Famous Proverbs

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

2] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

3] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

4] None so deaf as those that will not hear

5] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

6] Love laughs at locksmiths

7] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

8] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

9] A useful trade is a mine of gold

10] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

11] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

12] Dreams are lies

13] Let like mate with like

14] Other times, other manners

15] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

17] Better say noting than no to the purpose

18] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

19] Wiles help weak folk

20] Let sleeping dogs lie

21] Misery loves company.

22] Between two stools you fall to the ground

23] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

24] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

25] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

26] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

27] Error cannot be defended but by error

28] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

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

30] A joke’s a very serious thing

31] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

32] He that seeks trouble never misses

33] The best of friends must part

34] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

35] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

36] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

37] III counsel mars all

38] Never judge from appearances

39] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

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

41] Bad excuses are worse than none.

42] No remedy but patience

43] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

44] Human blood is all of a colour

45] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

46] You never know what you can do till you try

47] One is what one eats

48] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

49] White there’s life there’s hope

50] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

51] Gossiping and lying go together

52] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

53] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

54] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

55] Haste is of (or from) the devil

56] Fish and guests smell in three days

57] He who wills the end, Wills the means

58] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

59] All things require skills but an appetite

60] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

61] A little body often harbours a great soul

62] Tempt not a desperate man

63] The bull must be taken by the horns

64] Sow thin and mow thin

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

66] He may find fault that cannot mend

67] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

68] Never say die

69] Mirth without measure is madness

70] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

71] He that is down need fear no fall

72] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

73] Barking dogs seldom bite

74] A good marksman may miss

75] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

76] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

77] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

78] Good wine needs no bush

79] There are more ways to the wood than one.

80] Still waters run deep

81] Love conquers all

82] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

83] The devil knows many things because he is old

84] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

85] Wine is the best broom for trouble

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

87] Little pitchers have big ears.

88] Every light has its shadow

89] Who greases his way travels easily

90] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

91] Two heads are better than one

92] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

93] Do not limp before the lame

94] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

95] A good drink makes the old young

96] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

97] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

98] Knowledge is power

99] Even water has its ebb and flow

100] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit