Famous Proverbs

1] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

2] A useful trade is a mine of gold

3] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

4] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

5] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

6] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

7] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

8] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

9] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

10] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

11] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

12] A jack of all traders is master of none

13] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

14] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

15] All that glitters is not gold

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

17] As you sow, so shall you reap

18] There’s no great loss without some gain

19] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

20] III counsel mars all

21] When one door shuts, another opens

22] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

23] Names are debts

24] No man so good but another may be as good as he

25] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

26] A stitch in time saves nine

27] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

28] Better ask the way than go astray

29] Make the best of a bad job

30] No man is wise at all times

31] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

32] Learn to walk before you run

33] Every advantage has its disadvantage

34] Standing pools gather fifth

35] Care killed the cat

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

37] Money can influence even the spirits

38] All covet all lose.

39] Better an open enemy than a false friend

40] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

41] Better be alone than in bad company

42] Enough is as good as a feast

43] He that brings good news, knocks hard

44] A crowd is not company

45] Second thoughts are best

46] Take away fuel, take away flame

47] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

48] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

49] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

50] There is many a fair thing full false

51] Come with the wind, got with the water

52] A still tongue makes a wise head

53] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

54] Things past cannot be recalled

55] Beauty fades like a flower.

56] Pleasing ware is half sold

57] Words fly, writings remain

58] A change is as good as rest

59] Trust is the mother of deceit

60] One sheep follows another

61] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

62] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

63] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

64] There is nothing like being on the safe side

65] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

66] They are rich who have true friends

67] The thing which is rare is dear

68] He that desires but little has no deed of much

69] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

70] Cheap is dear in the long run.

71] Frugality is the mother of virtue

72] The more wicked, the more lucky

73] He who comes late must eat what is left

74] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

75] What’s done cannot be undone

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

77] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

78] Every commodity has its discommodity

79] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

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

81] Rip not up old sores

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

83] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

84] Appearances are deceptive

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

86] Patience is the remedy of the world

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

88] Appetite comes with eating

89] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

90] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

91] Lookers-on see more than players

92] He knows the water best who has waded through it

93] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

94] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

95] Bad excuses are worse than none.

96] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

97] The age of miracles is past

98] When wine sinks, words swim

99] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

100] Nothing seek, nothing find