Famous Proverbs

1] A bully is always a coward

2] Don’t play with edged tools

3] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

4] Intimacy lessens fame

5] Pardon makes offenders

6] You cannot serve God and Mammon

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

8] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

9] Every dog has his (its) day

10] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

11] All our pomp the earth covers

12] Ale will make a cat speak

13] Habit is second nature

14] He knows the water best who has waded through it

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

16] Delay is the antidote of anger

17] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

18] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

19] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

20] It is ill jesting with edged tools

21] A burnt child dreads the fire

22] Money is the only monarch

23] Nature surpasses art

24] Misfortune makes foes of friends

25] You can’t clap with one hand

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

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

28] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

29] Sow thin and mow thin

30] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

31] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

32] Set a thief to catch a thief

33] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

34] Wrong never comes right

35] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

36] Covetousness is the root of all evil

37] A change is as good as rest

38] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

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

40] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

41] Ill news comes apace.

42] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

43] Live and Learn

44] One must be a servant before one can be a master

45] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

46] It is too late to look up after you have collided

47] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

48] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

49] Let us do evil that good may come

50] A wise man hears one word and understands two

51] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

52] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

53] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

54] Ambition loses many a man

55] He that speaks well, flights well

56] One lie makes many

57] Covetousness breaks the sack

58] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

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

60] Adventures are to be adventurous

61] Of one ill come many

62] What is the mother of industry

63] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

64] Money refused loses its brightness

65] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

66] You never know your luck

67] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

68] One can’t help many, but many can help one

69] The tongue stings

70] No remedy but patience

71] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

72] None so blind as those who will not see

73] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

74] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

75] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

76] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

77] An empty sack cannot stand upright

78] Where there is no trust there is no love

79] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

80] Patient waiters are no losers

81] Those near the temple deride the gods

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

83] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

84] Out of debt, out of danger

85] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

86] Repentance comes too late

87] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

88] Fools live poor to die rich

89] Dreams are lies

90] Friends agree best at a distance

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

92] Lavishness is not generosity

93] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

94] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

95] He who comes first, grinds first.

96] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

97] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

98] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

99] A fault confessed is half redressed

100] Better the foot slip than the tongue