Famous Proverbs

1] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

2] For a web begun, God sends the thread

3] The early bird catches the worm

4] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

5] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

6] Friendship should not be all on one side

7] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

8] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

9] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

10] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

11] The faulty stands on his guard

12] Half a loaf is better than do bread

13] Variety is charming

14] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

15] There’s no place like home

16] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

17] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

18] Better say noting than no to the purpose

19] Wash your dirty linen at home

20] All doors open to courtesy

21] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

22] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

23] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

24] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

25] Care brings grey hair.

26] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

27] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

28] It is not every question that deserves an answer

29] Every little helps

30] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

31] Every beginning is hard

32] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

33] Alms never make poor

34] He gives twice who gives quickly

35] At a good bargain thinks twice

36] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

37] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

38] Death is the grand leveler

39] Idle folks lack no excuses

40] Better say noting than no to the purpose

41] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

42] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

43] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

44] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

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

46] The ant had wings to her hurt

47] Silence gives (or means) consent

48] The bait hides the hook

49] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

50] He knows most who speaks least

51] Lovers are madmen

52] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

53] Faint heart never won fair lady

54] Of evil manners, spring good laws

55] The cowl does not make the monk.

56] A good name is better than a golden girdle

57] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

58] Virtue is the only true nobility

59] The first blow is half the battle

60] If today will not, tomorrow may

61] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

62] The mob tramples on the coward

63] A good name is sooner lost than won

64] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

65] Liars should have good memories

66] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

67] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

68] Every man is his own worst enemy

69] The best fish swim near the bottom

70] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

71] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

72] Great hopes make great men

73] First impressions are most lasting

74] It is good to follow the old fox

75] Make haste slowly

76] The sign brings customers

77] Sow thin and mow thin

78] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

79] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

80] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

81] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

82] It is not work that kills but worry

83] He that seeks trouble never misses

84] Without luck, it is better not to be born

85] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

86] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

87] Haste is of (or from) the devil

88] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

89] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

90] A man may bear till his back breaks

91] Actions speak louder than words

92] Life is not all beer and skittles

93] A learned man has always riches in himself

94] Poverty parts friendship

95] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

96] Every man praises his own wares

97] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

98] As long lives a merry man as a sad

99] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

100] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill