Famous Proverbs

1] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

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

3] Train the child in the way he should go.

4] Dead men tell no tales

5] The more laws, the more offenders

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

7] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

8] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

9] Take heed is a fair thing

10] A good lawyer must be a great liar

11] Variety is charming

12] A bad workman always blames his tools

13] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

14] Nothing comes from nothing

15] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

16] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

17] Stolen goods never thrive

18] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

19] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

20] The best is often the enemy of the good

21] Intimacy lessens fame

22] There is many a fair thing full false

23] Don’t meet trouble half-way

24] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

25] Everything would fain live

26] The wisest of the wise may err.

27] The devil is not as black as he is painted

28] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

29] A word spoken is past recalling

30] Like mother, like daughter

31] Union (or Unity) is strength

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

33] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

34] Grasp all, lose all

35] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

36] Needs must when the evil drives

37] Tigers and deer do not over.

38] No convenience without its inconvenience

39] Gossiping and lying go together

40] How forceful are right words

41] He that desires but little has no deed of much

42] Children speak only words they have heard.

43] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

44] Every man to his trade.

45] A good lawyer must be a great liar

46] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

47] What can’t be cured must be endured

48] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

49] Be just before you are generous

50] The tide must be taken when it comes

51] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

52] Little by little and bit by bit.

53] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

54] A light purse makes a heavy heart

55] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

56] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

57] The pot calls the kettle black

58] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

59] Youth will have its course.

60] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

61] He who serves is not free

62] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

63] His bark is worse than his bite

64] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

65] Divide and rule

66] From small beginnings come great things

67] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

68] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

69] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

70] He who envies admits his inferiority

71] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

72] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

73] Know thyself

74] Every advantage has its disadvantage

75] Better be born lucky than wise.

76] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

77] He that sows virtue reaps fame

78] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

79] He that has an ill name is half hanged

80] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

81] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

82] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

83] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

84] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

85] Take away fuel, take away flame

86] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

87] Cleanliness is next to godliness

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

89] No road is long with good company

90] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

91] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

92] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

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

94] Don’t cry before you are hurt

95] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

96] The voice is the best music

97] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

98] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

99] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

100] Truth is mighty and will prevail