| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Imitation |
| | | As the old birds sing the young ones twitter. German, Danish. | 1 |
| As the old cock crows so crow the young. | 2 |
| As the old cock crows, the young cock learns. | 3 |
| By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. Ovid. | 4 |
| Easy to look at, difficult to imitate. Chinese. | 5 |
| If our child squints our neighbor’s child has a cast in both eyes. Livonian. | 6 |
| Imitate Ssw-ma who laid up much secret merit. Chinese. | 7 |
| Imitation is natural to man from infancy. Spenser. | 8 |
| Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Colton. | 9 |
| No man doth accompany with others but he learneth ere he is aware some gesture, voice, or fashion. Bacon. | 10 |
| No man ever became great by imitation. Dr. Johnson. | 11 |
| One dog looks at something, and a hundred dogs at him. Chinese. | 12 | | |
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