Famous Proverbs

1] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

2] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

3] Accidents will happen

4] He travels the fastest who travels alone

5] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

6] Lose a leg rather than a life

7] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

8] An ill tongue may do much

9] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

10] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

11] You may know by a handful the whole sack

12] Think on the end before you begin

13] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

14] Tigers and deer do not over.

15] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

16] Hasty work, double work,

17] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

18] Some are wise and some are otherwise

19] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

20] Honesty is ill to thrive by

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

22] Step by step the ladder is ascended

23] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

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

25] As you brew, so shall you drink.

26] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

28] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

29] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

30] All lay loads on a willing horse

31] The greatest step is that out of doors

32] We don’t get something for nothing

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

34] Light grows the burden which is well borne

35] Old habits die hard

36] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

37] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

38] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

39] A good husband makes a good wife

40] If you play with fire you get burnt

41] An old man is a bed full of bones

42] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

43] Flesh is frail

44] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

45] Crust is better than no bread

46] Many drops make a shower

47] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

48] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

49] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

50] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

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

52] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

53] Slow but sure wins the race

54] Better never begin than never make an end

55] Choose thy company before thy drink

56] Covetousness breaks the sack

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

58] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

59] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

60] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

61] Better children weep than old men

62] Discontent is the first step in progress

63] Every shoe fits not every foot

64] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

65] He who touches pitch will be defiled

66] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

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

68] The grace of God enough

69] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

70] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

71] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

72] He that does most at once, does least

73] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

74] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

75] The word is far him who has patience

76] A good beginning is half the battle.

77] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

78] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

79] All’s fair in love and war

80] None but the brave deserves the fair

81] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

82] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

83] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

84] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

85] He that has an ill name is half hanged

86] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

87] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

88] Lookers-on see most of the game

89] No feast lasts forever.

90] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

91] Men are known by the company they keep.

92] The result justifies the deed

93] Better at home than a mile from it

94] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

95] Ambition loses many a man

96] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

97] One sword keeps another in the sheath

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

99] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

100] You know what you can do till you try.