Famous Proverbs

1] Wishes can never fill a sack

2] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

3] First creep, then walk

4] Jesters do oft prove prophets

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

6] Every man must carry his own cross

7] A word to the wise is enough

8] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

9] He who serves is not free

10] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

11] Wink at small faults

12] A loveless life is a living death

13] Faint heart never won fair lady

14] Every light has its shadow

15] The day obliterates the promise of the might

16] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

17] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

18] He who wills the end, Wills the means

19] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

20] Sickness soaks the purse

21] Desert and reward seldom keep company

22] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

23] Nothing succeeds like success

24] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

25] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

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

27] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

28] Every man praises his own wares

29] Tomorrow is another day

30] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

32] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

33] Love is sweet torment

34] Grin and bear it

35] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

36] At a good bargain thinks twice

37] One is never too old to learn

38] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

39] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

40] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

41] The highest branch is not the safest roost

42] In indecision itself, grief is present.

43] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

44] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

45] Love knows hidden paths

46] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

47] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

48] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

49] Never too late to late to repent

50] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

51] God arms the harmless

52] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

53] Content is better than riches

54] Better to ask the way than go astray.

55] A soft answer turns away wrath

56] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

57] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

58] An old man is a bed full of bones

59] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

60] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

61] What’s in a name?

62] The first step is the hardest

63] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

64] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

65] Fish begins to stink at the head

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

67] Great minds think alike

68] Every bean has its black

69] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

70] There is honour among thieves

71] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

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

73] Once bitten, twice shy.

74] Forecast is better than work-hard

75] By his deeds we know a man

76] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

77] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

78] Good hand, good hire

79] There is safety in numbers

80] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

81] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

82] The longest night will have an end

83] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

84] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

85] Every flow must have its ebb

86] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

87] No road is long with good company

88] Wrong has no warrant

89] Precept begins, examples accomplish

90] Every dog has his (its) day

91] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

92] Either mend or end

93] A fault confessed is half redressed

94] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

95] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

96] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

97] The money you refuse will never do you good

98] A man may bear till his back breaks

99] The end crowns the work.

100] No pain, no cure