Famous Proverbs

1] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

2] Too many cooks spoil the broth

3] Cheats never prosper

4] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

5] Between two stools you fall to the ground

6] The end justifies the means

7] Even Homer sometimes nods

8] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

9] Threatened folk live long

10] They are rich who have true friends

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

12] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

13] Erring is not heating

14] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

15] In the land of hope there is never any winter

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

17] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

18] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

19] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

20] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

21] Necessity knows no law

22] The early man ever borrows from the late man

23] Waste makes wants

24] It is too late to husband when all is spent

25] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

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

27] True gold is not transformed by fire

28] Moderation in all things

29] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

30] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

31] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

32] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

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

34] The devil dances in an empty pocket

35] We live by laws, not by examples

36] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

37] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

38] The grace of God enough

39] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

40] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

41] He that promises too much means nothing

42] Hunger breaks stone walls

43] Fish begins to stink at the head

44] He who teaches learns

45] Wrong never comes right

46] The devil knows many things because he is old

47] He that can stay. Obtains

48] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

49] Gifts blind the eyes.

50] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

51] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

52] Fortune is blind

53] Don’t ride the high horse

54] Hasty work, double work,

55] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

56] There’s a time and place for everything

57] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

58] Friends agree best at a distance

59] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

60] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

61] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

62] The absent saint gets no candle

63] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

64] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

65] Poverty is no sin

66] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

67] The game is not worth the candle

68] Poverty parts friendship

69] Better never begin than never make an end

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

71] He laughs best who laughs last

72] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

73] Better an apple given than eaten

74] Long life has long misery

75] He that brings good news, knocks hard

76] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

77] Better an apple given than eaten

78] A useful trade is a mine of gold

79] Bad excuses are worse than none.

80] Beware of him who makes thee presents

81] He who considers too much will perform little.

82] Youth and age will never agree

83] The axe falls on a straight tree first

84] Where there is no might, right loses itself

85] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

86] Good hand, good hire

87] All our pomp the earth covers

88] Every light has its shadow

89] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

90] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

91] An angry man is not fit to pray

92] All men are mortal

93] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

94] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

95] The more wicked, the more lucky

96] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

97] Bare walls make giddy housewives

98] No honest man ever repented his honesty

99] Who greases his way travels easily

100] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man