Famous Proverbs

1] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

2] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

3] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

4] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

5] Every dog has his (its) day

6] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

7] The company makes the feast

8] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

9] Every dog is a lion at home

10] It is good to follow the old fox

11] Prove your friend ere you have need

12] Like mother, like daughter

13] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

14] Gold will not buy everything

15] The unexpected always happens.

16] To teach is to learn twice over

17] A good servant must have good wages

18] Discretion is the better part of valour

19] Comparisons are odious

20] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

21] Water is the king of food

22] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

23] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

24] True doctrines require no miracles

25] Don’t cry before you are hurt

26] Creditors have better memories than debtors

27] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

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

29] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

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

31] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

32] Gold will not buy everything

33] Youth will have its course.

34] Trust is the mother of deceit

35] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

36] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

37] Ill news comes apace.

38] Half a word is enough for a wise man

39] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

40] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

41] Bind the sack before it be full

42] Far from eye, far from heart

43] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

44] Some are wise and some are otherwise

45] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

46] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

47] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

48] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

49] It is good fishing in troubled waters

50] Many eyes upon the king

51] There is no time like the present

52] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

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

54] There is no accounting for tastes

55] The poor suffer all the wrong

56] Discretion is the better part of valour

57] One reason is as good as fifty

58] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

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

60] Every commodity has its discommodity

61] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

62] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

63] There is no smoke without fire

64] You may know by a handful the whole sack

65] So many countries, so many customs

66] He that pities another remembers himself

67] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

68] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

69] He who does no good, does evil enough

70] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

71] Where there is no trust there is no love

72] It is no use crying over spilt milk

73] Little things please little minds

74] You win some, you lose some

75] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

76] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

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

78] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

79] Poverty parts friendship

80] Other times, other manners

81] Mirth without measure is madness

82] Ill luck is good for something

83] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

84] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

85] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

86] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

87] Never spend your money before you have it

88] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

89] Better the foot slip than the tongue

90] There is no blindness like ignorance

91] New brooms sweep clean

92] Don’t cry stinking fish

93] Who greases his way travels easily

94] The dog that fetches, will carry.

95] You cannot make a crab walk straight

96] Poor folk fare the best

97] Ale will make a cat speak

98] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

99] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

100] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease