Famous Proverbs

1] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

2] Weeds need no sowing

3] Everything in moderation.

4] A bribe will enter without knocking

5] Man does what he can, and God what he will

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

7] Penny wise, pound foolish

8] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

9] When meat is in anger is out

10] Too many cooks spoil the broth

11] Wake not a sleeping lion

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

13] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

14] The garment worn determines how one is served

15] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

16] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

17] Help a lame dog over a stile

18] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

19] Judge not the tree by its bark

20] It is too late to look up after you have collided

21] Take away fuel, take away flame

22] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

23] It is useless to flog a dead horse

24] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

25] One lie makes many

26] The young will sow their wild oats

27] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

28] An evil life is a kind of death.

29] What is worse than ill luck?

30] Art improves Nature

31] Hunger is sharper than the sword

32] Great trees keep down the little ones

33] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

34] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

35] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

36] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

37] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

38] One barber shaves another gratis

39] A fool believes everything

40] Lucky men need no counsel

41] He that sows virtue reaps fame

42] Threatened folk live long

43] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

44] One cannot love and be wise

45] The goat must browse where she is tied

46] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

47] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

48] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

49] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

50] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

51] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

52] A soft answer turns away wrath

53] There are more ways to the wood than one.

54] A wicked man is his own hell

55] Homo is a common name to all men.

56] The more wicked, the more lucky

57] Give credit where credit is due

58] Lucky men need no counsel

59] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

60] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

61] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

62] Six feet of earth make all men equal

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

64] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

65] Every groom is a king at home

66] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

67] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

68] He conquers who endures

69] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

70] Safety lies in the middle course

71] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

72] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

73] All cats are grey in the dark

74] An obedient wife commands her husband

75] A good wife is a good prize

76] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

77] What’s done cannot be undone

78] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

79] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

80] You cannot make bricks without straw

81] Judge not of men and things at first sight

82] Love is sweet torment

83] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

84] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

85] An egg thief will become a camel thief

86] Strike while the iron is hot

87] He travels the fastest who travels alone

88] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

89] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

90] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

91] Long looked for, comes at last

92] The bull must be taken by the horns

93] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

94] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

95] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

96] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

97] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

98] Good to begin well, better to end well.

99] A closed mouth catches no files

100] God’s lambs will play.