Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

2] Of evil manners, spring good laws

3] A friend is easier lost than found

4] Learning is the eye of the mind

5] A crowd is not company

6] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

7] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

8] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

9] That which is easily done is soon believed

10] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

11] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

12] One hand washes the other

13] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

14] Let the buyer beware

15] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

16] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

17] Hunger breaks stone walls

18] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

19] Nothing seek, nothing find

20] A little learning is dangerous thing

21] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

22] Give a loan and buy quarrel

23] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

24] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

25] In peace, prepare for war

26] Never buy a pig in a poke

27] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

28] Better no doctor at all than three.

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

30] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

31] The ant had wings to her hurt

32] What is new cannot be true

33] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

34] Who greases his way travels easily

35] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

36] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

37] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

38] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

39] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

40] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

41] Don’t cry for the moon

42] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

43] Better beg than steal.

44] The love of money is the root of all evil

45] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

46] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

47] Content is more than a kingdom

48] The pot calls the kettle black

49] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

50] A bully is always a coward

51] A bad workman always blames his tools

52] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

53] Of a new prince, new bondage

54] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

55] Tell the truth and shame the devil

56] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

57] Money is power

58] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

59] Come with the wind, got with the water

60] Change of pasture makes fat calves

61] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

62] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

63] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

64] Change of pasture makes fat calves

65] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

66] Sow thin and mow thin

67] Forecast is better than work-hard

68] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

69] What costs little is little esteemed

70] Harp not for ever on the same string

71] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

72] Every dog is a lion at home

73] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

74] Where there is whispering there is lying

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

76] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

77] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

78] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

79] Pursuits become habits

80] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

81] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

82] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

83] Still waters run deep

84] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

85] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

86] An old dog barks not in vain

87] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

88] Great barkers are no biters

89] Wine unveils the words of the heart

90] He knows most who speaks least

91] Youth and age will never agree

92] Opportunity makes the thief

93] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

94] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

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

96] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

97] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

98] A miss is as good as a mile

99] More have repented speech than silence

100] Better eye sore than al blind