Famous Proverbs

1] Other times, other manners

2] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

3] Common fame is seldom to blame

4] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

5] It is no use crying over spilt milk

6] Good clothes open all doors

7] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

8] Death is the grand leveler

9] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

10] Forgive and forget

11] Good ware makes quick market

12] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

13] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

14] As you bake, so shall you eat.

15] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

16] The thread breaks where it is weakest

17] His own ingenuity pricks him.

18] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

19] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

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

21] Good to begin well, better to end well.

22] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

23] Better be safe than sorry

24] Black will take no other hue

25] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

26] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

27] Cheap is dear in the long run.

28] Dead men tell no tales

29] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

31] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

32] Fools live poor to die rich

33] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

34] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

35] Asking costs little

36] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

37] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

38] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

39] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

40] Cut your coat according to your cloth

41] He gives twice who gives quickly

42] That which proves too much proves nothing

43] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

44] Beware of him who makes thee presents

45] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

46] Plain dealing is a jewel

47] A bully is always a coward

48] He thinks not well that thinks not again

49] There is no place like home

50] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

51] Learn to walk before you run

52] Tempt not a desperate man

53] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

54] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

55] One swallow does not make a summer

56] You cannot make bricks without straw

57] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

58] Better no doctor at all than three.

59] The darkest place is under the candlestick

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

61] What is worth doing is worth doing well

62] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

63] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

64] The road to hell is paved with good action

65] Hope is the poor man’s bread

66] A man may learn wit every day.

67] He who demands does not command

68] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

69] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

70] Wise men propose, and fools determine

71] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

72] Nature will have her course

73] Do right and fear no man

74] Tell a lie and stick to it.

75] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

76] Goodness is better than beauty

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

78] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

79] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

80] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

81] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

82] All truths are not to be told

83] Nothing succeeds like success

84] Never say die

85] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

86] Life is not all beer and skittles

87] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

88] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

89] Money is the root of all evil

90] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

91] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

92] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

93] Covetousness breaks the sack

94] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

95] The more you have the more you want

96] Everything in moderation.

97] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

98] There is no redemption from hell

99] Experience is the best teacher

100] The beaten road is the safest