Famous Proverbs

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

2] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

3] Advise none to marry or to go to war

4] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

5] Nothing succeeds like success

6] Things are only worth one makes them worth

7] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

8] There is honour among thieves

9] How forceful are right words

10] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

11] No good building without a good foundation.

12] He that eats well should do his duty well

13] Jesters do oft prove prophets

14] Adventures are to be adventurous

15] Let us do evil that good may come

16] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

17] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

18] They brag most who can do least

19] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

20] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

21] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

22] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

23] Open confession is good for the soul

24] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

25] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

26] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

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

28] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

29] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

30] His own ingenuity pricks him.

31] Trusting often makes fidelity

32] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

33] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

34] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

35] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

36] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

37] Like mother, like daughter

38] Misfortune does not always come to injure

39] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

40] Wise men do not argue with idiots

41] What is deferred is not abandoned

42] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

43] Idle folks lack no excuses

44] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

45] All’s well that ends well

46] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

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

48] Cheats never prosper

49] From small beginnings come great things

50] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

51] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

52] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

53] Life is not all beer and skittles

54] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

55] Good clothes open all doors

56] The tide must be taken when it comes

57] Necessity is mother of invention

58] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

59] One thief will not rob another

60] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

61] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

62] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

63] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

64] He that has an ill name is half hanged

65] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

66] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

67] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

68] Misfortune does not always come to injure

69] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

70] Confess and be hanged

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

72] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

73] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

74] Years know more than books

75] The pot calls the kettle black

76] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

77] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

78] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

79] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

80] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

81] Books and friends should be few but good

82] There is no smoke without fire

83] Every why has a wherefore

84] The borrower is servant to the lender

85] He who comes late must eat what is left

86] The money you refuse will never do you good

87] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

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

89] A friend in need is a friend indeed

90] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

91] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

92] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

93] It never rains it pours

94] Pride goes before a fall

95] A man’s mother is his other God

96] Nature is the true law

97] Be careful to whom you give

98] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

99] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

100] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick