Famous Proverbs

1] Live and Learn

2] Trust not the many-minded populace

3] Patient men with the day.

4] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

5] The best of friends must part

6] Hungry bellies have no ears

7] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

8] No feast lasts forever.

9] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

10] All cats are grey in the dark

11] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

12] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

13] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

14] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

15] A door must be either shut or open

16] Patience surpasses learning

17] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

18] True gold is not transformed by fire

19] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

20] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

21] Don’t play with edged tools

22] Quietness is a great treasure

23] Better sit still than rise and fall

24] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

25] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

26] Morning dreams come true

27] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

28] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

29] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

30] Better are small fish than an empty dish

31] There are more men threatened than stricken

32] Fear of death is worse than death itself

33] Care brings grey hair.

34] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

35] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

36] United we stand, divided we fall

37] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

38] Never do things by halves

39] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

40] New lords, new laws

41] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

42] Fair without, false within

43] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

44] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

45] Prospect is often better than possession

46] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

47] A little is better than none

48] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

49] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

50] Let us do evil that good may come

51] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

52] Work won’t kill but worry will.

53] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

54] A little body often harbours a great soul

55] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

56] Cast not the first stone.

57] A bad workman always blames his tools

58] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

59] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

60] Many words, many buffets

61] There is many a fair thing full false

62] Waste not, want not

63] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

64] Poverty is not a crime

65] A good payer is master of another’s purse

66] Silence is also speech

67] Fish and guests smell in three days

68] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

69] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

70] God arms the harmless

71] Practice what you preach

72] Keep some till further more come

73] After a storm comes a calm

74] Do not limp before the lame

75] He that has a wife, has strife

76] Fingers were made before forks

77] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

78] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

79] He conquers who endures

80] Common fame is a liar

81] The fairest flowers soonest fade

82] Every medal has its reverse

83] You may have too much of a good thing

84] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

85] Truth has no need of rhetoric

86] How forceful are right words

87] Many words, many buffets

88] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

89] Children and chickens must be always picking

90] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

91] Evil to him who evil thinks.

92] East or west, home is best

93] Put out your tubs when it is raining

94] Wrong never comes right

95] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

96] The axe falls on a straight tree first

97] Discretion is the better part of valour

98] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

99] Second thoughts are best

100] Names are debts