Famous Proverbs

1] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

2] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

3] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

4] Despair gives courage to a coward

5] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

6] Hunger is the teacher of many

7] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

8] Go while the going is good

9] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

10] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

11] He who has seen little marvels much

12] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

13] A penny saved is a penny gained

14] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

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

16] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

17] No man can serve two masters

18] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

19] A short cut is often a wrong cut

20] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

21] Silence and thinking can no man offend

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

23] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

24] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

25] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

26] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

27] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

28] Eat to live and not live to eat.

29] God’s lambs will play.

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

31] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

32] Poverty is no sin

33] A gift much expected is paid, not given

34] Dirty linen should be washed at home

35] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

36] In the land of hope there is never any winter

37] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

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

39] Good broth may be made in an old pot

40] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

41] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

42] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

43] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

44] Death alone can kill hope

45] Every bean has its black

46] One today is worth two tomorrows

47] Everything is good in its season

48] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

49] All’s fair in love and war

50] Anger managers everything badly.

51] Life is not all beer and skittles

52] Time flees without a delay

53] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

54] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

55] Enough is enough

56] The more you have the more you want

57] An angry man is not fit to pray

58] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

59] Honesty is the best policy

60] Every little helps

61] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

62] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

63] Virtue has all things in itself

64] Good is good but better carries it

65] Every flow must have its ebb

66] Jesters do oft prove prophets

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

68] Our own opinion is never wrong

69] First creep, then walk

70] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

71] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

72] A hungry man smells meat afar off

73] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

74] One man’s means another man’s poison

75] Love will find a way

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

77] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

78] Judge not of men and things at first sight

79] Nature abhors a vacuum

80] Muck and money go together

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

82] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

83] Children speak only words they have heard.

84] Some are wise and some are otherwise

85] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

86] Better the foot slip than the tongue

87] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

88] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

89] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

90] An old ox makes a straight furrow

91] Every path has a puddle

92] In the land of hope there is never any winter

93] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

94] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

95] Revenge is sweet

96] Virtue is the only true nobility

97] Cleanliness is next to godliness

98] Money isn’t everything

99] Forewarned is forearmed

100] He who does no good, does evil enough