Famous Proverbs

1] God is always on the side of the big battalions

2] Love cannot be compelled

3] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

4] Anything will fit a naked man.

5] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

6] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

7] Forewarned is forearmed

8] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

9] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

10] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

11] Youth and age will never agree

12] Handsome is as handsome does

13] First think, and then speak

14] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

15] The righteous man sins before an open chest

16] Too far east is west

17] Once a knave, always a knave

18] A good name is sooner lost than won

19] Every shoe fits not every foot

20] All good things must come to an end

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

22] He who serves is not free

23] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

24] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

25] Cast not the first stone.

26] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

27] You never know your luck

28] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

29] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

30] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

31] Full of courtesy, full of craft

32] Wedlock is padlock

33] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

34] You may have too much of a good thing

35] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

36] Kill two birds with one stone

37] High places have their precipices

38] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

39] Human blood is all of a colour

40] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

41] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

42] Go not to hell for company

43] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

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

45] A good example is the best sermon

46] Of a new prince, new bondage

47] A good conscience is a soft pillow

48] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

49] Judge not of men and things at first sight

50] Erring is not heating

51] No pains, no gains

52] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

53] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

54] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

55] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

56] You are never too old to learn

57] As you bake, so shall you eat.

58] The money you refuse will never do you good

59] Seek and you shall find

60] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

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

62] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

63] Fair exchange is no robbery

64] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

65] Better the foot slip than the tongue

66] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

67] Home is home though it be never so homely

68] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

69] All meat pleases not all mouths

70] Crime does not pay

71] The last suitor wins the maid

72] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

73] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

74] Curiosity killed the cat.

75] Health is better than wealth

76] The early bird catches the worm

77] When the cat is away, the mice will play

78] Plain dealing is best

79] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

80] Come with the wind, got with the water

81] Every advantage has its disadvantage

82] Handsome is as handsome does

83] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

84] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

85] The lion had need of the mouse

86] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

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

88] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

89] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

90] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

91] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

92] Old vessels must leak

93] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

94] Good fame is better than a good face

95] In wine there is truth

96] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

97] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

98] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

99] Custom makes all things easy

100] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone