Famous Proverbs

1] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

2] You never know what you can do till you try

3] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

4] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

5] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

6] Covetousness is the root of all evil

7] A prophet is without honour in his own country

8] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

9] New lords, new laws

10] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

11] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

12] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

13] Help a lame dog over a stile

14] Muck and money go together

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

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

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

18] A good name is sooner lost than won

19] Bear with evil and expect good

20] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

21] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

22] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

23] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

24] Love turns pimples

25] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

26] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

27] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

28] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

29] Six feet of earth make all men equal

30] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

31] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

32] Life means strife

33] Repentance comes too late

34] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

35] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

36] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

37] The devil dances in an empty pocket

38] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

39] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

40] Small is beautiful

41] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

42] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

43] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

44] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

45] Precepts may lead but examples draw

46] Time flees without a delay

47] A good payer is master of another’s purse

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

49] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

50] All griefs with bread are less

51] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

52] The best things come in small packages

53] Everything is good in its season

54] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

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

56] It is easy to be wise after the event

57] Much would have more

58] Praise no man till he is dead.

59] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

60] The rich knows not who is his friend

61] Hard words break no bones

62] If you want peace, prepare for war

63] Enough is enough

64] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

65] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

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

67] Easier said than done

68] Care is no cure

69] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

70] It is no use crying over spilt milk

71] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

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

73] The devil dances in an empty pocket

74] There is no garden without its weeds

75] Crowns have cares

76] A good example is the best sermon

77] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

78] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

79] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

80] It takes a wise man to be a fool

81] One man sows and another reaps

82] A cat may look at a king

83] Haste makes waste

84] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

85] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

86] The day obliterates the promise of the might

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

88] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

89] Wiles help weak folk

90] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

91] He that lives ill, fear follows him

92] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

93] There is no blindness like ignorance

94] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

95] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

96] What everybody says must be true

97] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

98] A good friend is my nearest relation

99] Enough is as good as a feast

100] A wise man hears one word and understands two