Famous Proverbs

1] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

2] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

3] Crowns have cares

4] Patience is a plaster for all sores

5] Long looked for, comes at last

6] What is worse than ill luck?

7] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

8] Who greases his way travels easily

9] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

10] Years know more than books

11] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

12] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

13] The great fish eat up the small

14] Precepts may lead but examples draw

15] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

16] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

17] Keep something for a rainy day

18] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

19] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

20] Fair without, false within

21] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

22] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

23] The ass that brays most eats

24] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

25] What is word but wind?

26] Appetite comes with eating

27] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

28] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

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

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

31] Virtue has all things in itself

32] Health is not value till sickness comes

33] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

34] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

35] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

36] It is more pain to do nothing than something

37] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

38] He that will thrive must rise at five

39] Jesters do oft prove prophets

40] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

41] Too much curiosity lost paradise

42] Pleasing ware is half sold

43] One potter envies another

44] Don’t play with edged tools

45] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

46] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

47] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

48] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

49] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

50] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

51] Boys will be boys

52] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

53] High places have their precipices

54] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

55] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

56] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

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

58] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

59] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

60] If you would be well served, serve yourself

61] Money is the root of all evil

62] A door must be either shut or open

63] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

64] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

65] Necessity is a powerful weapon

66] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

67] Better beg than steal.

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

69] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

70] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

71] Mirth is the sugar of life

72] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

73] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

74] In peace, prepare for war

75] Failure teaches success

76] III counsel mars all

77] Weak things united become strong

78] Kill two birds with one stone

79] Words fly, writings remain

80] Every commodity has its discommodity

81] He that cannot ask, cannot live

82] He who never was sick dies the first fit

83] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

84] Idle folks lack no excuses

85] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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

87] He knows which side his bread is buttered

88] Distance lends enchantment to the view

89] Worse things happen at sea

90] The money you refuse will never do you good

91] No man limps because another is hurt

92] A good lawyer must be a great liar

93] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

94] Birds of a feather flock together

95] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

96] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

97] A good name is a rich heritage

98] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

99] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

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