Famous Proverbs

1] Spread the table, and contention will cease

2] Ignorance is the peace of life

3] Patient men with the day.

4] Misfortune does not always come to injure

5] The day obliterates the promise of the might

6] Union is strength.

7] One hand washes the other

8] Necessity breaks iron

9] He that ventures not fails not.

10] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

11] A scalded cat fears hot water.

12] The owl thinks her own young fairest

13] Great minds think alike

14] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

15] How forceful are right words

16] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

17] Dying men speak true

18] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

19] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

20] Men are blind in their own cause

21] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

22] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

23] What is worse than ill luck?

24] The greatest step is that out of doors

25] You cannot serve God and Mammon

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

27] Many drops make a shower

28] It is good to follow the old fox

29] The longest journey starts with a single step

30] The garment worn determines how one is served

31] The worse luck now, the better another time

32] Appearances are deceptive

33] Ambition loses many a man

34] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

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

36] Might knows no right

37] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

38] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

39] Words cut more than swords

40] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

41] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

42] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

43] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

44] Give credit where credit is due

45] Wink at small faults

46] He that speaks not, God hears not

47] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

48] Woes unite foes

49] The darkest place is under the candlestick

50] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

51] A straight stick is crooked in water

52] Many doctors, death accomplished

53] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

54] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

55] Light grows the burden which is well borne

56] Give the devil his due

57] Idleness is the root of all evil

58] Revenge never repairs an injury

59] Light burden I heavy if far borne

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

61] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

62] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

63] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

64] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

65] The great would have none great, and the little all little

66] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

67] Well done is better than well said

68] There are spots even in the sun

69] Who greases his way travels easily

70] Few words are best

71] No one ought to judge in his own cause

72] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

73] An old dog barks not in vain

74] The early man ever borrows from the late man

75] As long lives a merry man as a sad

76] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

77] Wrong has no warrant

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

79] Better beg than steal.

80] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

81] Care brings grey hair.

82] One swallow does not make a summer

83] The best fish swim near the bottom

84] He mediates revenge who least complains.

85] Repentance is a bitter physic

86] Great gain makes easy work

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

88] Pride goes before a fall

89] The longest night will have an end

90] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

91] Great oaks from little acorns grow

92] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

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

94] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

95] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

96] Homo is a common name to all men.

97] Experience must be bought

98] Live not to eat, but eat to live

99] Better belly burst than good meat lost

100] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.