Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

2] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

3] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

4] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

5] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

6] The young will sow their wild oats

7] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

8] A learned man has always riches in himself

9] Covetousness breaks the sack

10] An oak is not felled at one stroke

11] Time flies

12] Mirth is the sugar of life

13] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

14] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

15] There is a black sheep in every flock

16] No tie can oblige the perfidious

17] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

18] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

19] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

20] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

21] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

22] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

23] Who suffers much is silent

24] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

25] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

26] The cowl does not make the monk.

27] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

28] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

29] Abundance, like want, ruins many

30] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

31] True gold is not transformed by fire

32] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

33] Too much money makes one mad

34] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

35] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

36] Set a thief to catch a thief

37] A bad excuse is better than none at all

38] Failure teaches success

39] We soon believe what we desire

40] Give a loan and buy quarrel

41] Words cut more than swords

42] Bad luck often brings good luck

43] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

44] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

45] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

46] It is well to live that one may learn

47] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

48] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

49] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

50] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

51] Better late than never

52] Charity begins at home.

53] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

54] Never too late to late to repent

55] Success has many friends

56] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

57] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

58] At open doors, dogs come in

59] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

60] The slowest barker is the surest biter

61] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

62] Speech is silver, silence is golden

63] First thrive then wive

64] No man is infallible

65] Love sees no fault

66] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

67] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

68] He thinks not well that thinks not again

69] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

70] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

71] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

72] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

73] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

74] Like will to like

75] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

76] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

77] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

78] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

79] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

80] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

81] As long lives a merry man as a sad

82] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

83] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

84] Friends agree best at a distance

85] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

86] Laughter makes good blood

87] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

88] Borrowed garments never fit well

89] Pursuits become habits

90] Long absent, soon forgotten

91] There is no royal road to learning

92] Evil to him who evil thinks.

93] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

94] Be just before you are generous

95] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

96] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

97] Will is the cause of woe

98] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

99] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

100] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure