Famous Proverbs

1] Much law but little justice

2] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

3] To err is human

4] Life begins only in success

5] Of two evils choose the lesser

6] Idleness is the root of all evil

7] What’s done is done

8] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

9] Bold men have generous hearts

10] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

11] No misfortune will go on forever

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

13] He knows the water best who has waded through it

14] All things that great men do are well done

15] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

16] Danger makes men devout

17] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

18] Don’t put the cart before the horse

19] When bees area old, they yield n honey

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

21] Wine is the best broom for trouble

22] Never grieve for what you cannot help

23] All griefs with bread are less

24] Never spend your money before you have it

25] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

26] One cannot love and be wise

27] The absent party is always to blame.

28] He who teaches learns

29] Look at the bright side

30] Curiosity killed the cat.

31] Bare walls make giddy housewives

32] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

33] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

34] Marriages are made in heaven

35] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

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

37] Truth conquers all things

38] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

39] Many eyes upon the king

40] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

41] Man punishes the action but God the intention

42] Every shoe fits not every foot

43] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

44] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

45] Every man has his price

46] The more wicked, the more lucky

47] A friend is easier lost than found

48] That which proves too much proves nothing

49] The love of money is the root of all evil

50] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

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

52] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

53] He that is absent is soon forgotten

54] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

55] Words cut more than swords

56] As long lives a merry man as a sad

57] Step by step the ladder is ascended

58] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

59] He who comes first, grinds first.

60] Everything comes to him who waits

61] A soft answer turns away wrath

62] Waste makes wants

63] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

64] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

65] Black will take no other hue

66] What is money to a cat?

67] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

68] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

69] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

70] The poor suffer all the wrong

71] Mirth is the sugar of life

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

73] Fish begins to stink at the head

74] Set a thief to catch a thief

75] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

76] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

77] Dumb men get no lands

78] The dog that fetches, will carry.

79] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

80] The weakest goes to the wall

81] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

82] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

83] He that will thrive must rise at five

84] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

85] Learn to walk before you run

86] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

87] Long life has long misery

88] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

89] A prophet is without honour in his own country

90] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

91] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

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

93] Curiosity killed the cat.

94] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

95] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

96] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

97] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

98] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

99] It is all in the day’s work

100] God’s help is better than the early rising