Famous Proverbs

1] Valour delights in the test

2] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

3] The envious man shall never want woe

4] Beware of no man more than himself

5] Where there is no trust there is no love

6] A beggar can never be bankrupt

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

8] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

9] Grasp all, lose all

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

11] Circumstances alter cases

12] No flying without wings.

13] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

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

15] Love is sweet torment

16] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

17] Past cure, past care

18] Beauty fades like a flower.

19] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

20] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

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

22] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

23] All meat pleases not all mouths

24] Ignorance is the peace of life

25] Rip not up old sores

26] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

27] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

28] Dumb men get no lands

29] An old ox makes a straight furrow

30] None but the brave deserves the fair

31] The best of men are but men at best.

32] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

33] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

34] There is many a fair thing full false

35] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

36] Idleness is the root of all evil

37] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

38] One fool praises another

39] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

40] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

41] The race is got by running

42] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

43] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

44] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

45] Man cannot live by bread alone

46] A fool always rushes to the fore.

47] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

48] United we stand, divided we fall

49] Fish and guests smell in three days

50] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

51] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

52] It is a great victory that comes without blood

53] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

54] The goat must browse where she is tied

55] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

56] Care killed the cat

57] A bad workman always blames his tools

58] God sends cold after Clothes

59] There are two sides to every question

60] No man can serve two masters

61] Take time by the forelock

62] Might is right

63] Brevity is the soul of wit

64] Poor folk fare the best

65] An ill tongue may do much

66] The weeds overgrow the corn.

67] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

68] A good tongue is a good weapon

69] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

70] A merchant that gains not, loses

71] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

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

73] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

74] Every man praises his own wares

75] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

76] Open a book and you profit by what you read

77] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

78] Delays are not denials

79] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

80] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

81] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

82] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

83] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

84] Beauty draws more than oxen

85] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

86] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

87] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

88] Love knows hidden paths

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

90] Who greases his way travels easily

91] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

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

93] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

94] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

95] An honest good look covers many faults.

96] Words and feathers the wind carries away

97] He who has seen little marvels much

98] Put not the bucket too often in the well

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

100] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.