Famous Proverbs

1] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

2] Those near the temple deride the gods

3] Patient waiters are no losers

4] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

5] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

6] The game is not worth the candle

7] Sickness shows us what we are

8] Good wine needs no bush

9] In haste is error

10] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

11] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

12] Don’t take your harp to the party

13] Friendship should not be all on one

14] Death does not recognize strength

15] No man is his craft’s master the first day

16] It is too late to call back yesterday

17] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

18] Great talkers are never great doers

19] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

20] Make haste slowly

21] Where there is peace, there is blessing

22] Better an open enemy than a false friend

23] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

24] A traveller may lie with authority

25] Judge not of men and things at first sight

26] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

27] Every flow must have its ebb

28] When the cat is away, the mice will play

29] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

30] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

31] Many doctors, death accomplished

32] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

33] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

34] You may know by a handful the whole sack

35] A cat has nine lives

36] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

37] Facts are stubborn things

38] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

39] Example is better than precept

40] Patient men with the day.

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

42] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

43] Never too late to late to repent

44] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

45] He who never was sick dies the first fit

46] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

47] The slowest barker is the surest biter

48] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

49] Marriages are made in heaven

50] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

51] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

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

53] His own ingenuity pricks him.

54] Words are but wind

55] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

56] An evil life is a kind of death.

57] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

58] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

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

60] There is no tree but bears some fruit

61] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

62] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

63] Every medal has its reverse

64] Too much cunning undoes

65] Rich folk have many friends

66] Virtue carries a lean purse

67] All things are possible with god

68] We shall lie all alike in our graves

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

70] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

71] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

72] A good servant must have good wages

73] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

74] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

75] Enough is as good as a feast

76] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

77] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

78] The tongue stings

79] Little pitchers have big ears.

80] Double charge will rive a cannon

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

82] Better to wear out than rust out

83] A little help is worth a deal of pity

84] The best is often the enemy of the good

85] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

86] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

87] Fools grow without watering.

88] Home is where the heart is

89] He laughs best who laughs last

90] Names and natures do often agree

91] Be careful to whom you give

92] He who comes first, grinds first.

93] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

94] As long lives a merry man as a sad

95] The weakest goes to the wall

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

97] Don’t try to run before you walk

98] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

99] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

100] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure