Famous Proverbs

1] True doctrines require no miracles

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

3] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

4] Experience is the best teacher

5] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

6] He who excuses himself accuses himself

7] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

8] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

9] He mediates revenge who least complains.

10] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

11] Marriage is a lottery

12] Diamond cuts diamond

13] Light burden I heavy if far borne

14] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

15] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

16] Weapons breed peace

17] The best fish swim near the bottom

18] All meat pleases not all mouths

19] There is no accounting for tastes

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

21] The thing which is rare is dear

22] A soft answer turns away wrath

23] The resolved mind has no cares

24] Idle folks lack no excuses

25] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

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

27] Success makes a fool seem wise.

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

29] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

30] Now is now, and then was then

31] Do it now

32] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

33] Care is no cure

34] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

35] Too much hope deceives

36] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

37] There is none misfortune cannot reach

38] He that has an ill name is half hanged

39] The good is often the enemy of the best

40] It takes all sorts to make a world

41] He who demands does not command

42] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

43] Love delights in praise

44] Mirth is the sugar of life

45] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

46] The day obliterates the promise of the might

47] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

48] Wise men are caught in wiles

49] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

50] It is too late to look up after you have collided

51] He is an ill husband who is not missed

52] He would command must serve

53] You cannot have it both ways

54] Love your friend with his fault

55] God is a sure paymaster

56] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

57] Let not your tongue run at rover

58] One barber shaves another gratis

59] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

60] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

61] He who does no good, does evil enough

62] An old horse knows the route

63] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

64] Truth is mighty and will prevail

65] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

66] The receiver is as bad as the thief

67] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

68] Better be alone than in bad company

69] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

70] He may find fault that cannot mend

71] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

72] No pains, no gains

73] Friends agree best at a distance

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

75] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

76] Much babbling is not without offence

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

78] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

79] We have all been once in our life

80] Discontent is the first step in progress

81] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

82] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

83] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

84] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

85] The garment worn determines how one is served

86] Rats know the ways of rats

87] It is too late to call back yesterday

88] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

89] The best things come in small packages

90] Good ware makes quick market

91] Make the best of a bad job

92] Law makers should not be law breakers

93] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

94] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

95] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

96] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

97] No garden without its weeds.

98] Idleness is the root of all evil

99] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

100] There are spots even in the sun