Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

2] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

3] Better no doctor at all than three.

4] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

5] An army marches on its stomach

6] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

7] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

8] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

9] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

10] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

11] One potter envies another

12] Virtue joints man to god

13] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

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

15] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

16] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

17] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

18] A constant guest is never welcome

19] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

20] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

21] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

22] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

23] Prevention is better than cure

24] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

25] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

26] Truth has no need of rhetoric

27] God makes the back for the burden

28] The sun shines upon all alike.

29] Bad excuses are worse than none.

30] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

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

32] Experience is the best teacher

33] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

35] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

36] All heiresses are beautiful.

37] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

38] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

39] Everything comes to him who waits

40] Every groom is a king at home

41] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

42] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

43] Homer sometimes nods

44] Where there is peace, God is

45] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

46] Rip not up old sores

47] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

48] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

49] All’s well that ends well

50] A good wife makes a good husband

51] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

52] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

53] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

54] Nothing crave, nothing have

55] Hunger is the best sauce

56] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

57] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

58] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

59] Fool’s haste is no speed

60] Dying men speak true

61] No answer is also an answer

62] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

63] A prophet is without honour in his own country

64] Tempt not a desperate man

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

66] There is no fool like an old fool

67] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

68] Little by little and bit by bit.

69] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

70] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

71] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

72] Empty vessels make the most noise

73] Sweet are the uses of adversity

74] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

75] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

76] He that lives ill, fear follows him

77] He who sows, trusts in God

78] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

79] The weeds overgrow the corn.

80] All our pomp the earth covers

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

82] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

83] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

84] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

85] You know what you can do till you try.

86] Every law has a loophole

87] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

88] There is no place like home

89] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

90] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

91] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

92] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

93] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

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

95] Keep something for a rainy day

96] One is what one eats

97] None but the brave deserves the fair

98] One swallow does not make a summer

99] Little wealth, little care

100] The dog is a lion in his own house