Famous Proverbs

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

2] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

3] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

4] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

5] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

6] What is money to a cat?

7] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

8] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

9] Better be born lucky than wise.

10] Never buy a pig in a poke

11] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

12] The end crowns the work.

13] The fox may grow grey, but never good

14] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

15] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

16] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

17] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

18] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

19] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

20] The falling drops hollow the stone

21] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

22] What is the mother of industry

23] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

24] Numbers overcome the brave

25] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

26] The value of money is having it.

27] One potter envies another

28] There is no smoke without fire

29] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

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

31] A parrot will only say what it is taught

32] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

33] Between two stools you fall to the ground

34] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

35] All things are easy, that are done willingly

36] Every dog is a lion at home

37] Call a spade a spade

38] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

39] A good payer is master of another’s purse

40] The fairest flowers soonest fade

41] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

42] One may change the place but not the mind.

43] Waste makes wants

44] Work smart; don’t work hard

45] Never spur a willing horse

46] Take the will for the deed

47] God arms the harmless

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

49] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

50] We soon believe what we desire

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

52] Have two strings to your bow

53] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

54] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

55] All things for not all persons

56] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

57] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

58] Change of pasture makes fat calves

59] Manners make the man

60] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

61] Master easy, servant slack

62] Art improves Nature

63] An old dog barks not in vain

64] The end crowns the work.

65] All things are possible with god

66] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

67] Success has many friends

68] No flying without wings.

69] Do right and fear no man

70] Good ware makes quick market

71] All roads lead to Rome

72] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

73] Where there is whispering there is lying

74] He who owes is in all the wrong

75] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

76] Six feet of earth make all men equal

77] Ready money is a ready remedy

78] Homo is a common name to all men.

79] Truth conquers all things

80] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

81] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

82] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

83] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

84] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

85] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

86] No one betrays himself by silence

87] Honest is the best policy

88] The bait hides the hook

89] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

90] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

91] A good name is a rich heritage

92] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

93] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

94] You can’t win them all

95] Least said, soonest mended

96] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

97] Gluttony kills more than the sword

98] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

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

100] True gold is not transformed by fire