Famous Proverbs

1] No pains, no gains

2] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

3] Some are wise and some are otherwise

4] Money isn’t everything

5] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

6] He that brings good news, knocks hard

7] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

8] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

9] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

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

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

12] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

13] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

14] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

15] There is nothing that costs less than civility

16] Children and fools cannot lie.

17] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

18] Patience surpasses learning

19] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

20] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

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

22] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

23] The exception proves the rule

24] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

25] Necessity knows no law

26] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

27] He who has seen little marvels much

28] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

29] Every path has a puddle

30] Success makes a fool seem wise.

31] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

32] Beware of him who makes thee presents

33] Precept begins, examples accomplish

34] Thrift is a great revenue

35] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

36] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

37] Respect is greater from a distance

38] Friends agree best at a distance

39] As you bake, so shall you eat.

40] None so deaf as those that will not hear

41] Slow and steady wins the race

42] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

43] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

44] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

45] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

46] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

47] Easier said than done

48] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

49] A fool believes everything

50] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

51] Never refuse a good offer

52] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

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

54] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

55] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

56] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

57] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

58] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

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

60] A heavy purse makes a light heart

61] Better the last smile than the first laugh

62] The owl thinks her own young fairest

63] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

64] After the extreme of cold comes spring

65] Patient waiters are no losers

66] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

67] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

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

69] The first blow is half the battle

70] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

71] He has not lost all who has one cast left

72] Without diligence, no prize

73] Much learning makes men mad

74] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

75] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

76] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

77] The company makes the feast

78] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

79] Better children weep than old men

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

81] He that ventures not fails not.

82] Tomorrow never comes

83] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

84] What is the mother of industry

85] You cannot serve God and Mammon

86] One lie makes many

87] Covetousness breaks the sack

88] No man is a hero to his valet

89] You can’t clap with one hand

90] Shrouds have no pockets

91] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

92] Go while the going is good

93] Divine grace was never slow

94] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

95] The leopard cannot change its spots

96] Tell the truth and shame the devil

97] Good fences make good neighbours

98] Where there is peace, God is

99] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

100] Misfortune tells us what fortune is