A candle lights others but consumes itself. (English)
It takes a village to raise a child. (Africa)
It is one thing to cackle and another to lay an egg. (Ecuador)
One dog barks because it sees something; a hundred dogs bark because they heard the first dog bark. (Chinese)
To hide one lie, a thousand lies are needed. (India)
A needle wrapped in a rag will be found in the end. (Vietnamese)
Do not seek to escape from the flood by clinging to a tiger's tail. (Chinese)
Step by step one ascends the staircase. (Turkey)
Little by little the cotton thread becomes a loincloth. (Africa-Dahomey)
Anger is a bad adviser. (Hungary)
Eggs must not quarrel with stones. (Jamaican)
Eyes can see everything except themselves. (Serbo-Croatian)
Haste makes waste. (English)
Every hill has its valley. (Italian)
**An exceptional print source for world proverbs: Mieder, Wolfgang, The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs: A Treasury of Wit and Wisdom Through the Ages, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986.
