Famous Proverbs

1] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

2] God sends cold after Clothes

3] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

4] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

5] Anything will fit a naked man.

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

7] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

8] All things are easy, that are done willingly

9] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

10] Old cattle breed not

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

12] Travel broadens the mind

13] More have repented speech than silence

14] Never too late to learn

15] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

16] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

17] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

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

19] Learn to walk before you run

20] Rich folk have many friends

21] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

22] A heavy purse makes a light heart

23] A soft answer turns away wrath

24] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

25] The fairest flowers soonest fade

26] Ambition loses many a man

27] Where there is no trust there is no love

28] Patience is the remedy of the world

29] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

30] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

31] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

32] All’s fair in love and war

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

34] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

35] A hedge between keeps friendship green

36] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

37] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

38] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

39] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

40] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

41] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

42] Every man has his faults

43] Custom makes all things easy

44] Clothes do not make the man

45] Marriage is a lottery

46] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

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

48] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

49] All’s well that ends well

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

51] Long looked for, comes at last

52] None can guess the jewel by the casket

53] He travels the fastest who travels alone

54] Example is better than precept

55] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

56] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

57] There is no royal road to learning

58] It is a shame to be shameless

59] Dog does not eat dog

60] Double charge will rive a cannon

61] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

62] To teach is to learn twice over

63] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

64] The greatest step is that out of doors

65] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

66] Like father, like son

67] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

68] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

69] The fox may grow grey, but never good

70] The Pen is mightier than the sword

71] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

72] An old dog barks not in vain

73] The absent saint gets no candle

74] He that has plenty of goods will have more

75] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

76] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

77] Wrong has no warrant

78] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

79] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

80] A strong town is not won in an hour

81] No news is good news

82] To err is human

83] Soft fire makes sweet malt

84] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

85] Like will to like

86] Excessive happiness produces pain

87] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

88] No flying without wings.

89] Like will to like

90] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

91] Better belly burst than good meat lost

92] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

93] High places have their precipices

94] As you bake, so shall you eat.

95] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

96] There is nothing like being on the safe side

97] Beauty opens locked doors

98] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

99] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

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