Famous Proverbs

1] Ambition makes people diligent

2] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

3] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

4] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

5] Ill luck is good for something

6] Children and chickens must be always picking

7] He that promises too much means nothing

8] Let us do evil that good may come

9] Pardon makes offenders

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

11] Love is lawless.

12] Error cannot be defended but by error

13] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

14] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

15] A man’s mother is his other God

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

17] III luck is good for something

18] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

19] Experience must be bought

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

21] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

22] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

23] Every law has a loophole

24] All roads lead to Rome

25] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

26] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

27] A wicked man is his own hell

28] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

29] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

30] The cobbler should stick to his last

31] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

32] A soft answer turns away wrath

33] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

34] It is too late to husband when all is spent

35] Love conquers all

36] His own ingenuity pricks him.

37] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

38] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

39] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

40] Waste not, want not

41] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

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

43] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

44] Nature will have her course

45] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

46] One today is worth two tomorrows

47] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

48] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

49] Man cannot live by bread alone

50] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

51] A crowd is not company

52] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

53] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

54] Comparisons are odious

55] Money has no smell

56] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

57] Fair without, false within

58] True gold is not transformed by fire

59] A good word stills great anger

60] He who serves is not free

61] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

62] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

63] While there is life, there is hope

64] There is none misfortune cannot reach

65] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

66] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

67] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

68] See how the wind blows

69] One must be a servant before one can be a master

70] There are more men threatened than stricken

71] Double charge will rive a cannon

72] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

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

74] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

75] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

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

77] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

78] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

79] What’s in a name?

80] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

81] Life begins only in success

82] No man fears what he has seen grow

83] The mean is the best

84] Poor men’s words have little weight

85] The best things come in small packages

86] Divide and rule

87] It is a great victory that comes without blood

88] It is a great victory that comes without blood

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

90] Might knows no right

91] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

92] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

93] Spend and be free, but make no waste

94] Better no doctor at all than three.

95] Cowards die many times before their deaths

96] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

97] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

98] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

99] He that knows little often repeats it

100] Coming events cast their shadows before