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| A blind hen can sometimes find corn. French. | 1 |
| A blind horse goes straight forward. German. | 2 |
| A blind man is no judge of colors. Italian. | 3 |
| A blind man leaned against a wall;—“This is the boundary of the world,” he said. Modern Greek. | 4 |
| A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow. Dutch. | 5 |
| A blind man shouldn’t attempt to catch fleas. Punch. | 6 |
| A blind man’s stroke which raises a dust from beneath water. Spanish. | 7 |
| A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. | 8 |
| A blind man wishes to show the road. Latin. | 9 |
| A blind man would be glad to see it. | 10 |
| A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat. Danish. | 11 |
| A man were better half blind than have both his eyes out. | 12 |
| A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man. | 13 |
| Among the blind close your eyes. Turkish. | 14 |
| Better be one-eyed than quite blind. Portuguese. | 15 |
| Better squinting than blind. Dutch. | 16 |
| Blind man’s holiday; i.e., twilight, almost quite dark. | 17 |
| Blind men must not run. | 18 |
| Blind men should not judge of colors. | 19 |
| He does as the blind man when he casts his staff. | 20 |
| He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none. Dutch. | 21 |
| He is blind enough who sees not through a sieve. Don Quixote. | 22 |
| He is very blind who cannot see the sun. Italian. | 23 |
| He that governs well leads the blind, but he that teaches him gives him eyes. | 24 |
| If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch. New Testament. | 25 |
| In the land of the blind the one-eyed is a king. Dutch. | 26 |
| It is a blind man’s question to ask why those things are loved that are beautiful. | 27 |
| None so blind as those who won’t see. | 28 |
| One blind man leads another into the ditch. French. | 29 |
| That would I fain see, said blind George of Hallowee. | 30 |
| The blind do not desire anything beyond two eyes. Turkish. | 31 |
| The blind eat many a fly. | 32 |
| The blind man has picked up a coin. Portuguese. | 33 |
| The blind man sought for a needle in the straw-loft, and the man with a lame hand made a basket to put it in. Modern Greek. | 34 |
| The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. Danish. | 35 |
| There are none so blind as they who wilfully shut their eyes. Arabian. | 36 |
| What matters it to a blind man, that his father could see? | 37 |
| When blind leads blind both fall into the ditch. | 38 |
| When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow. French. | 39 |
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