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| A good master of the house must first to bed and first out. German. | 1 |
| All men can’t be masters. | 2 |
| As is the master so is his dog. Spanish. | 3 |
| As many servants so many masters. Seneca. | 4 |
| As the master so the work. German. | 5 |
| Better a master be feared than despised. | 6 |
| Every one has his master. German. | 7 |
| He must indeed be a good master who never errs. Dutch. | 8 |
| He who has a companion has a master. French. | 9 |
| He who has two masters to serve must lie to one of them. Spanish. | 10 |
| It is bad to have a servant but worse to have a master. Portuguese. | 11 |
| Like master, like man. French, Italian, German, Dutch. | 12 |
| Masters amuse themselves, servants die. Turkish. | 13 |
| Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house. | 14 |
| Masters’ hints are commands. Italian. | 15 |
| Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. | 16 |
| Mony ane serves a thankless master. | 17 |
| No man can serve two masters. | 18 |
| Of a master who never forgives, the orders are seldom disobeyed. Gibbon. | 19 |
| One eye of the master sees more than four of the servants’. | 20 |
| Our master is our enemy. (La Fontaine illustrates this proverb by one of his fables of the ass and his master.) La Fontaine. | 21 |
| Share not pears with your master either in jest or in earnest. | 22 |
| Some day Peter will command as much as his master. Spanish. | 23 |
| The forehead of a master is better than his hind head. (A Latin proverb quoted by Cato and Pliny the Elder.) | 24 |
| The master bids the man, the man bids the cat, and the cat bids its own tail. Portuguese. | 25 |
| The master derives honor from his art. Danish. | 26 |
| The master eats the flesh, the servant must gnaw the bones. German. | 27 |
| The master makes the house to be respected, not the house the master. | 28 |
| The master of the house is the guest of the servant. Turkish. | 29 |
| The master’s eye and foot are the best manure for the field. Dutch. | 30 |
| The master’s eye puts mate on the horse’s bones. Ulster. | 31 |
| We cannot all be masters. Shakespeare. | 32 |
| What belongs to the master is forbidden to the slave. Arabian. | 33 |
| You may know the master by the man. | 34 |
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