Famous Proverbs

1] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

2] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

3] There are two sides to every question

4] All’s well that ends well

5] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

6] God is always on the side of the big battalions

7] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

8] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

9] Know thyself

10] One must howl with the wolves

11] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

12] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

13] Two heads are better than one

14] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

15] His bark is worse than his bite

16] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

17] He that talks much, errs much

18] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

19] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

20] Practice what you preach

21] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

22] The absent party is always to blame.

23] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

24] Desire beautifies what is ugly

25] A living dog is better than a dead lion

26] Discontent is the first step in progress

27] One may change the place but not the mind.

28] Mirth is the sugar of life

29] Covetousness breaks the sack

30] Too long burden makes weary bones

31] Never buy a pig in a poke

32] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

33] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

34] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

35] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

36] Set a thief to catch a thief

37] Like will to like

38] Necessity is a powerful weapon

39] At open doors, dogs come in

40] Fools live poor to die rich

41] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

42] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

43] Good fame is better than a good face

44] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

45] Master easy, servant slack

46] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

47] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

48] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

49] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

50] We live laws, not by examples

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

52] Often and little eating makes a man fat

53] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

54] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

55] Youth and age will never agree

56] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

57] The voice is the best music

58] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

59] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

60] Men are not angles

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

62] It is too late to look up after you have collided

63] If you play with fire you get burnt

64] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

65] What the king wills, that the law wills

66] The slowest barker is the surest biter

67] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

68] Out of debt, out of danger

69] The child is father of the man

70] Affection blinds reason

71] A bribe will enter without knocking

72] Slow but sure wins the race

73] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

74] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

75] Judge not, that ye be not judged

76] Our own opinion is never wrong

77] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

78] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

79] He that speaks well, flights well

80] Paddle your own canoe

81] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

82] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

83] They say so’ is half a lie

84] Silence never makes mistakes

85] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

86] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

87] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

88] All things are possible with god

89] Envy never enriched any man.

90] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

91] Many words, many buffets

92] Where god will help, nothing does harm

93] The good intention excuses the bad action

94] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

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

96] The end crowns the work.

97] He that obey cannot command

98] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

99] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

100] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all