Famous Proverbs

1] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

3] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

4] Truth has no need of rhetoric

5] No sweet without sweat

6] True doctrines require no miracles

7] Call a spade a spade

8] It is easy to be wise after the event

9] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

10] Acorns were good till bread was found

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

12] A good marksman may miss

13] A good servant must have good wages

14] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

15] A friend in need is a friend indeed

16] Life is not all beer and skittles

17] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

18] Repentance is a bitter physic

19] Children should be seen and not heard

20] A word is enough to the wise

21] What will not money do?

22] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

23] Grasp all, lose all

24] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

25] There’s a time and place for everything

26] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

27] As you sow, so shall you reap

28] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

29] No wrong without a remedy

30] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

31] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

32] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

33] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

34] Anything will fit a naked man.

35] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

37] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

38] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

39] Quickly come, quickly go

40] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

41] Much law but little justice

42] What is new cannot be true

43] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

44] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

45] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

46] Take time by the forelock

47] Whatever man has done, man can do

48] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

49] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

50] You may have too much of a good thing

51] Homer sometimes nods

52] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

53] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

54] Jesters do oft prove prophets

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

56] Everything must have a beginning

57] There is no royal road to learning

58] A cat may look at a king

59] A black hen lays a white egg

60] None so busy as those who do nothing.

61] A woman’s work is never done

62] The grace of God enough

63] Grief pent up will break the heart

64] He that has a wife, has strife

65] Misfortunes never come singly

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

67] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

68] Too much money makes one mad

69] Silence is a woman’s best garment

70] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

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

72] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

73] Hunger breaks stone walls

74] Words bind men

75] A parrot will only say what it is taught

76] Who greases his way travels easily

77] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

78] Two blacks do not make a white

79] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

80] What the king wills, that the law wills

81] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

82] Still waters run deep

83] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

84] The devil dances in an empty pocket

85] Truth is god’s daughter

86] Better an apple given than eaten

87] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

88] Laugh and grow fat

89] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

90] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

91] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

92] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

93] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

94] No man is content with his lot

95] Let sleeping dogs lie

96] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

97] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

98] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

99] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

100] Envy never enriched any man.