| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Wall |
| | | A white wall is the fool’s paper. French, Italian. | 1 |
| Bring your line to the wall, not the wall to your line. | 2 |
| Hard with hard makes not the stone wall. | 3 |
| It is bad to lean against a falling wall. Danish. | 4 |
| One may see through a wall if there is a hole in it. German. | 5 |
| The walls are the books of the poor. Punch. | 6 |
| The walls have ears and the plain has eyes. Modern Greek. | 7 |
| Walls have ears. French, German, Portuguese, Dutch. | 8 |
| Walls sink and dunghills rise. Spanish, Portuguese. | 9 |
| When a wall is cracked and lofty, its fall will be speedy. Chinese. | 10 |
| White walls are fools’ writing-paper. | 11 | | |
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