Famous Proverbs

1] Little things are pretty

2] What will not money do?

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

4] No sweet without sweat

5] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

6] Still waters run deep

7] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

8] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

9] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

10] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

11] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

12] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

13] It is too late to look up after you have collided

14] Money isn’t everything

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

16] God sends cold after Clothes

17] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

18] Valour delights in the test

19] There is no redemption from hell

20] Possibilities are infinite

21] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

22] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

23] Let not your tongue run at rover

24] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

25] Truth has no need of rhetoric

26] A short cut is often a wrong cut

27] All lay loads on a willing horse

28] A watched pot never boils

29] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

30] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

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

32] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

33] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

34] Saying is one thing, and doing another

35] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

36] A word before is worth two behind

37] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

38] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

39] The hand that gives, gathers

40] Creditors have better memories than debtors

41] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

42] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

43] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

44] He who envies admits his inferiority

45] Better bend than break

46] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

47] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

48] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

49] The grace of God enough

50] A bully is always a coward

51] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

52] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

53] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

54] Men do more things through habit than reason

55] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

56] III luck is good for something

57] Great hopes make great men

58] See how the wind blows

59] Forewarned is forearmed

60] Dying is as natural as living

61] First impressions are most lasting

62] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

63] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

64] Many drops make a shower

65] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

66] Share and share alike

67] A healthy man is a successful man

68] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

69] Example, is better than precept

70] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

71] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

72] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

73] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

74] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

75] Fortune favours fools

76] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

77] Often and little eating makes a man fat

78] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

79] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

80] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

81] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

82] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

83] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

84] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

85] A soft answer turns away wrath

86] Good wine needs no bush

87] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

88] Everything new is fine

89] Virtue joints man to god

90] There’s a time and place for everything

91] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

92] A fool always rushes to the fore.

93] Never refuse a good offer

94] Danger makes men devout

95] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

96] Slow but sure wins the race

97] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

98] Grief pent up will break the heart

99] He that pities another remembers himself

100] Faint heart never won fair lady