Famous Proverbs

1] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

2] Big fish eat little fish

3] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

4] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

5] It costs more to do ill than to do well

6] Faint heart never won fair lady

7] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

8] Lovers are madmen

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

10] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

11] Better be safe than sorry

12] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

13] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

14] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

15] To err is human; to forgive, divine

16] Take the will for the deed

17] Moderation in all things

18] The mob tramples on the coward

19] Come with the wind, got with the water

20] Expectation is better than realisation

21] Fools live poor to die rich

22] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

23] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

24] Plain dealing is best

25] Everything would fain live

26] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

27] The good die young.

28] Every dog is a lion at home

29] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

30] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

31] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

32] One potter envies another

33] Love conquers all

34] Fine feathers make fine birds.

35] There are more men threatened than stricken

36] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

37] Better unborn than untaught

38] Example is the greatest of all seducers

39] He who comes late must eat what is left

40] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

41] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

42] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

43] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

44] Facts are stubborn things

45] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

46] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

47] It’s a long lane that has no turning

48] Four eyes see more than two

49] Man proposes, God disposes

50] Choose thy company before thy drink

51] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

52] The young will sow their wild oats

53] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

54] He who hesitates is lost

55] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

56] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

57] Precepts may lead but examples draw

58] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

59] Be still and have thy will

60] Seeing is believing

61] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

62] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

63] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

64] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

65] One father is more than a hundred school masters

66] The exception proves the rule

67] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

68] There is none misfortune cannot reach

69] Good luck beats early rising

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

71] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

72] A change is as good as rest

73] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

74] Pardon makes offenders

75] Time flies

76] When the cat is away, the mice will play

77] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

78] Little things are great to little men

79] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

80] Busiest men find the most time

81] In the end, things will mend

82] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

83] Children and chickens must be always picking

84] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

85] Revenge never repairs an injury

86] Excessive happiness produces pain

87] History repeats itself

88] Procrastination is the thief of time

89] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

90] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

91] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

92] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

93] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

94] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

95] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

96] Bad excuses are worse than none.

97] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

98] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

99] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

100] Flesh is frail