Famous Proverbs

1] There is no royal road to learning

2] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

3] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

4] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

5] A good face is a letter of recommendation

6] Do unto others as they should do unto you

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

8] Crows are all completely black

9] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

10] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

11] You can’t clap with one hand

12] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

13] He that wants health wants all

14] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

15] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

16] Love is blind

17] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

18] Who suffers much is silent

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

20] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

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

22] Half an egg is better than empty shell

23] Ready money is a ready remedy

24] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

25] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

26] Plain dealing is best

27] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

28] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

29] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

30] Barking dogs seldom bite

31] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

32] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

33] Spend and be free, but make no waste

34] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

35] Never spend your money before you have it

36] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

37] The best of friends must part

38] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

39] That which is easily done is soon believed

40] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

41] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

42] If you want peace, prepare for war

43] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

44] The mob has many heads but no brains

45] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

46] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

47] If one will not, another will

48] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

49] A penny saved is a penny gained

50] Gluttony kills more than the sword

51] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

52] All things are easy, that are done willingly

53] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

54] There is no redemption from hell

55] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

56] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

57] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

58] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

59] Words fly, writings remain

60] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

61] Hunger is the best sauce

62] Beauty draws more than oxen

63] The wisest of the wise may err.

64] Experience is the mother of wisdom

65] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

66] Children and chickens must be always picking

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

68] New brooms sweep clean

69] Do as say, not as I do

70] Better beg than steal.

71] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

72] Great gain makes easy work

73] Every dog has his (its) day

74] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

75] One man sows and another reaps

76] Union is strength.

77] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

78] He that obey cannot command

79] Never refuse a good offer

80] Flesh is frail

81] See which way the cat jumps

82] Silence is a woman’s best garment

83] Soon hot, soon cold

84] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

85] Bad luck often brings good luck

86] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

87] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

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

89] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

90] All doors open to courtesy

91] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

92] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

93] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

94] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

95] It is misery enough to have once been happy

96] Double charge will rive a cannon

97] Dogs bark as they are bred.

98] He that has no money needs no purse

99] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

100] Man cannot live by bread alone