Famous Proverbs

1] Small is beautiful

2] The game is not worth the candle

3] Man proposes, God disposes

4] The thing which is rare is dear

5] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

6] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

7] Let the buyer beware

8] Keep some till further more come

9] Love will find a way

10] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

11] Never grieve for what you cannot help

12] The ass that brays most eats

13] Too much hope deceives

14] He gives twice who gives quickly

15] Desires are nourished by delays

16] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

17] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

18] Fine words dress ill deeds

19] Better unborn than untaught

20] If you have known one, you have known them all

21] Pursuits become habits

22] We have all been once in our life

23] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

24] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

25] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

26] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

27] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

28] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

29] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

30] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

31] When the cat is away, the mice will play

32] A good name is better than riches

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

34] Change of pasture makes fat calves

35] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

36] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

37] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

38] Nature is content with little.

39] Keep some till further more come

40] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

41] Asking costs little

42] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

43] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

44] Never too late to learn

45] No honest man ever repented his honesty

46] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

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

48] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

49] Every light has its shadow

50] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

51] Spend and be free, but make no waste

52] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

53] The mob tramples on the coward

54] Better the foot slip than the tongue

55] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

56] The best of friends must part

57] He that is down need fear no fall

58] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

59] Much learning makes men mad

60] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

61] Suffering does not manifest itself

62] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

63] Mirth is the sugar of life

64] Custom makes all things easy

65] Open confession is good for the soul

66] Every advantage has its disadvantage

67] Good counsel never comes amiss

68] Give credit where credit is due

69] The last suitor wins the maid

70] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

71] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

72] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

73] Never hit a man when he’s down

74] Haste makes waste

75] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

76] The weakest goes to the wall

77] No garden without its weeds.

78] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

79] Truth is god’s daughter

80] A crust is better than no bread.

81] Man proposes, God disposes

82] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

83] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

84] A healthy man is a successful man

85] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

86] The faulty stands on his guard

87] Still waters run deep

88] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

89] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

90] Small is beautiful

91] A traveller may lie with authority

92] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

93] Sickness shows us what we are

94] Ill gotten, ill spent

95] Better a bare foot than none

96] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

97] Many a little makes a mickle

98] A true friend is forever a friend

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

100] The thread breaks where it is weakest