Famous Proverbs

1] He gives twice who gives quickly

2] Money is the root of all evil

3] Patient men with the day.

4] He that can stay. Obtains

5] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

6] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

7] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

8] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

9] He that eats well should do his duty well

10] After a storm comes a calm

11] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

12] First come, first served

13] If one will not, another will

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

15] He would command must serve

16] No convenience without its inconvenience

17] The fox may grow grey, but never good

18] One foot is better than two crutches

19] Money is the only monarch

20] Be still and have thy will

21] Cheap is dear in the long run.

22] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

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

24] Never refuse a good offer

25] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

26] An empty sack cannot stand upright

27] The longest journey starts with a single step

28] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

29] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

30] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

31] Blood will have blood

32] A goose drinks as much as gander

33] Better to be safe than sorry.

34] A wicked man is his own hell

35] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

36] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

37] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

38] Beggars must not be choosers

39] Poverty is no sin

40] Gluttony kills more than the sword

41] Well done is better than well said

42] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

43] Tell a lie and stick to it.

44] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

45] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

46] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

47] They also serve who only stand and wait

48] It is the first step that is troublesome

49] There are more men threatened than stricken

50] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

51] The best things in life are free

52] Every dog has his (its) day

53] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

54] The hole calls the thief

55] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

56] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

57] The best go first

58] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

59] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

60] It is all in the day’s work

61] There are more men threatened than stricken

62] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

63] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

64] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

65] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

66] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

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

68] Nature surpasses art

69] Ambition loses many a man

70] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

71] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

72] III luck is good for something

73] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

74] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

75] Needs must when the evil drives

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

77] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

78] Hitch your wagon to a star

79] New things are fair

80] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

81] Woes unite foes

82] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

83] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

84] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

85] Love is without reason

86] Small is beautiful

87] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

89] What has been, may be

90] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

91] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

92] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

93] Train the child in the way he should go.

94] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

95] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

96] Great trees keep down the little ones

97] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

98] Money is the root of all evil

99] Well begun is half done.

100] You win some, you lose some