Famous Proverbs

1] Better to wear out than rust out

2] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

3] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

4] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

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

6] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

7] A bully never grows up.

8] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

9] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

10] Four eyes see better than two.

11] Nature hates all sudden changes

12] Pitchers have ears

13] Do right and fear no man

14] White there’s life there’s hope

15] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

16] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

17] Every man to his trade.

18] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

19] A man can do no more than he can

20] Too long burden makes weary bones

21] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

22] He that has plenty of goods will have more

23] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

24] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

25] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

26] Better the foot slip than the tongue

27] Prospect is often better than possession

28] He that sows virtue reaps fame

29] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

30] Use makes mastery

31] Success has many friends

32] There is none misfortune cannot reach

33] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

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

35] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

36] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

37] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

38] Every man praises his own wares

39] He knows most who speaks least

40] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

41] The lion had need of the mouse

42] He that travels far knows much

43] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

44] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

45] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

46] A traveller may lie with authority

47] Mirth is the sugar of life

48] Six feet of earth make all men equal

49] The thread breaks where it is weakest

50] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

51] The last drop makes the cup run over

52] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

53] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

54] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

55] If anything can go wrong, it will

56] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

57] The good die young.

58] The voice is the best music

59] A fool believes everything

60] Do not triumph before the victory

61] Wine is the best broom for trouble

62] Many words, many buffets

63] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

64] Speech is silver, silence is golden

65] Nothing is so certain as death

66] Soon hot, soon cold

67] Idleness is the root of all evil

68] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

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

70] Everything would fain live

71] Lend never that thing you needed most

72] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

73] Hope is the poor man’s bread

74] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

75] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

76] Words are but wind

77] He who touches pitch will be defiled

78] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

79] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

80] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

81] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

82] Marriages are made in heaven

83] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

84] Idle folks lack no excuses

85] The child is father of the man

86] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

87] Anger managers everything badly.

88] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

89] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

90] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

91] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

92] Necessity knows no law

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

94] Great minds think alike

95] The good die young.

96] An old horse knows the route

97] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

98] What is worse than ill luck?

99] The golden age was never the present age

100] The longest night will have an end