Famous Proverbs

1] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

2] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

3] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

4] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

5] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

6] Content is more than a kingdom

7] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

8] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

9] Sickness soaks the purse

10] Crust is better than no bread

11] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

12] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

13] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

14] Pitchers have ears

15] Best is cheapest

16] In haste is error

17] A prophet is without honour in his own country

18] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

19] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

20] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

21] Children and fools cannot lie.

22] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

23] There is nothing permanent except change

24] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

25] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

26] Money has no smell

27] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

28] The wisest of the wise may err.

29] Faint heart never won fair lady

30] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

31] Easy come, easy go

32] Better to wear out than rust out

33] None so busy as those who do nothing.

34] An obedient wife commands her husband

35] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

36] Jack is as good as his master

37] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

38] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

39] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

40] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

41] Kind hearts are more than coronets

42] Half a word is enough for a wise man

43] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

44] Extremity of right is wrong

45] They that dance must pay the fiddler

46] Years know more than books

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

48] He that has no money needs no purse

49] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

50] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

51] An obedient wife commands her husband

52] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

53] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

54] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

55] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

56] Fair play’s a jewel

57] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

58] First impressions are half the battle

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

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

61] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

62] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

63] The best fish swim near the bottom

64] Even water has its ebb and flow

65] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

66] Too long burden makes weary bones

67] Either mend or end

68] Too much money makes one mad

69] The best things in life are free

70] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

71] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

72] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

73] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

74] Save your breath to cool the porridge

75] Opportunity makes the thief

76] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

77] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

78] History repeats itself

79] Kill two birds with one stone

80] Poor folk fare the best

81] Union is strength.

82] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

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

84] Early sow, early mow

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

86] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

87] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

88] First catch your hare

89] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

90] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

91] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

92] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

93] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

94] Extremity of right is wrong

95] Fools grow without watering.

96] We shall lie all alike in our graves

97] Health is not value till sickness comes

98] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

99] All cats are grey in the dark

100] A good conscience is a soft pillow