Famous Proverbs

1] Variety is the spice of life

2] Patient waiters are no losers

3] Appearances are deceptive

4] Envy never enriched any man.

5] Health is great riches

6] Love is never without jealousy

7] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

8] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

9] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

10] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

11] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

12] The hole calls the thief

13] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

14] You never know your luck

15] Repentance is a bitter physic

16] Spread the table, and contention will cease

17] They also serve who only stand and wait

18] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

19] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

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

21] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

22] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

23] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

24] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

25] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

26] You cannot have it both ways

27] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

28] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

29] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

30] It is too late to call back yesterday

31] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

32] He who teaches learns

33] Things past cannot be recalled

34] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

35] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

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

37] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

38] Silence gives (or means) consent

39] A man without a wife is but half a man

40] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

41] Variety takes away satiety

42] The best wine comes from an old vessel

43] Everything in moderation.

44] The darkest place is under the candlestick

45] The dog is a lion in his own house

46] Spare the rod and spoil the child

47] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

48] He that pities another remembers himself

49] The value of money is having it.

50] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

51] First impressions are most lasting

52] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

53] The devil looks after his own

54] Every commodity has its discommodity

55] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

56] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

57] Small is beautiful

58] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

59] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

60] East or west, home is best

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

62] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

63] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

64] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

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

66] Learn to walk before you run

67] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

68] Like father, like son

69] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

70] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

71] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

72] The king can do no wrong

73] What will not money do?

74] If you play with fire you get burnt

75] Garbage in, garbage out

76] Every man to his trade.

77] Needs must when the devil drives

78] What cannot gold do?

79] Good is good but better carries it

80] Better at home than a mile from it

81] The ant had wings to her hurt

82] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

83] Haste is of (or from) the devil

84] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

85] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

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

87] No man is born wise or learned

88] Every shoe fits not every foot

89] No flying without wings.

90] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

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

92] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

93] It is ill striving against the stream

94] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

95] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

96] A good friend is my nearest relation

97] Gifts blind the eyes.

98] Of evil manners, spring good laws

99] Great trees keep down the little ones

100] Praise is always pleasant