Famous Proverbs

1] It is as natural to die as to be born

2] Beware of him who makes thee presents

3] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

4] Trust not the many-minded populace

5] Possibilities are infinite

6] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

7] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

8] He that is down need fear no fall

9] Young saint, old devil.

10] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

11] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

12] Hope is the poor man’s bread

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

14] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

15] Train the child in the way he should go.

16] There is nothing new under the sun

17] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

18] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

19] He mediates revenge who least complains.

20] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

21] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

22] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

23] You can’t clap with one hand

24] When you do not know what to do – wait.

25] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

26] Lend never that thing you needed most

27] The cobbler should stick to his last

28] No remedy but patience

29] Learning is the eye of the mind

30] Wrong has no warrant

31] Every dog is a lion at home

32] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

33] Divide and rule

34] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

35] First think, and then speak

36] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

37] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

38] Money has no smell

39] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

40] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

41] A fault confessed is half redressed

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

43] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

44] Grasp all, lose all

45] It is too late to husband when all is spent

46] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

47] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

48] He gives twice who gives quickly

49] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

50] Borrowed garments never fit well

51] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

52] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

53] He that sows virtue reaps fame

54] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

55] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

56] Experience is the mother of wisdom

57] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

58] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

59] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

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

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

62] It’s dogged that does it

63] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

64] Better children weep than old men

65] He that knows little often repeats it

66] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

67] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

68] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

69] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

70] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

71] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

72] The coward threatens only when he is safe

73] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

74] The sign brings customers

75] We shall lie all alike in our graves

76] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

77] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

78] Distance lends enchantment to the view

79] A good name is better than riches

80] Patience is a virtue

81] Never judge from appearances

82] Let not your tongue run at rover

83] United we stand, divided we fall

84] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

85] Many words, many buffets

86] What can’t be cured must be endured

87] Care brings grey hair.

88] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

89] The fox may grow grey, but never good

90] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

91] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

92] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

93] Flesh is frail

94] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

95] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

96] What is new cannot be true

97] Wrong never comes right

98] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

99] The deed comes back upon the doer.

100] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine