Famous Proverbs

1] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

2] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

3] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

4] Acorns were good till bread was found

5] Poor men’s words have little weight

6] All cats are grey in the dark

7] We live laws, not by examples

8] The wish is father to the thought

9] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

10] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

11] A great city, a great solitude

12] He who begins many things, finishes but few

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

14] Friends agree best at a distance

15] To err is human

16] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

18] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

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

20] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

21] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

22] Danger makes men devout

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

24] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

25] No man is a hero to his valet

26] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

27] Money makes the man

28] The weakest goes to the wall

29] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

30] Advise none to marry or to go to war

31] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

32] A single rose does not mean spring

33] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

34] The best of friends must part

35] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

36] Hard words break no bones

37] Valour delights in the test

38] Many a little makes a mickle

39] Truth has no need of rhetoric

40] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

41] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

42] He stands not surely that never slips

43] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

44] Tigers and deer do not over.

45] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

46] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

47] It is easy to be wise after the event

48] The devil dances in an empty pocket

49] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

50] Slow help is no help

51] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

52] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

53] Little by little and bit by bit.

54] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

55] A word to the wise is enough

56] Health is better than wealth

57] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

58] Delay is the antidote of anger

59] Everything would fain live

60] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

61] The absent saint gets no candle

62] Beauty is but skin-deep

63] When the cat is away, the mice will play

64] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

65] A bully never grows up.

66] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

67] Necessity is the mother of invention

68] The last suitor wins the maid

69] Christmas comes but once a year

70] Strength grows stronger by being tried

71] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

72] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

73] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

74] All lay loads on a willing horse

75] Time flies

76] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

77] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

78] Company in misery makes it light

79] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

80] Death is the grand leveler

81] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

82] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

83] Never spend your money before you have it

84] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

85] Idle folks lack no excuses

86] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

87] Words are but wind

88] All is vanity.

89] He who teaches learns

90] Every man praises his own wares

91] He that brings good news, knocks hard

92] Come with the wind, got with the water

93] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

94] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

95] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

96] Everything must have a beginning

97] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

98] He that cannot ask, cannot live

99] That which Nature paints never fades

100] Wine unveils the words of the heart