Famous Proverbs

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

2] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

3] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

4] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

5] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

6] Never too late to repent

7] Where there are reeds, there is water

8] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

9] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

10] The voice is the best music

11] Love me, love the crows on my roof

12] There’s always room at the top

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

14] Where there’s muck, there’s money

15] He that eats well should do his duty well

16] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

17] Have two strings to your bow

18] By his deeds we know a man

19] A good name is a rich heritage

20] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

21] God’s lambs will play.

22] Money is the sinew of affairs

23] Six feet of earth make all men equal

24] One man sows and another reaps

25] No pains, no gains

26] All things are difficult before they are easy

27] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

28] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

29] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

30] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

31] Come with the wind, got with the water

32] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

33] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

34] Truth has no need of rhetoric

35] The best things are hard to come by.

36] Will is no skill

37] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

38] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

39] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

40] Gold is tried in the fire

41] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

42] The cowl does not make the monk.

43] The weeds overgrow the corn.

44] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

45] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

46] God sends cold after Clothes

47] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

48] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

49] Practice is the science that gives confidence

50] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

51] Custom reconciles us to everything

52] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

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

54] You may know by a handful the whole sack

55] They are rich who have true friends

56] Live not to eat, but eat to live

57] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

58] Well begun is half done.

59] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

60] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

61] Children and chickens must be always picking

62] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

63] No news is good news

64] We don’t get something for nothing

65] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

66] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

67] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

68] Life is not all beer and skittles

69] Discretion is the better part of valour

70] Everything must have a beginning

71] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

72] They also serve who only stand and wait

73] Love laughs at locksmiths

74] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

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

76] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

77] He is an ill husband who is not missed

78] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

79] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

80] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

81] Better the last smile than the first laugh

82] Two heads are better than one

83] There is no royal road to learning

84] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

85] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

86] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

87] God made the country ,and man made the town

88] A fool believes everything

89] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

90] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

91] The faulty stands on his guard

92] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

93] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

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

95] Nature surpasses art

96] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

97] A man’s mother is his other God

98] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

99] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

100] Will is the cause of woe