Famous Proverbs

1] Children speak only words they have heard.

2] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

3] Custom reconciles us to everything

4] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

5] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

6] We don’t get something for nothing

7] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

8] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

9] God arms the harmless

10] Often and little eating makes a man fat

11] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

12] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

13] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

14] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

15] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

16] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

17] Bear with evil and expect good

18] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

19] Men make houses, women make homes

20] Learn to walk before you run

21] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

22] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

23] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

24] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

25] Do not triumph before the victory

26] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

27] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

28] What is money to a cat?

29] Misfortune does not always come to injure

30] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

31] First creep, then walk

32] High places have their precipices

33] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

34] All is fair in love and war

35] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

36] Love can find a way

37] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

38] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

39] A word to the wise is enough

40] He that is down need fear no fall

41] In peace, prepare for war

42] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

43] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

44] You know what you can do till you try.

45] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

46] No tie can oblige the perfidious

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

48] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

49] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

50] To teach is to learn twice over

51] Choose thy company before thy drink

52] Wine unveils the words of the heart

53] Asking costs little

54] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

55] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

56] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

57] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

58] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

59] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

60] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

61] A good dog deserves a good bone

62] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

63] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

64] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

65] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

66] A cat may look at a king

67] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

68] Life is not all beer and skittles

69] Cowards die many times before their deaths

70] Either mend or end

71] Four eyes see better than two.

72] Where there is whispering there is lying

73] Hope often deludes the foolish man

74] The day obliterates the promise of the might

75] Weak things united become strong

76] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

77] Never spur a willing horse

78] The devil looks after his own

79] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

80] Dog does not eat dog

81] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

82] The borrower is servant to the lender

83] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

84] You may know by a handful the whole sack

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

86] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

87] Great gain makes easy work

88] No land without stones, or meat without bones

89] There is no place like home

90] He is rich that has few wants

91] Ambition loses many a man

92] What cannot gold do?

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

94] Laugh and grow fat

95] Desires are nourished by delays

96] Misery loves company.

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

98] The exception proves the rule

99] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

100] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price