Famous Proverbs

1] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

2] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

3] It is too late to look up after you have collided

4] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

5] Nature does nothing in vain

6] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

7] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

8] True doctrines require no miracles

9] Home is home though it be never so homely

10] Don’t meet trouble half-way

11] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

12] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

13] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

14] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

15] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

16] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

17] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

18] That which is easily done is soon believed

19] Rich folk have many friends

20] Leave well alone

21] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

22] Diligence is the mother of good luck

23] The good is often the enemy of the best

24] Might knows no right

25] The fox may grow grey, but never good

26] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

27] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

28] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

29] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

30] Of two evils choose the lesser

31] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

32] Kingdoms divided soon fall

33] To err is human; to forgive, divine

34] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

35] Keep some till further more come

36] Experience must be bought

37] A knave and a fool never take thought

38] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

39] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

40] The best fish swim near the bottom

41] All our pomp the earth covers

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

43] The race is got by running

44] Big words seldom go with good deeds

45] None can guess the jewel by the casket

46] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

47] The last suitor wins the maid

48] Prevention is better than cure

49] When one door shuts, another opens

50] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

51] Bread is the staff of life.

52] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

53] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

54] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

55] One potter envies another

56] Blood is thicker than water

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

58] Lend never that thing you needed most

59] Through hardship to the stars

60] Be careful to whom you give

61] Don’t try to run before you walk

62] First impressions are most lasting

63] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

64] Poverty is no sin

65] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

66] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

67] No man is indispensable

68] All things require skills but an appetite

69] A living dog is better than a dead lion

70] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

71] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

72] A loveless life is a living death

73] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

74] Tigers and deer do not over.

75] Union (or Unity) is strength

76] Come with the wind, got with the water

77] Old vessels must leak

78] What will not money do?

79] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

80] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

81] Every flow must have its ebb

82] It is good fishing in troubled waters

83] Better be alone than in bad company

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

85] The axe falls on a straight tree first

86] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

87] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

88] It’s a long lane that has no turning

89] First impressions are half the battle

90] Alms never make poor

91] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

92] Love knows no limit

93] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

94] 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

95] Comparisons are odious

96] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

97] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

98] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

99] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

100] He may find fault that cannot mend