Famous Proverbs

1] Fools live poor to die rich

2] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

3] It is not every question that deserves an answer

4] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

5] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

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

7] The darkest place is under the candlestick

8] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

9] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

10] Weak things united become strong

11] Health and wealth create beauty

12] A good example is the best sermon

13] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

14] Like mother, like daughter

15] An honest good look covers many faults.

16] First catch your hare

17] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

18] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

19] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

20] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

21] He that sows virtue reaps fame

22] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

23] The dog is a lion in his own house

24] The goat must browse where she is tied

25] A merchant that gains not, loses

26] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

27] Patience is a plaster for all sores

28] Self do, self have

29] Hungry bellies have no ears

30] Company in misery makes it light

31] God is always on the side of the big battalions

32] He that burns most, shines most

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

34] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

35] No good building without a good foundation.

36] The thread breaks where it is weakest

37] Dogs bark as they are bred.

38] Enough is enough

39] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

40] Everything comes to him who waits

41] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

42] Virtue is its own reward

43] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

44] Cast not the first stone.

45] There’s no great loss without some gain

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

47] Do unto others as they should do unto you

48] There is no redemption from hell

49] It is a shame to be shameless

50] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

51] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

52] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

53] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

54] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

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

56] Petty laws breed great crimes

57] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

58] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

59] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

60] If you want peace, prepare for war

61] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

62] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

63] Without luck, it is better not to be born

64] A door must be either shut or open

65] Debt is an evil conscience

66] If you want peace, prepare for war

67] The devil looks after his own

68] A change is as good as rest

69] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

70] Patient waiters are no losers

71] What is word but wind?

72] Mere wishes are silly fishes

73] The dog that fetches, will carry.

74] All our pomp the earth covers

75] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

76] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

77] There is nothing new under the sun

78] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

79] Dying men speak true

80] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

81] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

82] Take the will for the deed

83] In my own house, I am king

84] All truths are not to be told

85] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

86] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

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

88] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

89] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

90] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

91] What has been, may be

92] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

93] All things are difficult before they are easy

94] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

95] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

96] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

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

98] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

99] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

100] An enemy may chance to give good counsel