Famous Proverbs

1] No flying without wings.

2] Go while the going is good

3] First creep, then walk

4] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

5] Self-praise is no recommendation

6] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

7] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

8] Men are not angles

9] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

10] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

11] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

12] Every law has a loophole

13] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

14] He freezes who does not burn

15] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

16] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

17] Open a book and you profit by what you read

18] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

19] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

20] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

21] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

22] More than enough is too much

23] He that blows best, bears away the horn

24] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

25] Better are small fish than an empty dish

26] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

27] Fools grow without watering.

28] A man of courage never wants weapons

29] There is no royal road to learning

30] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

31] A good lather is half the shave

32] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

33] All meat pleases not all mouths

34] Plain dealing is best

35] Bad excuses are worse than none.

36] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

37] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

38] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

39] Desert and reward seldom keep company

40] Where there’s muck, there’s money

41] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

42] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

43] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

44] It is never too late to mend

45] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

46] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

47] A man can die but once

48] No convenience without its inconvenience

49] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

50] No man is his craft’s master the first day

51] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

52] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

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

54] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

55] Nature does nothing in vain

56] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

57] The cobbler should stick to his last

58] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

59] Nature is the true law

60] A wise man hears one word and understands two

61] It is useless to flog a dead horse

62] After a storm comes a calm

63] First things first

64] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

65] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

66] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

67] Do as I say, not as I do

68] Do right and fear no man

69] Abundance, like want, ruins many

70] Misfortune makes foes of friends

71] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

72] Shrouds have no pockets

73] The more laws, the more offenders

74] Haste is of (or from) the devil

75] Anger managers everything badly.

76] A man may learn wit every day.

77] None but the brave deserves the fair

78] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

79] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

80] Manners make the man

81] A crust is better than no bread.

82] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

83] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

84] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

85] Too much hope deceives

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

87] No honest man ever repented his honesty

88] Charity begins at home.

89] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

90] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

91] Long life has long misery

92] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

93] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

94] Accidents will happen

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

96] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

97] Nothing crave, nothing have

98] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

99] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

100] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s