Famous Proverbs

1] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

2] Good ware makes quick market

3] Extremes are dangerous

4] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

5] Adam’s ale is the best brew

6] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

7] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

8] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

9] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

10] Better be safe than sorry

11] New meat begets a new appetite

12] Beware of him who makes thee presents

13] He that has no shame has no conscience

14] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

15] None but the brave deserves the fair

16] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

17] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

18] He who never was sick dies the first fit

19] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

20] Nature does nothing in vain

21] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

22] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

23] There are two sides to every question

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

25] One hand washes the other

26] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

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

28] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

29] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

30] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

31] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

32] See which way the cat jumps

33] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

34] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

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

36] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

37] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

38] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

39] Time flees without a delay

40] Don’t cry before you are hurt

41] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

42] Take the tone of the company you are in

43] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

44] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

45] Better an apple given than eaten

46] Hunger is sharper than the sword

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

48] A good conscience is a constant feast

49] Custom reconciles us to everything

50] Men are not angles

51] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

52] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

53] What is deferred is not abandoned

54] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

55] He that promises too much means nothing

56] Care is no cure

57] Good words are worth much and cost little

58] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

59] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

60] All that glitters is not gold

61] A fault confessed is half redressed

62] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

63] A good example is the best sermon

64] Don’t meet trouble half-way

65] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

66] Waste is not grandeur

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

68] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

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

70] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

71] A healthy man is a successful man

72] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

73] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

74] He that pities another remembers himself

75] What must be must be

76] A good wife makes a good husband

77] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

78] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

79] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

80] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

81] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

82] A good name is a rich heritage

83] Hope is the poor man’s bread

84] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

85] In peace, prepare for war

86] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

87] Love cannot be compelled

88] It is good fishing in troubled waters

89] What will not money do?

90] Dumb men get no lands

91] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

92] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

93] Of a new prince, new bondage

94] Much babbling is not without offence

95] No choice amongst stinking fish

96] You never know what you can do till you try

97] White there’s life there’s hope

98] He gives twice who gives quickly

99] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

100] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise