Famous Proverbs

1] Tomorrow never comes

2] No pains, no gains

3] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

4] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

5] Crows are all completely black

6] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

7] Virtue carries a lean purse

8] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

9] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

10] The longest night will have an end

11] A black hen lays a white egg

12] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

13] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

14] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

15] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

16] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

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

18] New lords, new laws

19] He who pays the piper calls the tune

20] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

21] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

22] Praise no man till he is dead.

23] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

24] The voice is the best music

25] Enough is enough

26] The beaten road is the safest

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

28] Will is the cause of woe

29] A jest breaks no bones

30] Nothing seek, nothing find

31] He who touches pitch will be defiled

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

33] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

34] A fault confessed is half redressed

35] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

36] He that brings good news, knocks hard

37] Of a new prince, new bondage

38] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

39] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

40] Covetousness is the root of all evil

41] Variety is the spice of life

42] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

43] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

44] You must grin and bear it

45] Charity excuseth not cheating.

46] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

47] Better no doctor at all than three.

48] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

49] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

50] Nothing comes from nothing

51] Silence is a woman’s best garment

52] Covetousness brings nothing home

53] Death does not recognize strength

54] Little pitchers have big ears.

55] God’s lambs will play.

56] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

57] Light grows the burden which is well borne

58] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

59] A piece of churchyard fits every body

60] He who demands does not command

61] Love is blind

62] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

63] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

64] One is not smelt where all stink

65] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

66] Don’t kick against the pricks

67] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

68] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

69] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

70] It is well to live that one may learn

71] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

72] Double charge will rive a cannon

73] He freezes who does not burn

74] Faint heart never won fair lady

75] Long looked for, comes at last

76] Dirty linen should be washed at home

77] Wife and Children are bills of charges

78] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

79] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

80] It takes all sorts to make a world

81] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

82] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

83] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

84] Love can find a way

85] Handsome is as handsome does

86] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

87] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

88] He that has plenty of goods will have more

89] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

90] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

91] One father is more than a hundred school masters

92] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

93] Ill gotten, ill spent

94] Money is the sinew of affairs

95] Saying is one thing, and doing another

96] Alms never make poor

97] He who leaps high must take a long run

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

99] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

100] He who serves is not free