Famous Proverbs

1] A learned man has always riches in himself

2] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

3] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

4] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

5] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

6] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

7] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

8] He that repairs not a part, builds all

9] He stands not surely that never slips

10] You never know your luck

11] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

13] Fortune is blind

14] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

15] It costs more to do ill than to do well

16] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

17] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

18] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

19] You can’t win them all

20] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

21] Lookers-on see more than players

22] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

23] A loveless life is a living death

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

25] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

26] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

27] Better bend than break

28] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

29] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

30] Money is the root of all evil

31] Mirth without measure is madness

32] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

33] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

34] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

35] Ambition loses many a man

36] He who owes is in all the wrong

37] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

38] All must be as God will

39] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

40] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

41] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

42] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

43] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

44] What is deferred is not abandoned

45] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

46] Things past cannot be recalled

47] In doing we learn.

48] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

49] Advise none to marry or to go to war

50] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

51] The resolved mind has no cares

52] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

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

54] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

55] One cannot love and be wise

56] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

57] The bait hides the hook

58] The voice is the best music

59] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

60] Men are not angles

61] He who never was sick dies the first fit

62] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

63] Lose a leg rather than a life

64] A wise man hears one word and understands two

65] Time lost cannot be recalled

66] Where there is whispering there is lying

67] The dog is a lion in his own house

68] III counsel mars all

69] Bare walls make giddy housewives

70] Hope is grief’s best music

71] Don’t cry before you are hurt

72] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

73] Little and often fills the purse

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

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

76] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

77] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

78] Homer sometimes nods

79] Wake not a sleeping lion

80] Wink at small faults

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

82] Harp not for ever on the same string

83] Travel broadens the mind

84] Bold men have generous hearts

85] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

86] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

87] Man cannot live by bread alone

88] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

89] First impressions are the most lasting

90] No man is indispensable

91] A bad padlock invites a picklock

92] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

93] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

94] Dogs bark as they are bred.

95] Once bitten, twice shy.

96] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

97] Patient waiters are no losers

98] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

99] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

100] Content is better than riches