Famous Proverbs

1] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

2] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

3] The early man ever borrows from the late man

4] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

5] Better the last smile than the first laugh

6] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

7] Crust is better than no bread

8] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

9] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

10] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

11] A door must be either shut or open

12] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

13] A watched pot never boils

14] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

15] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

16] A fool always rushes to the fore.

17] No man limps because another is hurt

18] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

19] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

20] 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

21] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

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

23] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

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

26] Like father, like son

27] Manners make the man

28] It is ill striving against the stream

29] One master in a house is enough

30] Like will to like

31] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

32] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

33] The devil knows many things because he is old

34] Idle folks lack no excuses

35] The best things come in small packages

36] In my own house, I am king

37] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

38] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

39] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

40] He laughs best who laughs last

41] The end makes all equal

42] A good garden may have some ill weeds

43] The course of true love never did run smooth

44] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

45] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

46] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

47] He that knows little often repeats it

48] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

49] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

50] Erring is not heating

51] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

52] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

53] Good counsel never comes amiss

54] Care brings grey hair.

55] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

56] First creep, then walk

57] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

58] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

59] The good die young.

60] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

61] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

62] He that speaks well, flights well

63] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

64] Love can find a way

65] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

66] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

67] III luck is good for something

68] The wisest of the wise may err.

69] Necessity knows no law

70] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

71] Friendship should not be all on one

72] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

73] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

74] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

75] Sooner begun, sooner done

76] Delays are not denials

77] True gold is not transformed by fire

78] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

79] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

80] Old foxes want no tutors

81] Vice makes virtue shine

82] What’s done cannot be undone

83] None can guess the jewel by the casket

84] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

85] Might is right

86] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

87] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

88] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

89] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

90] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

91] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

92] The last drop makes the cup run over

93] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

94] Good is good but better carries it

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

96] No cross, no crown

97] A little learning is dangerous thing

98] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

99] A good conscience is a soft pillow

100] We soon believe what we desire