Famous Proverbs

1] Man punishes the action but God the intention

2] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

3] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

4] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

5] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

6] Anything will fit a naked man.

7] Christmas comes but once a year

8] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

9] Hunger breaks stone walls

10] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

11] Needs must when the devil drives

12] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

13] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

14] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

15] Money isn’t everything

16] Silence and thinking can no man offend

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

18] Many a little makes a mickle

19] Eat to live and not live to eat.

20] The best of friends must part

21] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

22] All must be as God will

23] The company makes the feast

24] Patient men with the day.

25] Worse things happen at sea

26] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

27] Where there’s a will there’s a way

28] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

29] It costs more to do ill than to do well

30] A living dog is better than a dead lion

31] Will is no skill

32] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

33] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

34] You may know by a handful the whole sack

35] Poverty is not a crime

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

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

38] Make the best of a bad job

39] It is more blessed to give than to receive

40] Everything new is fine

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

42] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

43] Danger makes men devout

44] A cat has nine lives

45] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

46] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

47] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

48] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

49] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

50] Soon hot, soon cold

51] Prevention is better than cure

52] What the king wills, that the law wills

53] Little wealth, little care

54] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

55] Every may be has a may not be

56] Frugality is the mother of virtue

57] A fool may give a wise man counsel

58] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

59] No answer is also an answer

60] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

61] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

62] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

63] Health and wealth create beauty

64] They brag most who can do least

65] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

66] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

67] He who teaches learns

68] Where there is whispering there is lying

69] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

70] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

71] The faulty stands on his guard

72] The best things come in small packages

73] Necessity is a powerful weapon

74] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

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

76] The absent party is always to blame.

77] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

78] All glory comes from daring to begin

79] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

80] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

81] Mirth is the sugar of life

82] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

83] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

84] Keep some till further more come

85] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

86] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

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

88] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

89] One sword keeps another in the sheath

90] Six feet of earth make all men equal

91] The grace of God enough

92] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

93] Great oaks from little acorns grow

94] Cowards die many times before their deaths

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

96] In the end, things will mend

97] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

98] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

99] Harp not for ever on the same string

100] History repeats itself