Famous Proverbs

1] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

2] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

3] Never grieve for what you cannot help

4] Good luck beats early rising

5] Everything would fain live

6] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

7] A fault once denied is twice committed

8] The best things carried to excess are wrong

9] There is no garden without its weeds

10] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

11] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

12] Our own opinion is never wrong

13] Fish and guests smell in three days

14] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

15] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

16] Mercy surpasses justice

17] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

18] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

19] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

20] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

21] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

22] He who touches pitch will be defiled

23] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

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

25] You cannot serve God and Mammon

26] Love laughs at locksmiths

27] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

28] A good beginning makes a good ending.

29] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

30] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

31] One kindness is the price of another

32] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

33] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

34] Every groom is a king at home

35] The righteous man sins before an open chest

36] The fox may grow grey, but never good

37] Fools rejoice at promises

38] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

39] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

40] Two wrongs do not make a right

41] A good drink makes the old young

42] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

43] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

44] Good broth may be made in an old pot

45] Pleasant hours fly past

46] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

47] One of these days is none of these days

48] Even Homer sometimes nods

49] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

50] Share and share alike

51] No pain, no cure

52] Spare the rod and spoil the child

53] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

54] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

55] The biter is sometimes bit

56] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

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

58] New things are fair

59] Union (or Unity) is strength

60] Rip not up old sores

61] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

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

63] Gold is tried in the fire

64] There is no accounting for tastes

65] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

66] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

67] Train the child in the way he should go.

68] Money is power

69] A good marksman may miss

70] Set a thief to catch a thief

71] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

72] One reason is as good as fifty

73] Example is the greatest of all seducers

74] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

75] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

76] He that has a wife, has strife

77] The grace of God enough

78] When in doubt, do nothing

79] Misfortunes never come singly

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

81] Much law but little justice

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

83] There is nothing lost by civility

84] Take the will for the deed

85] Knowledge is power

86] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

87] Time has wings

88] A penny saved is a penny gained

89] Self-praise is no recommendation

90] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

91] Every little helps

92] While there is life, there is hope

93] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

94] Life means strife

95] Better unborn than untaught

96] A good conscience is a soft pillow

97] It is ill jesting with edged tools

98] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

99] Every commodity has its discommodity

100] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing