Hiding Proverbs

Sayings about hiding

If you are in hiding, don't light a fire. ~ Ghanaian Proverbs

He that hides is no better than he that steals. ~ Danish Proverbs

The feathers of a dead eagle would cover you all over. ~ Gabonese Proverbs

You may hide the fire, but what about the smoke? ~ Creole Proverb

Snakes prefer to hide under flowers. ~ French Proverbs

Poverty and ugliness are difficult to hide. ~ Chinese Proverbs

A fair face may hide a foul heart. ~ Danish Proverb

You cannot hide the sun with one hand. ~ American Proverb

Often one finds one's destiny just where one hides to avoid it. ~ Chinese Proverb

Cover up the good you do -- do like the Nile and conceal your sources. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

Cats hide their claws. ~ English Proverbs

Marriage is a covered dish. ~ Swiss Proverbs

The earth will cover the doctor's mistakes. ~ Ukrainian Proverbs

Why hide from God what the saints already know? ~ French Proverbs

Darkness conceals the hippopotamus. ~ Zulu Proverb

You cannot cover up the sun with a sieve. ~ Brazilian Proverbs

Hide not the truth from your confessor, your doctor, or your lawyer. ~ Italian Proverbs

Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men. ~ Latin Proverbs

Where profit is, loss is hiding nearby. ~ Japanese Proverbs

Moustaches hide the imperfections of the mouth. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Don't cough in a hiding place. ~ Sudanese Proverbs

A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke. ~ Spanish Proverbs

A small cloud may hide both sun and moon. ~ Danish Proverb

The bait hides the hook. ~ English Proverbs

A great affair covers up a small matter. ~ Beninese Proverbs

He that hides can find. ~ French Proverb

He who covers up his mistakes intends to make some more. ~ Chinese Proverb

Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money. ~ Traditional Proverb

Have an open face, but conceal your thoughts. ~ Italian Proverb

Gloves hide the ugliest hands. ~ Romanian Proverbs

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy. ~ Arabian Proverb

Love, a cough, and smoke, are hard to hide. ~ Danish Proverb

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings. ~ Bible

There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness. ~ Hungarian Proverbs

Common sense hides shame. ~ Gaelic Proverbs

Clothes cover up character. ~ Jamaican Proverbs

Too much politeness conceals deceit. ~ Chinese Proverb

Lovers do not hide their nakedness. ~ Congolese Proverbs

If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints. ~ Chinese Proverb

The devil hides behind the cross. ~ Spanish Proverb

If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?. ~ Bugundan Proverb

Nothing so visible than what you want to hide. ~ Japanese Proverb

He who laughs too much, is hiding his grief. ~ Italian Proverb

Truth fears nothing but concealment. ~ Traditional Proverb

He who is covered with other people's clothes is naked. ~ Tunisian Proverbs

He who admits to his ignorance shows it once only; he who tries to hide it shows it frequently. ~ Japanese Proverb

Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak. ~ Spanish Proverb

Vice is nourished by concealment. ~ Latin Proverb

Sins hide not in your sleep but in your dreams. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

It is difficult to hide what everybody knows. ~ Danish Proverb

You can't hide behind your finger. ~ Greek Proverbs

Discretion is a way of hiding what you cannot help. ~ Spanish Proverb

He who hides his faults plans to make more. ~ Chinese Proverb

Even if you hide yourself from the world, don't lose sight of your real nature. ~ Japanese Proverb

Quotations about Hiding

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. ~ Alfred Nobel

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. ~ Bryant H. McGill

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings. ~ Gerard Depardieu

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ~ Goethe

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. ~ Paulo Coelho

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ~ Willem De Kooning

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. ~ Vance Havner

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. ~ Samuel Grafton

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~ Mae West

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses. ~ Paul Westphal

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. ~ May Sarton

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding. ~ Margaret A. Robinson

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. ~ St. Jerome

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ~ Herodotus

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment. ~ Harry F. Banks

He can run but he can't hide. ~ Joe Louis

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. ~ George Eliot

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. ~ Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. ~ Elbert Hubbard

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it. ~ Pearl Bailey

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ~ James Reston

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