Famous Proverbs

1] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

2] He that is down need fear no fall

3] Take away fuel, take away flame

4] A man can die but once

5] You know what you can do till you try.

6] Ill gotten, ill spent

7] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

8] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

9] Every man to his trade.

10] Better be born lucky than wise.

11] Man punishes the action but God the intention

12] Liars should have good memories

13] Step by step the ladder is ascended

14] He who sows, trusts in God

15] One can’t help many, but many can help one

16] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

17] Empty vessels make the most sound

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

19] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

20] Don’t meet trouble half-way

21] Weapons breed peace

22] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

23] Prospect is often better than possession

24] Business is business

25] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

26] Life is short and time is swift

27] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

28] There is nothing lost by civility

29] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

30] He who serves is not free

31] All is vanity.

32] A man may bear till his back breaks

33] Suffering does not manifest itself

34] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

35] Hunger is sharper than the sword

36] Time flies

37] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

38] True gold is not transformed by fire

39] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

40] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

41] Where there is no trust there is no love

42] Never spur a willing horse

43] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

44] Forecast is better than work-hard

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

46] Honesty is the best policy

47] It’s a long lane that has no turning

48] Experience is the best teacher

49] Abundance, like want, ruins many

50] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

51] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

52] Better ask the way than go astray

53] They brag most who can do least

54] There is honour among thieves

55] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

56] Wink at small faults

57] Cut your coat according to your cloth

58] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

59] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

60] Despair gives courage to a coward

61] Weak things united become strong

62] Poor folk fare the best

63] The fox may grow grey, but never good

64] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

65] Desire beautifies what is ugly

66] Quietness is a great treasure

67] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

68] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

69] First think, and then speak

70] Better to be safe than sorry.

71] He that can stay. Obtains

72] Bread is the staff of life.

73] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

74] Don’t cry stinking fish

75] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

76] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

77] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

78] All glory comes from daring to begin

79] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

80] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

81] Misfortune does not always come to injure

82] The pen is the tongue of the hand

83] He mediates revenge who least complains.

84] He that blows best, bears away the horn

85] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

86] There are more ways to the wood than one.

87] The deed comes back upon the doer.

88] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

89] Between two stools you fall to the ground

90] Never do things by halves

91] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

92] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

93] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

94] Better unborn than untaught

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

96] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

97] Wise men are caught in wiles

98] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

99] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

100] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way