Famous Proverbs

1] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

2] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

3] Dying men speak true

4] Four eyes see more than two

5] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

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

7] Health without money is half an ague

8] A word to the wise is enough

9] A monk can’t shave his own head

10] Everything comes to him who waits

11] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

12] A watched pot never boils

13] A gift much expected is paid, not given

14] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

15] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

16] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

17] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

18] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

19] Crowns have cares

20] Crime does not pay

21] A penny saved is a penny gained

22] Fish begins to stink at the head

23] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

24] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

25] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

26] Once bitten, twice shy.

27] There is no place like home

28] If anything can go wrong, it will

29] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

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

31] Faint heart never won fair lady

32] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

33] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

34] A heavy purse makes a light heart

35] Good clothes open all doors

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

37] Children learn to creep ere they can go

38] Precept begins, examples accomplish

39] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

40] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

41] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

42] He who hesitates is lost

43] Money is the only monarch

44] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

45] The labourer is worthy of his hire

46] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

47] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

48] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

49] Nothing comes from nothing

50] It is never too late to mend

51] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

52] He thinks not well that thinks not again

53] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

54] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

55] Grief pent up will break the heart

56] Slow but sure wins the race

57] Needs must when the evil drives

58] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

59] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

60] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

61] Good broth may be made in an old pot

62] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

63] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

64] God is always on the side of the big battalions

65] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

66] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

67] Will is the cause of woe

68] Time flees without a delay

69] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

70] No cross, no crown

71] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

72] Business is business

73] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

74] There is no rose without a thorn

75] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

76] Nature surpasses art

77] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

78] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

79] Example, is better than precept

80] Names and natures do often agree

81] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

82] We are all Adam’s children

83] Too many cooks spoil the broth

84] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

85] No convenience without its inconvenience

86] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

87] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

88] The child is father of the man

89] Diamond cuts diamond

90] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

91] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

92] A good beginning is half the battle.

93] Some are wise and some are otherwise

94] Never spend your money before you have it

95] Better unborn than untaught

96] Health without money is half an ague

97] Comparisons are odious

98] Everything new is fine

99] Fine words dress ill deeds

100] Nature is the true law