Famous Proverbs

1] Some are wise and some are otherwise

2] At a good bargain thinks twice

3] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

4] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

5] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

6] We have all been once in our life

7] Words bind men

8] A good name is sooner lost than won

9] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

10] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

11] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

12] None so blind as those who will not see

13] Put out your tubs when it is raining

14] Nature is content with little.

15] Love knows hidden paths

16] All men are mortal

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

18] Take time by the forelock

19] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

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

21] Virtue carries a lean purse

22] A goose drinks as much as gander

23] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

24] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

25] Think of ease, but work on.

26] Make the best of a bad job

27] Weeds need no sowing

28] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

29] A good tongue is a good weapon

30] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

31] Health without money is half an ague

32] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

33] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

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

35] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

36] You may know by a handful the whole sack

37] Hunger is sharper than the sword

38] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

39] Little things please little minds

40] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

41] The love of money is the root of all evil

42] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

43] Small is beautiful

44] Don’t cry for the moon

45] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

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

47] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

48] What’s done is done

49] The cobbler should stick to his last

50] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

51] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

52] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

53] Take away fuel, take away flame

54] The best things in life are free

55] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

56] From small beginnings come great things

57] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

58] A bad excuse is better than none at all

59] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

60] If you want peace, prepare for war

61] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

62] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

63] Love laughs at locksmiths

64] Know thyself

65] Man cannot live by bread alone

66] The fairest silk is soonest stained

67] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

68] What is new cannot be true

69] The greatest step is that out of doors

70] It is well to live that one may learn

71] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

72] Like mistress, like maid

73] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

74] New brooms sweep clean

75] Things are seldom what they seem.

76] Much babbling is not without offence

77] Death does not recognize strength

78] The word is far him who has patience

79] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

80] No road is long with good company

81] You may have too much of a good thing

82] They say so’ is half a lie

83] Parents are patterns

84] Dead dogs bark not

85] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

86] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

87] Old foxes want no tutors

88] Fools grow without watering.

89] The early man ever borrows from the late man

90] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

91] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

92] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

93] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

94] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

95] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

96] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

97] Riches along make no men happy

98] Danger makes men devout

99] Do as I say, not as I do

100] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf