Famous Proverbs

1] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

2] Big fish eat little fish

3] Ale will make a cat speak

4] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

5] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

6] Wife and Children are bills of charges

7] There is nothing permanent except change

8] Silence never makes mistakes

9] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

10] He stands not surely that never slips

11] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

12] The last suitor wins the maid

13] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

14] Nature is content with little.

15] Diamond cuts diamond

16] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

17] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

18] Take time by the forelock

19] Every man praises his own wares

20] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

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

22] No one ought to judge in his own cause

23] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

24] Do not limp before the lame

25] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

26] Life is not all beer and skittles

27] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

28] Health is great riches

29] The receiver is as bad as the thief

30] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

31] Soft fire makes sweet malt

32] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

33] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

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

35] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

36] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

37] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

38] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

39] Cowards die many times before their deaths

40] No feast lasts forever.

41] Slow and steady wins the race

42] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

43] It takes two to make a quarrel

44] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

45] He who considers too much will perform little.

46] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

47] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

48] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

49] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

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

51] There are more men threatened than stricken

52] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

53] All roads lead to Rome

54] The voice is the best music

55] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

56] Love sees no fault

57] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

58] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

59] Hunger is the teacher of many

60] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

61] There is no redemption from hell

62] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

63] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

64] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

65] A good marksman may miss

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

67] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

68] A good name is a rich heritage

69] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

70] Better an apple given than eaten

71] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

72] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

73] The end crowns the work.

74] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

75] There is many a true word spoken in jest

76] Confess and be hanged

77] It is more blessed to give than to receive

78] Know thyself

79] Love me, love my dog

80] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

81] No flying without wings.

82] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

83] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

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

85] The hole calls the thief

86] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

87] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

88] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

89] He who owes is in all the wrong

90] Wise men are caught in wiles

91] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

92] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

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

94] Vice makes virtue shine

95] Pardon makes offenders

96] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

97] Pleasing ware is half sold

98] He who touches pitch will be defiled

99] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

100] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears