Famous Proverbs

1] He who owes is in all the wrong

2] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

3] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

4] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

5] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

6] Work smart; don’t work hard

7] Seeing is believing

8] New things are fair

9] Ignorance is the peace of life

10] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

11] Wise men do not argue with idiots

12] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

13] One sheep follows another

14] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

15] The ant had wings to her hurt

16] All doors open to courtesy

17] Asking costs little

18] Union (or Unity) is strength

19] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

20] Lose a leg rather than a life

21] He who has seen little marvels much

22] He is lifeless that is faultless

23] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

24] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

25] Comparisons are odious

26] The borrower is servant to the lender

27] Haste makes waste

28] Novelty always appears handsome

29] The king can do no wrong

30] Little things please little minds

31] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

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

33] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

34] Men do more things through habit than reason

35] The road to hell is paved with good action

36] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

37] Barking dogs seldom bite

38] It is ill striving against the stream

39] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

40] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

41] All covet all lose.

42] Every man is his own worst enemy

43] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

44] Praises fill not the belly

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

46] Marriage is a lottery

47] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

48] Frugality is the mother of virtue

49] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

50] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

51] See how the wind blows

52] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

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

54] Everything in moderation.

55] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

56] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

57] All covet all lose.

58] The ant had wings to her hurt

59] A rich man’s joke is always funny

60] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

61] The world is full of fools

62] Take the tone of the company you are in

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

64] Much learning makes men mad

65] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

66] The biter is sometimes bit

67] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

68] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

69] If today will not, tomorrow may

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

71] Fools live poor to die rich

72] Love me, love the crows on my roof

73] Fingers were made before forks

74] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

75] Love can find a way

76] One is what one eats

77] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

78] A little impatience will spoil great plans

79] A good face is a letter of recommendation

80] Enough is as good as a feast

81] A rich man’s joke is always funny

82] Let sleeping dogs lie

83] What is worth doing is worth doing well

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

85] Share and share alike

86] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

87] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

88] Pitchers have ears

89] No one betrays himself by silence

90] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

91] Crowns have cares

92] He that seeks trouble never misses

93] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

94] The axe falls on a straight tree first

95] Will is the cause of woe

96] Light burden I heavy if far borne

97] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

98] When bees area old, they yield n honey

99] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

100] A miss is as good as a mile