Famous Proverbs

1] Of evil manners, spring good laws

2] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

3] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

4] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

5] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

6] Lovers are madmen

7] Love will find a way

8] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

9] The hole calls the thief

10] Like father, like son

11] Like father, like son

12] Light grows the burden which is well borne

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

14] The longest journey starts with a single step

15] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

16] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

17] Pleasant hours fly past

18] Money isn’t everything

19] Hunger is the teacher of many

20] Alms never make poor

21] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

22] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

23] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

24] Where there is no trust there is no love

25] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

26] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

27] Even silence may be eloquent

28] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

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

30] Money is the sinews of war

31] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

32] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

33] Every little helps

34] Soon gotten, soon spent

35] Easier said than done

36] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

37] Better bend than break

38] One can’t help many, but many can help one

39] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

40] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

41] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

42] While there is life, there is hope

43] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

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

45] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

46] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

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

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

49] A still tongue makes a wise head

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

51] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

52] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

53] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

54] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

55] Covetousness breaks the sack

56] Silence is a woman’s best garment

57] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

58] Circumstances alter cases

59] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

60] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

61] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

62] Grasp all, lose all

63] God provides for him that trusts

64] There is many a true word spoken in jest

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

66] Despair gives courage to a coward

67] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

68] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

69] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

70] Wise men silent, fools talk

71] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

72] The longest night will have an end

73] The grace of God enough

74] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

75] New lords, new laws

76] The dog is a lion in his own house

77] The pen is the tongue of the hand

78] Rip not up old sores

79] Home is where the heart is

80] Ignorance is the peace of life

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

82] He who considers too much will perform little.

83] Wine is the best broom for trouble

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

85] He that does most at once, does least

86] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

87] He is an ill husband who is not missed

88] Life is short and time is swift

89] Tell a lie and stick to it.

90] When wine sinks, words swim

91] Grin and bear it

92] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

93] Love is never without jealousy

94] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

95] The tongue stings

96] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

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

98] Wake not a sleeping lion

99] Waste not, want not

100] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart