Famous Proverbs

1] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

2] Don’t try to run before you walk

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

4] A good name is better than a golden girdle

5] Handsome is as handsome does

6] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

7] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

8] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

9] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

10] He that eats least eats most

11] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

12] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

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

14] There is nothing lost by civility

15] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

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

17] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

18] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

19] No good building without a good foundation.

20] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

21] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

22] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

23] Things are only worth one makes them worth

24] Weeds need no sowing

25] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

26] Never judge from appearances

27] Delays are not denials

28] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

29] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

30] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

31] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

32] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

33] Truth has no need of rhetoric

34] A little too late, is much too late

35] There is no royal road to learning

36] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

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

38] Use makes mastery

39] The highest tree has the greatest fall

40] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

41] Envy never enriched any man.

42] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

43] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

44] Despair gives courage to a coward

45] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

46] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

47] One must howl with the wolves

48] Better never begin than never make an end

49] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

50] Goodness is better than beauty

51] Desire beautifies what is ugly

52] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

53] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

54] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

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

56] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

57] Not even Hercules could contend against two

58] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

59] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

60] Home is home though it be never so homely

61] Of three main roads, take the middle one

62] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

63] Children and fools have merry lives

64] Like question, like answer.

65] Do it now

66] He that talks much, errs much

67] Bear with evil and expect good

68] One barber shaves another gratis

69] A soft answer turns away wrath

70] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

71] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

72] Standing pools gather fifth

73] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

74] Even reckoning makes long friends

75] All things that great men do are well done

76] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

77] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

78] A man may bear till his back breaks

79] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

80] Hope keeps man alive

81] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

82] Love is lawless.

83] Might overcome right.

84] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

85] A little help is worth a deal of pity

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

87] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

88] Brevity is the soul of wit

89] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

90] You can’t tell a book by its cover

91] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

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

93] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

94] We have all been once in our life

95] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

96] Asking costs little

97] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

98] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

99] Long life has long misery

100] Dreams are lies