Famous Proverbs

1] Long looked for, comes at last

2] Who greases his way travels easily

3] You cannot make a crab walk straight

4] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

5] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

6] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

7] Now is now, and then was then

8] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

9] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

10] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

11] If today will not, tomorrow may

12] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

13] From small beginnings come great things

14] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

15] The cobbler should stick to his last

16] Beauty is only skin deep

17] Example is the greatest of all seducers

18] The result justifies the deed

19] Every law has a loophole

20] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

21] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

22] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

23] It is ill striving against the stream

24] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

25] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

26] A burnt child dreads the fire

27] Fear of death is worse than death itself

28] The good die young.

29] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

30] The more laws, the more offenders

31] All men are mortal

32] A word spoken is past recalling

33] The receiver is as bad as the thief

34] Best is cheapest

35] Time lost cannot be recalled

36] Kill two birds with one stone

37] He that brings good news, knocks hard

38] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

39] Time flees without a delay

40] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

41] A word is enough to the wise

42] The road to hell is paved with good action

43] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

44] Nature hates all sudden changes

45] Soon gotten, soon spent

46] He that lives ill, fear follows him

47] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

48] Poverty is the mother of crime

49] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

50] III luck is good for something

51] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

52] Envy never enriched any man.

53] Money has no smell

54] What must be must be

55] Never judge from appearances

56] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

57] A parrot will only say what it is taught

58] There is nothing new under the sun

59] Like master, like man

60] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

61] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

62] Live and Learn

63] He that eats least eats most

64] A good heart conquers ill fortune

65] Revenge never repairs an injury

66] Through obedience learn to command.

67] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

68] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

69] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

70] You win some, you lose some

71] There is nothing new under the sun

72] A bully never grows up.

73] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

74] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

75] That which is easily done is soon believed

76] Numbers overcome the brave

77] A short cut is often a wrong cut

78] God sends cold after Clothes

79] As you sow, so shall you reap

80] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

81] The absent saint gets no candle

82] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

83] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

84] Extremity of right is wrong

85] Let sleeping dogs lie

86] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

87] Ambition loses many a man

88] He laughs best who laughs last

89] Novelty always appears handsome

90] It is not work that kills but worry

91] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

92] Wise men do not argue with idiots

93] Who greases his way travels easily

94] Every commodity has its discommodity

95] He would command must serve

96] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

97] Penny and penny laid up will be many

98] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

99] The belly carries the legs

100] A bow long bent at last waxes weak