Famous Proverbs

1] All’s fish that comes to the net

2] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

3] A constant guest is never welcome

4] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

5] One may change the place but not the mind.

6] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

7] A good wife is a good prize

8] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

9] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

10] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

11] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

12] Tempt not a desperate man

13] Health is great riches

14] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

15] The eye is bigger than the belly

16] Tell a lie and stick to it.

17] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

18] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

19] A little help is worth a deal of pity

20] He may find fault that cannot mend

21] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

22] Advice when most needed is least heeded

23] A fault confessed is half redressed

24] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

25] Little things are pretty

26] The highest branch is not the safest roost

27] The great would have none great, and the little all little

28] The cobbler should stick to his last

29] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

30] A burnt child dreads the fire

31] The tailor makes the man

32] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

33] Step by step the ladder is ascended

34] You never know what you can do till you try

35] Honesty is the best policy

36] Death does not recognize strength

37] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

38] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

39] A crowd is not company

40] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

41] Wake not a sleeping lion

42] Never buy a pig in a poke

43] Bread is the staff of life.

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

45] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

46] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

47] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

48] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

49] Put out your tubs when it is raining

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

51] God’s help is better than the early rising

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

53] He that brings good news, knocks hard

54] There is no tree but bears some fruit

55] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

56] Where there are reeds, there is water

57] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

58] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

59] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

60] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

61] Long looked for, comes at last

62] Saying is one thing, and doing another

63] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

64] Tell a lie and stick to it.

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

66] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

67] When you do not know what to do – wait.

68] Every law has a loophole

69] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

70] He that blows best, bears away the horn

71] Better eye sore than al blind

72] Adam’s ale is the best brew

73] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

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

75] Delay is the antidote of anger

76] Quietness is a great treasure

77] He that has no shame has no conscience

78] He that has good money, gives few alms

79] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

80] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

81] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

82] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

83] It is good fishing in troubled waters

84] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

85] A good paymaster needs no surety

86] He who hesitates is lost

87] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

88] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

89] Variety takes away satiety

90] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

91] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

92] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

93] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

94] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

95] Master easy, servant slack

96] Do as the friar says, not as he does

97] Easy come, easy go

98] There is no rose without a thorn

99] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

100] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands