Famous Proverbs

1] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

2] Weapons breed peace

3] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

4] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

5] Better ask the way than go astray

6] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

7] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

8] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

9] His bark is worse than his bite

10] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

11] Take away fuel, take away flame

12] One can’t help many, but many can help one

13] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

14] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

15] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

16] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

17] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

18] Better at home than a mile from it

19] Handsome is as handsome does

20] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

21] Knowledge is power

22] Faint heart never won fair lady

23] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

24] Bare walls make giddy housewives

25] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

26] You cannot unscramble eggs

27] You can’t take it with you when you die

28] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

29] Praise is always pleasant

30] Strike while the iron is hot

31] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

32] All things that great men do are well done

33] It is too late to husband when all is spent

34] All things for not all persons

35] A gift much expected is paid, not given

36] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

37] All is fair in love and war

38] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

39] Common fame is seldom to blame

40] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

41] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

42] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

43] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

44] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

45] Desire beautifies what is ugly

46] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

47] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

48] He who leaps high must take a long run

49] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

50] No man is content with his lot

51] Hunger is the teacher of many

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

53] The darkest place is under the candlestick

54] Love me, love the crows on my roof

55] Every flow must have its ebb

56] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

57] Never grieve for what you cannot help

58] Vice makes virtue shine

59] Possibilities are infinite

60] Let not your tongue run at rover

61] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

62] Better never begin than never make an end

63] Asking costs little

64] A still tongue makes a wise head

65] In fair weather prepare for foul

66] A good wife makes a good husband

67] While there is life, there is hope

68] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

69] He travels the fastest who travels alone

70] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

71] Business is business

72] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

73] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

74] First things first

75] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

76] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

77] Who greases his way travels easily

78] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

79] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

80] Truth is god’s daughter

81] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

82] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

83] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

84] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

85] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

86] Life begins only in success

87] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

88] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

89] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

90] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

91] Silence is golden

92] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

93] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

94] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

95] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

96] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

97] Sickness shows us what we are

98] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

99] A word is enough to the wise

100] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance