Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

2] Quietness is a great treasure

3] Better to be safe than sorry.

4] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

5] Ill gotten, ill spent

6] He travels the fastest who travels alone

7] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

8] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

9] He that blows best, bears away the horn

10] A black hen lays a white egg

11] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

12] Fool’s haste is no speed

13] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

14] Every man is his own worst enemy

15] Young colts will canter.

16] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

17] Seeing is believing

18] Little things are pretty

19] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

20] Never do things by halves

21] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

22] No remedy but patience

23] Man punishes the action but God the intention

24] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

25] Hungry bellies have no ears

26] Hunger is sharper than the sword

27] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

28] Blue are the far away hills

29] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

31] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

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

33] The weeds overgrow the corn.

34] Spread the table, and contention will cease

35] Lend never that thing you needed most

36] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

37] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

38] Ill news comes unsent for.

39] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

40] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

41] He that praises himself, spatters himself

42] Make haste slowly

43] Never too late to learn

44] Do as you would be done by

45] Do as say, not as I do

46] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

47] Fair exchange is no robbery

48] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

49] Might is right

50] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

51] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

52] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

53] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

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

55] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

56] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

57] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

58] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

59] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

60] Let sleeping dogs lie

61] Appetite comes with eating

62] Make the best of a bad job

63] A monk can’t shave his own head

64] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

65] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

66] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

67] God sends cold after Clothes

68] Everything must have a beginning

69] Better an open enemy than a false friend

70] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

71] Example is better than precept

72] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

73] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

74] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

75] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

76] Idle folks lack no excuses

77] A good conscience is a constant feast

78] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

79] Four eyes see better than two.

80] Big words seldom go with good deeds

81] Envy never enriched any man.

82] A word is enough to the wise

83] A single rose does not mean spring

84] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

85] Every medal has its reverse

86] Time flies

87] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

88] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

89] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

90] Every may be has a may not be

91] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

92] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

93] Discontent is the first step in progress

94] No land without stones, or meat without bones

95] Beauty fades like a flower.

96] You never know your luck

97] Divide and rule

98] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

99] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

100] None but the brave deserves the fair