Famous Proverbs

1] Everything must have a beginning

2] He that has plenty of goods will have more

3] Without diligence, no prize

4] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

5] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

6] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

7] While there is life, there is hope

8] No misfortune will go on forever

9] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

10] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

11] Better be alone than in bad company

12] An old fox is not easily snared

13] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

14] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

15] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

16] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

17] Health is great riches

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

19] True doctrines require no miracles

20] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

21] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

22] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

23] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

24] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

25] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

26] One must be a servant before one can be a master

27] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

28] Vice makes virtue shine

29] Better learn late than never

30] He that is born a fool is never cured

31] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

32] A hedge between keeps friendship green

33] Full of courtesy, full of craft

34] Quickly come, quickly go

35] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

36] 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

37] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

38] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

39] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

40] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

41] Children and fools have merry lives

42] Bind the sack before it be full

43] Wisdom is better than strength

44] Where god will help, nothing does harm

45] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

46] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

47] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

48] Great talkers are never great doers

49] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

50] Wine is the best broom for trouble

51] A still tongue makes a wise head

52] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

53] If today will not, tomorrow may

54] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

55] Don’t try to run before you walk

56] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

57] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

58] Covetousness is the root of all evil

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

60] Garbage in, garbage out

61] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

62] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

63] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

64] A single rose does not mean spring

65] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

66] Dead men tell no tales

67] Look before you leap

68] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

69] Experience is the best teacher

70] Every man must carry his own cross

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

72] If you would be well served, serve yourself

73] Well begun is half done.

74] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

75] Live and Learn

76] Learn to walk before you run

77] To err is human

78] Never say die

79] Hunger is the teacher of many

80] Never refuse a good offer

81] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

82] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

83] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

84] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

85] Better be a fool than a knave

86] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

87] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

88] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

89] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

90] The first blow is half the battle

91] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

92] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

93] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

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

95] Good ware makes quick market

96] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

97] The beaten road is the safest

98] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

99] Time and tide wait for no man

100] Envy eats nothing but it own heart