Famous Proverbs

1] Every path has a puddle

2] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

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

4] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

5] Virtue has all things in itself

6] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

7] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

8] He who demands does not command

9] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

10] Laws were made to be broke

11] Youth will have its course.

12] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

13] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

14] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

15] The pot calls the kettle black

16] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

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

18] He who comes first, grinds first.

19] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

20] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

21] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

22] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

23] A jest breaks no bones

24] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

25] A beggar can never be bankrupt

26] Beauty draws more than oxen

27] Man punishes the action but God the intention

28] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

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

30] There is no place like home

31] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

32] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

33] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

34] Art improves Nature

35] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

36] Better learn late than never

37] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

38] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

39] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

40] Divide and rule

41] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

42] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

43] Birds once snared fear all bushes

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

45] Love me, love the crows on my roof

46] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

47] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

48] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

49] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

50] The hand that gives, gathers

51] They say so’ is half a lie

52] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

53] One master in a house is enough

54] Coming events cast their shadows before

55] Ill news comes unsent for.

56] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

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

58] One man sows and another reaps

59] Hitch your wagon to a star

60] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

61] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

62] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

63] You can’t win them all

64] Marriage makes or mars a man

65] Life is not all beer and skittles

66] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

67] Nature does nothing in vain

68] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

69] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

70] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

71] An old dog barks not in vain

72] Better late than never, but better never late

73] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

74] Of a new prince, new bondage

75] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

76] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

77] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

78] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

79] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

80] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

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

82] The ant had wings to her hurt

83] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

84] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

85] Let the buyer beware

86] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

87] Homo is a common name to all men.

88] No man is infallible

89] Charity begins at home.

90] Dirty water does not wash clean.

91] It is easy to be wise after the event

92] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

93] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

94] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

95] Will is the cause of woe

96] Who greases his way travels easily

97] Spend and be free, but make no waste

98] He who touches pitch will be defiled

99] Where god will help, nothing does harm

100] The loftiest towers rise from the ground