Famous Proverbs

1] A healthy man is a successful man

2] God arms the harmless

3] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

4] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

5] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

6] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

7] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

8] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

9] Marriage is a lottery

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

11] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

12] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

13] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

14] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

15] Delay is the antidote of anger

16] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

17] What’s done cannot be undone

18] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

19] Everything comes to him who waits

20] What may be done at any time is done at no time

21] Once a use and ever a custom

22] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

23] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

24] He who sows, trusts in God

25] Intimacy lessens fame

26] Beware of no man more than himself

27] In indecision itself, grief is present.

28] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

29] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

30] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

31] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

32] They are rich who have true friends

33] Of three main roads, take the middle one

34] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

35] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

36] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

37] Sweet are the uses of adversity

38] Learn not and know not

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

40] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

41] Marriages are made in heaven

42] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

43] You cannot have it both ways

44] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

45] No man is infallible

46] The result justifies the deed

47] Death is the grand leveler

48] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

49] Dead men tell no tales

50] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

51] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

52] Health and money go far

53] The first blow is half the battle

54] Better sit still than rise and fall

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

56] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

57] There is no fool like an old fool

58] Every man praises his own wares

59] It is more blessed to give than to receive

60] Bare walls make giddy housewives

61] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

62] An army marches on its stomach

63] Love me, love the crows on my roof

64] Trusting often makes fidelity

65] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

66] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

67] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

68] Too much cunning undoes

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

70] Desires are nourished by delays

71] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

72] What is deferred is not abandoned

73] Dead dogs bark not

74] A still tongue makes a wise head

75] Even a worm will turn

76] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

77] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

78] A willful man will have his way

79] He freezes who does not burn

80] No man is wise at all times

81] Trusting often makes fidelity

82] A good servant must have good wages

83] A fool and his money are soon parted

84] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

85] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

86] Might knows no right

87] What the king wills, that the law wills

88] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

89] After a storm comes a calm

90] Covetousness breaks the sack

91] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

92] He that promises too much means nothing

93] A true friend is forever a friend

94] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

95] Do it now

96] Lucky men need no counsel

97] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

98] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

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

100] He thinks not well that thinks not again