Famous Proverbs

1] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

2] Double charge will rive a cannon

3] Everyone to his taste

4] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

5] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

6] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

7] Love me, love my dog

8] All truths are not to be told

9] The darkest place is under the candlestick

10] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

11] Care is no cure

12] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

13] Ill news comes apace.

14] Example, is better than precept

15] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

16] Master easy, servant slack

17] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

18] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

19] The fox may grow grey, but never good

20] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

21] The goat must browse where she is tied

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

23] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

24] Health is better than wealth

25] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

26] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

27] Lend your money and lose a friend

28] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

29] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

30] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

31] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

32] Patience surpasses learning

33] A still tongue makes a wise head

34] Delays are not denials

35] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

36] The race is got by running

37] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

38] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

39] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

40] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

41] One is not smelt where all stink

42] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

43] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

44] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

45] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

46] Danger makes men devout

47] Suffering does not manifest itself

48] The tide must be taken when it comes

49] What is deferred is not abandoned

50] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

51] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

52] What has been, may be

53] Garbage in, garbage out

54] Set a thief to catch a thief

55] Fine words dress ill deeds

56] Delay is the antidote of anger

57] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

58] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

59] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

60] The sun shines upon all alike.

61] One man’s loss is another’s gain

62] In the end, things will mend

63] No news is good news

64] Money has no smell

65] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

66] Poor folk fare the best

67] A penny saved is a penny gained

68] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

69] He that can stay. Obtains

70] Better to be safe than sorry.

71] He who excuses himself accuses himself

72] A beggar can never be bankrupt

73] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

74] A good conscience is a soft pillow

75] Forecast is better than work-hard

76] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

77] A parrot will only say what it is taught

78] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

79] History repeats itself

80] A good marksman may miss

81] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

82] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

83] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

84] The thread breaks where it is weakest

85] Children learn to creep ere they can go

86] He who hesitates is lost

87] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

88] One swallow does not make a summer

89] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

90] Idleness is the root of all evil

91] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

92] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

93] Crows are all completely black

94] A great city, a great solitude

95] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

96] A good paymaster never wants workmen

97] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

98] Eat to live and not live to eat.

99] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

100] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own