Famous Proverbs

1] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

2] Let sleeping dogs lie

3] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

4] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

5] When meat is in anger is out

6] You can’t clap with one hand

7] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

8] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

9] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

10] He that wants health wants all

11] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

12] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

13] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

14] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

15] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

16] Misfortune does not always come to injure

17] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

18] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

19] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

20] Give and take is fair play

21] Help a lame dog over a stile

22] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

23] Wishes can never fill a sack

24] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

25] That which is easily done is soon believed

26] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

27] Tigers and deer do not over.

28] Let not your tongue run at rover

29] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

30] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

31] Grief pent up will break the heart

32] One must howl with the wolves

33] Weak things united become strong

34] Half an egg is better than empty shell

35] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

36] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

37] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

38] All truths are not to be told

39] Marriage is a lottery

40] Borrowed garments never fit well

41] An open door may tempt a saint

42] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

43] What is worth doing is worth doing well

44] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

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

46] A good husband makes a good wife

47] A good conscience is a constant feast

48] Numbers overcome the brave

49] The devil knows many things because he is old

50] An army marches on its stomach

51] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

52] Open a book and you profit by what you read

53] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

54] Business is business

55] Virtue has all things in itself

56] Great minds think alike

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

58] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

59] They are rich who have true friends

60] What everybody says must be true

61] He who hesitates is lost

62] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

63] Every man has his faults

64] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

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

66] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

67] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

68] Bread is the staff of life.

69] Good counsel never comes amiss

70] Care brings grey hair.

71] Human blood is all of a colour

72] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

73] After the extreme of cold comes spring

74] A woman’s work is never done

75] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

76] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

77] It is not every question that deserves an answer

78] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

79] A good tongue is a good weapon

80] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

81] Poverty parts friendship

82] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

83] There’s a black sheep in every flock

84] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

85] Barking dogs seldom bite

86] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

87] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

88] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

89] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

90] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

91] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

92] Desire beautifies what is ugly

93] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

94] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

95] A friend in need is a friend indeed

96] Variety is charming

97] Christmas comes but once a year

98] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

99] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

100] Wishes can never fill a sack