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| A forest that has sheltered you, you should not call a shrubbery. (You should not detract from the merits of a benefactor.) Oji. | 1 |
| A satiated mouth soon forgets the benefactor. Japanese. | 2 |
| A thankless man never does a thankful deed. Danish. | 3 |
| A too quick return of an obligation is a sort of an ingratitude. | 4 |
| After crossing the river the boatman gets a cuff. Tamil. | 5 |
| An ungrateful man is a tub full of holes. Latin. | 6 |
| As soon as you have drank you turn your back upon the spring. | 7 |
| Be not ungrateful to your old friend. | 8 |
| Bring up a raven and he will pick out your eyes. French, German. | 9 |
| Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. Ausonius. | 10 |
| He has brought up a bird to pick out his own eyes. | 11 |
| He that you seat upon your shoulder will often try to get upon your head. Danish. | 12 |
| If you call a man ungrateful you say everything against him. Juvenal. | 13 |
I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruptions
Inhabit our frail blood. Shakespeare. | 14 |
| I taught you to swim, and now you would drown me. | 15 |
| I took him for a worm and he proved a serpent. | 16 |
| Ingratitude is the mother of pride. | 17 |
| Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. Don Quixote. | 18 |
| Ingratitude sickens benevolence. German. | 19 |
| Ingratitude makes the receiver worse but the benefactor better. | 20 |
| One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in distress. Publius Syrus. | 21 |
| Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll be the first shall cut your throat. | 22 |
| Take a churl from a gibbet and he will put you on it. French. | 23 |
| Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up. French, Italian. | 24 |
| The axe goes to the wood from which it borrowed its helve. | 25 |
| The sword has forgotten the smith that forged it. | 26 |
The winter has gone, the spring has come,
A fig for those who us good have done. Spanish. | 27 |
| To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater into the sea. | 28 |
| Unhang one that is hanged and he will hang thee. French. | 29 |
| What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. Latin. | 30 |
| When I had thatched his house he would have hurled me from the roof. | 31 |
| You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. Plautus. | 32 |
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