Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

2] The more you have the more you want

3] Abundance, like want, ruins many

4] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

5] Time lost cannot be recalled

6] Nothing crave, nothing have

7] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

8] The devil looks after his own

9] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

10] Black will take no other hue

11] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

12] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

13] Laugh and grow fat

14] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

15] Judge not the tree by its bark

16] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

17] Hasty work, double work,

18] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

19] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

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

21] Home is where the heart is

22] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

23] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

24] He who teaches learns

25] God helps those who help themselves

26] His bark is worse than his bite

27] Pitchers have ears

28] Wine unveils the words of the heart

29] The bait hides the hook

30] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

31] An obedient wife commands her husband

32] The righteous man sins before an open chest

33] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

34] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

35] A good name is better than riches

36] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

37] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

38] His bark is worse than his bite

39] All our pomp the earth covers

40] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

41] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

42] Never spend your money before you have it

43] Better an apple given than eaten

44] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

45] Prove your friend ere you have need

46] Better be a fool than a knave

47] Through obedience learn to command.

48] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

49] Least said, soonest mended

50] There is no fool like an old fool

51] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

52] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

53] There is nothing lost by civility

54] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

55] There is a great difference between words and deeds

56] The Pen is mightier than the sword

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

58] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

59] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

60] One is not smelt where all stink

61] A good garden may have some ill weeds

62] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

63] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

64] Trusting often makes fidelity

65] Even a worm will turn

66] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

67] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

68] All things are difficult before they are easy

69] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

70] Garbage in, garbage out

71] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

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

73] Do not kick against the pricks

74] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

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

76] Work smart; don’t work hard

77] Extremes are dangerous

78] Variety is the spice of life

79] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

80] There’s a time and place for everything

81] Bind the sack before it be full

82] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

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

84] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

85] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

86] The result justifies the deed

87] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

88] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

89] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

90] Blood is thicker than water

91] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

92] Time has wings

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

94] A good Conscience is the best divinity

95] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

96] Four eyes see better than two.

97] Ill luck is good for something

98] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

99] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

100] Four eyes see better than two.