Famous Proverbs

1] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

2] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

3] He who considers too much will perform little.

4] Morning dreams come true

5] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

6] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

7] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

8] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

9] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

10] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

11] A mouse may help a lion

12] The resolved mind has no cares

13] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

14] The game is not worth the candle

15] Health is not value till sickness comes

16] Better children weep than old men

17] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

18] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

19] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

20] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

21] 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

22] Let us do evil that good may come

23] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

24] A wicked man is his own hell

25] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

26] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

27] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

28] That which proves too much proves nothing

29] From small beginnings come great things

30] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

31] What the king wills, that the law wills

32] Money can influence even the spirits

33] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

34] Cheats never prosper

35] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

36] Flesh is frail

37] Truth is mighty and will prevail

38] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

39] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

40] Wrong has no warrant

41] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

42] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

43] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

44] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

45] Let sleeping dogs lie

46] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

47] Barking dogs seldom bite

48] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

49] Worse things happen at sea

50] Let the buyer beware

51] The highest branch is not the safest roost

52] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

53] Gossiping and lying go together

54] The labourer is worthy of his hire

55] Bold men have generous hearts

56] A strong town is not won in an hour

57] Morning dreams come true

58] Weeds need no sowing

59] Past cure, past care

60] Long life has long misery

61] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

62] Accidents will happen

63] The love of money is the root of all evil

64] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

65] Beauty is but skin-deep

66] Words and feathers the wind carries away

67] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

68] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

69] A good beginning makes a good ending.

70] Beware of no man more than himself

71] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

72] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

73] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

74] Advise none to marry or to go to war

75] Precept begins, examples accomplish

76] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

77] Strike while the iron is hot

78] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

79] Seek and you shall find

80] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

81] Dumb dogs are dangerous

82] Desires are nourished by delays

83] You cannot make bricks without straw

84] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

85] Good luck beats early rising

86] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

87] Quietness is a great treasure

88] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

89] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

90] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

91] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

92] Extremity of right is wrong

93] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

94] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

95] Honour is the reward of virtue

96] Rats know the ways of rats

97] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

98] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

99] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

100] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good