Famous Proverbs

1] The best things carried to excess are wrong

2] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

3] What is a workman without his tools?

4] Virtue has all things in itself

5] The ass that brays most eats

6] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

7] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

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

9] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

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

11] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

12] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

13] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

14] The end crowns the work.

15] The goat must browse where she is tied

16] Adventures are to be adventurous

17] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

18] The road to hell is paved with good action

19] Fair without, false within

20] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

21] Blue are the far away hills

22] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

23] Beauty draws more than oxen

24] Truth conquers all things

25] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

26] Whatever man has done, man can do

27] Woes unite foes

28] A good tongue is a good weapon

29] Every man has his faults

30] Once bitten, twice shy.

31] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

32] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

33] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

34] See how the wind blows

35] They brag most who can do least

36] Content is more than a kingdom

37] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

38] Two blacks do not make a white

39] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

40] Too much hope deceives

41] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

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

43] Sickness shows us what we are

44] Children and fools cannot lie.

45] Every dog has his (its) day

46] Comparisons are odious

47] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

48] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

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

50] Gluttony kills more than the sword

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

52] Debt is an evil conscience

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

54] Handsome is as handsome does

55] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

56] Anger managers everything badly.

57] They also serve who only stand and wait

58] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

59] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

60] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

61] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

62] Well begun is half done.

63] There’s always room at the top

64] A house divided against itself cannot stand

65] Wishes can never fill a sack

66] Repentance is a bitter physic

67] Dying men speak true

68] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

69] An ill tongue may do much

70] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

71] The thing which is rare is dear

72] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

73] Learn not and know not

74] An open door may tempt a saint

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

76] Ill gotten, ill spent

77] Know thyself

78] A hungry man smells meat afar off

79] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

80] He who sows, trusts in God

81] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

82] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

83] Discretion is the better part of valour

84] Standing pools gather fifth

85] Old foxes want no tutors

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

87] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

88] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

89] There is no accounting for tastes

90] Abundance, like want, ruins many

91] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

92] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

93] What is worth doing is worth doing well

94] Where there’s a will there’s a way

95] A gift much expected is paid, not given

96] Better bend than break

97] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

98] The cowl does not make the monk.

99] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

100] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage