Famous Proverbs

1] Cowards die many times before their deaths

2] It will be the same a hundred years hence

3] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

4] There is nothing permanent except change

5] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

6] Do not triumph before the victory

7] Dead dogs bark not

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

9] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

10] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

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

12] Nothing seek, nothing find

13] Alms never make poor

14] The company makes the feast

15] Every shoe fits not every foot

16] The exception proves the rule

17] There is no redemption from hell

18] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

19] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

20] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

21] When bees area old, they yield n honey

22] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

24] You win some, you lose some

25] Ill gotten, ill spent

26] The resolved mind has no cares

27] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

28] A house divided against itself cannot stand

29] In my own house, I am king

30] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

31] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

32] It is ill jesting with edged tools

33] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

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

35] A great city, a great solitude

36] Don’t cry for the moon

37] You may know by a handful the whole sack

38] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

39] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

40] Facts are stubborn things

41] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

42] Prospect is often better than possession

43] When in doubt, do nothing

44] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

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

46] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

47] No answer is also an answer

48] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

49] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

50] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

51] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

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

53] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

54] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

55] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

56] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

57] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

58] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

59] Wrong has no warrant

60] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

61] Each day brings its own bread

62] A good lawyer must be a great liar

63] Beauty draws more than oxen

64] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

65] Make hay while the sun shines

66] Repentance is a bitter physic

67] All things are possible with god

68] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

69] Death keeps no calendar

70] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

71] A black hen lays a white egg

72] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

73] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

74] Beware of him who makes thee presents

75] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

76] Poverty is not a crime

77] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

78] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

79] Every little helps

80] A beggar can never be bankrupt

81] A word before is worth two behind

82] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

83] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

84] Friends agree best at a distance

85] Put not the bucket too often in the well

86] Every light has its shadow

87] Take heed is a fair thing

88] A good tongue is a good weapon

89] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

90] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

91] There is nothing like being on the safe side

92] Never hit a man when he’s down

93] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

94] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

95] Every dog is valiant at his won door

96] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

97] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

98] Go while the going is good

99] Silence gives (or means) consent

100] Man does what he can, and God what he will