Famous Proverbs

1] Debt is an evil conscience

2] No choice amongst stinking fish

3] Good fences make good neighbours

4] No man is born wise or learned

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

6] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

7] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

8] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

9] He who leaps high must take a long run

10] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

11] Virtue joints man to god

12] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

13] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

14] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

15] More have repented speech than silence

16] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

17] He who never was sick dies the first fit

18] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

19] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

20] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

21] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

22] So many men, so many opinions

23] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

24] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

25] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

26] Second thoughts are best

27] An ill tongue may do much

28] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

29] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

30] Man does what he can, and God what he will

31] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

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

33] One cannot love and be wise

34] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

35] Exchange is no robbery

36] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

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

38] While there is life, there is hope

39] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

40] He who pays the piper calls the tune

41] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

42] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

43] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

44] A house divided against itself cannot stand

45] Know thyself

46] Better a bare foot than none

47] In wine there is truth

48] Life means strife

49] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

50] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

51] He who owes is in all the wrong

52] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

53] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

54] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

55] Spend and be free, but make no waste

56] The dog that fetches, will carry.

57] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

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

59] All men are mortal

60] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

61] A scalded cat fears hot water.

62] Wrong never comes right

63] First things first

64] A change is as good as rest

65] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

66] Cleanliness is next to godliness

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

68] Pat any man and dust will fly

69] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

70] A wicked man is his own hell

71] Hear twice before you speak once

72] Better learn late than never

73] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

74] Wedlock is padlock

75] It is easier to pull down than to build

76] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

77] Fortune is blind

78] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

79] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

80] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

81] A good heart conquers ill fortune

82] Every beginning is hard

83] The more wicked, the more lucky

84] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

85] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

86] One sword keeps another in the sheath

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

88] When meat is in anger is out

89] Woes unite foes

90] There’s a time and place for everything

91] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

92] Two heads are better than one

93] It is as natural to die as to be born

94] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

95] Children should be seen and not heard

96] Every flow must have its ebb

97] He that desires but little has no deed of much

98] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

99] The absent saint gets no candle

100] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.