Famous Proverbs

1] It is a great victory that comes without blood

2] He gives twice who gives quickly

3] Either mend or end

4] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

5] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

6] Sickness soaks the purse

7] Easy come, easy go

8] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

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

10] The best things come in small packages

11] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

12] We shall lie all alike in our graves

13] He that cannot ask, cannot live

14] Water is the king of food

15] God sends cold after Clothes

16] The course of true love never did run smooth

17] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

18] All’s fair in love and war

19] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

20] Forgive and forget

21] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

22] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

23] The fairest flowers soonest fade

24] Take time by the forelock

25] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

26] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

27] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

28] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

29] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

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

31] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

32] In the end, things will mend

33] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

34] Extremes meet

35] No man is born wise or learned

36] Adam’s ale is the best brew

37] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

38] Content is better than riches

39] Crowns have cares

40] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

41] Old habits die hard

42] Tell the truth and shame the devil

43] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

44] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

45] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

46] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

47] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

48] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

49] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

50] The fairest silk is soonest stained

51] The day obliterates the promise of the might

52] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

53] He who owes is in all the wrong

54] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

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

56] The child is father of the man

57] Little wealth, little care

58] Poor men’s words have little weight

59] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

60] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

61] Little pitchers have big ears.

62] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

63] A short cut is often a wrong cut

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

65] He who sows, trusts in God

66] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

67] You cannot have it both ways

68] Abundance, like want, ruins many

69] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

70] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

71] Anything will fit a naked man.

72] Every dog has his day

73] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

74] He who does no good, does evil enough

75] Penny and penny laid up will be many

76] Mirth is the sugar of life

77] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

78] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

79] No one ought to judge in his own cause

80] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

81] Too many cooks spoil the broth

82] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

83] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

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

85] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

86] Ill comes often on the back worse

87] See how the wind blows

88] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

89] Wiles help weak folk

90] The love of money is the root of all evil

91] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

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

93] Cheats never prosper

94] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

95] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

96] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

97] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

98] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

99] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

100] Necessity knows no law