Famous Proverbs

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

2] Let the buyer beware

3] The highest tree has the greatest fall

4] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

5] Bare walls make giddy housewives

6] Water is the king of food

7] To teach is to learn twice over

8] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

9] Do as say, not as I do

10] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

11] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

12] Money is the only monarch

13] Brevity is the soul of wit

14] Don’t tell tales out of school

15] What cannot gold do?

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

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

18] Words bind men

19] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

20] Every man has his price

21] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

22] Home is where the heart is

23] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

24] Life is not all beer and skittles

25] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

26] A strong town is not won in an hour

27] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

28] Suffering does not manifest itself

29] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

30] Idleness is the root of all evil

31] Blood will have blood

32] How forceful are right words

33] He knows most who speaks least

34] Better to wear out than rust out

35] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

36] No man fears what he has seen grow

37] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

38] Bad excuses are worse than none.

39] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

40] Open a book and you profit by what you read

41] Divine grace was never slow

42] More than enough is too much

43] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

44] A good name is a rich heritage

45] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

46] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

47] Children should be seen and not heard

48] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

49] The rich knows not who is his friend

50] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

51] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

52] Either mend or end

53] A good heart cannot lie.

54] A man may learn wit every day.

55] Work expands so as to fill the time available

56] No pain, no cure

57] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

58] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

59] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

60] Weak things united become strong

61] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

62] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

63] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

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

65] Don’t meet trouble half-way

66] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

67] Love is without reason

68] Remember, you are but a man

69] Circumstances alter cases

70] Hasty work, double work,

71] Open confession is good for the soul

72] He who envies admits his inferiority

73] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

74] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

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

76] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

77] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

78] Even Homer sometimes nods

79] The word is far him who has patience

80] Friendship should not be all on one side

81] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

83] Silence is golden

84] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

85] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

86] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

87] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

88] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

89] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

90] Gossiping and lying go together

91] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

92] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

93] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

94] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

95] The ant had wings to her hurt

96] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

97] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

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

99] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

100] You are never too old to learn