Famous Proverbs

1] No garden without its weeds.

2] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

3] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

4] To err is human; to forgive, divine

5] A single rose does not mean spring

6] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

7] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

8] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

9] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

10] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

11] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

12] A good word stills great anger

13] Love and business teach eloquence

14] All things are possible with god

15] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

16] Home is home though it be never so homely

17] Moderation in all things

18] Patience surpasses learning

19] What is word but wind?

20] Let bygones be bygones

21] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

22] Dirty water does not wash clean.

23] A good paymaster never wants workmen

24] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

25] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

26] We have all been once in our life

27] Better at home than a mile from it

28] The falling drops hollow the stone

29] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

30] Sooner begun, sooner done

31] He that is absent is soon forgotten

32] The hole calls the thief

33] God is always on the side of the big battalions

34] Of evil manners, spring good laws

35] Great hopes make great men

36] Let sleeping dogs lie

37] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

38] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

39] A straight stick is crooked in water

40] Fish and guests smell in three days

41] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

42] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

43] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

44] A good husband makes a good wife

45] Give the devil his due

46] Numbers overcome the brave

47] Poor folk fare the best

48] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

49] No man fears what he has seen grow

50] Lookers-on see most of the game

51] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

52] Honesty is the best policy

53] Creditors have better memories than debtors

54] Garbage in, garbage out

55] Wise men do not argue with idiots

56] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

57] Everyone to his taste

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

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

60] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

61] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

62] The absent party is always to blame.

63] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

64] A bad excuse is better than none at all

65] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

66] Evil to him who evil thinks.

67] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

68] A stitch in time saves nine

69] Be careful to whom you give

70] A good name is sooner lost than won

71] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

72] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

73] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

74] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

75] Old habits die hard

76] You can’t win them all

77] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

78] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

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

80] The absent saint gets no candle

81] Of a new prince, new bondage

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

83] True gold is not transformed by fire

84] Praise no man till he is dead.

85] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

86] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

87] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

88] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

89] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

90] Love me, love the crows on my roof

91] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

92] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

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

94] In the end, things will mend

95] A hungry man smells meat afar off

96] Wedlock is padlock

97] An angry man is not fit to pray

98] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

99] Little things please little minds

100] Open confession is good for the soul