Famous Proverbs

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

2] The good die young.

3] It is not every question that deserves an answer

4] There is none misfortune cannot reach

5] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

6] When wine sinks, words swim

7] Every dog has his day

8] Pleasant hours fly past

9] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

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

11] In the land of hope there is never any winter

12] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

13] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

14] Lend never that thing you needed most

15] You never know what you can do till you try

16] We live by laws, not by examples

17] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

18] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

19] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

20] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

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

22] Needs must when the evil drives

23] He may find fault that cannot mend

24] A wicked man is his own hell

25] Bind the sack before it be full

26] What’s done is done

27] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

28] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

29] In doing we learn.

30] There is none misfortune cannot reach

31] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

32] All lay loads on a willing horse

33] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

34] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

35] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

36] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

37] Save your breath to cool the porridge

38] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

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

40] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

41] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

42] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

43] There are spots even in the sun

44] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

45] Affection blinds reason

46] Vice makes virtue shine

47] There is no place like home

48] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

49] The fox may grow grey, but never good

50] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

51] Poverty parts friendship

52] He who owes is in all the wrong

53] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

54] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

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

56] New things are fair

57] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

58] Every bean has its black

59] The day obliterates the promise of the might

60] A woman’s work is never done

61] Big fish eat little fish

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

63] In indecision itself, grief is present.

64] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

65] No man can serve two masters

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

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

68] Love your friend with his fault

69] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

70] Every why has a wherefore

71] When you do not know what to do – wait.

72] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

73] Health and money go far

74] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

75] Through obedience learn to command.

76] Patience is a plaster for all sores

77] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

78] Whatever man has done, man can do

79] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

80] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

81] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

82] Covetousness is the root of all evil

83] It is good to follow the old fox

84] Children and chickens must be always picking

85] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

86] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

87] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

88] He who excuses himself accuses himself

89] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

90] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

91] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

92] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

93] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

94] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

95] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

96] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

97] Set a thief to catch a thief

98] Weeds need no sowing

99] Death keeps no calendar

100] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune