Famous Proverbs

1] Fair exchange is no robbery

2] Birds once snared fear all bushes

3] Two wrongs do not make a right

4] Good hand, good hire

5] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

6] Out of debt, out of danger

7] Weapons breed peace

8] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

9] God arms the harmless

10] Better late than never

11] The eye is bigger than the belly

12] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

13] Every flow must have its ebb

14] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

15] The world is full of fools

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

17] Hunger breaks stone walls

18] Great oaks from little acorns grow

19] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

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

21] Names and natures do often agree

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

23] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

24] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

25] A closed mouth catches no files

26] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

27] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

28] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

29] Quietness is a great treasure

30] Let the buyer beware

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

32] Home is where the heart is

33] Many a true word is spoken in jest

34] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

35] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

36] Change of pasture makes fat calves

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

38] Revenge is sweet

39] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

40] Take time by the forelock

41] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

42] Men do more things through habit than reason

43] He that has no money needs no purse

44] Water is the king of food

45] Small is beautiful

46] Every advantage has its disadvantage

47] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

48] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

49] Example, is better than precept

50] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

51] Little and often fills the purse

52] He laughs best who laughs last

53] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

54] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

55] Master easy, servant slack

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

57] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

58] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

59] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

60] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

61] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

62] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

63] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

64] A good tongue is a good weapon

65] Health and money go far

66] No man is born wise or learned

67] Practice what you preach

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

69] Beauty opens locked doors

70] A straight stick is crooked in water

71] Prospect is often better than possession

72] Health without money is half an ague

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

74] Crime does not pay

75] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

76] Not even Hercules could contend against two

77] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

78] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

79] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

80] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

81] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

82] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

83] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

84] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

85] The deed comes back upon the doer.

86] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

87] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

88] Ambition loses many a man

89] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

90] It never rains it pours

91] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

92] Manners make the man

93] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

94] The best wine comes from an old vessel

95] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

96] Once bitten, twice shy.

97] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

98] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

99] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

100] Repentance comes too late