Famous Proverbs

1] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

2] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

3] Will is the cause of woe

4] There is many a fair thing full false

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

6] Words are but wind

7] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

8] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

9] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

10] A good name is better than riches

11] You may know by a handful the whole sack

12] What everybody says must be true

13] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

14] Health and money go far

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

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

17] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

18] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

19] Take heed is a fair thing

20] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

21] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

22] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

23] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

24] There is death in the pot.

25] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

26] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

27] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

28] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

29] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

30] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

31] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

32] Marriage is a lottery

33] Much law but little justice

34] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

35] No convenience without its inconvenience

36] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

37] He who touches pitch will be defiled

38] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

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

40] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

41] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

42] Forgive and forget

43] Abundance, like want, ruins many

44] Like breeds like

45] Let like mate with like

46] As you bake, so shall you eat.

47] He that speaks not, God hears not

48] The dog that fetches, will carry.

49] No one betrays himself by silence

50] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

51] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

52] Death does not recognize strength

53] A man can do no more than he can

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

55] You cannot unscramble eggs

56] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

57] Patient waiters are no losers

58] Ill news comes unsent for.

59] One of these days is none of these days

60] Misery loves company.

61] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

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

63] Tempt not a desperate man

64] Every dog is a lion at home

65] Wedlock is padlock

66] A good paymaster needs no surety

67] A learned man has always riches in himself

68] Hungry bellies have no ears

69] The best things in life are free

70] Hard words break no bones

71] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

72] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

73] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

74] Many a true word is spoken in jest

75] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

76] Wise men do not argue with idiots

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

78] A good husband makes a good wife

79] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

80] None so busy as those who do nothing.

81] A friend in need is a friend indeed

82] Practice makes perfect

83] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

84] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

85] Failure teaches success

86] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

87] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

88] Every commodity has its discommodity

89] Let bygones be bygones

90] A miss is as good as a mile

91] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

92] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

93] Death alone can kill hope

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

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

96] Do unto others as they should do unto you

97] Wishes can never fill a sack

98] No man can serve two masters

99] Extremity of right is wrong

100] Every why has a wherefore