Famous Proverbs

1] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

2] The fairest silk is soonest stained

3] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

4] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

5] He that wants health wants all

6] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

7] No day so clear but has dark clouds

8] Never refuse a good offer

9] Dumb dogs are dangerous

10] Don’t try to run before you walk

11] Lookers-on see most of the game

12] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

13] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

14] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

15] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

16] In haste is error

17] The golden age was never the present age

18] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

19] Children and fools have merry lives

20] Loyalty is worth more than money

21] Money makes the man

22] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

23] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

24] The love of money is the root of all evil

25] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

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

27] Never do evil that good may come of it

28] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

29] Ready money is ready medicine

30] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

31] Honesty is the best policy

32] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

33] Actions speak louder than words

34] Truth is mighty and will prevail

35] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

36] Hope is grief’s best music

37] Wine unveils the words of the heart

38] Every man has his price

39] So many men, so many opinions

40] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

41] A black hen lays a white egg

42] Better sit still than rise and fall

43] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

44] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

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

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

47] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

48] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

49] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

50] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

51] The best things in life are free

52] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

53] Kill two birds with one stone

54] Wise men are caught in wiles

55] Advice when most needed is least heeded

56] Valour delights in the test

57] He who envies admits his inferiority

58] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

59] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

60] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

61] More haste, less speed

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

63] No remedy but patience

64] A good example is the best sermon

65] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

66] Bold men have generous hearts

67] The devil dances in an empty pocket

68] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

69] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

70] Extremes meet

71] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

72] Nature hates all sudden changes

73] Lovers are madmen

74] Silence and thinking can no man offend

75] A bully is always a coward

76] Waste makes wants

77] Better children weep than old men

78] A true man and a thief think not the same

79] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

80] Not even Hercules could contend against two

81] What’s in a name?

82] Love conquers all

83] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

84] He that will thrive must rise at five

85] A good conscience is a soft pillow

86] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

87] He that has a wife, has strife

88] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

89] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

90] There is no fool like an old fool

91] Early sow, early mow

92] Ignorance is the peace of life

93] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

94] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

95] He that is absent is soon forgotten

96] Anger managers everything badly.

97] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

98] Once a use and ever a custom

99] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

100] Where your will is ready, your feet are light