.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sayings" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw.\"", + "text": "\"A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"What will be, will be.\"", + "text": "\"What will be, will be.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.\"", + "text": "\"If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Many hands make light work.\"", + "text": "\"Many hands make light work.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Well begun is half done.\"", + "text": "\"Well begun is half done.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is ill prizing of green barley.\"", + "text": "\"It is ill prizing of green barley.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.\"", + "text": "\"Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A full cup must be carried steadily.\"", + "text": "\"A full cup must be carried steadily.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"There’s no place like home.\"", + "text": "\"There’s no place like home.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", + "text": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Absence is a shrew.\"", + "text": "\"Absence is a shrew.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A ragged colt may make a good horse.\"", + "text": "\"A ragged colt may make a good horse.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Make not your sail too big for your ballast.\"", + "text": "\"Make not your sail too big for your ballast.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Death always comes too early or too late.\"", + "text": "\"Death always comes too early or too late.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He laughs best who laughs last.\"", + "text": "\"He laughs best who laughs last.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.\"", + "text": "\"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Big thunder, little rain.\"", + "text": "\"Big thunder, little rain.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.\"", + "text": "\"Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A proverb is the child of experience.\"", + "text": "\"A proverb is the child of experience.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Confession is the first step to repentance.\"", + "text": "\"Confession is the first step to repentance.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.\"", + "text": "\"Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", + "text": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Conscience cannot be compelled.\"", + "text": "\"Conscience cannot be compelled.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.\"", + "text": "\"It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"God gives the milk but not the pail.\"", + "text": "\"God gives the milk but not the pail.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.\"", + "text": "\"A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.\"", + "text": "\"Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"For whom does the blind man’s wife paint herself?\"", + "text": "\"For whom does the blind man’s wife paint herself?\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A cold April the barn will fill.\"", + "text": "\"A cold April the barn will fill.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better late than never.\"", + "text": "\"Better late than never.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Crooked logs make straight fires.\"", + "text": "\"Crooked logs make straight fires.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Cats hide their claws.\"", + "text": "\"Cats hide their claws.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who killed the lion when absent feared a mouse when present.\"", + "text": "\"He who killed the lion when absent feared a mouse when present.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.\"", + "text": "\"It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.\"", + "text": "\"He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Time heals all wounds.\"", + "text": "\"Time heals all wounds.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\"", + "text": "\"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Rome wasn’t built in a day.\"", + "text": "\"Rome wasn’t built in a day.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A black plum is as sweet as a white.\"", + "text": "\"A black plum is as sweet as a white.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"", + "text": "\"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.\"", + "text": "\"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All for one and one for all.\"", + "text": "\"All for one and one for all.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side.\"", + "text": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Knowledge is power.\"", + "text": "\"Knowledge is power.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The bigger they are the harder they fall.\"", + "text": "\"The bigger they are the harder they fall.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.\"", + "text": "\"He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Beware of a man of one book.\"", + "text": "\"Beware of a man of one book.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Advice is least heeded when most needed.\"", + "text": "\"Advice is least heeded when most needed.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Custom is the guide of the ignorant.\"", + "text": "\"Custom is the guide of the ignorant.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.\"", + "text": "\"Gray hairs are death’s blossoms.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.\"", + "text": "\"He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A shady lane breeds mud.\"", + "text": "\"A shady lane breeds mud.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t halt before you are lame.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t halt before you are lame.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An hour may destroy what an age was building.\"", + "text": "\"An hour may destroy what an age was building.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.\"", + "text": "\"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The leopard cannot change its spots.\"", + "text": "\"The leopard cannot change its spots.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All clever men are birds of prey.\"", + "text": "\"All clever men are birds of prey.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Ale in, wit out.\"", + "text": "\"Ale in, wit out.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Foul water will quench fire.\"", + "text": "\"Foul water will quench fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s money that begets money.\"", + "text": "\"It’s money that begets money.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"First deserve, and then desire.\"", + "text": "\"First deserve, and then desire.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.\"", + "text": "\"A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A friend to all is a friend to none.\"", + "text": "\"A friend to all is a friend to none.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A fair booty makes a fair thief.\"", + "text": "\"A fair booty makes a fair thief.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You reap what you sow.\"", + "text": "\"You reap what you sow.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.\"", + "text": "\"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"There’s no such thing as bad publicity.\"", + "text": "\"There’s no such thing as bad publicity.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.\"", + "text": "\"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.\"", + "text": "\"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Misery loves company.\"", + "text": "\"Misery loves company.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Once bitten, twice shy.\"", + "text": "\"Once bitten, twice shy.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Age and wedlock tame man and beast.\"", + "text": "\"Age and wedlock tame man and beast.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", + "text": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Blest is the bride the sun shines on.\"", + "text": "\"Blest is the bride the sun shines on.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t judge a book by its cover.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t judge a book by its cover.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"April showers bring May flowers.\"", + "text": "\"April showers bring May flowers.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.\"", + "text": "\"An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A stumble may prevent a fall.\"", + "text": "\"A stumble may prevent a fall.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"There’s more than one way to skin a cat.\"", + "text": "\"There’s more than one way to skin a cat.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.\"", + "text": "\"What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.\"", + "text": "\"It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.\"", + "text": "\"Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The devil dances in empty pockets.\"", + "text": "\"The devil dances in empty pockets.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Adversity flatters no man.\"", + "text": "\"Adversity flatters no man.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.\"", + "text": "\"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He is a fool that kissed the maid when he may kiss the mistress.\"", + "text": "\"He is a fool that kissed the maid when he may kiss the mistress.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Everyone must row with the oars he has.\"", + "text": "\"Everyone must row with the oars he has.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.\"", + "text": "\"Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", + "text": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\"", + "text": "\"The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.\"", + "text": "\"A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\"", + "text": "\"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Live and let live.\"", + "text": "\"Live and let live.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All is fair in love and war.\"", + "text": "\"All is fair in love and war.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t drown the man who taught you to swim.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t drown the man who taught you to swim.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.\"", + "text": "\"Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s never too late to mend.\"", + "text": "\"It’s never too late to mend.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.\"", + "text": "\"Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Character is easier kept than recovered.\"", + "text": "\"Character is easier kept than recovered.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do not fall before you are pushed.\"", + "text": "\"Do not fall before you are pushed.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.\"", + "text": "\"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is stolen.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"When it rains, it pours.\"", + "text": "\"When it rains, it pours.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t do all you can, spend all you have, believe all you hear, or tell all you know.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", + "text": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.\"", + "text": "\"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.\"", + "text": "\"Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Half a loaf is better than none.\"", + "text": "\"Half a loaf is better than none.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All temptations are found in either hope or fear.\"", + "text": "\"All temptations are found in either hope or fear.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All are not merry that dance lightly.\"", + "text": "\"All are not merry that dance lightly.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.\"", + "text": "\"The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A hungry man is an angry man.\"", + "text": "\"A hungry man is an angry man.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t fall before you’re pushed.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t fall before you’re pushed.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Great minds think alike.\"", + "text": "\"Great minds think alike.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You get what you pay for.\"", + "text": "\"You get what you pay for.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Look before you leap.\"", + "text": "\"Look before you leap.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A place for everything and everything in its place.\"", + "text": "\"A place for everything and everything in its place.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Hindsight is 20/20\"", + "text": "\"Hindsight is 20/20\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.\"", + "text": "\"Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The show must go on.\"", + "text": "\"The show must go on.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", + "text": "\"A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Much ado and little help.\"", + "text": "\"Much ado and little help.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.\"", + "text": "\"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Time is money.\"", + "text": "\"Time is money.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A guilty conscience needs no accuser.\"", + "text": "\"A guilty conscience needs no accuser.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Two is company, three is a crowd.\"", + "text": "\"Two is company, three is a crowd.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.\"", + "text": "\"You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.\"", + "text": "\"Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An apple never falls far from the tree.\"", + "text": "\"An apple never falls far from the tree.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.\"", + "text": "\"Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", + "text": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.\"", + "text": "\"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.\"", + "text": "\"In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A burnt child dreads the fire.\"", + "text": "\"A burnt child dreads the fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Beauty is only skin deep.\"", + "text": "\"Beauty is only skin deep.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Many a true word is spoken in jest.\"", + "text": "\"Many a true word is spoken in jest.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"All are not thieves that dogs bark at.\"", + "text": "\"All are not thieves that dogs bark at.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Two wrongs don’t make a right.\"", + "text": "\"Two wrongs don’t make a right.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Whom we love best, to them we can say least.\"", + "text": "\"Whom we love best, to them we can say least.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.\"", + "text": "\"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A good beginning makes a good ending.\"", + "text": "\"A good beginning makes a good ending.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Alms never make poor.\"", + "text": "\"Alms never make poor.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Death is a shadow that always follows the body.\"", + "text": "\"Death is a shadow that always follows the body.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t cry over spilt milk.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t cry over spilt milk.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Appearances can be deceiving.\"", + "text": "\"Appearances can be deceiving.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"One picture is worth a thousand words.\"", + "text": "\"One picture is worth a thousand words.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Silence is golden.\"", + "text": "\"Silence is golden.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Keep counsel of thyself first.\"", + "text": "\"Keep counsel of thyself first.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you snooze, you lose.\"", + "text": "\"If you snooze, you lose.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.\"", + "text": "\"Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.\"", + "text": "\"You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.\"", + "text": "\"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"The best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.\"", + "text": "\"The best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good words cool more than cold water.\"", + "text": "\"Good words cool more than cold water.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.\"", + "text": "\"A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If it’s not one thing it’s another.\"", + "text": "\"If it’s not one thing it’s another.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Jack of all trades, master of none.\"", + "text": "\"Jack of all trades, master of none.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Each cross has its own inscription.\"", + "text": "\"Each cross has its own inscription.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that hath no children doth bring them up well.\"", + "text": "\"He that hath no children doth bring them up well.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Death keeps no calendar.\"", + "text": "\"Death keeps no calendar.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who pays the piper may call the tune.\"", + "text": "\"He who pays the piper may call the tune.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A small family is soon provided for.\"", + "text": "\"A small family is soon provided for.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An empty barrel makes the most noise.\"", + "text": "\"An empty barrel makes the most noise.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.\"", + "text": "\"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans do.\"", + "text": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans do.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that seeks trouble never misses.\"", + "text": "\"He that seeks trouble never misses.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Little strokes fell great oaks.\"", + "text": "\"Little strokes fell great oaks.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.\"", + "text": "\"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same.\"", + "text": "\"A puff of wind and popular praise weigh the same.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.\"", + "text": "\"A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.\"", + "text": "\"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An enterprising fool needs little wit.\"", + "text": "\"An enterprising fool needs little wit.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.\"", + "text": "\"If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.\"", + "text": "\"A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A maid who laughs is half taken.\"", + "text": "\"A maid who laughs is half taken.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Far fowls have fair feathers.\"", + "text": "\"Far fowls have fair feathers.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.\"", + "text": "\"Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", + "text": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Spread the table and contention will cease.\"", + "text": "\"Spread the table and contention will cease.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", + "text": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.\"", + "text": "\"Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Money is the root of all evil.\"", + "text": "\"Money is the root of all evil.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Measure twice, cut once.\"", + "text": "\"Measure twice, cut once.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s not over ’till the fat lady sings.\"", + "text": "\"It’s not over ’till the fat lady sings.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.\"", + "text": "\"One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better safe than sorry.\"", + "text": "\"Better safe than sorry.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It takes all sorts to make a world.\"", + "text": "\"It takes all sorts to make a world.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A young man idle, an old man needy.\"", + "text": "\"A young man idle, an old man needy.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s no use crying over spilled milk.\"", + "text": "\"It’s no use crying over spilled milk.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t put the cart before the horse.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t put the cart before the horse.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"What goes up must come down.\"", + "text": "\"What goes up must come down.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.\"", + "text": "\"Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"An abundance of money ruins youth.\"", + "text": "\"An abundance of money ruins youth.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", + "text": "\"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A black hen lays a white egg.\"", + "text": "\"A black hen lays a white egg.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.\"", + "text": "\"If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If at first you don’t succeed, try again.\"", + "text": "\"If at first you don’t succeed, try again.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.\"", + "text": "\"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"", + "text": "\"A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do not triumph before the victory.\"", + "text": "\"Do not triumph before the victory.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.\"", + "text": "\"Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Never fall out with your bread and butter.\"", + "text": "\"Never fall out with your bread and butter.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.\"", + "text": "\"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A dog is a man’s best friend.\"", + "text": "\"A dog is a man’s best friend.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.\"", + "text": "\"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", + "text": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A lie has short legs.\"", + "text": "\"A lie has short legs.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Haste makes waste.\"", + "text": "\"Haste makes waste.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Make not the sauce till you have caught the fish.\"", + "text": "\"Make not the sauce till you have caught the fish.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.\"", + "text": "\"Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye.\"", + "text": "\"Choose a wife rather by your ear than by your eye.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.\"", + "text": "\"Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A broken clock is right twice a day.\"", + "text": "\"A broken clock is right twice a day.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.\"", + "text": "\"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Leave a great talker in the middle of the street.\"", + "text": "\"Leave a great talker in the middle of the street.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that does amiss may do well.\"", + "text": "\"He that does amiss may do well.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that’s a wise man by day is no fool by night.\"", + "text": "\"He that’s a wise man by day is no fool by night.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", + "text": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"You have to take the good with the bad.\"", + "text": "\"You have to take the good with the bad.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is ill fishing before the net.\"", + "text": "\"It is ill fishing before the net.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix in its ashes.\"", + "text": "\"Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix in its ashes.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.\"", + "text": "\"Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.\"", + "text": "\"Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.\"", + "text": "\"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.\"", "description": "", "category": "english" }, { - "proverb": "\"A bad workman always blames his tools.\"", + "text": "\"A bad workman always blames his tools.\"", "category": "english", "description": "This proverb is used when someone blames the quality of their equipment or other external factors when they perform a task poorly." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.\"", + "text": "\"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.\"", "description": "Things we already have are more valuable than what we hope to get." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", + "text": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", "description": "When people we love are not with us, we love them even more." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A cat has nine lives.\"", + "text": "\"A cat has nine lives.\"", "description": "Cat can survive seemingly fatal events." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.\"", + "text": "\"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.\"", "description": "One weak part will render the whole weak." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", + "text": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", "description": "Actions are a better reflection of one’s character because it’s easy to say things, but difficult to act on them and follow through." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A drowning man will clutch at a straw.\"", + "text": "\"A drowning man will clutch at a straw.\"", "description": "When someone is in a difficult situation, s/he will take any available opportunity to improve it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Adversity and loss make a man wise.\"", + "text": "\"Adversity and loss make a man wise.\"", "description": "We gain wisdom faster in difficult times than in prosperous times." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A fool and his money are soon parted.\"", + "text": "\"A fool and his money are soon parted.\"", "description": "Foolish people do not know how to hold on to their money." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", + "text": "\"A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", "description": "Howsoever big a task is, it starts with a small step." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A leopard can’t/ doesn’t change its spots.\"", + "text": "\"A leopard can’t/ doesn’t change its spots.\"", "description": "A person can’t change its innate character, especially bad." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"All good things come to an end.\"", + "text": "\"All good things come to an end.\"", "description": "Good experiences eventually come to an end." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"All’s well that ends well.\"", + "text": "\"All’s well that ends well.\"", "description": "As long as the outcome is good, problems on the way don’t matter." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"All that glitters is not gold.\"", + "text": "\"All that glitters is not gold.\"", "description": "Things that look good outwardly may not be as valuable or good." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"All’s fair in love and war.\"", + "text": "\"All’s fair in love and war.\"", "description": "One can break the rules of fair play under extenuating circumstances." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Always put your best foot forward.\"", + "text": "\"Always put your best foot forward.\"", "description": "Try as hard as you can or give your best." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.\"", + "text": "\"Among the blind the one-eyed man is king.\"", "description": "An incapable person can gain powerful position if others in the fray are even more incapable." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"An apple a day keeps the doctor away.\"", + "text": "\"An apple a day keeps the doctor away.\"", "description": "Eating an apple a day will keep you healthy." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"An empty vessel makes much noise.\"", + "text": "\"An empty vessel makes much noise.\"", "description": "Foolish or stupid people are the most talkative." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.\"", + "text": "\"An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.\"", "description": "If you’ve nothing to do, you’ll likely think of mischief." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure.\"", + "text": "\"An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure.\"", "description": "A little precaution before a crisis hits is better than lot of firefighting afterwards." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"", + "text": "\"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"", "description": "It is easier to show or explain something through a picture than through words." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Appearances can be deceptive.\"", + "text": "\"Appearances can be deceptive.\"", "description": "Outward appearance may not be what you believe them to be." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", "description": "A person who is always changing jobs and places has the advantage of less responsibilities, but also the disadvantage of no fixed place to live." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.\"", + "text": "\"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is for.\"", "description": "Get out of your comfort zone to grow and fulfill your potential." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A stitch in time saves nine.\"", + "text": "\"A stitch in time saves nine.\"", "description": "It’s better to deal with problems immediately rather than wait by when they worsen and become much bigger." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"As you sow, so you shall reap.\"", + "text": "\"As you sow, so you shall reap.\"", "description": "Your actions – good or bad – determine what you get." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A thing begun is half done.\"", + "text": "\"A thing begun is half done.\"", "description": "A good beginning makes it easier to accomplish the rest of the project." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Barking dogs seldom bite.\"", + "text": "\"Barking dogs seldom bite.\"", "description": "People who appear threatening rarely do harm." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.\"", + "text": "\"Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.\"", "description": "Choose things or people after proper diligence, but once you choose, stick for long." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\"", + "text": "\"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\"", "description": "What may seem beautiful to one person may not seem to another." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Beauty is only skin deep.\"", + "text": "\"Beauty is only skin deep.\"", "description": "A person’s character, intellect, and other inner qualities are more important than his/ her physical beauty." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Beggars can’t be choosers.\"", + "text": "\"Beggars can’t be choosers.\"", "description": "People who depend on the generosity of others can’t pick & choose things as per their liking. They’ve to accept what is given to them." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Best things in life are free.\"", + "text": "\"Best things in life are free.\"", "description": "The most valuable things are often free." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Better late than never.\"", + "text": "\"Better late than never.\"", "description": "It is better to get something (you desire) late than get it never." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A cat in gloves catches no mice.\"", + "text": "\"A cat in gloves catches no mice.\"", "description": "" }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.\"", + "text": "\"Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.\"", "description": "Good health is more important than money." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Better to wear out than to rust out.\"", + "text": "\"Better to wear out than to rust out.\"", "description": "It is better to remain active than to be idle (used mainly for old people)" }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Blood is thicker than water.\"", + "text": "\"Blood is thicker than water.\"", "description": "Relationships with family (or blood relatives) is stronger than other relationships." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Cleanliness is next to Godliness.\"", + "text": "\"Cleanliness is next to Godliness.\"", "description": "Cleanliness is a sign of goodness, a great virtue." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Clothes do not make the man.\"", + "text": "\"Clothes do not make the man.\"", "description": "A person’s character can’t be judged by his/ her clothing and outward appearance." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Cowards die many times before their deaths.\"", + "text": "\"Cowards die many times before their deaths.\"", "description": "Cowards suffer the feared effects of death many times over in their lives." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Cross the stream where it is shallowest.\"", + "text": "\"Cross the stream where it is shallowest.\"", "description": "To do things in the easiest possible way." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Curiosity killed the cat.\"", + "text": "\"Curiosity killed the cat.\"", "description": "Enquiring into others’ work can be dangerous. One should mind own business." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"East or West, home is best.\"", + "text": "\"East or West, home is best.\"", "description": "" }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.\"", + "text": "\"Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.\"", "description": "The consequences of doing wrong always catch up with the wrongdoer." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Discretion is the better part of valor.\"", + "text": "\"Discretion is the better part of valor.\"", "description": "It is wise to be careful and not show unnecessary bravery." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t bite off more than you can chew.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t bite off more than you can chew.\"", "description": "Don’t take more responsibility than you can handle." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.\"", "description": "Don’t act badly toward the person who has helped you or from whom you derive some benefits, for you may lose those benefits in future." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t blow your own trumpet.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t blow your own trumpet.\"", "description": "You should avoid proudly talking of your achievements and success in front of others." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t cast pearls before swine.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t cast pearls before swine.\"", "description": "Don’t offer something valuable to someone who doesn’t value it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", "description": "Don’t make plans based on future events that may not happen at all." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t cross a bridge until you come to it.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t cross a bridge until you come to it.\"", "description": "Deal with a situation when it happens and not unnecessarily worry about it in advance." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t judge a book by its cover.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t judge a book by its cover.\"", "description": "Just like you can’t form an opinion of a book just by looking at its cover, you can’t form an opinion about someone (or something) from their outward appearance." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.\"", "description": "If you kill a goose that lays golden eggs, you destroy something that makes lot of money for you." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.\"", "description": "Don’t put all your effort into a single course of action, venture, investment, goal, or the like, because if it doesn’t work, you lose everything." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t put the cart before the horse.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t put the cart before the horse.\"", "description": "Do things in proper order. ‘Horse before the cart’ is the proper order, and not ‘cart before the horse’." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater.\"", "description": "Don’t discard something valuable while getting rid of something worthless." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Early bird catches the worm.\"", + "text": "\"Early bird catches the worm.\"", "description": "One who starts early on the work has higher chance of success." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Easy come, easy go.\"", + "text": "\"Easy come, easy go.\"", "description": "You say this when you get something easily and then lose it as easily." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Empty bags cannot stand upright.\"", + "text": "\"Empty bags cannot stand upright.\"", "description": "A poor or hungry person cannot discharge his duties well." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Every dog has his day.\"", + "text": "\"Every dog has his day.\"", "description": "Even the unluckiest or the most unfortunate will taste success at some point." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Every man is the architect of his destiny.\"", + "text": "\"Every man is the architect of his destiny.\"", "description": "Your own actions and decisions decide what you achieve (or don’t) in life." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Every man has his price.\"", + "text": "\"Every man has his price.\"", "description": "Anyone can be swayed to do something. It’s just that some may demand high price, some low. This proverb is also used in the sense of bribing people." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Fall seven times. Stand up eight.\"", + "text": "\"Fall seven times. Stand up eight.\"", "description": "Be resilient and try despite failures. That’s how you succeed." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Familiarity breeds contempt.\"", + "text": "\"Familiarity breeds contempt.\"", "description": "If you know a situation, person, or thing well, you stop respecting them and become careless." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.\"", + "text": "\"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.\"", "description": "Fools or inexperienced persons get involved in situations or pursue goals without much thought. In contrast, wise are thoughtful about such situations or goals." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Fortune favors the brave.\"", + "text": "\"Fortune favors the brave.\"", "description": "If you carry out your plans boldly, the luck is more likely to favor you." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Get out while the going (getting) is good.\"", + "text": "\"Get out while the going (getting) is good.\"", "description": "To leave a place or situation before conditions worsen and it becomes difficult to leave." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.\"", + "text": "\"Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.\"", "description": "If you give someone a small amount of power or freedom to do something, they may try to get a lot more." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"God helps those who help themselves.\"", + "text": "\"God helps those who help themselves.\"", "description": "God doesn’t help those who don’t try. You’ve to make effort if you want to succeed." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Good things come to those who wait.\"", + "text": "\"Good things come to those who wait.\"", "description": "Patience is often rewarded." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Grief divided is made lighter.\"", + "text": "\"Grief divided is made lighter.\"", "description": "If you share your grief, it’ll get easier to bear." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Half a loaf is better than none.\"", + "text": "\"Half a loaf is better than none.\"", "description": "Getting less than what one wants is better than not getting anything." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Honesty is the best policy.\"", + "text": "\"Honesty is the best policy.\"", "description": "It’s always better to be truthful and honest, even if the opposite may get you the benefits." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.\"", + "text": "\"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.\"", "description": "Be optimistic, but be prepared for a scenario where things can go wrong." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\"", + "text": "\"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\"", "description": "If something is working fine, don’t change it unnecessarily." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.\"", + "text": "\"If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.\"", "description": "If things don’t turn the way you want them to, then adjust your way to suit those things." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", + "text": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", "description": "If things were to happen by just wishing them, even the poorest will have everything they want." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"If you can’t beat them, join them.\"", + "text": "\"If you can’t beat them, join them.\"", "description": "If you can’t beat your opponent, then work alongside them for mutual benefit." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"If you play with fire, you’ll get burned.\"", + "text": "\"If you play with fire, you’ll get burned.\"", "description": "If you do something dangerous or adventurous, you may get harmed." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Ignorance is bliss.\"", + "text": "\"Ignorance is bliss.\"", "description": "If you don’t know about something, you don’t need to bother about it. In other words, if you’re unaware of something, it won’t cause you stress. This proverb, however, is often used in negative way – ignorance is not bliss." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It’s better to be safe than sorry.\"", + "text": "\"It’s better to be safe than sorry.\"", "description": "It’s better to be cautious than regret later." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It’s easy to be wise after the event.\"", + "text": "\"It’s easy to be wise after the event.\"", "description": "It is easy to understand what you could have done to prevent something bad from happening after it has happened." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It’s never too late to mend.\"", + "text": "\"It’s never too late to mend.\"", "description": "It’s never too late to change your wrong ways or habits." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It’s not over till it’s over.\"", + "text": "\"It’s not over till it’s over.\"", "description": "Till the event has completely played, you’re still in with a chance to succeed." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It’s no use crying over spilt milk.\"", + "text": "\"It’s no use crying over spilt milk.\"", "description": "There is no point in staying upset over a mistake because you can’t undo what has happened." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It takes two to make a quarrel.\"", + "text": "\"It takes two to make a quarrel.\"", "description": "An argument of quarrel is not one person’s fault." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"It takes two to tango.\"", + "text": "\"It takes two to tango.\"", "description": "Where two parties are involved in a situation, fault usually lies with both if things go wrong. Rarely can one party be blamed entirely." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.\"", + "text": "\"Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.\"", "description": "Speak only when necessary and remain alert and observant at all times." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Laughter is the best medicine.\"", + "text": "\"Laughter is the best medicine.\"", "description": "Thinking positively and laughing will help you to feel better." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Learn to walk before you run.\"", + "text": "\"Learn to walk before you run.\"", "description": "Learn basic skills first before venturing into complex things." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Let sleeping dogs lie.\"", + "text": "\"Let sleeping dogs lie.\"", "description": "Don’t talk about a bad situation people have forgotten and that could unnecessarily create problem in the present." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Life begins at forty.\"", + "text": "\"Life begins at forty.\"", "description": "A person truly starts enjoying life after forty as a result of accumulated skills and wisdom." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.\"", + "text": "\"Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.\"", "description": "Misfortune does not occur twice in the same way to the same person." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Look before you leap.\"", + "text": "\"Look before you leap.\"", "description": "Consider all consequences before taking an action, especially when you can’t retract." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Make hay while the sun shines.\"", + "text": "\"Make hay while the sun shines.\"", "description": "Make the most of favorable conditions till they last." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Money doesn’t grow on trees.\"", + "text": "\"Money doesn’t grow on trees.\"", "description": "Spend money carefully because it’s limited. You can’t grow it on trees and replenish." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Money talks.\"", + "text": "\"Money talks.\"", "description": "Money gives one power and influence." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", + "text": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", "description": "A need or problem forces people to come up with innovative solutions." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.\"", + "text": "\"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.\"", "description": "Don’t delay doing something if you can do it immediately." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Never test the depth of water with both feet.\"", + "text": "\"Never test the depth of water with both feet.\"", "description": "If you’re in water with both feet down, you risk being swept away by the currents. The message is: don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. Think twice before placing all your bets and investments on one thing." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"No gain without pain.\"", + "text": "\"No gain without pain.\"", "description": "It is necessary to suffer or work hard in order to succeed or make progress." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"No news is good news.\"", + "text": "\"No news is good news.\"", "description": "If you don’t receive any news about someone or something, it means that everything is fine and going normally." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Once bitten twice shy.\"", + "text": "\"Once bitten twice shy.\"", "description": "You say this proverb when someone won’t do something a second time because they had bad experience the first time." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.\"", + "text": "\"One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.\"", "description": "What may seem to be junk to one person maybe valuable to another." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"One shouldn’t miss forest for the trees.\"", + "text": "\"One shouldn’t miss forest for the trees.\"", "description": "Sometimes you get so focused on small details that you may miss the larger context." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Out of sight, out of mind.\"", + "text": "\"Out of sight, out of mind.\"", "description": "If someone or something is not seen for a long time, it’ll be forgotten." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Pen is mightier than sword.\"", + "text": "\"Pen is mightier than sword.\"", "description": "Thinking and writing have more influence on people and events than use of force." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones at others.\"", + "text": "\"People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones at others.\"", "description": "People who have faults should not criticize other people for having the same faults." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Persuasion is better than force.\"", + "text": "\"Persuasion is better than force.\"", "description": "You can achieve better results through persuasion than through coercion." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Practice makes perfect.\"", + "text": "\"Practice makes perfect.\"", "description": "Doing something over and over makes one better at it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Practice what you preach.\"", + "text": "\"Practice what you preach.\"", "description": "Behave the way you encourage other people to behave." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Rome wasn’t built in a day.\"", + "text": "\"Rome wasn’t built in a day.\"", "description": "Important work takes time to complete." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Silence is half consent.\"", + "text": "\"Silence is half consent.\"", "description": "If you don’t object to what someone says or does, you may be assumed to agree to some extent." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", "description": "If a person doesn’t speak much, it doesn’t mean they lack depth or are uninteresting." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", + "text": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", "description": "Take advantage of an opportunity as soon as it comes along." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The best-laid plans go astray.\"", + "text": "\"The best-laid plans go astray.\"", "description": "Despite best preparations, things may not go your way." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The end justifies the means.\"", + "text": "\"The end justifies the means.\"", "description": "A desired result is so important that any method, even a morally bad one, may be used to achieve it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The harder you work, the luckier you get.\"", + "text": "\"The harder you work, the luckier you get.\"", "description": "The harder you work, the more good ideas and chances you may make for yourself." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.\"", + "text": "\"The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.\"", "description": "People are never satisfied with their own situation; they always think others have it better." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\"", + "text": "\"The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\"", "description": "You can only judge the quality of something after you have tried, used, or experienced it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"There are more ways than one to skin a cat.\"", + "text": "\"There are more ways than one to skin a cat.\"", "description": "There is more than one way to reach the same goal." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"There is no time like the present.\"", + "text": "\"There is no time like the present.\"", "description": "The best time to do something is right now. So, act now." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"There is safety in numbers.\"", + "text": "\"There is safety in numbers.\"", "description": "A group offers more protection than when you are on your own." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", + "text": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", "description": "Good intentions do not matter if a person’s actions lead to bad outcomes." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The show must go on.\"", + "text": "\"The show must go on.\"", "description": "A performance, event, etc., must continue even though there are problems." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"The squeaky wheel gets the grease.\"", + "text": "\"The squeaky wheel gets the grease.\"", "description": "People who complain the most are the ones who get attention or what they want." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Time and tide wait for no man.\"", + "text": "\"Time and tide wait for no man.\"", "description": "You’ve no control over passage of time; it’ll keep slipping. So don’t procrastinate, don’t delay things." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Too many cooks spoil the broth.\"", + "text": "\"Too many cooks spoil the broth.\"", "description": "When too many people work together on a project, the result is inferior." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Two heads are better than one.\"", + "text": "\"Two heads are better than one.\"", "description": "Two persons have a better chance to solve a problem than one. When two people cooperate with each other, they come up with better ideas." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Two wrongs don’t make a right.\"", + "text": "\"Two wrongs don’t make a right.\"", "description": "You shouldn’t harm a person who has harmed you, even if you think that person deserves it." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Watch the doughnut, and not the hole.\"", + "text": "\"Watch the doughnut, and not the hole.\"", "description": "Focus on what you have and not on what you don’t." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", + "text": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", "description": "If someone treats other people badly, he or she will eventually be treated badly by someone else." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans do.\"", + "text": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans do.\"", "description": "When visiting a foreign land, follow the customs of local people." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"When the going gets tough, the tough get going.\"", + "text": "\"When the going gets tough, the tough get going.\"", "description": "When conditions become difficult, strong people take action." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.\"", + "text": "\"Where there’s a will, there’s a way.\"", "description": "If you are determined enough, you can find a way to achieve what you want, even if it is difficult." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Where there’s smoke there’s fire.\"", + "text": "\"Where there’s smoke there’s fire.\"", "description": "If there are rumors or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Where one door shuts, another opens.\"", + "text": "\"Where one door shuts, another opens.\"", "description": "When you lose an opportunity to do one thing, an opportunity to do something else appears." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"While the cat’s away, the mice will play.\"", + "text": "\"While the cat’s away, the mice will play.\"", "description": "Without supervision, people will do as they please, especially in disregarding or breaking rules." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", + "text": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", "description": "It’s easier to win people to your side by persuasion and politeness than by confrontation and threats." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.\"", + "text": "\"You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.\"", "description": "You can show people the way to do things, but you can’t force them to act." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t always get what you want.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t always get what you want.\"", "description": "Sometimes you may face disappointments in your pursuits or your wishes may not be fulfilled." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t fit a round peg in a square hole.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t fit a round peg in a square hole.\"", "description": "You can’t force someone into a role for which s/he is not suited." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", "description": "To have two things that one desires, but they’re normally impossible to get simultaneously." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.\"", "description": "It is hard to achieve something important without causing unpleasant effects." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"Soon learn, soon forgotten.\"", + "text": "\"Soon learn, soon forgotten.\"", "description": "" }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"A little learning is a dangerous thing.\"", + "text": "\"A little learning is a dangerous thing.\"", "description": "" }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.\"", "description": "People who have long been used to doing things in a particular way will not abandon their habits." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t unscramble a scrambled egg.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t unscramble a scrambled egg.\"", "description": "Some actions are irreversible." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "\"You can’t win them all.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t win them all.\"", "description": "It is not possible to succeed at everything you do." }, { "category": "english", - "proverb": "You show me the man and I’ll show you the rule.", + "text": "You show me the man and I’ll show you the rule.", "description": "Rules change depending on how influential or powerful the person likely to be affected by the rules is." }, { - "proverb": "\"A broken clock is right twice a day.\"", + "text": "\"A broken clock is right twice a day.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When an old clock stops working, it shows one specific time but doesn't move. So once in the day and once at night, the clock is pointing to the correct time. In the same way, even a person who's not very smart can sometimes be correct by accident." }, { - "proverb": "\"A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"", + "text": "\"A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If someone helps you when you're in trouble, that person is a true friend." }, { - "proverb": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.\"", + "text": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Half a loaf is better than no bread.\"", + "text": "\"Half a loaf is better than no bread.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"He laughs best who laughs last.\"", + "text": "\"He laughs best who laughs last.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that never climbed never fell.\"", + "text": "\"He that never climbed never fell.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.\"", + "text": "\"An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you run after two hares, you'll catch none.\"", + "text": "\"If you run after two hares, you'll catch none.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"It's never too late to learn.\"", + "text": "\"It's never too late to learn.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"It's no use crying over spilt milk.\"", + "text": "\"It's no use crying over spilt milk.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"It's a small world.\"", + "text": "\"It's a small world.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", + "text": "\"A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Sometimes when a person knows a little bit about something, they feel like they're an expert. Because they feel like an expert, they try to do things that they shouldn't and they mess everything up." }, { - "proverb": "\"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", + "text": "\"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Some things, like learning to speak English fluently, take a really long time. It might seem like too much work. But the only way to achieve your goals is to start working now." }, { - "proverb": "\"All is fair in love and war.\"", + "text": "\"All is fair in love and war.\"", "category": "english", "description": "In love and romance, you sometimes do things that aren't very nice. For example, you might break up with someone or steal another person's partner. This phrase means that that's OK." }, { - "proverb": "\"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\"", + "text": "\"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You can't work all of the time. You have to relax as well." }, { - "proverb": "\"Better safe than sorry.\"", + "text": "\"Better safe than sorry.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You should be careful, even if it seems like it's not necessary. The consequences if something goes wrong are much worse than wasting a little time and effort by being careful." }, { - "proverb": "\"Better the devil you know than the one you don't.\"", + "text": "\"Better the devil you know than the one you don't.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you have a choice between two bad things, it's safer to pick the bad thing that you've already experienced. The other bad thing might be worse." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.\"", + "text": "\"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Sometimes people criticize each other. But it's not fair to criticize someone else if you haven't had the same experiences." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't put the cart before the horse.\"", + "text": "\"Don't put the cart before the horse.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Pay attention to what's most important. Don't let things which aren't as important take up all of your time and attention." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk.\"", + "text": "\"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You shouldn't brag about being able to do something if you can't actually do it." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.\"", + "text": "\"Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you're trying to get rid of something bad, you might accidentally get rid of the good things that are connected with it as well. Don't do that." }, { - "proverb": "\"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.\"", + "text": "\"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.\"", "category": "english", "description": "This is a quotation from the famous American inventor and diplomat Benjamin Franklin. It means it's healthy and smart to go to sleep early and wake up early." }, { - "proverb": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", + "text": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When something bad happens to you, don't get too upset. There's usually something good associated with any bad experience. For example, if you get fired from your job, it might push you to get a better job instead. Every bad or negative situation can result in some benefit to you. (The presence of silver lining means that the sun is behind the cloud and will eventually emerge.)" }, { - "proverb": "\"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.\"", + "text": "\"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't try to help people by just giving them things. The result will be temporary. If you want to help someone long-term, teach them how to do things on their own." }, { - "proverb": "\"Great minds think alike.\"", + "text": "\"Great minds think alike.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Smart people often have the same ideas. Say this when someone has the same smart idea that you have." }, { - "proverb": "\"Haste makes waste.\"", + "text": "\"Haste makes waste.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you try to work too quickly, you make mistakes. That can waste time, money, or materials. So slow down." }, { - "proverb": "\"Hindsight is 20/20\"", + "text": "\"Hindsight is 20/20\"", "category": "english", "description": "It's easy to know what you should have done in the past, but making correct decisions is harder in the moment. This phrase means that you shouldn't judge someone's past decisions based on the information you know now." }, { - "proverb": "\"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.\"", + "text": "\"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Keep working hard and trying to succeed, even if you fail at first." }, { - "proverb": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", + "text": "\"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't spend a lot of time wishing for things. Wishes are useless. Instead of wishing, you should work hard to achieve your goals." }, { - "proverb": "\"If you snooze, you lose.\"", + "text": "\"If you snooze, you lose.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You have to act quickly to get the things you want." }, { - "proverb": "\"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.\"", + "text": "\"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't say mean things about other people." }, { - "proverb": "\"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.\"", + "text": "\"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't just complain about problems that you see. Do something to solve the problems." }, { - "proverb": "\"It's no use crying over spilled milk.\"", + "text": "\"It's no use crying over spilled milk.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you break something, lose money, etc., don't get too upset about it. It's already happened, so getting upset isn't useful." }, { - "proverb": "\"It's not over 'till the fat lady sings.\"", + "text": "\"It's not over 'till the fat lady sings.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Say this in a competition or game. When other people think that the result has already been decided, but you're not ready to admit that it's finished, use this phrase." }, { - "proverb": "\"Jack of all trades, master of none.\"", + "text": "\"Jack of all trades, master of none.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Someone who is good at a lot of different skills is usually not very good at any of them." }, { - "proverb": "\"Knowledge is power.\"", + "text": "\"Knowledge is power.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You should try to learn a lot. Knowing more things makes you more powerful." }, { - "proverb": "\"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.\"", + "text": "\"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you associate with dishonest people, bad things will happen to you." }, { - "proverb": "\"Look before you leap.\"", + "text": "\"Look before you leap.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Make decisions carefully. Don't make a decision without thinking about it and researching it carefully." }, { - "proverb": "\"Measure twice, cut once.\"", + "text": "\"Measure twice, cut once.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Once you've made some decisions, it's hard to change it. Think carefully before making a decision." }, { - "proverb": "\"Misery loves company.\"", + "text": "\"Misery loves company.\"", "category": "english", "description": "People who are unhappy want to make other people unhappy too." }, { - "proverb": "\"Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today.\"", + "text": "\"Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't be lazy. If you have some work that you need to do, do it now. Don't wait to do it later." }, { - "proverb": "\"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"", + "text": "\"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When people get power, they always do mean, dishonest things. We shouldn't allow anyone to have too much power." }, { - "proverb": "\"Rome wasn't built in a day.\"", + "text": "\"Rome wasn't built in a day.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Doing important work takes a long time. Be patient." }, { - "proverb": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", + "text": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Slow and consistent work leads to better chance of success than quick work in spurts. You shouldn't use all of your energy at the beginning of a project. Work slowly so that you won't run out of energy quickly." }, { - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", "category": "english", "description": "People who don't talk a lot sometimes have really interesting thoughts." }, { - "proverb": "\"Curiosity killed the cat.\"", + "text": "\"Curiosity killed the cat.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no rose without a thorn.\"", + "text": "\"There is no rose without a thorn.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.\"", + "text": "\"You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", + "text": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you have a good opportunity, go for it. Don't wait for too long." }, { - "proverb": "\"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.\"", + "text": "\"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Children are very similar to their parents." }, { - "proverb": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", + "text": "\"The road to hell is paved with good intentions.\"", "category": "english", "description": "What you want or intend to do doesn't matter. Your actions matter. Simply wanting to do the right thing isn't enough; you have to actually do the right thing." }, { - "proverb": "\"The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach.\"", + "text": "\"The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Men love women who can cook well." }, { - "proverb": "\"There's no such thing as bad publicity.\"", + "text": "\"There's no such thing as bad publicity.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When people talk about a business, it's good for the business, even if they're saying bad things about it." }, { - "proverb": "\"Time is money.\"", + "text": "\"Time is money.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Wasting time is expensive, so hurry up!" }, { - "proverb": "\"A tree is known by its fruit.\"", + "text": "\"A tree is known by its fruit.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Two is company, three is a crowd.\"", + "text": "\"Two is company, three is a crowd.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You say this when you want to be alone with someone (often because you are romantically interested in them) but someone else is also with you. In other words, you want the third person to go away." }, { - "proverb": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", + "text": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you do bad things to other people, bad things will happen to you. On the other hand, good things will happen to you if you do good things to other people." }, { - "proverb": "\"What goes up must come down.\"", + "text": "\"What goes up must come down.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Nothing can continue to increase forever. Everything that grows or rises will shrink or fall eventually." }, { - "proverb": "\"What's good for the goose is good for the gander.\"", + "text": "\"What's good for the goose is good for the gander.\"", "category": "english", "description": "A goose is a type of bird. A gander is the male version of that bird. So this phrase means that things which are good for women are also good for men, and vice versa." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", + "text": "\"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.\"", "category": "english", "description": "To get what you want, be nice to people. Don't yell at them or be mean." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can't have your cake and eat it too.\"", + "text": "\"You can't have your cake and eat it too.\"", "category": "english", - "description": "This means that you can't have everything you want. There are trade-offs in life. You may also hear people say that you can have your cake and eat it too." + "description": "This means that you can't have everything you want. There are trade-offs in life. You may also hear people say that you can have your cake and eat it too." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can't teach an old dog new tricks.\"", + "text": "\"You can't teach an old dog new tricks.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Older people don't change their habits easily." }, { - "proverb": "\"You reap what you sow.\"", + "text": "\"You reap what you sow.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Your actions have consequences. When you do good things, good things happen to you. When you do bad things, bad things happen to you." }, { - "proverb": "\"Two wrongs don't make a right.\"", + "text": "\"Two wrongs don't make a right.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When someone has done something bad to you, trying to get revenge will only make things worse." }, { - "proverb": "\"The pen is mightier than the sword.\"", + "text": "\"The pen is mightier than the sword.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Trying to convince people with ideas and words is more effective than trying to force people to do what you want." }, { - "proverb": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans.\"", + "text": "\"When in Rome, do as the Romans.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Act the way that the people around you are acting. This phrase might come in handy when you're traveling abroad notice that people do things differently than you're used to." }, { - "proverb": "\"The squeaky wheel gets the grease.\"", + "text": "\"The squeaky wheel gets the grease.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You can get better service if you complain about something. If you wait patiently, no one's going to help you." }, { - "proverb": "\"When the going gets tough, the tough get going.\"", + "text": "\"When the going gets tough, the tough get going.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Strong people don't give up when they come across challenges. They just work harder." }, { - "proverb": "\"We must learn to walk before we can run.\"", + "text": "\"We must learn to walk before we can run.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"No man is an island.\"", + "text": "\"No man is an island.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You can't live completely independently. Everyone needs help from other people." }, { - "proverb": "\"Fortune favors the bold.\"", + "text": "\"Fortune favors the bold.\"", "category": "english", "description": "People who bravely go after what they want are more successful than people who try to live safely." }, { - "proverb": "\"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.\"", + "text": "\"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't criticize other people if you're not perfect yourself." }, { - "proverb": "\"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.\"", + "text": "\"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Bad things might happen, so be prepared." }, { - "proverb": "\"Better late than never.\"", + "text": "\"Better late than never.\"", "category": "english", "description": "It's best to do something on time. But if you can't do it on time, do it late." }, { - "proverb": "\"Birds of a feather flock together.\"", + "text": "\"Birds of a feather flock together.\"", "category": "english", "description": "People like to spend time with others who are similar to them." }, { - "proverb": "\"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.\"", + "text": "\"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you have an enemy, pretend to be friends with them instead of openly fighting with them. That way you can watch them carefully and figure out what they're planning." }, { - "proverb": "\"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"", + "text": "\"A picture is worth a thousand words.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Pictures convey emotions and messages better than written or spoken explanations. That's why PhraseMix has illustrations :)" }, { - "proverb": "\"There's no such thing as a free lunch.\"", + "text": "\"There's no such thing as a free lunch.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Things that are offered for free always have a hidden cost." }, { - "proverb": "\"There's no place like home.\"", + "text": "\"There's no place like home.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Your own home is the most comfortable place to be." }, { - "proverb": "\"Discretion is the greater part of valor.\"", + "text": "\"Discretion is the greater part of valor.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Sometimes it's important to know when to give up and run away, instead of always acting brave and maybe getting hurt." }, { - "proverb": "\"The early bird catches the worm.\"", + "text": "\"The early bird catches the worm.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You should wake up and start work early if you want to succeed." }, { - "proverb": "\"Never look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", + "text": "\"Never look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If someone offers you a gift, don't question it." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.\"", + "text": "\"You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you try to do something great, you'll probably make a few people annoyed or angry. Don't worry about those people; just focus on the good results." }, { - "proverb": "\"God helps those who help themselves.\"", + "text": "\"God helps those who help themselves.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't just wait for good things to happen to you. Work hard to achieve your goals." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can't always get what you want.\"", + "text": "\"You can't always get what you want.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't whine and complain if you don't get what you wanted." }, { - "proverb": "\"Cleanliness is next to godliness.\"", + "text": "\"Cleanliness is next to godliness.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Be clean. God likes that." }, { - "proverb": "\"A watched pot never boils.\"", + "text": "\"A watched pot never boils.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If something takes time to finish, don't watch it too closely because it will seem like it's taking forever." }, { - "proverb": "\"Beggars can't be choosers.\"", + "text": "\"Beggars can't be choosers.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you're asking for a favor from someone else, you have to take whatever they give you." }, { - "proverb": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", + "text": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Just saying that you'll do something doesn't mean much. Actually doing it is harder and more meaningful." }, { - "proverb": "\"All is well that ends well.\"", + "text": "\"All is well that ends well.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"If it ain't broke, don't fix it.\"", + "text": "\"If it ain't broke, don't fix it.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't try to improve something that already works fairly well. You'll probably end up causing new problems." }, { - "proverb": "\"Practice makes perfect.\"", + "text": "\"Practice makes perfect.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You have to practice a skill a lot to become good at it." }, { - "proverb": "\"Too many cooks spoil the broth.\"", + "text": "\"Too many cooks spoil the broth.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When there are too many people trying to lead and give their opinions, it's confusing and leads to bad results. Jobs and projects should have one or two strong leaders." }, { - "proverb": "\"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.\"", + "text": "\"People who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.\"", "category": "english", "description": "It means to say that a person should not criticize others when they themselves have similar faults or are not completely faultless." }, { - "proverb": "\"Easy come, easy go.\"", + "text": "\"Easy come, easy go.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you get money quickly, like by winning it, it's easy to spend it or lose it quickly as well." }, { - "proverb": "\"You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.\"", + "text": "\"You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.\"", + "text": "\"Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.\"", + "text": "\"When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t have your cake and eat it too.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"We never know the value of water till the well is dry.\"", + "text": "\"We never know the value of water till the well is dry.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"То throw a stone in one's own garden.\"", + "text": "\"То throw a stone in one's own garden.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A leopard cannot change its spots.\"", + "text": "\"A leopard cannot change its spots.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." }, { - "proverb": "\"A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.\"", + "text": "\"A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.\"", + "text": "\"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A little body often harbours a great soul.\"", + "text": "\"A little body often harbours a great soul.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A guilty conscience needs no accuser.\"", + "text": "\"A guilty conscience needs no accuser.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.\"", + "text": "\"A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A Jack of all trades is master of none.\"", + "text": "\"A Jack of all trades is master of none.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don’t make plans based on something that has not happened yet or something that has not been achieved yet." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't bite the hand that feeds you.\"", + "text": "\"Don't bite the hand that feeds you.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If someone's paying you or helping you out, you have to be careful not to make them angry or say bad things about them." }, { - "proverb": "\"All good things must come to an end.\"", + "text": "\"All good things must come to an end.\"", "category": "english", "description": "You can't keep having good luck or fun forever; eventually it will stop." }, { - "proverb": "\"One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.\"", + "text": "\"One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.\"", + "text": "\"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you try to change someone's behavior and it doesn't work, you might have to change instead. For example, if you're trying to get your classmates to focus on studying but they want to party, maybe you should just party with them." }, { - "proverb": "\"One man's trash is another man's treasure.\"", + "text": "\"One man's trash is another man's treasure.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Different people have different ideas about what's valuable." }, { - "proverb": "\"There's no time like the present.\"", + "text": "\"There's no time like the present.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you need to do something, don't wait until later. Do it now." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t make a mountain out of an anthill\"", + "text": "\"Don’t make a mountain out of an anthill\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"The cat is out of the bag\"", + "text": "\"The cat is out of the bag\"", "category": "english", "description": "Truth will out" }, { - "proverb": "\"Put your best foot forward.\"", + "text": "\"Put your best foot forward.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s better to be safe than sorry.\"", + "text": "\"It’s better to be safe than sorry.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t bite off more than you can chew.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t bite off more than you can chew.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\"", + "text": "\"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Different people have different ideas about what's beautiful." }, { - "proverb": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", + "text": "\"Necessity is the mother of invention.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you're really in need, you think of creative solutions to your problems." }, { - "proverb": "\"A penny saved is a penny earned.\"", + "text": "\"A penny saved is a penny earned.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Save your money. Saving money is just like making money." }, { - "proverb": "\"Familiarity breeds contempt.\"", + "text": "\"Familiarity breeds contempt.\"", "category": "english", "description": "When you're around someone for too long, you get tired of them and annoyed by them." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can't judge a book by its cover.\"", + "text": "\"You can't judge a book by its cover.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Things sometimes look different than they really are. A restaurant that looks old and small might have amazing food, for example." }, { - "proverb": "\"Good things come to those who wait.\"", + "text": "\"Good things come to those who wait.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Be patient. Eventually something good will happen to you." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't put all your eggs in one basket.\"", + "text": "\"Don't put all your eggs in one basket.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Have a backup plan. Don't risk all of your money or time in one plan." }, { - "proverb": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill.\"", + "text": "\"The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill.\"", "category": "english", "description": "People tend to want whatever they don't have." }, { - "proverb": "\"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\"", + "text": "\"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't do mean things to people." }, { - "proverb": "\"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.\"", + "text": "\"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If one member of a team doesn't perform well, the whole team will fail." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"He that mischief hatches mischief catches.\"", + "text": "\"He that mischief hatches mischief catches.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Honesty is the best policy.\"", + "text": "\"Honesty is the best policy.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't lie." }, { - "proverb": "\"As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.\"", + "text": "\"As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Where there's muck there's brass.\"", + "text": "\"Where there's muck there's brass.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", + "text": "\"Absence makes the heart grow fonder.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Sometimes it's good to be away from your partner, because it makes you want to see each other again." }, { - "proverb": "\"A cat may look at a king.\"", + "text": "\"A cat may look at a king.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", + "text": "\"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"Like father, like son.\"", + "text": "\"Like father, like son.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"A man is known by the company he keeps.\"", + "text": "\"A man is known by the company he keeps.\"", "category": "english", "description": "" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.\"", + "text": "\"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If you try to help someone, but they don't take your advice or offers, give up. You can't force someone to accept your help." }, { - "proverb": "\"Don't count your chickens before they hatch.\"", + "text": "\"Don't count your chickens before they hatch.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Your plans might not work out, so don't start thinking about what you'll do after you succeed. Wait until you've already succeeded, and then you can think about what to do next." }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.\"", + "text": "\"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Don't trust other people to do important things for you. You have to do things yourself to control the quality of the results." }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t judge a book by its cover.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t judge a book by its cover.\"", "category": "english", "description": "Do not judge things by the way they appear, their actual nature or function might be completely different." }, { - "proverb": "\"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\"", + "text": "\"If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.\"", "category": "english", "description": "If something is going well or working properly, it should be left as it is and should not be interfered with." } ], - "spanish": [ + "azerbaijani": [ { - "proverb": "\"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.\"", + "text": "\"Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.\"", "description": "", - "category": "spanish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.\"", + "text": "\"Smart bird gets trapped in its beak.\"", "description": "", - "category": "spanish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Opportunity knocks only once.\"", - "category": "spanish", - "description": "Always seize an opportunity when it comes your way as you may not get another chance at it." - } - ], - "danish": [ + "text": "\"The dog barks, the caravan passes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t sail out farther than you can row back.\"", + "text": "\"I wish God had not made the left hand to need the right hand.\"", "description": "", - "category": "danish" - } - ], - "russian": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.\"", + "text": "\"Unearned riches are forbidden.\"", "description": "", - "category": "russian" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Your elbow is close but you can’t bite it.\"", - "category": "russian", - "description": "A way to express when someone is physically present but emotionally distant or when something can be seen but is just beyond your reach." - } - ], - "arabic": [ + "text": "\"Without sowing single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Do good and throw it in the sea.\"", + "text": "\"A man would not lick what he spit.\"", "description": "", - "category": "arabic" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Examine what is said, not who speaks.\"", + "text": "\"Cheap meat never makes a good soup.\"", "description": "", - "category": "arabic" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"To call a man a thief gives him the right to be one.\"", - "category": "old arabic", - "description": "Treating someone in an unfair or cruel way will ensure a similar behaviour from them in the future." - } - ], - "french": [ + "text": "\"Even if your relative eats your meat, he will never discard your bones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.\"", + "text": "\"Do a good deed, and throw it into the sea. If the fish don’t appreciate it, the Creator will.\"", "description": "", - "category": "french" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is.\"", + "text": "\"White money should be collected for a black day.\"", "description": "", - "category": "french" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"A clear conscience is a soft pillow.\"", - "category": "french", - "description": "If a person is guilty of some wrongdoing, their guilty conscience will let them have no rest, while an innocent person will be peaceful and calm." - } - ], - "kenyan": [ + "text": "\"To tell the dog to catch, and the rabbit to run.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.\"", + "text": "\"The child is sweeter than honey.\"", "description": "", - "category": "kenyan" - } - ], - "latin": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Wrap yourself together in a carpet and roll together with your kinsmen.\"", "description": "", - "category": "latin" - } - ], - "moorish": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"He who does not travel, does not know the value of men.\"", + "text": "\"One hint is enough for a clever man.\"", "description": "", - "category": "moorish" - } - ], - "swiss": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"The night rinses what the day has soaped.\"", + "text": "\"He can’t see the beam in his own, but he’s looking for an eyelash in someone else’s.\"", "description": "", - "category": "swiss" - } - ], - "turkish": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Measure a thousand times and cut once.\"", + "text": "\"Mouth will not be sweet when you say \"sweet\" .\"", "description": "", - "category": "turkish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"A man does not seek his luck; luck seeks its man.\"", + "text": "\"A good horse never needs a whip.\"", "description": "", - "category": "turkish" - } - ], - "ethiopian": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.\"", + "text": "\"Courage mounteth with occasion.\"", "description": "", - "category": "ethiopian" - } - ], - "german": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Who begins too much accomplishes little.\"", + "text": "\"Flies are nothing, but they make you sick.\"", "description": "", - "category": "german" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"A teacher is better than two books.\"", + "text": "\"Tree would bend when it bears fruit.\"", "description": "", - "category": "german" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late.\"", + "text": "\"Every tree casts shadow on its own bottom.\"", "description": "", - "category": "german" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"The eyes believe themselves, the ears believe other people.\"", - "category": "german", - "description": "Do not believe everything that everyone says to you, trust your own judgement or wait to see something with your own eyes before believing someone." - } - ], - "afghan": [ + "text": "\"Never mind storms and snows for the sake of a friend.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.\"", + "text": "\"He doesn’t even urinate on a wound.\"", "description": "", - "category": "afghan" - } - ], - "african": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.\"", + "text": "\"Wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.\"", "description": "", - "category": "african" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"It takes a whole village to raise a child.\"", + "text": "\"The tip of the pen, power of the sword.\"", "description": "", - "category": "african" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"An axe forgets what the tree remembers.\"", - "category": "german", - "description": "It is easy for someone who is hurting another person to forget the wrong and move on but the person who was hurt never forgets." - } - ], - "icelandic": [ + "text": "\"He gets along with fire and water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Character is always corrupted by prosperity.\"", + "text": "\"The forest can’t be without its jackals.\"", "description": "", - "category": "icelandic" - } - ], - "swedish": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.\"", + "text": "\"Drop by drop would make a lake.\"", "description": "", - "category": "swedish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself.\"", - "category": "swedish", - "description": "A person should spend only on essential or necessary items and avoid frivolous expenses." - } - ], - "italian": [ + "text": "\"Doing well in return for good is a deed of every man. Doing well for bad is the hallmark of an honorable man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"If you can’t live longer, live deeper.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t buy a house, buy a neighbor.\"", "description": "", - "category": "italian" - } - ], - "irish": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Age is honorable and youth is noble.\"", + "text": "\"Never check the teeth of a horse that has been given by a wealthy landowner.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Three things that are never visible: the tip of the blade, wind, and love.\"", + "text": "\"The child who doesn’t cry will not get milk.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"The heart of loved ones is your strength\"", + "text": "\"Daughter, I’m telling you; daughter-in-law, listen.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"The one who kisses in public often makes you cry in private.\"", + "text": "\"One hand washes the other hand, which, in turn washes the face.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Open your eyes wide before marriage, close your eyes after marriage.\"", + "text": "\"Look at my color, know my mood.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Love should be shared with your wife and secrets with mother.\"", + "text": "\"The one who is shy will never have a son.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"Love at first sight often comes at dusk.\"", + "text": "\"A mad man drops a rock into water well, so that thousand wise men cannot take it out.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"The kiss is as pleasant as delicious food, but it lasts shorter.\"", + "text": "\"Tongue may muddle up and say the truth.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"If whiskey cannot cure love – this love is hopeless!\"", + "text": "\"The dog is sleeping in the cart’s shade but thinks it’s his own.\"", "description": "", - "category": "irish" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"A drink precedes a story.\"", - "category": "irish", - "description": "When a man is inebriated, they are more likely to tell the stories or occurrences that they normally wouldn’t if they were sober." - } - ], - "egyptian": [ + "text": "\"Overtakes whom gets, and stones who doesn’t.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"A beautiful thing is never perfect.\"", + "text": "\"Bless the builders, damn the slayers!\"", "description": "", - "category": "egyptian" - } - ], - "japanese": [ + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Fall seven times, stand up eight.\"", + "text": "\"The person who learns music late in life will play in his grave.\"", "description": "", - "category": "japanese" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.\"", + "text": "\"Things happen only when the right time comes.\"", "description": "", - "category": "japanese" + "category": "azerbaijani" }, { - "proverb": "\"To make the tea cloudy.\"", - "category": "japanese", - "description": "It means to be evasive or non-committal about something, it comes from a Japanese wedding and tea rituals." - } - ], - "armenian": [ + "text": "\"Teach others what you really know and not what you just read about.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, { - "proverb": "\"To be willing is only half the task.\"", + "text": "\"The more you know, the less you should talk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man says his word to the face.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Those who get up and marry early, achieve success.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"A faithful friend never becomes a stranger, never mind if he hasn’t seen you for a hundred years.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Grass grows on its roots.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hope is better than eating.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Mollah is a human, if an oak will produce an almond.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eating much deprives a person of even eating little.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even if one is beautiful, if he does not have a good heart, he is still a bad person.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Laughter is the remedy for 1001 illnesses.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Politeness is not sold in the bazaar.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"One’s own simple bread is much better than someone else’s pilaf.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Mullah is sick when poor dies.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"A guest is a light in the house.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "azerbaijani" + }, + { + "text": "\"Money is dirt on the hands. 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"description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to ask the way than to go astray.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who goes with wolves learns to howl.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dead men have no friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fools walk in where angels fear to tread.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who wants to bring home the riches of India, he must have them within himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you 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"description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Actions speak louder than words.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Appetite comes with eating.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"I wept when I was born and as each day passes I know why.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who lost his faith, has nothing more to lose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"For a chaste woman God is enough.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall see.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who divides gets the 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"category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Let fools and wind pass.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool is someone who trusts another fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "spanish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Opportunity knocks only once.\"", + "category": "spanish", + "description": "Always seize an opportunity when it comes your way as you may not get another chance at it." + } + ], + "danish": [ + { + "text": "\"Sight before hearsay.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "danish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love is one-eyed, hate is blind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "danish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eggs and oaths are easily broken.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "danish" + 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A wolf can disguise himself as a sheep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"A good surgeon must have a hawk’s eye, a lion’s heart and a woman’s hand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is a fine thing to command, though it be only a herd of cattle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you drink Brugal (rum) you either fight or have sex.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"One nail raises another nail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"By trying is how you will know.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t be like the shadow: a constant companion, yet not a comrade.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never say from that water I will never drink.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Until the nail is hit, it doesn’t believe in the hammer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The rain that is going to fall doesn’t wet you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If fate throws a knife at you, there are two ways of catching it: by the blade or by the handle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"After the excuses were given, everybody got along fine.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Make do with what is available.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The devil always paints himself black, but we always see him rose-colored.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Life has always been a mixture of joy and pain, wealth and poverty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"To overcome many problems, to go over the waterfalls on a bicycle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Shine now for your day will come.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Neither with God or the Devil.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you are really hungry no bread is too hard to eat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nicknames are used in case the Devil comes asking for you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you can buy the cow by the pound why buy the entire cow?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"What goes around comes around.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who hangs out with a dog will learn how to bark.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "dominican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Absence is the enemy of love; 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Such is life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tomorrow the snow will melt and grass will appear.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The unlucky are unlucky even if they hang a lantern on their head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The Holy month of Ramadan is generous.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The glory is for the rice, and the bulgur wheat has hanged itself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Stretch your legs up to the size of your quilt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sometimes coincidence is better than a thousand meetings.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nothing can scratch your skin but your nail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Like a deaf in the loud wedding party.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the desert of life the wise person travels with a group, while the fool prefers to travel alone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If your dear one is a honey, do not lick it all.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you have no shame , then do whatever you want.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the water is available you need not clean up with sand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If destiny does not fit you, fit yourself to destiny.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"God’s Word is alive with energy\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Get away from the evil and sing for him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eating and grazing and no job to do.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t give in one inch to the devil\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Craziness is an art.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Being hit by a dear person or by your lover is like eating raisins.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"All sunshine makes the desert\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jordanian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A promise is a cloud; 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the hungry think of stealing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The unfortunate would be bitten by toothless dogs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The young magpie that pulls feathers out of his mother thinks that he is showing gratitude in that way.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t praise my good fortune before I’m dead and buried.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"To a tendai monk, everything is wonderful.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Learn what you want and leave or others.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Any fool can say \"Ah\" — you need intelligence to say \"Yes.\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only a certain amount of flowers and jewels are beautiful.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Spreading the news is also multiplying it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sow good and you’ll reap good; 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You don’t have to cut down a tree to get its fruit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is easy to see the fly on the other person’s nose, while ignoring the horse on your own.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Landing a single punch on your enemy’s nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Excellent people are honored wherever they go.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The thousand brilliant accomplishments of the past cannot serve today’s purpose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"When drinking water, think about the source.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t trust a hungry man to watch your rice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The wise understand; fools follow the reports of others.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If your inner mind isn’t deceived, your outer actions won’t be wrong.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is easier to put leather on the soles of one’s feet than cover the world with leather.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The essence of the spirit is space; there is nothing it holds to in the end.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If peace reigns in the land, a nun can govern it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is hard work to be the mother of many pigs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"An elephant has enormous dung — don’t try to defecate like an elephant. Don’t try to wipe someone else’s ass if yours is un wiped.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better than the young man’s knowledge is the old man’s experience.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel passion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Thieves never steal bells.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The father may well be a horse, but it’s most likely that the son will be a mule.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Without a woman’s help, a man cannot set up a tent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Cure the illness that is not yet an illness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The rubbish we speak is like froth on the water, actions are drops of gold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lies are short-lived.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"At the bottom of patience is Heaven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Our best masters are those who make us suffer the most.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"To change the world we must first change ourselves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are no incurable diseases but only incurable people.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"A child without education is like a bird without wings.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Those who have saved one life have saved the entire world.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"With a resolute heart, a mouse can lift an elephant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"As a thing is viewed, so it appears.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"A hundred male and a hundred female qualities make a perfect human being.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Medicine that heals is not always sweet and caring words are not always pleasant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Traveling is a return to the essentials.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The world’s Great Journeys begin with the first step.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Luck that lasts is always suspected.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If it is here, it is everywhere. If it is not here, it is nowhere.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t notice the tiny flea in the other person’s hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The wish is father to the thought.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Rebellious thoughts are like an abandoned house overtaken by robbers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tibetan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I tell you my dream, you might forget it. 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"\"The way you made your bed is the way you’ll sleep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Rain is innocent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fire burns where it strikes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fool fell asleep and dreamt a foolish dream.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mirror will show you whatever you show it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"What wind has blown to bring you here?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"They’re asking us for an ox and a donkey.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fox was hiding but its tail could be seen.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"For a flea he burns the blanket.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": 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mountains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everyone has his pain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Having come to the dance you will dance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"I’d rather lose my eye than my good name.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fish rots from the head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He settled down like soft water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give the fool a sausage and he tells you it’s bent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The child of the wise cooks before it hungers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lay to rest the anger of the night till the morning.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lazy donkey is an over-laden 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"text": "\"Mountains are used to snow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The one not dancing knows lots of songs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Death keeps coming round but I send him back. I’ll marry off my grandchildren and then I’ll welcome him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"I command my cat and she commands her kittens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"One woman is owed to you by God.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fool threw a rock in the well and a thousand clever men went to pull it out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is I who built you, my oven, and it is I who’ll knock you down.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"God wants those he loves close to Him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A good understanding makes good friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"When your garden’s dry don’t pour water in other gardens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Can a 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+ "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give the thief the key.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who hasn’t seen mountains and castles is amazed by the sight of an oven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Life without friends is death without mourners.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Talk little for a sweet life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The one who enters without saying hello or good day, take him to the fair and sell him for whatever you can get; and as for the one who when greeted doesn’t reply, give him away at the fair if you see he isn’t selling.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Some sow and reap, others eat and cavort.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The ancients fasted to say these things.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A cunning woman will lead a man astray, and if he’s uneducated she’ll teach him to chant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A slipped tongue speaks the truth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tell me what company you keep and I’ll tell you what kind of man you are.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"We’re hungry and lean.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He’s pulled out both the rope and the post.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A virtuous woman is always praised.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"We kept saying our pig was good and it turned out bad.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The good captain shows himself in a storm.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The donkey brought them to us and the donkey ate them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"With a relative, eat, drink, but never do business.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t shake your legs before you’ve mounted.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who denies the cat bread has his clothes eaten by mice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give the baker bread to eat for he deserves it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do a good deed and cast it to sea.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"They belong in their home and we belong in ours.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The rabbit has different eyes than the owl’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each child brings its own 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"text": "\"A good village needs no guide.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Wherever you find me, wherever I find you, Friday we’ll meet in Nicosia.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"They took us to water and brought us back thirsty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The end sanctifies the means.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Does he who is wet fear the rain?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dance, Mrs. Maru, but keep an eye on the child.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the cannon can sort it out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I tell you it means I know something.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"A walnut from every walnut-tree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": 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"text": "\"Take care so that God takes care of you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He’s small but he’s a rock.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"An egg cracks an egg.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Let me be with my friend in grief and my enemy in joy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Learn a trade and hang it on a post.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whatever befalls the priest let it befall the priest’s wife.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"She wants a husband and she wants him now.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"So that they miss you, delay before they see you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The talk of many drives a man mad.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" 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"description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tie your donkey (first) and (worry about other things) later.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"The devil had no work so fucked his children.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there’s a tree there’s shade.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bathe a dog, wash a dog, still it stinks of dog.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"They got the fox to mind the hens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"You tell me, I’ll tell you and so we’ll pass the time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"He beats the bride to frighten the mother-in-law.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where it rains it shows, where it snows it whitens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cypriot" + } 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"walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"The more the billy goat stinks, the more the nanny goat loves him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"A tree falls the way it leans.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"In dark weather the devil is in the air.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who keeps his mouth shut, dies without confession.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t make use of another’s mouth unless it has been leant to you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"He started with nothing and still he has just his begging bag.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"As one nail drives out another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to be alone than to be in bad company.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "walloon" + } + ], + "babylonian": [ + { + "text": "\"Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I put anything down it is snatched away; if I do more than is expected, who will repay me?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tall grain thrives, but what do we understand of it? The meager grain thrives, but what do we understand of it?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The life of day before yesterday has departed today.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Be gentle to your enemy as to an old oven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The gods do not deduct from marls allotted span the hours spent fishing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is strife where servants are, slander where anointers anoint.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t trust the smile of your opponent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An ass in another city becomes its head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The strong live by their own wages; the weak by the wages of their children.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"My knees go, my feet are unwearied; but a fool has cut into my course.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The city whose weapons are not strong the enemy before its gates shall not be thrust through.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Friendship in days of prosperity is servitude forever.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you go and take the field of an enemy, the enemy will come and take your field.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Does a woman conceive when a virgin, or grow great without eating?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"His ass I am; I am harnessed to a mule—a wagon I draw, to seek reeds and fodder I go forth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The face of a toiling ox you shall not strike with a goad.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Upon a glad heart oil is poured out of which no one knows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the husk is not right, the kernel is not right, it will not produce seed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He has dug a well where no water is, he has raised a husk without kernel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He is altogether good, but he is clothed with darkness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The gift of the king is the nobility of the exalted; the gift of the king is the favor of governors.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you see the gain of the fear of god, exalt god and bless the king.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "babylonian" + } + ], + "haitian": [ + { + "text": "\"You don’t know a man before he takes a woman.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the cat’s stomach is full, the rat’s back is bitter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To stumble is not to fall.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To speak French doesn’t mean you are smart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The pencil of God has no eraser.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The good white man dies, the bad one remains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The goat that has many owners will be left to die in the sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The donkey sweats so the horse can be decorated with lace.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The dog has four feet, but he does not walk in four roads at the same time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The crab that walks miles too far will fall into the pot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The constitution is paper, bayonets are steel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The child says nothing, but what it heard by the fire.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The child of a tiger is a tiger.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Salt does not brag that it is salted.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Poor people entertain with the heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Little by little, the bird builds its nest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If they had cereal, they’d want gumbo.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eggs have no business dancing with stones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t insult the alligator until you’ve crossed the river.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Children learn to creep before they can learn to go.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Children have wide ears and long tongues.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beyond the mountain is another mountain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better rags than nakedness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Being careful is not being a coward.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beat the dog; wait for its master.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An empty sack cannot stand up.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"All food is fit to eat, but not all words are fit to speak.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Age and marriage tame the beast.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A stumble is not a fall.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A single finger cannot catch fleas.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A monkey never thinks her baby’s ugly.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Poor people entertain with the heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "haitian" + } + ], + "algerian": [ + { + "text": "\"Peace wins over wealth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One hand can’t applaud.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A friend is someone who shares your happiness and your pains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Speak kindly or refrain from talking.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"People who do not know your virtues might do you harm.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To associate oneself is a dangerous move.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hand which gives is better than the one which receives.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once we have something, we take it for granted.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never rely on something you do not own.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The only thing left in the valley are its stones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The soft tongue is sucked by the lioness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Since we didn’t say anything, he thought he could do whatever he wanted to.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You know who your friend and your enemy are during difficult moments.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Union is strength.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A secret for two is soon a secret for nobody.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Cross the loud river but don’t cross the silent one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When I think of the others’s misfortunes, I forget mine.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Walls have ears.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"We taught them to pray, they got to the Mosque before us.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"As we didn’t say a word, he thought he could do anything he liked.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Experience must always be taken into account.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even short events need a lot of planning and preparation.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A sensible enemy is better than a narrow-minded friend.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The one who shows his fears ensures his salvation.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"They only fall asleep after having mutually taken an oath and then they betray each other.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beauty is a relative perception.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do bad and remember, do good and forget.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"People are not aware of their weaknesses, but tend to see other people’s flaws.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When he was alive, he looked enviously at any dates. When he died, they hung a bunch for him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the victim feels really the pain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Greedy people cannot have enough.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Some people tend to disturb others, but would never accept to be disturbed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Your eye is the only way you can judge things.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Patience is the key to paradise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The union of means triumphs over the lion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The crow wanted to mimic the pigeon’s walk and forgot his own.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "algerian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Friendship, we call it friendship, but without 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The country is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The southern part of Iraq is within the Arabian Peninsula. The largest ethnic groups in Iraq are Arabs and Kurds. Other ethnic groups include Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians, and Kawliya. Around 95% of the country’s 36 million citizens are Shia or Sunni Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan, Yezidism, and Mandeanism also present.Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2011, is approximately 7,216,040, making it the largest city in Iraq.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iraqi" + }, + { + "text": "\"Arabic is the majority language; Kurdish is spoken by approximately 10–15% of the population. 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And all who contribute bring light to our world.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bedouin" + }, + { + "text": "\"The braid must never walk before the moustache.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bedouin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Truth may walk through the world unarmed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bedouin" + } + ], + "ivorian": [ + { + "text": "\"Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ivorian" + } + ], + "yemeni": [ + { + "text": "\"If you give people nuts, you’ll get shells thrown at you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yemeni" + } + ], + "russian": [ + { + "text": "\"Even the sword doesn’t cut the head of the one who confesses.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If God listened to every shepherd’s curse, our sheep would all be dead.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There may be deep bottoms in still waters.\"", + 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"text": "\"An old loan repaid is like finding something new.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is unpleasant to go alone, even to be drowned.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"After all, every man is the son of a woman.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Friendship is friendship but service is service.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tears come more often from the eyes than from the heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Envy sees the sea but not the rocks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The peasant sweats and the nobleman is always right.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A drop 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Once it flies out, you can’t catch it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a needle sees a dagger, she cries \"O sister!\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The offender never forgives.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Morning is wiser than the evening.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A field in common is always ravaged by bears.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Another’s cow can moo, yours had best stay silent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tears of strangers are only water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not every glittering thing is gold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A proverb can’t be judged.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You 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"text": "\"Close to the Tsar, close to death.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Any wise man has enough of simplicity.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Complacent fool harms worse than enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Partnership is an invention of the devil.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you cut it, you won’t get it back.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When he mounts his horse he forgets God; when he dismounts, he forgets his horse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The blind cannot see — the proud will not.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each time it’s different.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not the place adorns the man, but a man adorns the place.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The future is for those who know how to wait.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ask a lot, but take what is offered.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hunger is not your aunt .\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to turn back than to lose your way.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I ran from the wolf but ran into a bear.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Truth is spoken from the toddler’s mouth; From the mouth of babes\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"With 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"category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"How echo is prompted, it will bounce back.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A tale is told quickly, but the job is done slowly.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If given – take it; if beaten – run away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Jesus Christ was crucified by public opinion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I sell it for what I bought it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No year has two summers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t boast when you start out, but when you get there.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The further into the woods, the more firewood you’ll encounter .\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You don’t learn anything 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who doesn’t dream of becoming a general is a bad one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the Tsar sins the Empire must do penance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It will snap where it’s thinnest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Death does not come free of charge, for it costs us our life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Measure seven times, cut once.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"First do it, then say it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hearth in our house is warmer than our neighbor’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go 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+ "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"They say they milk chickens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If one hand were the other they would both want to be clean.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fish seek a deep place, men seek a better place.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Wine bears no blame — only the drunkard.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A toad too would like to crack nuts, but he has no teeth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A wife should be as humble as a lamb, busy as a bee, as beautiful as a bird of paradise and faithful as a turtle dove.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Badly oiled wheels will squeak.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ears do not grow higher than the head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If and when mushrooms grew in the mouth, that would have been not mouth but kitchen garden.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tambourines are good when they are behind mountains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One glass is for health, second one is for fun, third one is for nothing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Without the shepherd, sheep are not a flock.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t blame your wife’s side if your son is cross-eyed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What comes out of one mouth goes into a hundred others.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only a fool will make a doctor his heir.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who owns the bank owns the fish.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To live with wolves, you have to howl like a wolf.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The eye can see it, but the tooth can’t bite it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Cry and the whole world cries with you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No apple tree is immune from worms.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Around bread there will always be crumbs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t put it in my ear, but in my hand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A judge and a stomach do their asking in silence.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lonely person is at home everywhere.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Law is like the shaft of a cart, it points wherever you turn it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t be afraid of the dog who barks, but be afraid of the one, who is silent and wags its tail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You need sharp axes for knotty trees.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Shame is worse than death.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who talks little hears better.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If rubles fell from heaven the poor would have no bag.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bread and salt never quarrel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What the heart doesn’t see, the eye will not see either.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When money speaks the truth is silent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Out of sight, out of heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not all who make love make marriages.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Soap is grey but it used to be white.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Seat the pig at the table, she’ll put her legs on the table.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Poor people are crafty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the claw is stuck, the whole bird is lost.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The vulture embraced the chicken until its last breath.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"As soon as your cart is turned over, everyone rushes to give you advice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never kiss an opportunity with a dirty mouth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"As long as the sun shines one does not ask for the moon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Custom is stronger than law.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + 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"description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot build a wall with one stone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A thief’s hat burns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Your tongue will take you as far as Kiev.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A job feeds a man, laziness spoils him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"On a fishing lull, even a crayfish is fish , at the lack people even a lazybones is a human being .\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t look for a sea when you can drown in a puddle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you throw nettles into your neighbors garden you will find them growing in your own.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even good dogs have fleas.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Other people’s money has sharp teeth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If Jesus Christ comes to help me, I laugh at the angels.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Unless thunder strikes, a man won’t cross himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not spit into a well—it may be useful to drink water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t ask the old one, ask the experienced one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Habit is second nature.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Moustaches are respected, and beards worn even by goats.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A priest’s belly is made up of several sheepskins.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fisherman can tell another fisherman from afar.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"For a drunk, the sea is knee-deep\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even a cat appreciates kind words .\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is easier for the mare when a woman is off the cart..\"", + "description": "", + "category": "russian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bachelor is never sent 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The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "saudi arabian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the presence of Fate, the physician becomes a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "arabian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do good and throw it in the sea.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "arabian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Examine what is said, not who speaks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "arabian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To call a man a thief gives him the right to be one.\"", + "category": "old arabic", + "description": "Treating someone in an unfair or cruel way will ensure a similar behaviour from them in the future." + } + ], + "belizean": [ + { + "text": "\"Never drop the bone to catch the shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "belizean" + } + ], + "indonesian": [ + { + "text": "\"With willingness, there is a possibility.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man finds what he takes to be small; it will only be big again when he loses it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A person slips, and a ladder falls on him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Moth will eat the finest linen.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An empty drum gives loud sound.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Be sick then have fun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Before you let your voice be heard, first lick your lips.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better one bird in the hand than 10 birds on the tree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beware, the enemy lies under your blanket.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Calm water does not mean there are no crocodiles.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Cannot dance but blame the floor as uneven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Death is the bride of life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Different fields have different insect, different ponds have different fish.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Different men have different opinions; some prefer apples, some onions.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Diligence is the beginning of brilliance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t stay on the dew until the sun reaches its highest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Expecting something bigger and we let go what we already have.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Freedom or death.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Goodness shouts. Evil whispers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Head can be heated but heart must stay cool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If an eel is with fish, he shows his tail; if he is with snakes, he shows his head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you give your liver, they ask for your heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you go into a goat stable, bleat; if you go into a water buffalo stable, bellow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It can be because of regular training.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never think that still water doesn’t have crocodiles.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No matter how good a squirrel can jump, it will fall eventually.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nothing is difficult when you get used to it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once a person cheats in an exam, forever people will distrust him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once the rice is pudding, it’s too late to reclaim the rice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One stroke at the paddle, two and three islands have passed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant’s tail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indonesian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Playing with water, wet. 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"text": "\"Men talk only to conceal the mind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bread and wine start a banquet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"The servant of the devil does more than is asked for.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the fire does not burn you the smoke will blacken you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"So long as the wolf is captured the dog will bite his leg.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who is master of his thirst is master of his health.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fear and restlessness 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"text": "\"A fault confessed is a half redressed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even the best mule still saves a kick for his master.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bad craftsman blames his tools.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who sows everywhere harvests nowhere.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"One good argument is worth more than ten better ones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Mean fathers, wasteful sons.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you have not what you like, you must like what you have.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Honesty is the best policy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man’s worst enemies are often those of his own house.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot clear fog with a fan.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"True love never grows old.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"When glory comes, memory departs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "french" + }, + { + "text": "\"Heaven helps those who help 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If one throws salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every madman thinks all other men mad.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each man’s character shapes his fortunes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each man makes his own shipwreck.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Deliberation often loses a good chance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Deliberate often — decide once.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dawn is the friend of the muses.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Glory is the shadow of virtue.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"The people want to be deceived.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + }, + { + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "latin" + } + ], + "moorish": [ + { + "text": "\"He who does not travel, does not know the value of men.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "moorish" + } + ], + "swiss": [ + { + "text": "\"To be a fool at the right time is also an art.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "swiss" + }, + { + "text": "\"The night rinses what the day has soaped.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "swiss" + } + ], + "turkish": [ + { + "text": "\"Not knowing is not shameful, not asking is.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Keep the tongue in your mouth a prisoner.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you look for a faultless woman, you will remain a bachelor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sighs never fall on the ground.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A tongue has no bones but it can break.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The highway is always shorter than the unknown side roads.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tell a lie on Saturday and you will be ashamed on Sunday.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Such father, such son.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"One hour of justice is worth seventy hours of prayer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"To live in peace one must be blind, deaf, and mute.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The dog that barks much does not bite.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who gets up in anger, sits down with a loss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If your beard’s on fire, others will light their pipes on it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The sheep separated from the flock is eaten by the wolf.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A building without foundation is soon demolished.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who controls his tongue, saves his head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Listen with both ears, but speak with only one tongue.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"One arrow does not bring down two birds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Two captains sink a ship.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Silence is music to a wise man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who has never been burned in the sun won’t know the value of shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good actions are never lost.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot get into Paradise without a guide.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"To a good rider, right or left makes no difference.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everything is worn out with usage … except for experience.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The most difficult master is the servant who became master.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Satan’s friendship reaches the prison door.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"What a man is at seven is also what he is at seventy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"One eats, another watches; that’s how revolutions are born.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"To listen to a lie is harder than to tell it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"There isn’t a sword that would cut off a golden hand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The earth has ears, the wind has a voice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"To quote lies is also lying.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the company of the blind, close your eyes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The baker’s child goes hungry.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You harvest what you sow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Profit is the brother of loss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Two heads are better than one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Measure a thousand times, cut once.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A heart in love with beauty never grows old.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fly is small, but it is big enough to make one sick.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Wine that isn’t paid for is drunk twice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"What a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who gives little gives from his heart; he who gives much gives from his wealth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"What flares up fast, extinguishes soon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a parliamentary republic in Eurasia, largely located in Western Asia, with the smaller portion of Eastern Thrace in Southeast Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Syria and Iraq to the south; Iran, Armenia, and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; Georgia to the northeast; Bulgaria to the northwest; and Greece to the west. The Black Sea is to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia. Turkey’s location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia makes it a country of significant geostrategic importance. [Sources of information]\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The country’s official language is Turkish, a Turkic language spoken natively by approximately 85 percent of the population.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ankara is the capital of the Republic of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015),[1] it is Turkey’s second largest city behind Istanbul.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The sea never buys fish.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He that falls by himself never cries.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never become a teacher where you yourself were a pupil.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When two jars collide, one breaks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A single advantage is worth a thousand sorceries.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The sheik’s miracles are those of his own telling.\"", + "description": "", + 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"\"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who steals honey, licks his fingers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Others are always interested in us, just as we are interested in them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When violence comes into the house, law and justice leave through the chimney.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Vinegar that is too sour even taints the glass it’s kept in.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Allah gave hunger to one and hunger to another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Things that are weak will break — as men do 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+ "text": "\"If the bald man knew a remedy he would rub it on his own head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If your guest becomes a cook, your larder will soon be empty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You don’t have to know much to read, but you do to cook.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The thief can lie, those he has stolen from cannot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The real capital of a man is a mirror worth two cents.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"The father donated a vineyard to his son, the son didn’t give a single bunch of grapes to the father.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A stupid friend is a greater plague than a wise enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "turkish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Abundance is from activity.\"", + 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It is bordered by Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 90 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populated nation on the African continent. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi).\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Most people in the country speak Afro-Asiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia. It is the largest city in Ethiopia. (An excerpt from Wikipedia)\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool at forty is a fool indeed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A house can’t be built for the rainy season that is past.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg. Otherwise, the day he returns home with a stolen ox, it will be too late.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One who tries to hide with a dog, a child, a goat, or a person with a cold, will not remain hidden.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When they fooled the chicken they threw her into a carrying basket.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One is born, one dies; the land grows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A shameless person has no sense of shame at all.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to be the cub of a live jackal than of a dead lion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Coffee and love taste best when hot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Clothes put on while running come off while running.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool and water will go the way they are directed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The same water never runs into the same river.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bleating sheep loses a bite.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One scoops with a scoop.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is foolish for someone to remain thirsty when he is in the midst of water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even over cold pudding, the coward says: \"It will burn my mouth.\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An eye and a friend are quickly hurt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not blame God for having 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"category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Living is worthless for one without a home.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who digs too deep for a fish, may come out with a snake.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give advice; if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If they speak, they are wind; if they are silent, they are gourds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If relatives help each other, what harm can be done to them?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"They snatched from me my own cry.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mouse is silent while laboring, but when the baby is conceived, she cries.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A mouse that wants to die goes to sniff the cat’s nose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who learns, teaches.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Coffee is our bread .\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What has been blown away, cannot be found again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The person who grew up without correction will find his mouth slipping instead of his foot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The calves do not fear the horns of their mother\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool will pair an ox with an elephant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not hesitate or you will be left in between doing something, having something and being nothing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A cow gave birth to a fire: she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the heart is sad, tears will flow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Unless you call out, who will open the door?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Oh old hyena eat me without making excuses.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying a grain in a 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"text": "\"A blade won’t cut another blade; a cheat won’t cheat another cheat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t spend the evening in a house where you can’t spend the night.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good name is better than good perfume.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The skin creaks according to the country.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The coward sweats in water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When he looked under the saddle he lost his horse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The arrogant blind man picks a fight with his guide.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ethiopian" + }, + { + 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"description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To truly love your wife, leave her alone every once in a while.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you go away, the conversation changes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there’s a carcass, there will be vultures.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malaysian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "malay" + } + ], + "ghanaian": [ + { + "text": "\"The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ghanaian" + }, + { + "text": "\"By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "ghanaian" + } + ], + "maltese": [ + { + "text": "\"He is a fool who does not consider his own interests.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "maltese" + } + ], + "filipino": [ + { + "text": "\"Lazy people will eventually lose even their trousers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "filipino" + }, + { + "text": "\"People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "filipino" + } + ], + "mexican": [ + { + "text": "\"Hunger brings people down, but pride can help them get up.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mexican" + } + ], + "congolese": [ + { + "text": "\"Sayings of Congolese origin\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The nuts from a palm tree don’t fall without dragging a few leaves with it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"No matter how full the river, it still wants to grow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t cut off the monkey’s tail before it is dead.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Pride goes only as far as one can spit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The iron never takes advice from the hammer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Little by little grow the bananas.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The white man never forgets Europe.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mother-in-law shows you her thighs without shame, you are the embarrassed one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"One knife will not cut another knife; one cheat will not cheat another cheat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Those who inherit fortunes are frequently more of a problem than those who made them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Mothers-in-law are hard of hearing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who is free of faults, will never die.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who doesn’t like chattering women must stay a bachelor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Woe to the high spirited bride whose mother-in-law is still alive.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t buy a boat that is under water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love is like a baby: it needs to be treated tenderly.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Great events may stem from words of no importance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"An idiot will cross an ox with an elephant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The son shoots a leopard; the father is proud.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Drink beer, think beer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Without war there can be no peace.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Friendship does not need pepper to cry.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The friends 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"description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The portion that a man keeps for himself is usually not the smallest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lower your head modestly while passing, and you will harvest bananas.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Those who are absent are always wrong.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A pretty basket does not prevent worries.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The flesh of a young animal tastes flat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even without drumbeats, the banana leaves dance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A house with two keys 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"\"When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you tell people to live together, you tell them to quarrel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "congolese" + } + ], + "german": [ + { + "text": "\"Confidence begets confidence.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Buying is cheaper than asking.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Brandy is as lead in the morning, silver at noon, and gold at night.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Both noble and common blood are the same color.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Boredom is the father of all sins.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Birds of prey do not sing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Big trees 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"text": "\"What little Hans didn’t learn, big Hans doesn’t know.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"What is the use of running when you’re on the wrong road?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"What grows makes no noise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Weeds never die.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Weapons, women, and locks must be guarded at all times.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"We do not walk on our legs, but on our 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"description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who inherits a penny is expected to spend a dollar.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has no shoes dances in his socks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has no enemies has no friends either.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has burned his mouth blows his soup.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who drinks no more still likes to see the beer pulled.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who does not want to lend loses friends; he who lends gains enemies.\"", + "description": 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"category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"He that always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Happiness opens the arms and closes the eyes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Habit is the intelligence of the crowd.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Green wood gives more smoke than heat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Grain and graciousness grow on good ground.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good will gives wings to the feet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good pay makes happy workers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good bargains empty your pockets.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "german" + }, + { + "text": "\"God will help a seaman in a storm but the pilot must still remain 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If you want to go far, go together.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "african" + }, + { + "text": "\"It takes a whole village to raise a child.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "african" + }, + { + "text": "\"An axe forgets what the tree remembers.\"", + "category": "german", + "description": "It is easy for someone who is hurting another person to forget the wrong and move on but the person who was hurt never forgets." + } + ], + "cameroonian": [ + { + "text": "\"No matter how fast a man is, he cannot outrun his shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cameroonian" + }, + { + "text": "\"However swift a man, he will not outstrip his shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cameroonian" + } + ], + "iranian": [ + { + "text": "\"Bravery without foresight is like a blind horse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes.~ Iranian Saying\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To the ant, a few drops of dew are a flood.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tears of the roasting meat kindle the fire even more.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In at one ear and out at the other.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the hotel of decisions the guests sleep well.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I can only get better if I have good friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The arrow that has left the bow never returns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A child is a bridge to heaven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot hang everything on one nail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is a real compliment that comes from an enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you can give me no ointment for my wound, can you help me by not rubbing salt in?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man is the architect of his own fortune.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once I had the strength but no wisdom; now I have the wisdom but no strength.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The larger a man’s roof, the more snow it collects.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He whose heart is aroused by love will never die.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot applaud with one hand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The drowning man is not troubled by rain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who has only one enemy, meets him everywhere.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The leek resembles its seed and little Hassan takes after his father.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Our real grave is not in the ground but in men’s hearts.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Women are just like cats, they always land on their feet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The virtuous will be praised but not envied.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The strictness of the teacher is better to bear than the prejudice of the father.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You don’t put a wooden pot on the fire twice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter’s wedding.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is no need for fish in an empty pond.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The world is a rose; smell it and pass it on to your friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"As soon as a man gets new trousers, he thinks about a new wife.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Epigrams succeed where epics fail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A thief is a king till he’s caught.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The lover who gives you her body but not her heart is generous with thorn less roses.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"While yearning for excess we lose the necessities.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking to be done.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The earth is a host who kills his guests.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a fool borrows a book, cut off his hand; 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to know animals you will need more time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give nine, save ten.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Woe is he who claims to have found happiness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man’s servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man is the king of his own beard.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A blind man who sees is better than a sighted man who is blind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The lack of gold only a headache.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t pick up two melons with one hand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who doesn’t go to war roars like a lion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Use your enemy’s hand to catch a snake.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Walls have mice and mice have ears.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are three kinds of enemy: the enemy himself, the friends of your enemy, and the enemies of your friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Four walls make a man free.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at, too late and you are stoned.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He is still alive because he cannot afford a funeral.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not let the cat watch over the bacon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If there are two cooks in one house, the soup is either too salty or too cold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The bride who wears four petticoats has a lot to hide.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Luck is infatuated with the efficient.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bribery makes both parties happy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who wants the rose must respect the thorn.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Flies will easily fly into the honey; their problem is how to get out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The bigger a man’s head, the worse his headache.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A camel does not drink with a spoon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mediator in a fight gets all the blows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Of everything else the newest; of friends, the oldest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Necessity changes a lion into a fox.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"For an ant to have wings would be his undoing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"God provides, but he needs a nudge.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Maturity comes from wisdom not in the passing of years.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the snake is old, the frog will tease him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mud that you throw will fall on your own head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The needle makes clothes but stays naked.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who eats alone is Satan’s brother.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every tear has a smile behind it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn’t.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The halfwit spoke, and the brainless believed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Doubt is the key to knowledge.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is the mountains that do not move to help one another; but one man surely comes to the help of another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In this world generous people have no money and those with money are not generous.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter paradise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A tear at the right moment is better than a misplaced smile.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can’t.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who has ever seen tomorrow?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whoever can walk on water is probably made of straw.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Go and wake up your luck.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never open a door that you can’t lock again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A wolf’s repentance died a long time ago.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An ungrateful son is a wart on his father’s nose. If he leaves it, it’s ugly. 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"text": "\"The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A rolling stone gathers no moss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t just take love, experience it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Trust in God, but tie your camel tight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you fall into a pit, Providence is under no obligation to come and look for you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t escape death and guests.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog, and a quarrelsome person.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Learn good manners from those who don’t have them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you really have to sin, then choose a sin that you enjoy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The guard’s sleep is the lamplight of the thief.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When its time has come, the prey goes to the hunter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who sits waiting for his neighbor will go to bed hungry.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The public improves the speaker’s speech.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What you give away you keep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "iranian" + }, + 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"description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who lives without discipline dies without honor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"God helps those who help themselves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Few are like father, no one is like mother.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everyone wants to be lord, but no one wants to carry the bag.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man likes the smell of his own farts.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man is the smith of his own fortune.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each country has its own custom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Character is always corrupted by prosperity.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better wise language than well combed hair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bare is the back of a brother less man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Bad birds seldom bring good weather.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"As the old birds sing, so do the young ones tweet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"All sails do not suit every ship.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"All old sayings 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"description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bad rower blames the oar.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Useless wisdom is double foolishness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + }, + { + "text": "\"Character is always corrupted by prosperity.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "icelandic" + } + ], + "swedish": [ + { + "text": "\"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "swedish" + }, + { + "text": "\"All fools are brothers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "swedish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "swedish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who buys what he does not need, steals from himself.\"", + "category": "swedish", + "description": "A person should spend only on essential or necessary items and avoid frivolous expenses." + } + ], + "mongolian": [ + { + "text": "\"You 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"category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The meat-biting tooth is in the mouth; the man-biting tooth is in the soul.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The living denied a table; the dead get a whole coffin.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The fish sees the bait not the hook; a man sees not the danger — only the profit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The donkey recognizes the tracks of a horse.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Rich is he who has no debts, fortunate he who lives without handicap.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One finger short of being crazy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once you have locked your door you are the emperor in your own domain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Of the good we have an understanding, for fools we keep a stick upstairs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but they have different dreams.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s difficult to take a wolf cub without bringing in the whole pack.\"", + "description": "", + "category": 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"text": "\"He who drinks, dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fox will starve to death while waiting under an ox.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even foul water will put out a fire.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each country’s customs are different, just as each meadow’s grass is different.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t undo your bootlaces until you have seen the river.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t look for bad things in the good that you do.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "mongolian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Calf is not grown, but he thinks he can make bull’s 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"\"There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"That which is nearest a woman’s heart is the first to come out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Age is honorable and youth is noble.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"A person’s heart is in his feet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the apple is ripe it will fall.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want an audience start a fight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want to be criticized, marry.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.\"", + "description": 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It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George’s Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "irish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ireland is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying about five-sixths of the island of Ireland. 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is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is no use whatever preaching Wisdom to men: you must inject it into their blood.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Experience will show you, a Master can only point the way.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"For every joy there is a price to be paid.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There grows no wheat where there is no grain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What is coming is better than what is gone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better a warm welcome than being invited to lunch.\"", + "description": "", + "category": 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By doing one gains conviction.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The bald woman boasts of her niece’s hair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Turn over the jar and the girl becomes like her mother.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Someone with their ass exposed likes to criticize.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the angels appear, the devils run away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Unattended money teaches thievery.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The woman who does not covet the possessions of her husband is in love with another man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you love, love the moon; if you steal, steal a camel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A borrowed coat does not keep one warm.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Always watch and follow nature.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is the passive resistance from the helm that steers the boat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who chatters with you will chatter about you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eat him for lunch before he eats you for dinner.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The dog’s tail will never straighten out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I am talking to you, daughter-in-law, so that you could hear it, neighbor!\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I say it’s a bull, he says milk it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man can’t be judge of his neighbor’ intelligence. His own vital experience is never his neighbor’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Images are nearer reality than cold definitions.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Pass by your enemy hungry but never naked.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Repetition teaches even a donkey.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you take the monkey for money, the money will go away and the monkey will stay.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The miser destroys what he collected.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A pupil may show you by his own efforts how much he deserves to learn from you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "egyptian" + }, + { + "text": 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They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "zen" + } + ], + "sierra-leonean": [ + { + "text": "\"Only a monkey understands a monkey.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"A black cow also gives white milk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"A paddle here, a paddle there — the canoe stays still.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to be loved than feared.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Invite people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"A hundred aunts are not the same as one mother.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not tell the man who is carrying you that he stinks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Knowledge is not the main thing, but deeds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Proverbs are the children of experience.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"However full the house, the hen finds a corner to lay in.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"To try and fail is not laziness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"A big fish is caught with big bait.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"An orange never bears a lime.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"The elephant’s head is no load for a child.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Death is the key that will open a miser’s coffers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a single hair has fallen from your head, you are not yet bald.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"The cow must graze where she is tied.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"An elephant’s head is no load for a child.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who upsets something should know how to put it back again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sweet rice is eaten quickly.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even though chickens don’t wash, their eggs are still white.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who refuses a gift will not fill his barn.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"A cow must graze where she is tied.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is the wandering dog that finds the old bone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + }, + { + "text": "\"Invite people into your parlor, and they will come into your bedroom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sierra leonean" + } + ], + "japanese": [ + { + "text": "\"Never judge things of which you only know the shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you are eager to be in the shadow, leave your axe at home.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"People who are asleep can’t fall down.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Over-intelligent people can’t find friends.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their skins.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lazy people have no spare time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is no medicine for a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fall seven times, stand up eight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "japanese" + }, + { + "text": "\"To make the tea cloudy.\"", + "category": "japanese", + "description": "It means to be evasive or non-committal about something, it comes from a Japanese wedding and tea rituals." + } + ], + "armenian": [ + { + "text": "\"The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "armenian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tongue of the fool is always long.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "armenian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To be willing is only half the task.\"", "description": "", "category": "armenian" } ], - "yiddish": [ + "yiddish": [ + { + "text": "\"A big crowd, but not a human being in sight!\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"By day they’re ready to divorce, by night they’re ready for bed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beware of still water, a still dog, and a still enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to hear curses than to be pitied.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to die upright than to live on your knees.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better the best of the worst than the worst of the best.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better ten times ill than one time dead.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better ruined ten times than dead once.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better an honest slap in the face than an insincere kiss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better a thief for a neighbor than an overzealous rabbi.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better a slap from a wise man than a kiss from a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better a Jew without a beard than a beard without a Jew.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You reproach your daughter, but you mean your daughter-in-law.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You never lose a false coin.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You find everything when you are spring cleaning.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You do not fall because you are weak; you fall because you think you are strong.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t put \"thank you\" in your pocket.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t measure the whole world with your own yardstick.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken in many parts of the world. It developed as a fusion of different German dialects with adstrats of Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic vocabulary and some traces of vocabulary from the Romance languages. Yiddish orthography uses the Hebrew alphabet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or simply Ashkenazim, lit. \"The Jews of Germany\"), are a Jewish ethnic division who coalesced as a distinct community of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the 1st millennium.The traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews consisted of various dialects of Yiddish.They established communities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, which had been their primary region of concentration and residence until recent times, evolving their own distinctive characteristics and diasporic identities. Once emancipated, weaving Jewish creativity into the texture of European life , the Ashkenazi made a \"quite disproportionate and remarkable contribution to humanity\", and to European culture in all fields of endeavour: philosophy, scholarship, literature, art, music and science. The genocidal impact of the Holocaust, the mass murder of approximately 6 million Jews during World War II, devastated the Ashkenazi and their Yiddish culture.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t make cheesecakes out of snow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can wash your body but not your soul.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can throw a cat whoever you want; it always falls on its feet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can make the dream bigger than the night.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You buy yourself an enemy when you lend a man money.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"You are ushered in according to your dress; shown out according to your brains.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Words should be weighed, not counted.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Women can keep only one secret — their own.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"With time even a bear can learn to dance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"With money in your pocket, you are wise, handsome and you sing well too.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who wins first, loses last.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who talks a lot, talks about himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When you have left a country, you have left everyone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the time comes for you to live, there aren’t enough years.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the ox just stumbles, they all sharpen their knives.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When one must, one can.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When Dame Fortune calls, offer her a chair.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When both parties are right, it’s a bad day for \"right.\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": 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{ + "text": "\"Nothing tastes bitterer than the truth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not only that the rich man is rich, but he has such good checks too.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not all nice things are dear, but those that are dear are nice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"No choice is an option.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"No blessing is bestowed on a secret.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never try to be more foolish than the jester.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never approach a goat from the front, a horse from behind, and a fool from both sides.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": 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"\"Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lovers do not need much room.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lovers and thieves always look for darkness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love me a little but long.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love is like butter — it’s good with bread.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Look for cake, and lose your bread.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Look down if you want to know how tall you are.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + 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"category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is heavy to carry, but you cannot throw it away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to be in hell with a wise man than in heaven with an idiot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Interest on debts grows without rain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the mirror everybody sees his best friend.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you’re out to beat a dog, you’re sure to find a stick.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you’re fated to drown, you may die in a teaspoon of water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If your friend becomes your enemy, he will be your enemy for life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you stay at home you won’t wear out your shoes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you start thinking of death, you are no longer sure of life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you pray for another, you will be helped yourself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you find your friend on the sofa at home with your wife, you had better sell the sofa.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you eat your bagel, you’ll have nothing in your pocket but the hole.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you can’t bite, better not show your teeth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you are lucky, even your ox will calve.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If we all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If two people say he is drunk, the third one should sleep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If triangles had a God, He’d have three sides.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the rich could hire others to die for them, the poor could make a nice living.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the pupil is smart, the teacher gets the credit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the father marries the aunt, he’s an uncle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the eyes didn’t see, the hands wouldn’t take.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If the bride can’t dance, she blames the musicians.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If praying had helped, he could have hired someone to do it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If only one race has to be chosen, why the Jews?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If one soldier knew what the other thinks, there would be no war.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If one link has broken so has the whole chain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If it were God’s will, you could shoot with a broom too.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If it must always be better, it can never be good enough.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I try to be like him, who will be like me?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If I dealt in candles, the sun would never set.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If God were living on earth, people would break His windows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If charity cost nothing and benevolence caused no heartache, the world would be full of philanthropists.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a link is broken, the entire chain breaks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a Jew cannot be a shoemaker, he will dream of being a professor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"I can’t sing but I am a musicologist.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"I can find good in my boss but he is at loggerheads with me.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hope for miracles, but don’t rely on one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hire staff but do it yourself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hell itself can be no worse than the road that leads to it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Heaven and hell can both be found on earth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Health? Very nice! But where will we get potatoes?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who stands by his point of view, must be ready to suffer hunger.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who runs away from the fire, falls in the water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who marries for money earns it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has children will never die of starvation.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He that lies on the ground cannot fall.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"He that can’t endure 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{ + "text": "\"God gave burdens, also shoulders.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"God created a world full of little worlds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Go quickly but don’t fall off my step.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Give me, Lord, my daily bread, I will get my own brandy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"From the black earth there grows the finest grain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Experience costs blood.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everything ends in weeping.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every worm has its hole.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every seller praises his wares.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every pot will find its lid.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every poor man has a dry throat and wet boots.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man knows that he must die, but no one believes it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even a ball of wool has a beginning.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Either it doesn’t help or it isn’t needed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eggs may be smarter than the chickens, but it doesn’t take long for them to stink.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Each child brings his own blessing into the world.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dying while young is a boon in old age.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t throw a stone into a well from which you have drunk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t settle in a place where the doctor has gout.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t be scared when you have no other choice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t bargain with God.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "yiddish" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t ask questions about 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you take big paces, you leave big spaces.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "burmese" + } + ], + "greek": [ + { + "text": "\"A thousand people cannot undress a naked person.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"The people make the town.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"For lazy people it is always party time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never give a sword to a fool or power to an unjust man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"Before you score, you first must have a goal.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + }, + { + "text": "\"The heart that loves is always young.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "greek" + } + ], + "new-zelander": [ + { + "text": "\"Turn your face to the sun and the 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"category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"A woman’s honor consists in the good opinion the world has of her.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"God made us and we wonder at it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Listening looks easy, but it’s not that simple.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"He, who speaks much, errs much.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Jovial companions make this dull life tolerable.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Tell me what company you keep and i will tell you who you are\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"When money talks, everyone else is silent.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Brief 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"category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you would be respected in company, seek the society of your equals and not of your superiors.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Coffee from the top of the cup and chocolate from the bottom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Kitten’s are a child’s instrument for happiness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even a leaf does not flutter on the tree without the will of god.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"Justice is a good thing, only not in my house, but in my neighbor’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "cuban" + } + ], + "palestinian": [ + { + "text": "\"Keep away from trouble and sing to it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Your tongue is your 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"\"Tie the monkey where his master tells you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Like the good seek the better, the bad seek the worse – can still make a match.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Blow in a torn bagpipe.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Seven trades and luck is lost.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You will not dare mistreating the face you see in the morning.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Wonder they don’t like, and Rajab they don’t fast.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The ignorant is his own enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Rima’s back to her old habit\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every eye has its look.\"", + "description": 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"text": "\"One hand doesn’t clap.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nock on the door before entering.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Whatever man had done, man may do.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nobody will plough the land except its cows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The eye of a master does more work than both his hands.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The neighbor before the house.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The sad has come for joy, she found no place to take her.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Keep your white penny for your black day.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Once deep pools, now a crossing place.\"", + "description": "", + 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No worthwhile tree here!\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"IF only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The pan found its lid.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A chicken dug in the soil, and the dirt came onto her head.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has a house of glass throws no people with stones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t ask the singer to sing until he wishes to sing by himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the soil knows when a young mouse is ill.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He’s as tall as a palm tree and his brains as small as a sheep’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who takes a monkey for his money, the money shall go and the monkey shall remain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hit two birds with one stone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He couldn’t manage the donkey, he managed its saddle.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He’s come to sell water in a mall of water-carriers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No one can chop the head off, apart from that who put it on.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"We walk by the walls and ask God for shelter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Like you’ve gone, like you’ve come back.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you sit at a crossroads, you will get sick.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Far from grave, no praying.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there is abundance, there is poverty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ask an experienced, and don’t ask a philosopher.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sell what you have bought while the dust is still on your shoes.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"My heart goes out for my son like fire, and my son’s heart goes out for me like stone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Didn’t see them stealing, saw them sorting their shares.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"We came out of the Carnival without Chickpeas, one arm in front, one arm behind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Stay away… you will become sweeter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bird in the hand is better than ten on the tree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Truth is comfort.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do good and throw it in the sea.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Too many chefs burn the food.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Turn the jar onto its mouth, the girl will resemble her mom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "palestinian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The heart is a tree; 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he wants a saddle as well.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"I didn’t come here to hear that a horse is dead and a cow is fat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every little makes something.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every dog knows his dinnertime.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The black man steals just half of very little, but the white man steals the whole sugar plantation.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man with trousers that are too short should wear long suspenders.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hungry fowl wakes early.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"What the goat does, the kid follows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"The umbrella was made for rainy days, the white man uses it for the sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Time is longer than a rope.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Meat that the cat brings in never gets to your plate.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you see everybody running take your time.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lawyer looks at you with one eye, but he looks at your pocket with two.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can stop a bird from flying over you, but you can’t stop it building a nest.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Barking saves biting.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"An old debt is better than an old grudge.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"I was not born when my mother was gone to the market.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sleepy turtles never catch up with the sunrise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Make a friend when you don’t need one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Today can’t catch tomorrow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can say anything to a man with a full stomach.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Clothes cover up character.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"That which you do not know is older than you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"You shake a man’s hand, you don’t shake his heart.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"To see me and come live with me are two different things.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a cocoa is ripe it will burst\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"I threw my corn but I didn’t call any fowl.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Those who can’t dance blame it on the music.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you don’t take it, you don’t have it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Before a dog goes without his supper, he will eat cockroaches\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"A little pepper burns a big man’s mouth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t have two faces under one hat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"I am old but I am not cold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you follow a fool, you’re a fool yourself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you go to a donkey’s house, don’t talk about ears.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "jamaican" + } + ], + "sudanese": [ + { + "text": "\"A large chair does not make a king.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "sudanese" + } + ], + "moroccan": [ + { + "text": "\"Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "moroccan" + } + ], + "vietnamese": [ + { + "text": "\"Eating as in the North; 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Feeding girls without teaching them: we raise pigs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A day in prison is longer than a thousand years at large.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Grasp all, lose all.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"No rain without clouds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s better to eat salty food and speak the truth than to eat vegetarian and tell lies.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The army is the poison and the people are the water in which the poison is mixed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Stolen foods are the best.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is one fish in the pond, and ten anglers on the bank.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Because the caterpillar exists, there exists also a bird to eat it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hunger finds no fault with cookery.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The teacher found out. 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But when the rice begins to run short, it’s the farmer who comes first.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"What is good for the buffalo is good for the cow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The good leaves protect the worn-out leaves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s better to sleep on the floor in an incense shop than in a bed in a fish market.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"It depends on how much of rice you eat the sauce.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can’t kill someone’s habit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "vietnamese" + }, + { + "text": "\"The crane was killed by the fishhook.\"", + "description": "", + "category": 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Why save when your son is a bad son?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The dog’s tail stays crooked even if he is buried for twelve years.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never stand in front of a judge or behind a donkey.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You may lock up the cock, but the sun will still rise.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The money you dream about will not pay your bills.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The lawyer’s pouch is a mouth of Hell.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One of the two partners always bites the best part of the apple.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Ask thy purse what thou should buy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The spouse of a woman is a man, the spouse of a man is his livelihood.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A foolish bride gets no presents.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In my homeland I possess one hundred horses, yet if I go, I go on foot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The baby is not yet born, and yet you say that his nose is like his grandfather’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Without men in the neighborhood all the women are chaste.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the devil leaves, heaven comes in.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lawyer’s fee and a harlot’s wages are paid in advance.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Always be well dressed, even when begging.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The cock goes to town for only four days and returns home a peacock.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The enemy’s own punishment is his envy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A house without a woman is the devil’s own lodging.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Love from someone who is bad is worse than his hatred.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t let grass grow on the path of friendship\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Theologians, dogs, and singers always disagree.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are only two things from which to choose: profit or loss.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Separation secures manifest friendship.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Garlic is as good as ten mothers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Call on God, but row away from the rocks.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The eyes do not see what the mind does not want.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The soldier’s wife is always a widow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Be careful for deep water and dogs that do not bark.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An old patient is better than a new doctor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Brains are not to be found in the beard.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every dog is a tiger in his own street.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You have to believe in gods to see them.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Money is the best servant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Have faith — God calls forth life even from eggs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is worse to excuse than to offend.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there is a glut of words, there is a dearth of intelligence.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hare that escaped had eight legs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Follow the river and you will get to the sea.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Weeping washes the face.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A rap on the ringed finger does not hurt.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The truth is half a quarrel.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Believe what you see and not all you hear.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"We admire what we do not understand.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Patience is the most beautiful prayer.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In a deserted village the jackass is king.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Health is wealth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"[There is] a time for mother-in-law and a time for daughter-in-law.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t part two brothers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A dog always bites under the knee.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No strength within, no respect without.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You may never die before death arrives.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A problem is solved when it gets tougher.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where the sun shines, there is also shade.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fight in your neighbor’s house is refreshing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A known mistake is better than an unknown truth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man’s is but weeds.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There are many people who can sing, but don’t know the words.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s easy to throw something into the river but hard to get it out again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector – these seven are always annoying to others.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot separate water by beating it with a fork.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In a tree that you can’t climb, there are always a thousand fruits.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up the whole elephant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Any water in the desert will do.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Dependence on another is perpetual disappointment.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Though the snake be small, it is still wise to hit it with a big stick.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Poverty makes thieves, like love makes poets.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A bandicoot is lovely to his parents; a mule is pretty to its mate.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The crab instructs its young: \"Walk straight ahead — like me.\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Every man is the guardian of his own honor.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who has come through the fire will fade in the sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To loan is to buy troubles.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is only in your coffin that you sleep really well.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows: he breathes but does not live.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Consult the wise and do not disobey him.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A guilty conscience is a lively enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who is a guest in two houses, starves.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You can only lean against that which resists.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"In the end, all foxes meet at the furrier’s.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Faith keeps the world going.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can’t be saved.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Hunger drives good taste away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Smiles that you broadcast, will always come back to you.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Man is like a bubble of water on the ocean.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Goodness reaches further than badness.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Blind men have no need to walk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If an actor enacts , the spectator is ashamed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you want to know what a tiger is like, look at a cat.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Many families are built on laughter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better to have a diamond with a few small flaws than a rock that is perfect.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Something done at the wrong time should be regarded as not done.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you throw a handful of stones, one at least will hit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A thief is a thief, whether he steals a diamond or a cucumber.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"They who give, have all things; they who withhold, have nothing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When money is not a servant it is a master.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Where there is love, there is grief.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it’s a treasure.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Poverty destroys all virtues.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Worldly prosperity is like writing on water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better lie than gossip.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t delay today’s work until tomorrow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Without love everything is in vain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Truth has no branches.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A thief thinks everybody steals.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Not all the buds on a bush will blossom.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Drops join to make a stream; ears combine to make a crop.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"War is to men, childbirth is to women.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a man from humble beginnings gets rich, he will carry his umbrella at midnight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"All the water in the sea doesn’t even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Advice sharpens a rusty opinion.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Do what the mullah says, but don’t do what he does.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"As day break, the glowworms say \"We’ve lit up the world!\"\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The heart at rest sees a feast in everything.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Learning is a treasure no thief can touch.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Pearls are of no value in a desert.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who answers is inferior to the one who asks the question.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A smile you sent, will always return\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Turkeys, parrots, and hares don’t know what gratitude is.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The worst kind of poverty is to have many debts.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"To the world wisdom is folly; to the wise the world is foolish.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Drums sound loud because they are hollow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Friendly words are convincing.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the nightingale understands the rose.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A friend advises in his interest, not yours.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It’s better to pick a fight with your in-laws than with your neighbors.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"If they don’t exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Undeserved punishment is better than that which is deserved.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You cannot have a cake and eat it too.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"One’s mother and homeland are greater than even heaven.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Large desire is endless poverty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A mother is a school, preparing her is like preparing a good nation.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"It is love that makes the impossible possible.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Clouds that thunder seldom rain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Greed is the root cause of sorrow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is a great uproar made about the debt of a poor man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A house without children is a graveyard.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A lot of people become saints because of their stomach.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only the hunchback himself knows how he can lie comfortably.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The reputation lost on trivial things cannot be regained by donating big alms.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No one was ever lost on a straight road.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by goodness\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"No sin is hidden to the soul.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Better than the ignorant are those who read books; better still are those who retain what they read; even better are those who understand it; the best of all are those who go to work.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even a cat is a lion in her own lair\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the bed breaks, there is the ground to lie on.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Anger ends in cruelty.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Great anger is more destructive than the sword.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Eat fire and your mouth burn ; live on credit and your pride will burn.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A man without a woman is only half a man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A tree starts with a seed.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Complaining is the weak man’s weapon.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Since love departs at dawn, create, O God, a night that has no morn.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"A monkey that amuses me is better than a deer astray.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"All the things that are white are not milk.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hot sun melts away the snow; 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He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"You do not stumble over a mountain, but you do over a stone.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Deceive me about the price but not about the goods.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who wants fruit should not pick flowers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who dreams for too long will become like his shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + "text": "\"The tree casts its shadow on everything, even upon the woodcutter.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "indian" + }, + { + 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"\"A bad horse eats as much as a good one.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"When I drown, the whole world drowns.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even the devil needs a friend.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"While they are in the valley he treats her as his wife, while on the hill he treats her as his sister.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"One child for a young girl and one wash for a new cloth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Popular agitation leads to justice.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"A wise man is he who knows that prosperity and adversity are alike.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The water is running in the river, father drink it, mother drink it.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { 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"text": "\"Only the cure you believe in cures.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Learn about the future by looking at the past.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Neither does he expand in March nor does he get lean in April.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The wolf cried when the sheep got drenched in rain.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a man, who never attended a festival, attends one, even the festival day becomes a common day.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who hath done ill once will do it again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The comforter’s head never aches.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "tamilan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even a 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If you want an audience, start a fight.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Too often do we waste time chasing a gust of wind or grasping at shadows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"When the tree falls, the shadow flies.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Shadows are formed all along the wishes of the sun.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A well mannered man does not step on the shadow of his fellow man.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Words should be weighed, not counted.\"", + "text": "\"One measures the towers by their shadows and great people by those who envy them.\"", "description": "", - "category": "yiddish" + "category": "chinese" }, { - "proverb": "\"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven.\"", + "text": "\"He who has a straight body is not worried about his crooked shadow.\"", "description": "", - "category": "yiddish" - } - ], - "thai": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed.\"", + "text": "\"One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.\"", "description": "", - "category": "thai" - } - ], - "burmese": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"If you take big paces, you leave big spaces.\"", + "text": "\"For people who love even water is sweet.\"", "description": "", - "category": "burmese" - } - ], - "greek": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Before you score, you first must have a goal.\"", + "text": "\"You will never be punished for making people die of laughter.\"", "description": "", - "category": "greek" + "category": "chinese" }, { - "proverb": "\"The heart that loves is always young.\"", + "text": "\"Some people want to be praised for the rest of their lives for what they have done well for one day.\"", "description": "", - "category": "greek" - } - ], - "new-zelander": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.\"", + "text": "\"There are people that fish and those who just disturb the water.\"", "description": "", - "category": "new zealander" - } - ], - "cuban": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.\"", + "text": "\"Locks can not be made from good iron, soldiers are not made out of good people.\"", "description": "", - "category": "cuban" - } - ], - "welsh": [ + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.\"", + "text": "\"Long or short, a stick is always a stick; 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They pray for a long life but fear old age.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a finger is pointing at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool in a hurry drinks tea with a fork.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who asks no questions stays a fool forever.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"Women and fools never forgive.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, + { + "text": "\"A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "chinese" + }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.\"", + "text": "\"It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.\"", "description": "", "category": "chinese" }, { - "proverb": "\"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.\"", + "text": "\"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.\"", "description": "", "category": "chinese" }, { - "proverb": "\"Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, small wisdom.\"", + "text": "\"Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, small wisdom.\"", "description": "", "category": "chinese" } ], "portuguese": [ { - "proverb": "\"Change yourself and fortune will change.\"", + "text": "\"Change yourself and fortune will change.\"", "description": "", "category": "portuguese" } ], "gaelic": [ { - "proverb": "\"A dimple on the chin, the devil within.\"", + "text": "\"A dimple on the chin, the devil within.\"", "category": "gaelic", "description": "A superstitious proverb based on physical appearance, where having a chin indent signifies that a person is wicked or deceitful." } ], "bulgarian": [ { - "proverb": "\"God does not pay every Saturday.\"", + "text": "\"Only other people’s eggs are double-yolked.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "bulgarian" + }, + { + "text": "\"God does not pay every Saturday.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"God gives but does not lock the gate.\"", + "text": "\"God gives but does not lock the gate.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"God is not without sins: He created the world.\"", + "text": "\"God is not without sins: He created the world.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.\"", + "text": "\"God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A crow will never be a dove.\"", + "text": "\"A crow will never be a dove.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A fortress surrenders from within.\"", + "text": "\"A fortress surrenders from within.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A friend in need is a friend in deed.\"", + "text": "\"A friend in need is a friend in deed.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A gentle word opens an iron gate.\"", + "text": "\"A gentle word opens an iron gate.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A good cock can never have too many hens.\"", + "text": "\"A good cock can never have too many hens.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A house without a woman is like a fire without a bucket.\"", + "text": "\"A house without a woman is like a fire without a bucket.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lies legs are short.\"", + "text": "\"Lies legs are short.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A lion lurks in everyone’s heart; awake him not.\"", + "text": "\"A lion lurks in everyone’s heart; awake him not.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A song belongs to no one.\"", + "text": "\"A song belongs to no one.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A tree falls the way it leans.\"", + "text": "\"A tree falls the way it leans.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown.\"", + "text": "\"A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Aid yourself and the lord will come.\"", + "text": "\"Aid yourself and the lord will come.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest.\"", + "text": "\"An axe without a shaft is no threat to the forest.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Drop by drop – a whole lake becomes.\"", + "text": "\"Drop by drop – a whole lake becomes.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Every frog has his own pond.\"", + "text": "\"Every frog has his own pond.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"From the promise to the deed is a day’s journey.\"", + "text": "\"From the promise to the deed is a day’s journey.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"From walking, something, from sitting, nothing.\"", + "text": "\"From walking, something, from sitting, nothing.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap.\"", + "text": "\"Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.\"", + "text": "\"Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Hasty work – shame for the craftsman.\"", + "text": "\"Hasty work – shame for the craftsman.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who believes in dreams feeds on wind.\"", + "text": "\"He who believes in dreams feeds on wind.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken.\"", + "text": "\"He who breaks his word shall through his word be broken.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who has been at the mill has flour on his hat.\"", + "text": "\"He who has been at the mill has flour on his hat.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who pulls out a knife, by knife shall die.\"", + "text": "\"He who pulls out a knife, by knife shall die.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.\"", + "text": "\"If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you cannot serve, you cannot rule.\"", + "text": "\"If you cannot serve, you cannot rule.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you can’t be good, then be careful.\"", + "text": "\"If you can’t be good, then be careful.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you don’t help yourself, even God cannot help you.\"", + "text": "\"If you don’t help yourself, even God cannot help you.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you go to sleep with the blind, you’ll wake up squinting.\"", + "text": "\"If you go to sleep with the blind, you’ll wake up squinting.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one.\"", + "text": "\"If you have no enemies think then that your own mother might have produced one.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you let everyone walk over you, then you become a carpet.\"", + "text": "\"If you let everyone walk over you, then you become a carpet.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil.\"", + "text": "\"If you light one candle for God, then you must light two for the devil.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.\"", + "text": "\"If you want apples, you have to shake the trees.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want to annoy the devil stay silent.\"", + "text": "\"If you want to annoy the devil stay silent.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you want to drown yourself, don’t torture yourself with shallow water.\"", + "text": "\"If you want to drown yourself, don’t torture yourself with shallow water.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you would live long, open your heart.\"", + "text": "\"If you would live long, open your heart.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is good fishing in water stream.\"", + "text": "\"It is good fishing in water stream.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Let the man who has suffered ask it, not the man who has travelled.\"", + "text": "\"Let the man who has suffered ask it, not the man who has travelled.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down.\"", + "text": "\"Life is a ladder; some will climb up it, others down.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Man proposes, God disposes.\"", + "text": "\"Man proposes, God disposes.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Many hands make light work.\"", + "text": "\"Many hands make light work.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.\"", + "text": "\"Mother Nature, time and patience are the three best doctors.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.\"", + "text": "\"Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"New day — new destiny.\"", + "text": "\"New day — new destiny.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No hero without a wound.\"", + "text": "\"No hero without a wound.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One does not get crucified, one crucifies oneself.\"", + "text": "\"One does not get crucified, one crucifies oneself.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One gentle word opens a gate of iron.\"", + "text": "\"One gentle word opens a gate of iron.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One swallow doesn’t make a spring.\"", + "text": "\"One swallow doesn’t make a spring.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Only other people’s eggs are double-yolked.\"", + "text": "\"Only other people’s eggs are double-yolked.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Pretty wife, old wine, many friends.\"", + "text": "\"Pretty wife, old wine, many friends.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Ravens do not peck each other’s eyes out.\"", + "text": "\"Ravens do not peck each other’s eyes out.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.\"", + "text": "\"Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Take a big bite, don’t say a big word.\"", + "text": "\"Take a big bite, don’t say a big word.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The crow pecks at the ox to clean it, not to feed from it.\"", + "text": "\"The crow pecks at the ox to clean it, not to feed from it.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The droplet is always at its largest just before it drops.\"", + "text": "\"The droplet is always at its largest just before it drops.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The earth is man’s only friend.\"", + "text": "\"The earth is man’s only friend.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.\"", + "text": "\"The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The fox falls into the trap only once.\"", + "text": "\"The fox falls into the trap only once.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The hasty bitch gives birth to blind puppies.\"", + "text": "\"The hasty bitch gives birth to blind puppies.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The neighbor’s chicken is a duck.\"", + "text": "\"The neighbor’s chicken is a duck.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The village feeds the town.\"", + "text": "\"The village feeds the town.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.\"", + "text": "\"The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wolf changes only his coat , not his character.\"", + "text": "\"The wolf changes only his coat , not his character.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own.\"", + "text": "\"The wolf has a thick neck, because he does his job on his own.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no smoke without fire.\"", + "text": "\"There is no smoke without fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Thirsty men make good prophets.\"", + "text": "\"Thirsty men make good prophets.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Two happy days are seldom brothers.\"", + "text": "\"Two happy days are seldom brothers.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"When a Bulgar gets rich he builds himself another house.\"", + "text": "\"When a Bulgar gets rich he builds himself another house.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"When the sea turned into honey, the poor lost his spoon.\"", + "text": "\"When the sea turned into honey, the poor lost his spoon.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife.\"", + "text": "\"When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Whip the saddle and give the mule something to think about it.\"", + "text": "\"Whip the saddle and give the mule something to think about it.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Why should I shave when God doesn’t?\"", + "text": "\"Why should I shave when God doesn’t?\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.\"", + "text": "\"You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t make something beautiful with force.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t make something beautiful with force.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You will sell more sheepskins at the market than wolfskins.\"", + "text": "\"You will sell more sheepskins at the market than wolfskins.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Тоо many midwives deliver a sickly baby.\"", + "text": "\"Тоо many midwives deliver a sickly baby.\"", "description": "", "category": "bulgarian" } ], "slovenian": [ { - "proverb": "\"Bad company often leads to unpleasant consequences.\"", + "text": "\"Bad company often leads to unpleasant consequences.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Friday, bad beginning.\"", + "text": "\"Friday, bad beginning.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"I can do nothing about governments and winter.\"", + "text": "\"I can do nothing about governments and winter.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a lea£\"", + "text": "\"Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a lea£\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good sense is better than velvet.\"", + "text": "\"Good sense is better than velvet.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t start anything on Friday.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t start anything on Friday.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is better to buy firewood, when cherries are ripe.\"", + "text": "\"It is better to buy firewood, when cherries are ripe.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If you promise something it is a debt that you have to repay.\"", + "text": "\"If you promise something it is a debt that you have to repay.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A doorstep is the highest of all mountains.\"", + "text": "\"A doorstep is the highest of all mountains.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Who is forced to go to church will not pray.\"", + "text": "\"Who is forced to go to church will not pray.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.\"", + "text": "\"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In shaping one’s own fortune one should not rely on the help of others, as they are also concerned mainly about their own matters.\"", + "text": "\"In shaping one’s own fortune one should not rely on the help of others, as they are also concerned mainly about their own matters.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"We should not make a bad situation even worse by an improper remark.\"", + "text": "\"We should not make a bad situation even worse by an improper remark.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t ask the blind man for the way, nor a fool for advice.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t ask the blind man for the way, nor a fool for advice.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can accomplish much through hard work and careful management.\"", + "text": "\"You can accomplish much through hard work and careful management.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Pray to God for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing.\"", + "text": "\"Pray to God for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A promise makes a debt.\"", + "text": "\"A promise makes a debt.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Everyone takes care of their own needs first, before turning to others.\"", + "text": "\"Everyone takes care of their own needs first, before turning to others.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good housewife support three corners of the house.\"", + "text": "\"Good housewife support three corners of the house.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Get up early and start work, and you will accomplish much.\"", + "text": "\"Get up early and start work, and you will accomplish much.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"From bad company you often get a headache.\"", + "text": "\"From bad company you often get a headache.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Own country’s soil is better than gold ore in foreign land.\"", + "text": "\"Own country’s soil is better than gold ore in foreign land.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No more wine, no conversation, no more money, no friends.\"", + "text": "\"No more wine, no conversation, no more money, no friends.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no smoke without fire.\"", + "text": "\"There is no smoke without fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"God knows why he has made the wings of some birds shorter.\"", + "text": "\"God knows why he has made the wings of some birds shorter.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Old love does not rust.\"", + "text": "\"Old love does not rust.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Honey on a tongue, ice in the heart.\"", + "text": "\"Honey on a tongue, ice in the heart.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The night advises, the day shapes.\"", + "text": "\"The night advises, the day shapes.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Early hour – golden hour.\"", + "text": "\"Early hour – golden hour.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"What you build easily will fall quickly.\"", + "text": "\"What you build easily will fall quickly.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No work without food.\"", + "text": "\"No work without food.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Hunger is the best spice.\"", + "text": "\"Hunger is the best spice.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Laughter is half of the health.\"", + "text": "\"Laughter is half of the health.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The night is for thinking, the day is for acting.\"", + "text": "\"The night is for thinking, the day is for acting.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Children generally follow the example of their parents, but imitate their faults more surely than their virtues.\"", + "text": "\"Children generally follow the example of their parents, but imitate their faults more surely than their virtues.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Nothing is ever as bad as it seems.\"", + "text": "\"Nothing is ever as bad as it seems.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Donkeys don’t go on the ice twice.\"", + "text": "\"Donkeys don’t go on the ice twice.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"What goes around, comes around.\"", + "text": "\"What goes around, comes around.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One today is better than two tomorrows.\"", + "text": "\"One today is better than two tomorrows.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good sense is of greater value than wealth.\"", + "text": "\"Good sense is of greater value than wealth.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", + "text": "\"Strike while the iron is hot.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Youth is crazy, jumping over the ditch, where there is a bridge.\"", + "text": "\"Youth is crazy, jumping over the ditch, where there is a bridge.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"God created his own beard first, only then for the others.\"", + "text": "\"God created his own beard first, only then for the others.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Child that has been burnt will understand the danger of fire.\"", + "text": "\"Child that has been burnt will understand the danger of fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Appearances can be deceptive.\"", + "text": "\"Appearances can be deceptive.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No song is so long that it wouldn’t be sung out.\"", + "text": "\"No song is so long that it wouldn’t be sung out.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"More heads know more.\"", + "text": "\"More heads know more.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lie is quickly found out.\"", + "text": "\"Lie is quickly found out.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is in man’s interest to protect the neighbour’s property.\"", + "text": "\"It is in man’s interest to protect the neighbour’s property.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Wise master of the house protects his neighbor’s house from fire.\"", + "text": "\"Wise master of the house protects his neighbor’s house from fire.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Feed the worker if you want him to work.\"", + "text": "\"Feed the worker if you want him to work.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself.\"", + "text": "\"Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Whoever speaks a great deal, knows much or lies much.\"", + "text": "\"Whoever speaks a great deal, knows much or lies much.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Roast chickens don’t fly into mouth by themselves.\"", + "text": "\"Roast chickens don’t fly into mouth by themselves.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Never whisper to the deaf, or wink at the blind.\"", + "text": "\"Never whisper to the deaf, or wink at the blind.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who flys high, falls low.\"", + "text": "\"He who flys high, falls low.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"More you know, more respect you get.\"", + "text": "\"More you know, more respect you get.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Whoever has contempt for his mother tongue, does not respect his mother.\"", + "text": "\"Whoever has contempt for his mother tongue, does not respect his mother.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Only a fool would make the same mistake twice.\"", + "text": "\"Only a fool would make the same mistake twice.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Stone to stone – palace, grain to grain – loaf of bread.\"", + "text": "\"Stone to stone – palace, grain to grain – loaf of bread.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A word is not a horse.\"", + "text": "\"A word is not a horse.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Nice word finds a nice place.\"", + "text": "\"Nice word finds a nice place.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is better to chase the day by the head than by the tail.\"", + "text": "\"It is better to chase the day by the head than by the tail.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better to hold it than to chase it.\"", + "text": "\"Better to hold it than to chase it.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Politeness costs nothing, but yields much.\"", + "text": "\"Politeness costs nothing, but yields much.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In small churches, small saints are big..\"", + "text": "\"In small churches, small saints are big..\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", + "text": "\"Still waters run deep.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", + "text": "\"Slow and steady wins the race.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is easier to believe than to go and ask.\"", + "text": "\"It is easier to believe than to go and ask.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.\"", + "text": "\"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"All roads do not lead to Rome.\"", + "text": "\"All roads do not lead to Rome.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", + "text": "\"Every cloud has a silver lining.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Home sweet home.\"", + "text": "\"Home sweet home.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can do nothing about governments and winter.\"", + "text": "\"You can do nothing about governments and winter.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lie has short legs.\"", + "text": "\"Lie has short legs.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You meet a friend when times are tough.\"", + "text": "\"You meet a friend when times are tough.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No pain, no gain.\"", + "text": "\"No pain, no gain.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The one who arrives the first, grinds the first.\"", + "text": "\"The one who arrives the first, grinds the first.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Without due effort one is not entitled to the fruits of the work.\"", + "text": "\"Without due effort one is not entitled to the fruits of the work.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is too late to ring the bells after the hail.\"", + "text": "\"It is too late to ring the bells after the hail.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"That which is good, praises itself.\"", + "text": "\"That which is good, praises itself.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You can’t keep on with the same story, or do things in the same way, since nothing lasts forever.\"", + "text": "\"You can’t keep on with the same story, or do things in the same way, since nothing lasts forever.\"", "description": "", "category": "slovenian" } ], "luxembourgish": [ { - "proverb": "\"Words are but dwarfs, examples are giants.\"", + "text": "\"Words are but dwarfs, examples are giants.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"When girls whistle, the Holy Virgin cries.\"", + "text": "\"When girls whistle, the Holy Virgin cries.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"To the fiancé — milk; to the bride — butter; to the husband — cheese.\"", + "text": "\"To the fiancé — milk; to the bride — butter; to the husband — cheese.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"Your wife and your wheelbarrow — lend them to no one.\"", + "text": "\"Your wife and your wheelbarrow — lend them to no one.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"Truth is what women do not tell.\"", + "text": "\"Truth is what women do not tell.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"In the eyes of its mother every turkey is a swan.\"", + "text": "\"In the eyes of its mother every turkey is a swan.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"A woman who likes to wash will find water.\"", + "text": "\"A woman who likes to wash will find water.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"Keep your eye on girls that don’t tell their mothers everything.\"", + "text": "\"Keep your eye on girls that don’t tell their mothers everything.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"A man’s eyes are for seeing, a woman’s for being seen.\"", + "text": "\"A man’s eyes are for seeing, a woman’s for being seen.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wife cries before the wedding, the husband after.\"", + "text": "\"The wife cries before the wedding, the husband after.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"A woman is at her strongest when she faints.\"", + "text": "\"A woman is at her strongest when she faints.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"A woman is as old as she wishes to tell you.\"", + "text": "\"A woman is as old as she wishes to tell you.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" }, { - "proverb": "\"You will catch no birds with a club.\"", + "text": "\"You will catch no birds with a club.\"", "description": "", "category": "luxembourgish" } ], "hungarian": [ { - "proverb": "\"Books are silent masters… A könyvek néma mesterek.\"", + "text": "\"Nobody can rest in his own shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "hungarian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Even the white lily casts a shadow.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "hungarian" + }, + { + "text": "\"Books are silent masters… A könyvek néma mesterek.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Time heals all wounds… Az idő minden sebet begyógyít.\"", + "text": "\"Time heals all wounds… Az idő minden sebet begyógyít.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Exception strenghtens the rule…Kivétel erősíti a szabályt.\"", + "text": "\"Exception strenghtens the rule…Kivétel erősíti a szabályt.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.\"", + "text": "\"The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If women were not vain, men could teach them how to be.\"", + "text": "\"If women were not vain, men could teach them how to be.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Strike while the iron is hot…Addig üsd a vasat, amíg meleg.\"", + "text": "\"Strike while the iron is hot…Addig üsd a vasat, amíg meleg.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Hunger is the best cook… Az éhség a legjobb szakács.\"", + "text": "\"Hunger is the best cook… Az éhség a legjobb szakács.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is a fine thing to die for one’s fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.\"", + "text": "\"It is a fine thing to die for one’s fatherland, but a still finer thing to live for it.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Unwillingness ends in groaning… Nem akarásnak nyögés a vége.\"", + "text": "\"Unwillingness ends in groaning… Nem akarásnak nyögés a vége.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The way you sow, the way you reap…Ki mint vet, úgy arat.\"", + "text": "\"The way you sow, the way you reap…Ki mint vet, úgy arat.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"No one was ever hung for what he was thinking.\"", + "text": "\"No one was ever hung for what he was thinking.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Opposites attract each other… Az ellentétek vonzzák egymást.\"", + "text": "\"Opposites attract each other… Az ellentétek vonzzák egymást.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The horse has four legs and still stumbles…Lónak négy a lába, mégis megbotlik.\"", + "text": "\"The horse has four legs and still stumbles…Lónak négy a lába, mégis megbotlik.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Many small things can add up a big one… Sok kicsi sokra megy\"", + "text": "\"Many small things can add up a big one… Sok kicsi sokra megy\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The wall will not punch back… A fal nem üt vissza.\"", + "text": "\"The wall will not punch back… A fal nem üt vissza.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Even the blind chicken finds grains… Vak tyúk is talál szemet.\"", + "text": "\"Even the blind chicken finds grains… Vak tyúk is talál szemet.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The early bird catches the worm…Aki korán kel, aranyat lel.\"", + "text": "\"The early bird catches the worm…Aki korán kel, aranyat lel.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who dares, wins… Aki mer, az nyer.\"", + "text": "\"He who dares, wins… Aki mer, az nyer.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Time is money…Az idő pénz.\"", + "text": "\"Time is money…Az idő pénz.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Although pepper is tiny, its taste is intense.\"", + "text": "\"Although pepper is tiny, its taste is intense.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A man with good judgment does not make the goat his gardener.\"", + "text": "\"A man with good judgment does not make the goat his gardener.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Repetition is the mother of knowledge…Ismétlés a tudás anyja.\"", + "text": "\"Repetition is the mother of knowledge…Ismétlés a tudás anyja.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A fool in the morning is fool in the afternoon… Aki délelőtt bolond, délután is az.\"", + "text": "\"A fool in the morning is fool in the afternoon… Aki délelőtt bolond, délután is az.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who says A, should also say B. too… Aki Á-t mond, mondjon B-t is.\"", + "text": "\"He who says A, should also say B. too… Aki Á-t mond, mondjon B-t is.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Not all that glitters is gold… Nem mind arany, ami fénylik.\"", + "text": "\"Not all that glitters is gold… Nem mind arany, ami fénylik.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One swallow doesn’t mean the summer is here… Egy fecske nem csinál nyarat.\"", + "text": "\"One swallow doesn’t mean the summer is here… Egy fecske nem csinál nyarat.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain…Ha a hegy nem megy Mohamedhez, Mohamed megy a hegyhez.\"", + "text": "\"If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain…Ha a hegy nem megy Mohamedhez, Mohamed megy a hegyhez.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no rose without thorns… Nincsen rózsa tövis nélkül\"", + "text": "\"There is no rose without thorns… Nincsen rózsa tövis nélkül\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Even the white lily casts a shadow.\"", + "text": "\"Even the white lily casts a shadow.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Who doesn’t appreciate the litte does not deserve the big…Ki a kicsit nem becsüli, a nagyot nem érdemli.\"", + "text": "\"Who doesn’t appreciate the litte does not deserve the big…Ki a kicsit nem becsüli, a nagyot nem érdemli.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t make an elephant out of a mosquito…Ne csinálj szúnyogból elefántot.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t make an elephant out of a mosquito…Ne csinálj szúnyogból elefántot.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Cheap meat produces thin broth… Olcsó húsnak híg a leve.\"", + "text": "\"Cheap meat produces thin broth… Olcsó húsnak híg a leve.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Try to be in good company, even when you are alone.\"", + "text": "\"Try to be in good company, even when you are alone.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who trusts is happy; the doubter is wise.\"", + "text": "\"He who trusts is happy; the doubter is wise.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In the dark all cats and all girls are beautiful.\"", + "text": "\"In the dark all cats and all girls are beautiful.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He is worth his money… Megéri a pénzét\"", + "text": "\"He is worth his money… Megéri a pénzét\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself.\"", + "text": "\"I can chew for you, my child, but you must swallow by yourself.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Just because a loan is old, that does not make it a gift.\"", + "text": "\"Just because a loan is old, that does not make it a gift.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The crowd is not led by the head but by the heart.\"", + "text": "\"The crowd is not led by the head but by the heart.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"What you can do today don’t put off to tomorrow…Amit ma megtehetsz, ne halaszd holnapra!\"", + "text": "\"What you can do today don’t put off to tomorrow…Amit ma megtehetsz, ne halaszd holnapra!\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Help yourself and God will help you also… Segíts magadon, (és) az Isten is megsegít.\"", + "text": "\"Help yourself and God will help you also… Segíts magadon, (és) az Isten is megsegít.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In much talk there is much irrelevancies.\"", + "text": "\"In much talk there is much irrelevancies.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Like mother, like daughter…Amilyen az anya, olyan a lánya.\"", + "text": "\"Like mother, like daughter…Amilyen az anya, olyan a lánya.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who accepts the gift loses his liberty.\"", + "text": "\"He who accepts the gift loses his liberty.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In the long run even a dog will compromise with the cat.\"", + "text": "\"In the long run even a dog will compromise with the cat.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Peccadilloes at home, deadly sins abroad.\"", + "text": "\"Peccadilloes at home, deadly sins abroad.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The nice apples are sour…A szép almákban is vannak savanyuk.\"", + "text": "\"The nice apples are sour…A szép almákban is vannak savanyuk.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t drink ahead to the bear’s hide… Ne igyál előre a medve bőrére.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t drink ahead to the bear’s hide… Ne igyál előre a medve bőrére.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A loan, though old, is not a gift.\"", + "text": "\"A loan, though old, is not a gift.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"When ambition ends, happiness begins.\"", + "text": "\"When ambition ends, happiness begins.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The forbidden fruit is the sweetest…A tiltott gyümölcs a legédesebb.\"", + "text": "\"The forbidden fruit is the sweetest…A tiltott gyümölcs a legédesebb.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Bury the hatchet…Elássa a csatabárdot.\"", + "text": "\"Bury the hatchet…Elássa a csatabárdot.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.\"", + "text": "\"A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A bashful beggar will have an empty wallet.\"", + "text": "\"A bashful beggar will have an empty wallet.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.\"", + "text": "\"He who slowly gets angry will stay angry for a long time.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Everything is possible, you just need to want it!… Mindent lehet, csupán akarni kell.\"", + "text": "\"Everything is possible, you just need to want it!… Mindent lehet, csupán akarni kell.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The amount of people equals the amount of opinions.\"", + "text": "\"The amount of people equals the amount of opinions.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A good priest learns till he dies… Jó pap holtig tanul.\"", + "text": "\"A good priest learns till he dies… Jó pap holtig tanul.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He is rich who owes nothing.\"", + "text": "\"He is rich who owes nothing.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The best defense is a good offense…A legjobb védekezés a támadás.\"", + "text": "\"The best defense is a good offense…A legjobb védekezés a támadás.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.\"", + "text": "\"Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The liar is caught sooner than a lame dog…A hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát.\"", + "text": "\"The liar is caught sooner than a lame dog…A hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Birds of a feather flock together…Madarat tolláról, embert barátjáról.\"", + "text": "\"Birds of a feather flock together…Madarat tolláról, embert barátjáról.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Love is blind… A szerelem vak.\"", + "text": "\"Love is blind… A szerelem vak.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Shooting sparrows with a cannon… Ágyúval lő verébre.\"", + "text": "\"Shooting sparrows with a cannon… Ágyúval lő verébre.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Even the best tree sometimes has bad fruit.\"", + "text": "\"Even the best tree sometimes has bad fruit.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Like father, like son…Amilyen az apa, olyan a fia.\"", + "text": "\"Like father, like son…Amilyen az apa, olyan a fia.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t cry over the spilled milk… Nem kell belesírni a kiömlött tejbe.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t cry over the spilled milk… Nem kell belesírni a kiömlött tejbe.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Children, fools and drunken men tell the truth…Gyermëk, részëg, bolond mondják az igazat.\"", + "text": "\"Children, fools and drunken men tell the truth…Gyermëk, részëg, bolond mondják az igazat.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.\"", + "text": "\"The woman of a man without sorrows is almost a widow.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The big fish eats the little fish…A nagy hal megeszi a kis halat.\"", + "text": "\"The big fish eats the little fish…A nagy hal megeszi a kis halat.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.\"", + "text": "\"Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"You should not add oil to the fire… Nëm këll a tűzre olajat önteni.\"", + "text": "\"You should not add oil to the fire… Nëm këll a tűzre olajat önteni.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot…A nyavalya lóháton jön, gyalog megy el.\"", + "text": "\"Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot…A nyavalya lóháton jön, gyalog megy el.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The smart one will learn from the mistakes of others…Más kárán tanul az okos.\"", + "text": "\"The smart one will learn from the mistakes of others…Más kárán tanul az okos.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Those who dare to lie once, don’t not deserve credit… Aki egyszer hazudni mer, több hitelt nem érdemel.\"", + "text": "\"Those who dare to lie once, don’t not deserve credit… Aki egyszer hazudni mer, több hitelt nem érdemel.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.\"", + "text": "\"An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Necessity is the greatest teacher… A szükség a legnagyobb tanítómester.\"", + "text": "\"Necessity is the greatest teacher… A szükség a legnagyobb tanítómester.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Rather today a sparrow than a bustard tomorrow…Jobb ma egy veréb, mint holnap egy túzok.\"", + "text": "\"Rather today a sparrow than a bustard tomorrow…Jobb ma egy veréb, mint holnap egy túzok.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lazyness brings struggle… Nem akarasnak nyoges a vege\"", + "text": "\"Lazyness brings struggle… Nem akarasnak nyoges a vege\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Can’t see the forest from the trees… Nem látja a fától az erdőt.\"", + "text": "\"Can’t see the forest from the trees… Nem látja a fától az erdőt.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Beloved children have many names.\"", + "text": "\"Beloved children have many names.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.\"", + "text": "\"There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who is feared by many must be afraid of many.\"", + "text": "\"He who is feared by many must be afraid of many.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Blushing is the paint of good habits.\"", + "text": "\"Blushing is the paint of good habits.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Better to fear than to be frightened.\"", + "text": "\"Better to fear than to be frightened.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Everyone’s the blacksmith of their own fate…Mindenki a maga szerencséjének kovácsa.\"", + "text": "\"Everyone’s the blacksmith of their own fate…Mindenki a maga szerencséjének kovácsa.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Carrying water in the Danube… Vizet hord a Dunába.\"", + "text": "\"Carrying water in the Danube… Vizet hord a Dunába.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who is struck by the lightning doesn’t hear the thunder.\"", + "text": "\"He who is struck by the lightning doesn’t hear the thunder.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", + "text": "\"Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"An old spinster is not worth more than a un posted letter.\"", + "text": "\"An old spinster is not worth more than a un posted letter.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Fish stinks from the head…Fejétől bűzlik a hal.\"", + "text": "\"Fish stinks from the head…Fejétől bűzlik a hal.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Do more things by wisdom than by force.\"", + "text": "\"Do more things by wisdom than by force.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If it’s God’s will the broom will lose its handle.\"", + "text": "\"If it’s God’s will the broom will lose its handle.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.\"", + "text": "\"It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Other people’s eggs have two yolks.\"", + "text": "\"Other people’s eggs have two yolks.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Good wine needs no label…Jó bornak nem kell cégér.\"", + "text": "\"Good wine needs no label…Jó bornak nem kell cégér.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"All miracles last 3 days… Minden csoda 3 napig tart.\"", + "text": "\"All miracles last 3 days… Minden csoda 3 napig tart.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.\"", + "text": "\"Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"There is nothing more precious than time… Nincs drágább az idönél.\"", + "text": "\"There is nothing more precious than time… Nincs drágább az idönél.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Lots of geese can conquer pigs… Sok lúd disznót győz\"", + "text": "\"Lots of geese can conquer pigs… Sok lúd disznót győz\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Knowledge is power… A tudás hatalom.\"", + "text": "\"Knowledge is power… A tudás hatalom.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The owl tells the sparrow that her head is big.\"", + "text": "\"The owl tells the sparrow that her head is big.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"One road leads to heaven but many lead to hell.\"", + "text": "\"One road leads to heaven but many lead to hell.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The apple falls close to its tree.… Nëm esik messze az alma a fájától.\"", + "text": "\"The apple falls close to its tree.… Nëm esik messze az alma a fájától.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Fine words are not enough for the empty stomach, it needs bread…\"", + "text": "\"Fine words are not enough for the empty stomach, it needs bread…\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Whoever digs a hole for someone else, will fall in it themselves…Aki másnak vermet ás, maga esik bele.\"", + "text": "\"Whoever digs a hole for someone else, will fall in it themselves…Aki másnak vermet ás, maga esik bele.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"What we do not know will not hurt… Amit nem tudunk az nem fáj.\"", + "text": "\"What we do not know will not hurt… Amit nem tudunk az nem fáj.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Where there is no bridge the smallest plank is of great value.\"", + "text": "\"Where there is no bridge the smallest plank is of great value.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Money does not buy happiness… A pénz nem boldogít.\"", + "text": "\"Money does not buy happiness… A pénz nem boldogít.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Barking dogs seldom bite…Amelyik kutya ugat, az nem harap.\"", + "text": "\"Barking dogs seldom bite…Amelyik kutya ugat, az nem harap.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest, and finally the boss.\"", + "text": "\"A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest, and finally the boss.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"It is a poor mouse that has only one hole… Szëgény ëgér, melynek csak egy lyuka van.\"", + "text": "\"It is a poor mouse that has only one hole… Szëgény ëgér, melynek csak egy lyuka van.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"He who wants to go fishing must not be afraid of the water.\"", + "text": "\"He who wants to go fishing must not be afraid of the water.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Look at the mother, marry the daughter.\"", + "text": "\"Look at the mother, marry the daughter.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Come a little closer when your sword is too short.\"", + "text": "\"Come a little closer when your sword is too short.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"In wine there is truth…Borban az igazság.\"", + "text": "\"In wine there is truth…Borban az igazság.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The fried pigeon will not fly into your mouth… Nem repül a sült galamb a szádba.\"", + "text": "\"The fried pigeon will not fly into your mouth… Nem repül a sült galamb a szádba.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The bushes don’t rattle if there’s no wind… Nem zörög a haraszt, ha a szél nem fújja.\"", + "text": "\"The bushes don’t rattle if there’s no wind… Nem zörög a haraszt, ha a szél nem fújja.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Sometimes a blind man could see hoofs… éha a vak is patkóra talál.\"", + "text": "\"Sometimes a blind man could see hoofs… éha a vak is patkóra talál.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Listen too much say little…Sokat hallgass keveset szólj.\"", + "text": "\"Listen too much say little…Sokat hallgass keveset szólj.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise.\"", + "text": "\"The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A new broom sweeps well… Új seprű jól seper.\"", + "text": "\"A new broom sweeps well… Új seprű jól seper.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A flatterer is a secret enemy.\"", + "text": "\"A flatterer is a secret enemy.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Man plans, God executes…Ember tervez, Isten végez.\"", + "text": "\"Man plans, God executes…Ember tervez, Isten végez.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Nobody can rest in his own shadow.\"", + "text": "\"Nobody can rest in his own shadow.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Even walls have ears…A falnak is füle van.\"", + "text": "\"Even walls have ears…A falnak is füle van.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.\"", + "text": "\"The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A mug keeps going to the well until it breaks eventually… Addig jár a korsó a kútra, míg el nem törik.\"", + "text": "\"A mug keeps going to the well until it breaks eventually… Addig jár a korsó a kútra, míg el nem törik.\"", "description": "", "category": "hungarian" } ], "macedonian": [ { - "proverb": "\"Where force rules, justice does not exist.\"", + "text": "\"Where force rules, justice does not exist.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"What one fool can ensnare, not a thousand sages can fix.\"", + "text": "\"What one fool can ensnare, not a thousand sages can fix.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Think twice, say once.\"", + "text": "\"Think twice, say once.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"The brain is not in the pocket, but in the head.\"", + "text": "\"The brain is not in the pocket, but in the head.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"If my neighbor is happy, my own work will go easier, too.\"", + "text": "\"If my neighbor is happy, my own work will go easier, too.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Feed a dog, he stops barking at you.\"", + "text": "\"Feed a dog, he stops barking at you.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Enjoy yourself; for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.\"", + "text": "\"Enjoy yourself; for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"Brother does not feed his brother but it is hard not having one.\"", + "text": "\"Brother does not feed his brother but it is hard not having one.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A good friend is recognized in times of trouble.\"", + "text": "\"A good friend is recognized in times of trouble.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" }, { - "proverb": "\"A bear that dances in your neighbor’s house might soon dance in yours.\"", + "text": "\"A bear that dances in your neighbor’s house might soon dance in yours.\"", "description": "", "category": "macedonian" } + ], + "samoan": [ + { + "text": "\"A careless person will be taken by surprise by his watchful enemy.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Blessed is the moon; it goes but it comes back again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The mat is warm.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Having foolishly got into trouble he is asking for help.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Gather the breadfruit from the farthest branches first.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Like a fish, one should look for a hole in the net.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The hand strikes the eye.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The stones and the earth weep.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The way to authority is through service.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"If at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Catch the bird and watch the breakers.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sit and wait for the good chestnuts.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"There is a lou (harvesting pole) for every crop.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Sin is carried in the mouth.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"May it end with threats and not come to blows.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Who sits at home in the morning will not eat in the evening.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The deaf hears when he is tapped.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The snake when about to be killed looks but does not escape.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"It grew in the bush, but it is cast away in the road.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Strong in heart, but broken in the back.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"May your mind be like cool water.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"We must be of one mind in the undertaking.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Look before you leap.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Stones decay; words last.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"One good turn deserves another.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The coconut tree doesn’t sway on its own, but is swayed by the wind.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The offspring of birds are fed with flower nectar, but the children of men are nurtured with words.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"The person who has burned their fingers often asks for tongs.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Let each do his share of the work.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Words don’t break bones.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"You shake in vain the branch that bears no fruit.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Our lives are decreed to be taken by the gods.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"When a crab is caught it is pierced with its own leg.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + }, + { + "text": "\"Singing like the birds dawn chorus.\"", + "description": "", + "category": "samoan" + } ] } diff --git a/typings/types.ts b/typings/types.ts index 0188c80d..57e68547 100644 --- a/typings/types.ts +++ b/typings/types.ts @@ -90,40 +90,89 @@ export enum HeroPattern { export enum LanguagePattern { english = 'english', + azerbaijani = 'azerbaijani', spanish = 'spanish', + sanskrit = 'sanskrit', danish = 'danish', + dutch = 'dutch', + burundian = 'burundian', + beninese = 'beninese', + dominican = 'dominican', + martiniquais = 'martiniquais', + gypsy = 'gypsy', + sri_lankan = 'sri-lankan', + jordanian = 'jordanian', + tibetan = 'tibetan', + tanzanian = 'tanzanian', + cypriot = 'cypriot', + walloon = 'walloon', + babylonian = 'babylonian', + algerian = 'algerian', + myanmar = 'myanmar', + swahili = 'swahili', + iraqi = 'iraqi', + romanian = 'romanian', + ivorian = 'ivorian', + yemeni = 'yemeni', + serbian = 'serbian', + bedouin = 'bedouin', russian = 'russian', - arabic = 'arabic', + arabian = 'arabian', + belizean = 'belizean', + indonesian = 'indonesian', + jewish = 'jewish', + senegalese = 'senegalese', + islamic = 'islamic', french = 'french', + fijian = 'fijian', kenyan = 'kenyan', + malagasy = 'malagasy', latin = 'latin', moorish = 'moorish', swiss = 'swiss', turkish = 'turkish', ethiopian = 'ethiopian', german = 'german', + mexican = 'mexican', + congolese = 'congolese', + malaysian = 'malaysian', + ghanaian = 'ghanaian', + maltese = 'maltese', + filipino = 'filipino', afghan = 'afghan', icelandic = 'icelandic', italian = 'italian', egyptian = 'egyptian', + hawaiian = 'hawaiian', + cambodian = 'cambodian', + creole = 'creole', armenian = 'armenian', yiddish = 'yiddish', thai = 'thai', burmese = 'burmese', greek = 'greek', african = 'african', + cameroonian = 'cameroonian', + iranian = 'iranian', new_zelander = 'new-zelander', cuban = 'cuban', + palestinian = 'palestinian', welsh = 'welsh', zulu = 'zulu', bantu = 'bantu', jamaican = 'jamaican', sudanese = 'sudanese', moroccan = 'moroccan', + vietnamese = 'vietnamese', indian = 'indian', + hebrew = 'hebrew', + czech = 'czech', + nigerian = 'nigerian', + tamilan = 'tamilan', chinese = 'chinese', portuguese = 'portuguese', swedish = 'swedish', + mongolian = 'mongolian', irish = 'irish', japanese = 'japanese', gaelic = 'gaelic', @@ -132,8 +181,14 @@ export enum LanguagePattern { luxembourgish = 'luxembourgish', hungarian = 'hungarian', macedonian = 'macedonian', + samoan = 'samoan', } +/** + * Optional {@link T} or null/undefined type + */ +export type Optional = T | null | undefined + export type ProverbData = { /** * Proverb identifier @@ -146,14 +201,14 @@ export type ProverbData = { /** * Proverb category */ - category?: string + category?: string | string[] /** * Proverb description */ description: string } -export type ProverbMapper = { [K in LanguagePattern]: ProverbData[] } +export type ProverbMapper = Record export interface ParsedRequest { /** diff --git a/utils/proverb.ts b/utils/proverb.ts index c6b01ba4..6c2190c1 100644 --- a/utils/proverb.ts +++ b/utils/proverb.ts @@ -1,15 +1,21 @@ -import { ColorOptions, ImageOptions, LanguagePattern, ParsedRequest, ProverbData } from '../typings/types' +import { + ColorOptions, + ImageOptions, + LanguagePattern, + Optional, + ParsedRequest, + ProverbData, +} from '../typings/types' import gradient from 'gradient-string' import randomColor from 'randomcolor' +import _ from 'lodash' -import { delim, mergeProps, randomElement, randomEnum, toFormatString } from './commons' +import { delim, isBlankString, mergeProps, randomElement, randomEnum, toFormatString } from './commons' import { css } from './getCss' import { profile } from './env' import { proverbs } from './proverbs' -// import { idx } from './search' - export async function proverbRenderer(parsedRequest: ParsedRequest): Promise { const { language, keywords, width, height, ...rest } = parsedRequest @@ -28,17 +34,25 @@ export async function proverbRenderer(parsedRequest: ParsedRequest): Promise = keywords ? await getProverbByKeywords(keywords) : await getProverbByLanguage(language) - if (proverbData) { - const category = proverbData.category ? `(${proverbData.category})` : '' - const text = `${proverbData.text} ${category}` - const description = proverbData.description + return getImageContent(proverbData, colorOptions, imageOptions) +} + +const getImageContent = ( + proverbData: Optional, + colorOptions: ColorOptions, + imageOptions: ImageOptions +): string => { + if (!proverbData) return '' + + const text = `${proverbData.text} ${getCategory(proverbData.category)}` + const description = proverbData.description - return ` - @@ -46,23 +60,30 @@ export async function proverbRenderer(parsedRequest: ParsedRequest): Promise
-

${text}

-
-

${description}

-
+ ${getBodyContent(text, description)}
- ` - } + ` +} + +const getBodyContent = (text: string, description: string): string => { + return isBlankString(description) + ? `

${text}

` + : `

${text}

+
+

${description}

+
` +} - return '' +const getCategory = (category?: string | string[]): string => { + return category ? `(${_.isArray(category) ? category.join(',') : category})` : '' } -const getProverbByKeywords = async (keywords: string | string[]): Promise => { +const getProverbByKeywords = async (keywords: string | string[]): Promise> => { const searchKeys = typeof keywords === 'string' ? keywords.split(',') : keywords //const searchResults = getSearchResults(idx(), searchKeys.join(' ')) //const searchData = randomElement(searchResults)