Famous Proverbs

1] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

2] Lend your money and lose a friend

3] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

4] Better no doctor at all than three.

5] Every medal has its reverse

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

7] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

8] Variety takes away satiety

9] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

10] Work won’t kill but worry will.

11] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

12] The absent saint gets no candle

13] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

14] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

15] Lookers-on see most of the game

16] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

17] Great hopes make great men

18] Half a loaf is better than do bread

19] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

20] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

21] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

22] None but the brave deserves the fair

23] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

24] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

25] He who envies admits his inferiority

26] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

27] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

28] Never buy a pig in a poke

29] Hear twice before you speak once

30] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

31] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

32] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

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

34] A good name is better than riches

35] Strength grows stronger by being tried

36] He that eats well should do his duty well

37] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

38] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

39] Old foxes want no tutors

40] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

41] Every man is his own worst enemy

42] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

43] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

44] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

45] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

46] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

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

48] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

49] It is too late to call back yesterday

50] It is as natural to die as to be born

51] Fools rejoice at promises

52] Man proposes, God disposes

53] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

54] It is easy to be wise after the event

55] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

56] Many drops make a shower

57] One man sows and another reaps

58] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

59] Much meat, much malady

60] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

61] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

62] You cannot have it both ways

63] All that glitters is not gold

64] A man in debt is caught in a net

65] Don’t play with edged tools

66] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

67] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

68] Time has wings

69] Harp not for ever on the same string

70] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

71] Many dishes make many diseases

72] Ambition makes people diligent

73] He that promises too much means nothing

74] Common fame is a liar

75] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

76] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

77] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

78] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

79] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

80] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

81] He that has no money needs no purse

82] A hungry man smells meat afar off

83] We soon believe what we desire

84] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

85] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

86] No man can serve two masters

87] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

88] Covetousness breaks the sack

89] The fox may grow grey, but never good

90] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

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

92] Crows are all completely black

93] Precept begins, examples accomplish

94] No like is the same.

95] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

96] A joke’s a very serious thing

97] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

98] Misfortunes never come singly

99] The ass that brays most eats

100] Health without money is half an ague