Famous Proverbs

1] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

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

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

4] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

5] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

6] Few words are best

7] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

8] Between two stools you fall to the ground

9] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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

11] It’s a long lane that has no turning

12] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

13] He who sows, trusts in God

14] A man’s studies pass in to his character

15] He that repairs not a part, builds all

16] The devil looks after his own

17] Make haste slowly

18] Fish begins to stink at the head

19] He that has an ill name is half hanged

20] Precept begins, examples accomplish

21] Not even Hercules could contend against two

22] Gold is tried in the fire

23] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

24] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

25] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

26] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

27] Beauty draws more than oxen

28] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

29] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

30] Friendship should not be all on one

31] What must be must be

32] Books and friends should be few but good

33] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

34] Love your friend with his fault

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

36] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

37] Fools grow without watering.

38] Patient men with the day.

39] If you would be well served, serve yourself

40] There is many a fair thing full false

41] The devil knows many things because he is old

42] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

43] One kindness is the price of another

44] Never do evil that good may come of it

45] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

46] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

47] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

48] Beware of no man more than himself

49] Rip not up old sores

50] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

51] Health is great riches

52] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

53] Wedlock is padlock

54] He that has good money, gives few alms

55] Never too late to learn

56] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

57] None can guess the jewel by the casket

58] A good conscience is a constant feast

59] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

60] He who considers too much will perform little.

61] Time flees without a delay

62] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

63] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

64] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

65] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

66] Where there is whispering there is lying

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

68] Health and money go far

69] Old foxes want no tutors

70] Crime does not pay

71] When meat is in anger is out

72] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

73] It is well to live that one may learn

74] Where there is peace, there is blessing

75] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

76] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

77] Light grows the burden which is well borne

78] You can’t take it with you when you die

79] Trust is the mother of deceit

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

81] When bees area old, they yield n honey

82] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

83] A little too late, is much too late

84] Home is where the heart is

85] No man is his craft’s master the first day

86] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

87] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

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

89] You must grin and bear it

90] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

91] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

92] All’s fair in love and war

93] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

94] Every commodity has its discommodity

95] Full of courtesy, full of craft

96] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

97] Train the child in the way he should go.

98] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

99] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

100] Too many cooks spoil the broth