Famous Proverbs

1] A learned man has always riches in himself

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

3] Never too late to learn

4] Tell the truth and shame the devil

5] What is worse than ill luck?

6] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

7] He knows the water best who has waded through it

8] Distance lends enchantment to the view

9] It is too late to call back yesterday

10] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

11] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

12] Ready money is ready medicine

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

14] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

15] 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

16] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

17] While there is life, there is hope

18] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

19] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

20] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

21] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

22] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

23] In the land of hope there is never any winter

24] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

25] All our pomp the earth covers

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

27] It is a great victory that comes without blood

28] By falling we learn to go safely

29] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

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

31] Honesty is the best policy

32] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

33] A bribe will enter without knocking

34] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

35] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

36] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

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

38] Don’t cry before you are hurt

39] A good Conscience is the best divinity

40] No like is the same.

41] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

42] Almost’ never killed a fly.

43] No wrong without a remedy

44] No man limps because another is hurt

45] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

46] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

47] Ignorance is the peace of life

48] Do right and fear no man

49] He that ventures not fails not.

50] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

51] Do unto others as they should do unto you

52] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

53] The best is often the enemy of the good

54] Faint heart never won fair lady

55] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

56] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

57] Despair gives courage to a coward

58] The ass that brays most eats

59] Time lost cannot be recalled

60] Silence is golden

61] History repeats itself

62] No pain, no cure

63] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

64] A jack of all traders is master of none

65] The rich knows not who is his friend

66] A fault confessed is half redressed

67] Two blacks do not make a white

68] Brevity is the soul of wit

69] Long absent, soon forgotten

70] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

71] Better ask the way than go astray

72] A good conscience is a sure card

73] Little wealth, little care

74] No flying without wings.

75] All for one, and one for all.

76] His own ingenuity pricks him.

77] A word is enough to the wise

78] Old foxes want no tutors

79] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

80] There is no royal road to learning

81] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

82] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

83] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

84] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

85] Fear of death is worse than death itself

86] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

87] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

88] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

89] Will is no skill

90] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

91] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

92] Dreams go by contraries

93] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

94] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

95] Words fly, writings remain

96] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

97] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

98] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

99] Patience is a plaster for all sores

100] Misfortunes never come singly