Famous Proverbs

1] Necessity is a powerful weapon

2] He travels the fastest who travels alone

3] Dreams are lies

4] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

5] Where there is no trust there is no love

6] The end makes all equal

7] No man is a hero to his valet

8] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

9] An open door may tempt a saint

10] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

11] Of two evils choose the lesser

12] Make the best of a bad job

13] He that is down need fear no fall

14] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

15] It costs more to do ill than to do well

16] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

17] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

18] Patience is a plaster for all sores

19] To err is human; to forgive, divine

20] Laugh and grow fat

21] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

22] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

23] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

24] A true man and a thief think not the same

25] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

26] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

27] Everything in moderation.

28] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

29] It never rains it pours

30] Saying is one thing, and doing another

31] He that ventures not fails not.

32] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

33] When one door shuts, another opens

34] He who envies admits his inferiority

35] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

36] An old fox is not easily snared

37] Conscience does make cowards of us all

38] He who excuses himself accuses himself

39] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

40] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

41] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

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

43] He that is absent is soon forgotten

44] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

45] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

46] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

47] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

48] His bark is worse than his bite

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

50] Everyone to his taste

51] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

52] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

53] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

54] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

55] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

56] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

57] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

58] Dying men speak true

59] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

60] Weak things united become strong

61] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

62] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

63] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

64] A penny saved is a penny gained

65] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

66] All glory comes from daring to begin

67] He that has no money needs no purse

68] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

69] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

70] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

71] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

72] Every path has a puddle

73] If the cap fits, wear it

74] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

75] Parents are patterns

76] The pen is the tongue of the hand

77] Acorns were good till bread was found

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

79] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

80] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

81] An old fox is not easily snared

82] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

83] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

84] Do as I say, not as I do

85] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

86] Too much money makes one mad

87] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

88] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

89] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

90] Jack is as good as his master

91] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

92] Wake not a sleeping lion

93] The golden age was never the present age

94] Blood is thicker than water

95] There is nothing lost by civility

96] A good name is better than a golden girdle

97] Better to wear out than rust out

98] All truths are not to be told

99] Better are small fish than an empty dish

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