Famous Proverbs

1] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

2] A change is as good as rest

3] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

4] There’s no great loss without some gain

5] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

6] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

7] Health is not value till sickness comes

8] Debt is an evil conscience

9] We have all been once in our life

10] Grasp all, lose all

11] You cannot make a crab walk straight

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

13] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

14] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

15] Don’t cry for the moon

16] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

17] All covet all lose.

18] Much law but little justice

19] What everybody says must be true

20] Lend never that thing you needed most

21] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

22] Danger makes men devout

23] Seek and you shall find

24] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

25] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

26] You must grin and bear it

27] Wise men propose, and fools determine

28] Dead dogs bark not

29] No man is a hero to his valet

30] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

31] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

32] What’s in a name?

33] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

34] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

35] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

36] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

37] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

38] Where there is peace, God is

39] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

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

41] Ill comes often on the back worse

42] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

43] There is no place like home

44] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

45] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

46] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

47] Children learn to creep ere they can go

48] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

49] Virtue carries a lean purse

50] Know thyself

51] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

52] Slow and steady wins the race

53] Better late than never

54] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

55] What everybody says must be true

56] New meat begets a new appetite

57] Misfortune makes foes of friends

58] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

59] Lookers-on see more than players

60] A light purse makes a heavy heart

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

62] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

63] The more laws, the more offenders

64] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

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

66] The greatest step is that out of doors

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

68] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

69] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

70] He that will thrive must rise at five

71] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

72] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

73] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

74] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

75] Every medal has its reverse

76] Haste makes waste

77] To err is human; to forgive, divine

78] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

79] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

80] Hard cases make bad law

81] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

82] Misfortunes never come singly

83] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

84] He that does most at once, does least

85] He is an ill husband who is not missed

86] Never grieve for what you cannot help

87] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

88] The goat must browse where she is tied

89] An angry man is not fit to pray

90] Cast not the first stone.

91] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

92] Every dog is valiant at his won door

93] He laughs best who laughs last

94] Take things as they come

95] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

96] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

97] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

98] Envy never enriched any man.

99] There are more men threatened than stricken

100] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s