Famous Proverbs

1] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

2] Where there is whispering there is lying

3] Riches along make no men happy

4] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

5] Young colts will canter.

6] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

7] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

8] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

9] Mere wishes are silly fishes

10] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

11] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

12] Little pitchers have big ears.

13] An old man is a bed full of bones

14] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

15] Six feet of earth make all men equal

16] Even Homer sometimes nods

17] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

18] Few words are best

19] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

20] It is ill jesting with edged tools

21] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

22] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

23] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

24] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

25] Suffering does not manifest itself

26] Trust is the mother of deceit

27] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

28] Six feet of earth make all men equal

29] Enough is enough

30] A little learning is dangerous thing

31] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

32] None so deaf as those that will not hear

33] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

34] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

35] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

36] Better an open enemy than a false friend

37] The more cost, the more honour

38] He that seeks trouble never misses

39] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

40] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

41] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

42] Don’t play with edged tools

43] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

44] Wise men do not argue with idiots

45] He conquers who endures

46] Love is blind

47] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

48] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

49] Parents are patterns

50] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

51] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

52] One may change the place but not the mind.

53] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

54] One foot is better than two crutches

55] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

56] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

57] Children and fools cannot lie.

58] A man can die but once

59] No remedy but patience

60] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

61] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

62] He who sows, trusts in God

63] One man’s loss is another’s gain

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

65] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

66] Every man to his trade.

67] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

68] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

69] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

70] Wrong never comes right

71] Praise is always pleasant

72] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

73] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

74] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

75] Practice is the science that gives confidence

76] He who comes first, grinds first.

77] He that talks much, errs much

78] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

79] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

80] He that speaks well, flights well

81] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

82] Small is the seed of every greatness

83] You cannot have it both ways

84] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

85] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

86] Innocence is no protection

87] Do as you would be done by

88] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

89] Bad news travels fast

90] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

91] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

92] Hope is the poor man’s bread

93] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

94] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

95] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

96] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

97] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

98] Work won’t kill but worry will.

99] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

100] Sorrow will pay no debt