Famous Proverbs

1] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

2] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

3] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

4] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

5] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

6] A house divided against itself cannot stand

7] He who considers too much will perform little.

8] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

9] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

10] Money isn’t everything

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

12] Cowards die many times before their deaths

13] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

14] Pardon makes offenders

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

16] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

17] It is well to live that one may learn

18] If one will not, another will

19] A gift much expected is paid, not given

20] Where there’s muck, there’s money

21] Parents are patterns

22] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

23] Every Jack must have his Jill

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

25] None but the brave deserves the fair

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

27] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

28] We have all been once in our life

29] Things are only worth one makes them worth

30] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

31] A cat has nine lives

32] It is ill jesting with edged tools

33] Fools live poor to die rich

34] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

35] It takes all sorts to make a world

36] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

37] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

38] All for one, and one for all.

39] A good payer is master of another’s purse

40] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

41] Early sow, early mow

42] Common fame is a liar

43] Some are wise and some are otherwise

44] Silence gives (or means) consent

45] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

46] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

47] A good payer is master of another’s purse

48] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

49] He that lives ill, fear follows him

50] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

51] A good friend is my nearest relation

52] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

53] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

54] Sooner begun, sooner done

55] Slow but sure wins the race

56] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

57] Let bygones be bygones

58] Every Jack must have his Jill

59] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

60] Nothing comes from nothing

61] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

62] Men are blind in their own cause

63] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

64] The good intention excuses the bad action

65] An honest good look covers many faults.

66] Money has no smell

67] He that lends, gives

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

69] Beauty fades like a flower.

70] Penny wise, pound foolish

71] Master easy, servant slack

72] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

73] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

74] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

75] Too much hope deceives

76] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

77] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

78] Nature will have her course

79] Wine unveils the words of the heart

80] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

81] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

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

83] Quickly come, quickly go

84] He that seeks trouble never misses

85] Beggars must not be choosers

86] Open confession is good for the soul

87] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

88] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

89] Great oaks from little acorns grow

90] There is safety in numbers

91] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

92] There is no tree but bears some fruit

93] Health is great riches

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

95] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

96] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

97] He stands not surely that never slips

98] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

99] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

100] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken