Famous Proverbs

1] All things are possible with god

2] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

3] Do as you would be done by

4] A true man and a thief think not the same

5] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

6] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

7] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

8] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

9] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

10] United we stand, divided we fall

11] Coming events cast their shadows before

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

13] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

14] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

15] Wiles help weak folk

16] Come with the wind, got with the water

17] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

18] Garbage in, garbage out

19] Everything would fain live

20] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

21] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

22] Nature is the true law

23] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

24] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

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

26] A rolling stone gathers no moss

27] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

28] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

29] A little learning is dangerous thing

30] Work expands so as to fill the time available

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

32] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

33] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

34] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

35] The mob tramples on the coward

36] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

37] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

38] Great trees keep down the little ones

39] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

40] He freezes who does not burn

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

42] Fortune is blind

43] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

44] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

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

46] A good drink makes the old young

47] Crows are all completely black

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

49] Every shoe fits not every foot

50] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

51] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

52] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

53] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

54] There is no royal road to learning

55] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

56] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

57] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

58] Poverty is no sin

59] Let like mate with like

60] He that burns most, shines most

61] Extremity of right is wrong

62] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

63] Better late than never, but better never late

64] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

65] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

66] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

67] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

68] The faulty stands on his guard

69] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

70] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

71] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

72] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

73] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

74] Take things as you find them

75] The more you get, the more you want

76] The best wine comes from an old vessel

77] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

78] Might knows no right

79] Love cannot be compelled

80] Long looked for, comes at last

81] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

82] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

83] It is well to live that one may learn

84] Barking dogs seldom bite

85] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

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

87] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

88] Better unborn than untaught

89] Judge not, that ye be not judged

90] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

91] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

92] Wrong never comes right

93] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

94] He that has no money needs no purse

95] Good to begin well, better to end well.

96] Give and take is fair play

97] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

98] He who considers too much will perform little.

99] The mob has many heads but no brains

100] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich