Famous Proverbs

1] Do right and fear no man

2] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

3] The grace of God enough

4] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

5] Take things as you find them

6] Opportunity makes the thief

7] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

8] Men make houses, women make homes

9] The devil knows many things because he is old

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

11] Misfortune makes foes of friends

12] Remember, you are but a man

13] Rats know the ways of rats

14] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

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

16] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

17] Give credit where credit is due

18] A bad workman always blames his tools

19] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

20] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

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

22] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

23] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

24] As you sow, so shall you reap

25] No tie can oblige the perfidious

26] Time and tide wait for no man

27] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

28] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

29] He who comes first, grinds first.

30] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

31] Wiles help weak folk

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

33] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

34] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

35] Better sit still than rise and fall

36] Work smart; don’t work hard

37] Sickness shows us what we are

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

39] Who suffers much is silent

40] When angry, count a hundred

41] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

42] A good name is sooner lost than won

43] If anything can go wrong, it will

44] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

45] Either mend or end

46] Danger makes men devout

47] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

48] Ill gotten, ill spent

49] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

50] What’s in a name?

51] Truth conquers all things

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

53] To err is human

54] In peace, prepare for war

55] A good conscience is a sure card

56] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

57] Delay is the antidote of anger

58] Old habits die hard

59] One good turn deserves another

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

61] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

62] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

63] A good husband makes a good wife

64] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

65] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

66] Do not limp before the lame

67] A good friend is my nearest relation

68] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

69] Open confession is good for the soul

70] Youth and age will never agree

71] So many countries, so many customs

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

73] The more you get, the more you want

74] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

75] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

76] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

77] Truth is mighty and will prevail

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

79] Don’t ride the high horse

80] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

81] A good conscience is a soft pillow

82] You win some, you lose some

83] The race is got by running

84] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

85] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

86] Nothing seek, nothing find

87] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

88] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

89] Men are known by the company they keep.

90] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

91] Either mend or end

92] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

93] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

94] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

95] Better at home than a mile from it

96] Better are small fish than an empty dish

97] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

98] Don’t meet trouble half-way

99] There is death in the pot.

100] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last