Famous Proverbs

1] What has been, may be

2] Liars should have good memories

3] Wash your dirty linen at home

4] A miss is as good as a mile

5] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

6] You cannot unscramble eggs

7] Intimacy lessens fame

8] Fingers were made before forks

9] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

10] All cats are grey in the dark

11] Danger makes men devout

12] Men do more things through habit than reason

13] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

14] Much meat, much malady

15] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

16] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

17] Small is beautiful

18] A learned man has always riches in himself

19] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

20] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

21] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

22] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

23] Good fame is better than a good face

24] All men are mortal

25] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

26] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

27] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

28] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

29] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

30] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

32] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

33] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

34] He who touches pitch will be defiled

35] 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.

36] A door must be either shut or open

37] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

38] Wishes can never fill a sack

39] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

40] Waste not, want not

41] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

42] There is no fool like an old fool

43] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

44] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

45] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

46] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

47] What is money to a cat?

48] East or west, home is best

49] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

50] Anger managers everything badly.

51] Soft fire makes sweet malt

52] The best things carried to excess are wrong

53] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

54] No land without stones, or meat without bones

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

56] Better an open enemy than a false friend

57] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

58] Manners make the man

59] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

60] Silence gives (or means) consent

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

62] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

63] The end justifies the means

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

65] Like mistress, like maid

66] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

67] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

68] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

69] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

70] If you want peace, prepare for war

71] Even silence may be eloquent

72] No remedy but patience

73] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

74] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

75] Parents are patterns

76] The good intention excuses the bad action

77] The wisest of the wise may err.

78] Love is lawless.

79] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

80] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

81] Life is short and time is swift

82] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

83] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

84] What is new cannot be true

85] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

86] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

87] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

88] New meat begets a new appetite

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

90] Blood is thicker than water

91] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

92] A friend is easier lost than found

93] There is no time like the present

94] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

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

96] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

97] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

98] Bold men have generous hearts

99] Precept begins, examples accomplish

100] He thinks not well that thinks not again