Famous Proverbs

1] Second thoughts are best

2] The absent saint gets no candle

3] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

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

5] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

6] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

7] The slowest barker is the surest biter

8] Excessive happiness produces pain

9] A man’s mother is his other God

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

11] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

12] Save your breath to cool the porridge

13] The race is got by running

14] He who pays the piper calls the tune

15] Extremity of right is wrong

16] The highest tree has the greatest fall

17] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

18] Poverty is no sin

19] A constant guest is never welcome

20] Learn to walk before you run

21] Many dishes make many diseases

22] The belly carries the legs

23] It is more blessed to give than to receive

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

25] It is easy to be wise after the event

26] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

27] No sweet without sweat

28] A willful man will have his way

29] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

30] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

31] Haste makes waste

32] Man proposes, God disposes

33] Too much curiosity lost paradise

34] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

35] What is the mother of industry

36] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

37] Men are not to be measured in inches

38] One can’t help many, but many can help one

39] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

40] He that has no shame has no conscience

41] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

42] He that speaks well, flights well

43] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

44] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

45] A penny saved is a penny gained

46] Water is the king of food

47] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

48] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

49] A good lather is half the shave

50] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

51] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

52] Everything comes to him who waits

53] Law makers should not be law breakers

54] First come, first served

55] Gold may be bought too dear

56] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

57] It is misery enough to have once been happy

58] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

59] Good counsel never comes amiss

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

61] Might is right

62] Riches along make no men happy

63] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

64] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

65] There is no time like the present

66] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

67] Cheap is dear in the long run.

68] Empty vessels make the most noise

69] Give a loan and buy quarrel

70] Talk much end err much

71] Cut your coat according to your cloth

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

73] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

74] A watched pot never boils

75] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

76] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

77] Pleasing ware is half sold

78] A hedge between keeps friendship green

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

80] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

81] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

82] You cannot make a crab walk straight

83] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

84] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

85] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

86] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

87] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

88] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

89] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

90] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

91] All things are easy, that are done willingly

92] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

93] A rolling stone gathers no moss

94] Nothing succeeds like success

95] The good die young.

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

97] Everything would fain live

98] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

99] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

100] The borrower is servant to the lender