Famous Proverbs

1] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

2] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

3] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

4] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

5] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

6] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

7] A useful trade is a mine of gold

8] Everything would fain live

9] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

10] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

11] One foot is better than two crutches

12] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

13] Brevity is the soul of wit

14] Too much money makes one mad

15] A little body often harbours a great soul

16] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

17] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

18] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

19] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

20] For a web begun, God sends the thread

21] Truth is stranger than fiction

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

23] Old habits die hard

24] Many doctors, death accomplished

25] Every shoe fits not every foot

26] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

27] He that eats well should do his duty well

28] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

29] Fools rejoice at promises

30] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

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

32] He that has good money, gives few alms

33] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

34] Expectation is better than realisation

35] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

36] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

37] Procrastination is the thief of time

38] The longest day must have an end

39] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

40] Once bitten, twice shy.

41] A bully never grows up.

42] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

43] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

44] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

45] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

46] There is no tree but bears some fruit

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

48] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

49] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

50] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

51] Necessity is mother of invention

52] Hunger is the best sauce

53] A good beginning makes a good ending.

54] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

55] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

56] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

57] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

58] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

59] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

61] Bare walls make giddy housewives

62] Fool’s haste is no speed

63] He that blows best, bears away the horn

64] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

65] The best go first

66] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

67] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

68] Birds of a feather flock together

69] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

70] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

71] Judge not, that ye be not judged

72] The fox may grow grey, but never good

73] Idleness is the root of all evil

74] Fish and guests smell in three days

75] Everything would fain live

76] Rome was not built in a day

77] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

78] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

79] The Pen is mightier than the sword

80] No man is indispensable

81] What is the mother of industry

82] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

83] Example is better than precept

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

85] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

86] Where there is whispering there is lying

87] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

88] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

89] Talk much end err much

90] We live laws, not by examples

91] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

92] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

93] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

94] He that speaks well, flights well

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

96] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

97] The devil knows many things because he is old

98] Whatever man has done, man can do

99] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

100] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is