Famous Proverbs

1] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

2] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

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

4] Love will go through stone walls

5] He has not lost all who has one cast left

6] Love can find a way

7] A good word stills great anger

8] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

9] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

10] Home is home though it be never so homely

11] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

12] Lookers-on see most of the game

13] None so busy as those who do nothing.

14] Silence is golden

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

16] The owl thinks her own young fairest

17] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

18] The righteous man sins before an open chest

19] Divine grace was never slow

20] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

21] Kind hearts are more than coronets

22] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

23] More have repented speech than silence

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

25] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

26] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

27] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

28] No man is born wise or learned

29] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

30] There is many a true word spoken in jest

31] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

32] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

33] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

34] The thread breaks where it is weakest

35] What everybody says must be true

36] The slowest barker is the surest biter

37] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

38] Best is cheapest

39] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

40] Might knows no right

41] Good wine needs no bush

42] Never spend your money before you have it

43] Goodness is better than beauty

44] The end justifies the means

45] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

46] Trust not the many-minded populace

47] One foot is better than two crutches

48] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

49] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

50] Every beginning is hard

51] A rich man’s joke is always funny

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

53] Might is right

54] Cut your coat according to your cloth

55] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

56] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

57] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

58] The belly carries the legs

59] Go while the going is good

60] Small is beautiful

61] We live laws, not by examples

62] Home is where the heart is

63] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

64] A knave and a fool never take thought

65] One must howl with the wolves

66] Numbers overcome the brave

67] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

68] Wise men silent, fools talk

69] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

70] A man in debt is caught in a net

71] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

72] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

73] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

74] Vice makes virtue shine

75] Much babbling is not without offence

76] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

77] Possibilities are infinite

78] Open confession is good for the soul

79] Water is the king of food

80] Time flees without a delay

81] He who owes is in all the wrong

82] Wink at small faults

83] Love laughs at locksmiths

84] He who hesitates is lost

85] Alms never make poor

86] A word spoken is past recalling

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

88] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

89] He knows which side his bread is buttered

90] It takes two to make a quarrel

91] Take the will for the deed

92] Experience is the mother of wisdom

93] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

94] He who sows, trusts in God

95] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

96] It is easier to pull down than to build

97] Fish begins to stink at the head

98] Never buy a pig in a poke

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

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