Famous Proverbs

1] Homo is a common name to all men.

2] No one betrays himself by silence

3] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

4] History repeats itself

5] He that travels far knows much

6] Let us do evil that good may come

7] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

8] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

9] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

10] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

11] Keep something for a rainy day

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

13] Health is better than wealth

14] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

15] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

16] Praise no man till he is dead.

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

18] United we stand, divided we fall

19] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

20] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

21] Cowards die many times before their deaths

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

23] Names and natures do often agree

24] In wine there is truth

25] Second thoughts are best

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

27] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

28] Don’t ride the high horse

29] Beggars must not be choosers

30] We have all been once in our life

31] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

32] Wine unveils the words of the heart

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

34] Jack is as good as his master

35] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

36] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

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

38] He that eats well should do his duty well

39] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

40] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

41] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

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

43] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

44] Divide and rule

45] Love sees no fault

46] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

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

48] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

49] Hunger is the teacher of many

50] An egg thief will become a camel thief

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

52] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

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

54] Poor folk fare the best

55] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

56] It is more blessed to give than to receive

57] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

58] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

59] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

60] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

61] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

62] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

63] Master easy, servant slack

64] Crows are all completely black

65] Envy never enriched any man.

66] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

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

68] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

69] The slowest barker is the surest biter

70] Nature hates all sudden changes

71] Coming events cast their shadows before

72] Make the best of a bad job

73] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

74] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

75] No man fears what he has seen grow

76] He that repairs not a part, builds all

77] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

78] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

79] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

80] Children and fools cannot lie.

81] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

82] Every oak has been an acorn

83] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

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

85] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

86] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

87] That which is easily done is soon believed

88] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

89] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

90] Habit is second nature

91] Covetousness breaks the sack

92] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

93] If you play with fire you get burnt

94] Big fish eat little fish

95] A parrot will only say what it is taught

96] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

97] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

98] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

99] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

100] He that has an ill name is half hanged