Famous Proverbs

1] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

2] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

3] Diligence is the mother of good luck

4] Muck and money go together

5] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

6] Anger managers everything badly.

7] He that knows little often repeats it

8] Love is never without jealousy

9] Never spend your money before you have it

10] Take things as you find them

11] Look before you leap

12] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

13] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

14] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

15] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

16] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

17] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

18] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

19] Big words seldom go with good deeds

20] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

21] Better unborn than untaught

22] He who demands does not command

23] No man limps because another is hurt

24] Love can find a way

25] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

26] Poor men’s words have little weight

27] He has not lost all who has one cast left

28] No road is long with good company

29] A man of courage never wants weapons

30] He gives twice who gives quickly

31] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

32] He has not lost all who has one cast left

33] Call no man happy till he is dead

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

35] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

36] All is fair in love and war

37] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

38] Silence is golden

39] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

40] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

41] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

42] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

43] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

44] What’s in a name?

45] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

46] No answer is also an answer

47] There is no garden without its weeds

48] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

49] Gossiping and lying go together

50] The rich knows not who is his friend

51] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

52] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

53] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

54] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

55] Delays are not denials

56] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

57] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

58] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

59] A good tongue is a good weapon

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

61] They also serve who only stand and wait

62] Paddle your own canoe

63] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

64] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

65] In everything consider the end

66] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

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

68] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

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

70] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

71] Better an apple given than eaten

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

73] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

74] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

75] What is money to a cat?

76] Weak things united become strong

77] A true man and a thief think not the same

78] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

79] You cannot serve God and Mammon

80] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

81] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

82] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

83] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

84] God sends cold after Clothes

85] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

86] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

87] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

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

89] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

90] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

91] Home is home though it be never so homely

92] Borrowed garments never fit well

93] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

94] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

95] Fair without, false within

96] The slowest barker is the surest biter

97] A little is better than none

98] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

99] Life is short and time is swift

100] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better