Famous Proverbs

1] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

2] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

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

4] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

5] We soon believe what we desire

6] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

7] The young will sow their wild oats

8] It is easy to be wise after the event

9] He freezes who does not burn

10] Much law but little justice

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

12] No man so good but another may be as good as he

13] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

14] It is more blessed to give than to receive

15] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

16] Tell a lie and stick to it.

17] Every beginning is hard

18] Procrastination is the thief of time

19] He that has no shame has no conscience

20] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

21] Pleasant hours fly past

22] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

23] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

24] A bad excuse is better than none at all

25] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

26] Paddle your own canoe

27] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

28] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

29] If anything can go wrong, it will

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

31] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

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

33] Coming events cast their shadows before

34] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

35] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

36] Many a little makes a mickle

37] Nature will have her course

38] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

39] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

40] Dogs bark as they are bred.

41] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

42] Never say die

43] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

44] In doing we learn.

45] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

46] The course of true love never did run smooth

47] Bad news travels fast

48] The best things carried to excess are wrong

49] No man limps because another is hurt

50] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

51] A light purse makes a heavy heart

52] Years know more than books

53] The value of money is having it.

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

55] Names are debts

56] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

57] The end makes all equal

58] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

59] It takes two to make a quarrel

60] Loyalty is worth more than money

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

62] Great trees keep down the little ones

63] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

64] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

65] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

66] One sheep follows another

67] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

68] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

69] Advise none to marry or to go to war

70] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

71] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

72] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

73] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

74] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

75] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

76] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

77] Where there’s a will there’s a way

78] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

79] You are never too old to learn

80] The sign brings customers

81] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

82] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

83] It is a shame to be shameless

84] If you would be well served, serve yourself

85] God is always on the side of the big battalions

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

87] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

88] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

89] The longest journey starts with a single step

90] He conquers who endures

91] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

92] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

93] Who greases his way travels easily

94] It is a great victory that comes without blood

95] Hasty work, double work,

96] Marriage is a lottery

97] Waste is not grandeur

98] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

99] Love is never without jealousy

100] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend