Famous Proverbs

1] No feast lasts forever.

2] Save your breath to cool the porridge

3] True gold is not transformed by fire

4] Thrift is a great revenue

5] A bribe will enter without knocking

6] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

7] A fault once denied is twice committed

8] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

9] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

10] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

11] There are more ways to the wood than one.

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

13] There are spots even in the sun

14] Often and little eating makes a man fat

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

16] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

17] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

18] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

19] Fools rejoice at promises

20] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

21] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

22] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

23] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

24] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

25] Look at the bright side

26] Better an open enemy than a false friend

27] Better beg than steal.

28] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

29] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

30] The dog is a lion in his own house

31] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

32] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

33] Faint heart never won fair lady

34] Do not triumph before the victory

35] Bad luck often brings good luck

36] Man cannot live by bread alone

37] If you play with fire you get burnt

38] Abundance, like want, ruins many

39] Weak things united become strong

40] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

41] Idleness is the root of all evil

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

43] In indecision itself, grief is present.

44] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

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

46] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

47] Men are blind in their own cause

48] Truth is god’s daughter

49] To err is human

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

51] Death is the grand leveler

52] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

53] Speech is silver, silence is golden

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

55] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

56] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

57] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

58] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

59] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

60] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

61] Travel broadens the mind

62] The thing which is rare is dear

63] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

64] No one ought to judge in his own cause

65] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

66] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

67] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

68] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

69] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

70] No day so clear but has dark clouds

71] All must be as God will

72] Names are debts

73] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

74] Valour delights in the test

75] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

76] Brevity is the soul of wit

77] Never buy a pig in a poke

78] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

79] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

80] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

81] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

82] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

83] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

84] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

85] Nature hates all sudden changes

86] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

87] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

88] There is many a fair thing full false

89] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

90] Great minds think alike

91] Forewarned is forearmed

92] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

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

94] Bad excuses are worse than none.

95] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

96] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

97] Health is great riches

98] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

99] All things that great men do are well done

100] Boys will be boys