Famous Proverbs

1] Few words are best

2] All things are difficult before they are easy

3] A good beginning makes a good ending.

4] Children and fools cannot lie.

5] Strength grows stronger by being tried

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

7] If one will not, another will

8] The early man ever borrows from the late man

9] He that can stay. Obtains

10] Debt is an evil conscience

11] Travel broadens the mind

12] He who comes late must eat what is left

13] Two wrongs do not make a right

14] Young saint, old devil.

15] Love will go through stone walls

16] A rolling stone gathers no moss

17] Even a worm will turn

18] Money is the sinew of affairs

19] Weak things united become strong

20] A parrot will only say what it is taught

21] He mediates revenge who least complains.

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

23] Cheap is dear in the long run.

24] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

25] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

26] Of one ill come many

27] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

28] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

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

30] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

31] The last suitor wins the maid

32] Wise men are caught in wiles

33] Great gain makes easy work

34] He that lives ill, fear follows him

35] Honesty is the best policy

36] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

38] Love knows hidden paths

39] Do not wear out your welcome

40] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

41] Too much cunning undoes

42] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

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

44] The cowl does not make the monk.

45] Never too late to late to repent

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

47] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

48] One lie makes many

49] Crust is better than no bread

50] Even Homer sometimes nods

51] Fine feathers make fine birds.

52] It is the unexpected that always happens

53] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

54] Covetousness breaks the sack

55] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

56] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

57] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

58] One sword keeps another in the sheath

59] The sign brings customers

60] Money isn’t everything

61] The word is far him who has patience

62] Blood is thicker than water

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

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

65] Little pitchers have big ears.

66] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

67] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

68] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

69] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

70] God helps those who help themselves

71] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

72] Nothing succeeds like success

73] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

74] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

75] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

76] Jack is as good as his master

77] The best things carried to excess are wrong

78] Without diligence, no prize

79] In haste is error

80] Fear of death is worse than death itself

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

82] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

83] Numbers overcome the brave

84] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

85] No man is a hero to his valet

86] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

87] He that eats least eats most

88] A good heart conquers ill fortune

89] A man may learn wit every day.

90] Love is never without jealousy

91] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

92] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

93] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

94] Men make houses, women make homes

95] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

96] Slow but sure wins the race

97] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

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

99] One is what one eats

100] The thing which is rare is dear