Famous Proverbs

1] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

2] Of a new prince, new bondage

3] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

4] Crust is better than no bread

5] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

6] Excessive happiness produces pain

7] He that eats least eats most

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

9] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

10] He who hesitates is lost

11] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

12] The bait hides the hook

13] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

14] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

15] High places have their precipices

16] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

17] Ill comes often on the back worse

18] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

19] Dogs bark as they are bred.

20] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

21] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

22] East or west, home is best

23] Thrift is a great revenue

24] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

25] Don’t cry before you are hurt

26] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

27] Laws were made to be broke

28] Whatever man has done, man can do

29] What is money to a cat?

30] Give credit where credit is due

31] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

32] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

33] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

34] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

35] It is a shame to be shameless

36] Keep something for a rainy day

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

38] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

39] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

40] Lovers are madmen

41] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

42] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

43] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

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

45] Might is right

46] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

47] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

48] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

49] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

50] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

51] Love can find a way

52] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

53] Better never begin than never make an end

54] Where there is no trust there is no love

55] It is best to be on the safe side

56] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

57] The road to hell is paved with good action

58] If you have known one, you have known them all

59] You cannot serve God and Mammon

60] One cannot put back the clock

61] He who teaches learns

62] It is too late to husband when all is spent

63] A good husband makes a good wife

64] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

65] Money is the only monarch

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

67] 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

68] Heaven helps those who help themselves

69] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

70] Weeds need no sowing

71] In indecision itself, grief is present.

72] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

73] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

74] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

75] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

76] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

77] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

78] Never buy a pig in a poke

79] Many eyes upon the king

80] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

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

82] One cannot love and be wise

83] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

84] He freezes who does not burn

85] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

86] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

87] No remedy but patience

88] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

89] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

90] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

91] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

92] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

93] A strong town is not won in an hour

94] You cannot make a crab walk straight

95] A little impatience will spoil great plans

96] Much science, much sorrow

97] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

98] Never too late to repent

99] There is many a fair thing full false

100] Paddle your own canoe