Famous Proverbs

1] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

2] Prove your friend ere you have need

3] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

4] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

5] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

6] Silence and thinking can no man offend

7] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

8] The poor suffer all the wrong

9] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

10] That which Nature paints never fades

11] Where god will help, nothing does harm

12] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

13] Homo is a common name to all men.

14] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

15] You cannot have your cake and eat it

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

17] The good is often the enemy of the best

18] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

19] A good drink makes the old young

20] Silence never makes mistakes

21] Hear twice before you speak once

22] Blood will have blood

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

24] Things are only worth one makes them worth

25] He that has plenty of goods will have more

26] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

27] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

28] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

29] There is nothing that costs less than civility

30] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

31] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

32] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

33] Tempt not a desperate man

34] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

35] It is a great victory that comes without blood

36] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

37] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

38] God’s help is better than the early rising

39] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

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

41] A man of courage never wants weapons

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

43] We are all Adam’s children

44] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

45] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

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

47] An open door may tempt a saint

48] Desert and reward seldom keep company

49] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

50] Revenge never repairs an injury

51] Virtue carries a lean purse

52] Strength grows stronger by being tried

53] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

54] A living dog is better than a dead lion

55] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

56] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

57] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

58] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

59] Words are but wind

60] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

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

62] Take time by the forelock

63] Distance lends enchantment to the view

64] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

65] Erring is not heating

66] The envious man shall never want woe

67] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

68] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

69] A man’s studies pass in to his character

70] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

71] Exchange is no robbery

72] Love conquers all

73] True gold is not transformed by fire

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

75] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

76] A man can do no more than he can

77] There is no accounting for tastes

78] Marriages are made in heaven

79] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

80] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

81] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

82] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

83] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

84] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

85] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

86] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

87] Patient waiters are no losers

88] Love cannot be compelled

89] He that pities another remembers himself

90] The value of money is having it.

91] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

92] Stolen sweets are sweeter

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

94] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

95] Sickness soaks the purse

96] Beware of a silent man and still water

97] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

98] The mob has many heads but no brains

99] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

100] It takes two to make a quarrel