Famous Proverbs

1] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

2] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

3] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

4] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

5] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

6] The devil is not as black as he is painted

7] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

8] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

9] Names are debts

10] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

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

12] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

13] The mob tramples on the coward

14] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

15] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

16] A house divided against itself cannot stand

17] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

18] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

19] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

20] No man limps because another is hurt

21] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

22] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

23] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

24] Union (or Unity) is strength

25] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

26] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

27] No man is content with his lot

28] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

29] Empty vessels make the most sound

30] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

31] Where there’s a will there’s a way

32] You know what you can do till you try.

33] He is wise who looks ahead

34] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

35] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

36] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

37] They also serve who only stand and wait

38] Money talks

39] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

40] Fool’s haste is no speed

41] Flesh is frail

42] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

43] He who never was sick dies the first fit

44] Every shoe fits not every foot

45] The value of money is having it.

46] The good is often the enemy of the best

47] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

48] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

50] God’s lambs will play.

51] A crowd is not company

52] Self do, self have

53] Never do evil that good may come of it

54] One reason is as good as fifty

55] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

56] Be careful to whom you give

57] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

58] What costs little is little esteemed

59] Every man to his trade.

60] Don’t meet trouble half-way

61] The course of true love never did run smooth

62] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

63] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

64] Many words, many buffets

65] What is new cannot be true

66] Will is no skill

67] What is worse than ill luck?

68] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

69] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

70] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

71] It is good fishing in troubled waters

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

73] Great talkers are never great doers

74] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

75] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

76] Take the will for the deed

77] When you do not know what to do – wait.

78] Leave well alone

79] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

80] All our pomp the earth covers

81] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

82] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

83] Do as you would be done by

84] Our own opinion is never wrong

85] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

86] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

87] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

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

89] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

90] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

91] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

92] Love knows hidden paths

93] Strength grows stronger by being tried

94] An empty sack cannot stand upright

95] Grief pent up will break the heart

96] Actions speak louder than words

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

98] Death keeps no calendar

99] The result justifies the deed

100] We don’t get something for nothing