Famous Proverbs

1] No man is his craft’s master the first day

2] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

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

4] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

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

6] No honest man ever repented his honesty

7] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

8] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

9] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

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

11] Change of pasture makes fat calves

12] A fool always rushes to the fore.

13] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

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

15] It is the unexpected that always happens

16] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

17] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

18] The ant had wings to her hurt

19] Once a use and ever a custom

20] What is money to a cat?

21] Crows are all completely black

22] The sun shines upon all alike.

23] He who sows, trusts in God

24] The result justifies the deed

25] Travel broadens the mind

26] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

27] Nature is content with little.

28] Content is better than riches

29] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

30] All griefs with bread are less

31] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

32] Nearest the heart comes out first

33] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

34] A man with no hands is given a ring.

35] A good friend is my nearest relation

36] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

37] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

38] They also serve who only stand and wait

39] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

40] Law makers should not be law breakers

41] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

42] After a storm comes a calm

43] A door must be either shut or open

44] Lend never that thing you needed most

45] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

46] He that speaks well, flights well

47] Practice what you preach

48] Silence never makes mistakes

49] The cobbler should stick to his last

50] Fear of death is worse than death itself

51] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

52] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

53] A hedge between keeps friendship green

54] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

55] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

56] Four eyes see better than two.

57] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

58] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

59] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

60] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

61] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

62] Love laughs at locksmiths

63] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

64] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

65] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

66] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

67] No road is long with good company

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

69] A word to the wise is enough

70] Give a loan and buy quarrel

71] Whatever man has done, man can do

72] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

73] One man sows and another reaps

74] Two heads are better than one

75] Prove your friend ere you have need

76] No man can serve two masters

77] Money talks

78] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

79] Homo is a common name to all men.

80] Busiest men find the most time

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

82] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

83] The hole calls the thief

84] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

85] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

86] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

87] Divine grace was never slow

88] A good drink makes the old young

89] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

90] Good hand, good hire

91] He that sows virtue reaps fame

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

93] Wisdom is better than strength

94] A goose drinks as much as gander

95] Practice what you preach

96] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

97] All things are possible with god

98] The devil knows many things because he is old

99] Death keeps no calendar

100] He that praises himself, spatters himself