Famous Proverbs

1] Ignorance is the peace of life

2] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

3] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

4] There is honour among thieves

5] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

6] Much meat, much malady

7] Experience must be bought

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

9] Every dog has his (its) day

10] The resolved mind has no cares

11] It is easy to be wise after the event

12] Many hands make light work

13] Good luck beats early rising

14] Pleasant hours fly past

15] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

16] Walls have ears

17] Long life has long misery

18] Light burden I heavy if far borne

19] All things require skills but an appetite

20] The day obliterates the promise of the might

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

22] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

23] Parents are patterns

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

25] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

26] Misfortune makes foes of friends

27] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

28] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

29] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

30] Tigers and deer do not over.

31] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

32] Accidents will happen

33] Nothing comes from nothing

34] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

35] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

36] When meat is in anger is out

37] He that seeks trouble never misses

38] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

39] Death alone can kill hope

40] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

41] The beaten road is the safest

42] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

43] He that does most at once, does least

44] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

45] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

46] Fortune is blind

47] He who teaches learns

48] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

49] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

50] Silence gives (or means) consent

51] Still waters run deep

52] Great oaks from little acorns grow

53] Everything would fain live

54] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

55] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

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

57] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

58] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

59] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

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

61] Bread is the staff of life.

62] The mob tramples on the coward

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

64] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

65] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

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

67] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

68] Common fame is a liar

69] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

70] Great gain makes easy work

71] What must be must be

72] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

73] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

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

75] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

76] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

77] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

78] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

79] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

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

81] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

82] Adam’s ale is the best brew

83] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

84] Look on the bright side

85] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

86] It is ill jesting with edged tools

87] He is an ill husband who is not missed

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

89] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

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

91] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

92] Double charge will rive a cannon

93] There’s no place like home

94] Numbers overcome the brave

95] Past cure, past care

96] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

97] A monk can’t shave his own head

98] Diligence is the mother of good luck

99] He who does no good, does evil enough

100] The best of men are but men at best.