One swallow does not make a summer.
Una hirundo non facit ver.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The voice of the people, the voice of God.
- A fly in the ointment.
- One and none is all one.
- There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
- When one door shuts, another opens.
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
- One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
- A great ship asks deep waters.
- For one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding.
- One flower makes no garland.
- The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
- When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
- Eagles catch no flies.
- In a long journey straw weighs.
- Dead dogs bite not.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
- Una hirundo non facit ver. One swallow does not make a spring.
French
- Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps. One swallow doesn't make a spring.
German
- Einmal ist keinmal. Once is not once.
- Ein Mann macht keinen Tanz, eine Blume keinen Kranz. A man does not make a dance, a flower does not make a wreath.
- Ein Mädchen macht keinen Tanz, eine Blume keinen Kranz. A girl does not make a dance, a flower does not make a wreath.
Czech
- Jedna vlaštovka jaro nedělá. One swallow does not make a spring.
- Jeden žid nedělá jarmark. One Jew doesn't make a fair.