Famous Proverbs

1] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

2] He that will thrive must rise at five

3] He who leaps high must take a long run

4] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

5] Long looked for, comes at last

6] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

7] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

8] Self-praise is no recommendation

9] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

10] When the cat is away, the mice will play

11] Do it now

12] Weeds need no sowing

13] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

14] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

15] Through obedience learn to command.

16] Knowledge is power

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

18] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

19] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

20] Laws were made to be broke

21] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

22] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

23] God helps those who help themselves

24] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

25] Fortune is blind

26] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

27] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

28] Too much hope deceives

29] Good is good but better carries it

30] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

31] One man sows and another reaps

32] Good clothes open all doors

33] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

34] Beware of a silent man and still water

35] The result justifies the deed

36] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

37] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

38] Erring is not heating

39] Beauty is but skin-deep

40] They that dance must pay the fiddler

41] One today is worth two tomorrows

42] Patience surpasses learning

43] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

44] In the land of hope there is never any winter

45] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

46] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

47] He that has an ill name is half hanged

48] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

49] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

50] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

51] He that has no money needs no purse

52] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

53] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

54] Wedlock is padlock

55] He who envies admits his inferiority

56] The bull must be taken by the horns

57] Possibilities are infinite

58] Friends are thieves of time

59] Go while the going is good

60] Where there is peace, there is blessing

61] Names and natures do often agree

62] What costs little is little esteemed

63] An obedient wife commands her husband

64] Every advantage has its disadvantage

65] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

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

67] There is a black sheep in every flock

68] What can’t be cured must be endured

69] If the cap fits, wear it

70] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

71] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

72] The belly carries the legs

73] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

74] In peace, prepare for war

75] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

76] Love knows no limit

77] Take the tone of the company you are in

78] Borrowed garments never fit well

79] Asking costs little

80] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

81] A little body often harbours a great soul

82] God sends cold after Clothes

83] Suffering does not manifest itself

84] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

85] Be still and have thy will

86] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

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

88] See how the wind blows

89] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

90] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

91] A man may bear till his back breaks

92] Heaven helps those who help themselves

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

94] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

95] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

96] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

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

98] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

99] Paddle your own canoe

100] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning