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| A blow threatened was never well given. Italian, Spanish. | 1 |
| A buffeting threatened is never well given. Spanish, Italian. | 2 |
| A threatened man lives long if he can get bread. Dutch. | 3 |
| All do not bite that show their teeth. Dutch. | 4 |
| All threateners don’t fight. Dutch. | 5 |
| He can do but little who cannot threaten another. Spanish. | 6 |
| He that threatens wastes his anger. Portuguese. | 7 |
| He threatens many that injured one. Ben Jonson. | 8 |
| He threatens who is afraid. French. | 9 |
| He who threateneth hunteth after revenge. | 10 |
| It is more easy to threaten than to kill. Italian. | 11 |
| Longer lives he that is threatened than he that is hanged. Italian. | 12 |
| Many a one threatens while he quakes with fear. Italian, German. | 13 |
| More are threatened than are stabbed. Spanish. | 14 |
| No one dies of threats. Dutch. | 15 |
| Not all threateners fight. Dutch. | 16 |
| Some threaten who are afraid. French. | 17 |
| The threatener loses the opportunity of vengeance. Spanish. | 18 |
| The threatener sometimes gets a drubbing. French. | 19 |
| There are more threatened than hurt. Italian, Spanish. | 20 |
| Threatened folks too, eat bread. Spanish, Portuguese. | 21 |
| Threatened folks live long. Fielding. | 22 |
| Threats are arms for the threatened. Italian. | 23 |
| Threats don’t kill. (Men don’t die of threats.) Dutch. | 24 |
| To freemen threats are impotent. Cicero. | 25 |
| Who threatens, warns. German. | 26 |
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