Famous Proverbs

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

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

3] If you have known one, you have known them all

4] It is good to follow the old fox

5] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

6] Youth will have its course.

7] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

8] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

9] Take heed is a fair thing

10] Little pitchers have big ears.

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

12] Soon gotten, soon spent

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

14] In fair weather prepare for foul

15] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

16] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

17] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

18] We have all been once in our life

19] A single rose does not mean spring

20] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

21] The day obliterates the promise of the might

22] Better no doctor at all than three.

23] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

24] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

25] The receiver is as bad as the thief

26] Findings are keepings

27] Old cattle breed not

28] A man’s mother is his other God

29] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

30] All good things must come to an end

31] Well done is better than well said

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

33] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

34] A cat has nine lives

35] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

36] Soft fire makes sweet malt

37] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

38] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

39] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

40] Patience is a virtue

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

42] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

43] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

44] They brag most who can do least

45] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

46] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

47] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

48] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

49] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

50] A true friend is forever a friend

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

52] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

53] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

54] None can guess the jewel by the casket

55] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

56] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

57] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

58] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

59] What must be must be

60] Beware of no man more than himself

61] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

62] Open a book and you profit by what you read

63] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

64] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

65] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

66] Save your breath to cool the porridge

67] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

68] It’s a long lane that has no turning

69] Tigers and deer do not over.

70] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

71] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

72] He is lifeless that is faultless

73] Even Homer sometimes nods

74] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

75] Patience surpasses learning

76] Better never begin than never make an end

77] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

78] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

79] All men are mortal

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

81] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

82] The best go first

83] Erring is not heating

84] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

85] An old fox is not easily snared

86] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

87] The tongue stings

88] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

89] He who comes first, grinds first.

90] Every man to his trade.

91] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

92] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

93] A closed mouth catches no files

94] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

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

96] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

97] The last suitor wins the maid

98] Many hands make light work

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

100] Nothing comes from nothing