Famous Proverbs

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

2] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

3] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

4] The result justifies the deed

5] Many dishes make many diseases

6] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

7] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

8] Better at home than a mile from it

9] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

10] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

11] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

12] Come with the wind, got with the water

13] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

14] Penny wise, pound foolish

15] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

16] There is safety in numbers

17] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

18] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

19] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

20] He that has a wife, has strife

21] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

22] Much science, much sorrow

23] Hasty work, double work,

24] A man can do no more than he can

25] Divine grace was never slow

26] All things are easy, that are done willingly

27] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

28] He that seeks trouble never misses

29] Content is more than a kingdom

30] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

31] Old habits die hard

32] Big words seldom go with good deeds

33] Fortune is blind

34] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

35] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

36] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

37] Virtue joints man to god

38] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

39] Every light has its shadow

40] Faint heart never won fair lady

41] Good ware makes quick market

42] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

43] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

44] Facts are stubborn things

45] He freezes who does not burn

46] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

47] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

48] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

49] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

50] Every groom is a king at home

51] Things past cannot be recalled

52] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

53] Gold will not buy everything

54] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

55] The first blow is half the battle

56] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

57] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

58] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

59] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

60] A hungry man smells meat afar off

61] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

62] He that pities another remembers himself

63] Time has wings

64] Wink at small faults

65] Talk much end err much

66] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

67] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

68] Hunger is the best sauce

69] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

70] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

71] Lend never that thing you needed most

72] A good tongue is a good weapon

73] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

74] Penny wise, pound foolish

75] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

76] It is good fishing in troubled waters

77] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

78] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

79] Nature is content with little.

80] In fair weather prepare for foul

81] What is new cannot be true

82] Experience is the best teacher

83] Health without money is half an ague

84] A man’s studies pass in to his character

85] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

86] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

87] Patience is the remedy of the world

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

89] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

90] Nothing is given so freely as advice

91] Know thyself

92] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

93] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

94] One master in a house is enough

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

96] He that sows virtue reaps fame

97] He that has no money needs no purse

98] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

99] Everything must have a beginning

100] All things are difficult before they are easy