Famous Proverbs

1] One foot is better than two crutches

2] The result justifies the deed

3] When meat is in anger is out

4] Time and tide wait for no man

5] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

6] Morning dreams come true

7] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

8] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

9] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

10] Laws were made to be broke

11] Affection blinds reason

12] Business is business

13] It is too late to call back yesterday

14] While there is life, there is hope

15] The mean is the best

16] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

17] Take the will for the deed

18] The longest way round is the shortest way home

19] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

20] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

21] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

22] Threatened folk live long

23] Ill gotten, ill spent

24] Time lost cannot be recalled

25] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

26] A word spoken is past recalling

27] Sweet are the uses of adversity

28] Covetousness breaks the sack

29] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

30] Actions speak louder than words

31] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

32] To err is human

33] A rich man’s joke is always funny

34] An old man is a bed full of bones

35] One man’s means another man’s poison

36] Thrift is a great revenue

37] You must grin and bear it

38] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

39] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

40] Money is the root of all evil

41] Each day brings its own bread

42] New meat begets a new appetite

43] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

44] Lookers-on see most of the game

45] None can guess the jewel by the casket

46] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

47] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

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

49] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

50] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

51] He that pities another remembers himself

52] Liars should have good memories

53] III luck is good for something

54] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

55] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

56] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

57] A joke’s a very serious thing

58] Care brings grey hair.

59] Things are only worth one makes them worth

60] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

61] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

62] Alms never make poor

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

64] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

65] Bad luck often brings good luck

66] Even silence may be eloquent

67] An old horse knows the route

68] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

69] None but the brave deserves the fair

70] Honest is the best policy

71] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

72] Coming events cast their shadows before

73] Comparisons are odious

74] Nature is the true law

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

76] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

77] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

78] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

79] There is no time like the present

80] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

81] The owl thinks her own young fairest

82] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

83] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

84] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

85] Little and often fills the purse

86] The thread breaks where it is weakest

87] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

88] There is a black sheep in every flock

89] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

90] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

91] Remember, you are but a man

92] Evil to him who evil thinks.

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

94] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

95] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

96] Vice makes virtue shine

97] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

98] None so deaf as those that will not hear

99] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

100] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards