Famous Proverbs

1] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

2] What is new cannot be true

3] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

4] Content is more than a kingdom

5] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

6] What is money to a cat?

7] If you would be well served, serve yourself

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

9] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

10] Saying is one thing, and doing another

11] Money is the only monarch

12] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

13] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

14] A good beginning is half the battle.

15] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

16] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

17] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

18] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

19] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

20] Easier said than done

21] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

22] Light grows the burden which is well borne

23] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

24] One barber shaves another gratis

25] A mouse may help a lion

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

27] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

28] There is no redemption from hell

29] Honesty is the best policy

30] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

31] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

32] Nearest the heart comes out first

33] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

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

35] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

36] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

37] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

38] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

39] Four eyes see better than two.

40] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

41] Big words seldom go with good deeds

42] Confess and be hanged

43] Friends are thieves of time

44] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

45] Give credit where credit is due

46] Haste is of (or from) the devil

47] One reason is as good as fifty

48] Lavishness is not generosity

49] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

50] He has not lost all who has one cast left

51] He that eats well should do his duty well

52] Blue are the far away hills

53] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

54] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

55] He who hesitates is lost

56] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

57] There is no place like home

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

59] Full of courtesy, full of craft

60] Youth will have its course.

61] A good Conscience is the best divinity

62] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

63] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

64] All things are difficult before they are easy

65] Manners make the man

66] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

67] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

68] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

69] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

70] He that wants health wants all

71] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

72] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

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

74] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

75] He that brings good news, knocks hard

76] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

77] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

78] Good clothes open all doors

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

80] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

81] A crust is better than no bread.

82] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

83] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

84] Cowards die many times before their deaths

85] A closed mouth catches no files

86] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

87] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

88] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

89] He that lives ill, fear follows him

90] Tempt not a desperate man

91] Wrong never comes right

92] Live and Learn

93] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

94] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

95] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

96] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

97] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

98] Young saint, old devil.

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

100] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil