Famous Proverbs

1] A good face is a letter of recommendation

2] He that lives ill, fear follows him

3] Respect is greater from a distance

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

5] We don’t get something for nothing

6] Morning dreams come true

7] More haste, less speed

8] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

9] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

10] Don’t ride the high horse

11] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

12] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

13] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

14] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

15] One potter envies another

16] Soon gotten, soon spent

17] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

18] Go not to hell for company

19] Care killed the cat

20] Innocence is no protection

21] Nothing is so certain as death

22] Where god will help, nothing does harm

23] Dreams are lies

24] Conscience does make cowards of us all

25] Gold may be bought too dear

26] What the king wills, that the law wills

27] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

28] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

29] You are never too old to learn

30] Seeing is believing

31] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

32] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

33] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

34] Abundance, like want, ruins many

35] Threatened folk live long

36] Hard words break no bones

37] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

38] Where there’s muck, there’s money

39] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

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

41] It is good fishing in troubled waters

42] The poor suffer all the wrong

43] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

44] Every beginning is hard

45] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

46] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

47] He who pays the piper calls the tune

48] Nothing succeeds like success

49] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

50] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

51] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

52] Great trees keep down the little ones

53] Faint heart never won fair lady

54] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

55] First think, and then speak

56] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

57] When one door shuts, another opens

58] Remember, you are but a man

59] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

60] At open doors, dogs come in

61] What’s in a name?

62] No road is long with good company

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

64] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

65] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

66] No hair so small but has his shadow

67] Standing pools gather fifth

68] Little wealth, little care

69] Needs must when the evil drives

70] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

71] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

72] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

73] He who teaches learns

74] The longest journey starts with a single step

75] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

76] The unexpected always happens.

77] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

78] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

79] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

80] As soon as there is life there is danger

81] You cannot make a crab walk straight

82] He that is born a fool is never cured

83] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

84] A good name is better than riches

85] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

86] Wine unveils the words of the heart

87] What can’t be cured must be endured

88] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

89] Everything must have a beginning

90] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

91] Far from eye, far from heart

92] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

93] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

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

95] Black will take no other hue

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

97] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

98] No one betrays himself by silence

99] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

100] The good die young.