Famous Proverbs

1] God provides for him that trusts

2] Where there is no might, right loses itself

3] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

4] Crust is better than no bread

5] Nothing is given so freely as advice

6] Love me, love my dog

7] Truth is mighty and will prevail

8] He that speaks well, flights well

9] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

10] Truth conquers all things

11] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

12] In doing we learn.

13] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

14] A good Conscience is the best divinity

15] A miss is as good as a mile

16] One sheep follows another

17] Live and let live

18] That which is easily done is soon believed

19] Time flees without a delay

20] Bread is the staff of life.

21] A good dog deserves a good bone

22] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

23] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

24] Let like mate with like

25] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

26] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

27] There are spots even in the sun

28] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

29] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

30] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

31] One is not smelt where all stink

32] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

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

34] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

35] Every cloud has a silver lining

36] You win some, you lose some

37] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

38] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

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

40] Strike while the iron is hot

41] Those near the temple deride the gods

42] There is no redemption from hell

43] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

44] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

45] What’s in a name?

46] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

47] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

48] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

49] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

50] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

51] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

52] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

53] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

54] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

55] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

56] It takes two to make a quarrel

57] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

58] Every groom is a king at home

59] No garden without its weeds.

60] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

61] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

62] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

63] A door must be either shut or open

64] God’s lambs will play.

65] God sends cold after Clothes

66] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

67] Hitch your wagon to a star

68] Wiles help weak folk

69] Diamond cuts diamond

70] A change is as good as rest

71] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

72] Every medal has two sides

73] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

74] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

75] An honest good look covers many faults.

76] What’s done cannot be undone

77] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

78] Covetousness is the root of all evil

79] The Pen is mightier than the sword

80] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

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

82] Health without money is half an ague

83] He that eats least eats most

84] Blue are the far away hills

85] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

86] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

87] There are more men threatened than stricken

88] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

89] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

90] Every shoe fits not every foot

91] He that desires but little has no deed of much

92] Dying men speak true

93] Anything will fit a naked man.

94] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

95] We live laws, not by examples

96] Christmas comes but once a year

97] You cannot unscramble eggs

98] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

99] At a good bargain thinks twice

100] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic