Famous Proverbs

1] Birds of a feather flock together

2] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

3] Leave well alone

4] Diamond cuts diamond

5] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

6] Make the best of a bad bargain

7] Better unborn than untaught

8] The road to hell is paved with good action

9] Wink at small faults

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

11] He that brings good news, knocks hard

12] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

13] A good Conscience is the best divinity

14] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

15] Dog does not eat dog

16] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

17] Where there’s muck, there’s money

18] There is no place like home

19] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

20] He knows which side his bread is buttered

21] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

22] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

23] A soft answer turns away wrath

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

25] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

26] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

27] He who considers too much will perform little.

28] In indecision itself, grief is present.

29] Dirty water does not wash clean.

30] Soon gotten, soon spent

31] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

32] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

33] Of two evils choose the lesser

34] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

35] Better bend than break

36] Weapons breed peace

37] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

38] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

39] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

40] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

41] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

42] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

43] He who owes is in all the wrong

44] The great fish eat up the small

45] A friend in need is a friend indeed

46] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

47] Even Homer sometimes nods

48] Better late than never

49] No misfortune will go on forever

50] A man can do no more than he can

51] They are rich who have true friends

52] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

53] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

54] Crows are all completely black

55] Little pitchers have big ears.

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

57] Coming events cast their shadows before

58] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

59] Adam’s ale is the best brew

60] The best fish swim near the bottom

61] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

62] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

63] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

64] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

65] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

66] It is ill jesting with edged tools

67] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

68] Fortune is blind

69] A man’s wealth is his enemy

70] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

71] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

72] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

73] We don’t get something for nothing

74] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

75] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

76] Money has no smell

77] It is the unexpected that always happens

78] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

79] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

80] What is new cannot be true

81] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

82] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

83] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

84] None so deaf as those that will not hear

85] Enough is enough

86] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

87] He that travels far knows much

88] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

89] It is not work that kills but worry

90] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

91] First impressions are most lasting

92] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

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

94] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

95] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

96] He that travels far knows much

97] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

98] Forewarned is forearmed

99] That which is easily done is soon believed

100] Steer not after every mariner’s direction