Famous Proverbs

1] The best of men are but men at best.

2] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

3] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

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

5] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

6] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

7] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

8] The poor suffer all the wrong

9] All glory comes from daring to begin

10] Be just before you are generous

11] There’s always room at the top

12] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

13] Mirth is the sugar of life

14] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

15] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

16] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

17] Fear of death is worse than death itself

18] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

19] No hair so small but has his shadow

20] He that is absent is soon forgotten

21] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

22] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

23] Every Jack must have his Jill

24] Words and feathers the wind carries away

25] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

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

27] Health and money go far

28] Light grows the burden which is well borne

29] A little too late, is much too late

30] Discretion is the better part of valour

31] It is more pain to do nothing than something

32] Ready money is a ready remedy

33] Fair exchange is no robbery

34] Mercy surpasses justice

35] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

36] Don’t play with fire

37] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

38] He who does no good, does evil enough

39] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

40] He that burns most, shines most

41] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

42] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

43] An honest good look covers many faults.

44] A fault once denied is twice committed

45] Nature abhors a vacuum

46] He who comes late must eat what is left

47] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

48] Take the will for the deed

49] Virtue is the only true nobility

50] Lend never that thing you needed most

51] The love of money is the root of all evil

52] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

53] The word is far him who has patience

54] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

55] Corn him well and he will work better

56] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

57] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

58] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

59] True doctrines require no miracles

60] Virtue carries a lean purse

61] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

62] Wise men do not argue with idiots

63] You can’t clap with one hand

64] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

65] What will not money do?

66] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

67] Love me, love the crows on my roof

68] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

69] One potter envies another

70] It is useless to flog a dead horse

71] Children and fools have merry lives

72] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

73] Children and fools have merry lives

74] God makes the back for the burden

75] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

76] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

77] The weeds overgrow the corn.

78] Possibilities are infinite

79] Lend never that thing you needed most

80] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

81] A stitch in time saves nine

82] Birds once snared fear all bushes

83] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

84] A prophet is without honour in his own country

85] He is wise who looks ahead

86] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

87] There’s a time and place for everything

88] It will be the same a hundred years hence

89] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

90] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

91] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

92] Dumb men get no lands

93] Beauty is but skin-deep

94] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

95] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

96] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

97] Trust is the mother of deceit

98] Advice when most needed is least heeded

99] Nothing crave, nothing have

100] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.