Famous Proverbs

1] The good die young.

2] Common fame is seldom to blame

3] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

4] Through obedience learn to command.

5] A straight stick is crooked in water

6] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

7] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

8] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

9] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

10] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

11] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

12] A gift much expected is paid, not given

13] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

14] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

15] One foot is better than two crutches

16] Idle folks have the least leisure

17] A good conscience is a constant feast

18] All things are difficult before they are easy

19] A word spoken is past recalling

20] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

21] Health is better than wealth

22] Idle folks lack no excuses

23] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

24] Good words are worth much and cost little

25] A strong town is not won in an hour

26] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

27] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

28] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

29] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

30] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

31] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

32] The borrower is servant to the lender

33] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

34] Excessive happiness produces pain

35] Advise none to marry or to go to war

36] The course of true love never did run smooth

37] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

38] The coward threatens only when he is safe

39] Open confession is good for the soul

40] None but the brave deserves the fair

41] Union (or Unity) is strength

42] Poverty is no sin

43] Bare walls make giddy housewives

44] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

45] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

46] Facts are stubborn things

47] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

48] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

49] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

50] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

51] A mouse may help a lion

52] Poor folk fare the best

53] It will be the same a hundred years hence

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

55] Ready money is a ready remedy

56] 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

57] Better are small fish than an empty dish

58] Love your friend with his fault

59] Where god will help, nothing does harm

60] Needs must when the evil drives

61] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

62] Every little helps

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

64] Better no doctor at all than three.

65] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

66] Better an open enemy than a false friend

67] Faint heart never won fair lady

68] All things are easy, that are done willingly

69] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

70] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

71] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

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

73] He that burns most, shines most

74] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

75] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

76] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

77] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

78] Men are not to be measured in inches

79] There’s no great loss without some gain

80] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

81] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

82] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

83] Judge not of men and things at first sight

84] Better beg than steal.

85] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

86] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

87] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

88] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

89] The owl thinks her own young fairest

90] Envy never enriched any man.

91] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

92] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

93] Good hand, good hire

94] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

95] A man can die but once

96] So many countries, so many customs

97] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

98] Like mother, like daughter

99] Love me, love my dog

100] Beware of a silent man and still water