Famous Proverbs

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

2] Marriage is a lottery

3] Wishes can never fill a sack

4] The devil lurks behind the cross

5] Silence is a woman’s best garment

6] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

7] Nature is conquered by obeying her

8] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

9] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

10] Extremes meet

11] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

12] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

13] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

14] The day obliterates the promise of the might

15] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

16] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

17] An angry man is not fit to pray

18] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

19] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

20] No cross, no crown

21] No man is wise at all times

22] What everybody says must be true

23] Stolen goods never thrive

24] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

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

26] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

27] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

28] Great talkers are never great doers

29] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

30] A door must be either shut or open

31] Dirty water does not wash clean.

32] He that praises himself, spatters himself

33] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

34] Light grows the burden which is well borne

35] Too long burden makes weary bones

36] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

37] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

38] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

39] Friendship should not be all on one

40] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

41] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

42] Death keeps no calendar

43] Judge not of men and things at first sight

44] Better the last smile than the first laugh

45] Life is not all beer and skittles

46] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

47] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

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

49] Wise men silent, fools talk

50] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

51] He may find fault that cannot mend

52] Remember, you are but a man

53] He that has no shame has no conscience

54] One is what one eats

55] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

56] The wish is father to the thought

57] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

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

59] The devil knows many things because he is old

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

61] Envy never enriched any man.

62] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

63] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

64] He that eats well should do his duty well

65] Often and little eating makes a man fat

66] Live not to eat, but eat to live

67] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

69] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

70] Lavishness is not generosity

71] All things that great men do are well done

72] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

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

74] A useful trade is a mine of gold

75] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

76] As you brew, so shall you drink.

77] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

78] All things require skills but an appetite

79] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

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

81] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

82] The pen is the tongue of the hand

83] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

84] Dogs bark as they are bred.

85] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

86] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

87] Success has many friends

88] Law makers should not be law breakers

89] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

90] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

91] Practice what you preach

92] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

93] A gift much expected is paid, not given

94] The longest day must have an end

95] Grasp all, lose all

96] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

97] Circumstances alter cases

98] Experience is the best teacher

99] You cannot make a crab walk straight

100] Crust is better than no bread