Famous Proverbs

1] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

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

3] Better be a fool than a knave

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

5] Every light has its shadow

6] Money is the sinew of affairs

7] Slow help is no help

8] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

9] No man is infallible

10] An old man is a bed full of bones

11] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

12] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

13] Friendship should not be all on one

14] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

15] Ill luck is good for something

16] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

17] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

18] White there’s life there’s hope

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

20] Manners make the man

21] Every man has his faults

22] Do not wear out your welcome

23] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

24] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

25] Liars should have good memories

26] Do as I say, not as I do

27] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

28] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

29] Everyone to his taste

30] There is no place like home

31] He conquers who endures

32] Big words seldom go with good deeds

33] A man can die but once

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

35] A man can do no more than he can

36] When you do not know what to do – wait.

37] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

38] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

39] What everybody says must be true

40] We live by laws, not by examples

41] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

42] First try and then trust

43] All’s fish that comes to the net

44] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

45] Make the best of a bad job

46] Slow and steady wins the race

47] Dead men tell no tales

48] The poor suffer all the wrong

49] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

50] A joke’s a very serious thing

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

52] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

53] A fool and his money are soon parted

54] So many men, so many opinions

55] Six feet of earth make all men equal

56] Light burden I heavy if far borne

57] Put not the bucket too often in the well

58] He who pays the piper calls the tune

59] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

60] Gossiping and lying go together

61] A hungry man smells meat afar off

62] The mob tramples on the coward

63] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

64] You can’t clap with one hand

65] Silence gives (or means) consent

66] Danger makes men devout

67] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

68] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

69] Remember, you are but a man

70] Patience is a virtue

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

72] The devil lurks behind the cross

73] Forgive and forget

74] Life is short and time is swift

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

76] Death alone can kill hope

77] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

78] Do not wear out your welcome

79] He that lives ill, fear follows him

80] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

81] The mob tramples on the coward

82] Change brings life

83] He laughs best who laughs last

84] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

85] Fair exchange is no robbery

86] They that dance must pay the fiddler

87] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

88] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

89] A good name is better than a golden girdle

90] Patience is the remedy of the world

91] He that praises himself, spatters himself

92] One of these days is none of these days

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

94] None so busy as those who do nothing.

95] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

96] Safety lies in the middle course

97] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

98] The fox may grow grey, but never good

99] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

100] Poverty parts friendship