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Famous Proverbs

1] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.
2] The devil finds work for idle hands to do
3] There is no blindness like ignorance
4] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.
5] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue
6] It takes all sorts to make a world
7] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled
8] Fine feathers make fine birds.
9] A beggar can never be bankrupt
10] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.
11] Hope often deludes the foolish man
12] You can’t take it with you when you die
13] Lose a leg rather than a life
14] In wine there is truth
15] Take heed is a fair thing
16] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.
17] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait
18] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions
19] Cast not the first stone.
20] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
21] How forceful are right words
22] A clear conscience fears not false accusations
23] Ambition makes people diligent
24] Keep something for a rainy day
25] What must be must be
26] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still
27] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war
28] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea
29] The ass that brays most eats
30] He who wills the end, Wills the means
31] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men
32] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it
33] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.
34] Cut your coat according to your cloth
35] The higher you climb, the harder you fall
36] There’s no fence against ill fortune.
37] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery
38] Every path has a puddle
39] Precept begins, examples accomplish
40] Judge not, that ye be not judged
41] Appetite comes with eating
42] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor
43] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir
44] A good horse cannot wear two saddles
45] Do as I say, not as I do
46] Virtue carries a lean purse
47] It is ill striving against the stream
48] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty
49] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.
50] When fortune smiles, embrace her.
51] Ill – gotten goods never prosper
52] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.
53] The borrower is servant to the lender
54] No convenience without its inconvenience
55] A loveless life is a living death
56] Better a bare foot than none
57] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache
58] Parents are patterns
59] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.
60] Quietness is a great treasure
61] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age
62] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?
63] Fortune is blind
64] Half a loaf is better than do bread
65] Anything will fit a naked man.
66] What the king wills, that the law wills
67] An ass must be tied where the master will have him
68] The tailor makes the man
69] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.
70] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.
71] Acorns were good till bread was found
72] Waste is not grandeur
73] Love turns pimples
74] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French
75] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
76] Mercy surpasses justice
77] Alms never make poor
78] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never
79] A single rose does not mean spring
80] Who greases his way travels easily
81] Care killed the cat
82] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)
83] No man is wise at all times
84] As long lives a merry man as a sad
85] Envy is the sorrow of fools.
86] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets
87] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.
88] Blood cannot be washed out with blood
89] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence
90] Little by little and bit by bit.
91] Little things please little minds
92] Wise men propose, and fools determine
93] Fools grow without watering.
94] A house divided against itself cannot stand
95] Wine unveils the words of the heart
96] The more laws, the more offenders
97] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill
98] As soon as man is born, he begins to die
99] You cannot serve God and Mammon
100] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.



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