Famous Proverbs

1] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

2] The day obliterates the promise of the might

3] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

4] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

5] Beauty draws more than oxen

6] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

7] The labourer is worthy of his hire

8] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

9] What’s done is done

10] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

11] Respect is greater from a distance

12] A miss is as good as a mile

13] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

14] The hole calls the thief

15] He that wants health wants all

16] Everything would fain live

17] He who sows, trusts in God

18] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

19] Put out your tubs when it is raining

20] He that has no shame has no conscience

21] A good conscience is a sure card

22] Every commodity has its discommodity

23] Beware of no man more than himself

24] The fairest flowers soonest fade

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

26] Poverty is no sin

27] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

28] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

29] Every dog has his (its) day

30] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

31] Don’t ride the high horse

32] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

33] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

34] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

35] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

36] Patient men with the day.

37] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

38] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

39] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

40] He that lends, gives

41] Moderation in all things

42] Let sleeping dogs lie

43] If you would be well served, serve yourself

44] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

45] Busiest men find the most time

46] Comparisons are odious

47] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

48] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

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

50] The word is far him who has patience

51] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

52] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

53] There is death in the pot.

54] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

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

56] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

57] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

58] Appearances are deceptive

59] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

60] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

61] A man can die but once

62] Spare the rod and spoil the child

63] From word to deed is a great space

64] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

65] Home is home though it be never so homely

66] Homer sometimes nods

67] The wish is father to the thought

68] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

69] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

70] Youth will have its course.

71] A fool may give a wise man counsel

72] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

73] It never rains it pours

74] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

75] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

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

77] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

78] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

79] Out of sight, out of mind

80] No day so clear but has dark clouds

81] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

82] He who demands does not command

83] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

84] He is an ill husband who is not missed

85] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

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

87] What must be must be

88] What has been, may be

89] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

90] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

91] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

92] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

93] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

94] It is not work that kills but worry

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

96] Idleness is the root of all evil

97] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

98] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

99] Better to ask the way than go astray.

100] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.