Famous Proverbs

1] The longest journey starts with a single step

2] Patience surpasses learning

3] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

4] Let us do evil that good may come

5] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

6] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

7] Lookers-on see most of the game

8] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

9] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

10] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

11] Wise men are caught in wiles

12] Do as you would be done by

13] Threatened folk live long

14] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

15] Strike while the iron is hot

16] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

17] Variety takes away satiety

18] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

19] Example is the greatest of all seducers

20] All things are difficult before they are easy

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

22] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

23] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

24] Penny and penny laid up will be many

25] Between two stools you fall to the ground

26] Tell the truth and shame the devil

27] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

28] Suffering does not manifest itself

29] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

30] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

31] Cheats never prosper

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

33] It takes two to make a quarrel

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

35] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

36] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

37] He that promises too much means nothing

38] He that lends, gives

39] Children speak only words they have heard.

40] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

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

42] Plain dealing is a jewel

43] By his deeds we know a man

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

45] You never know what you can do till you try

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

47] One sword keeps another in the sheath

48] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

49] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

50] Conscience does make cowards of us all

51] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

52] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

53] Discontent is the first step in progress

54] A man may bear till his back breaks

55] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

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

57] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

58] Beauty opens locked doors

59] No man so good but another may be as good as he

60] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

61] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

62] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

63] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

64] The tailor makes the man

65] Homo is a common name to all men.

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

67] A good tongue is a good weapon

68] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

69] He that has no money needs no purse

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

71] Gold will not buy everything

72] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

73] A man’s wealth is his enemy

74] Lavishness is not generosity

75] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

76] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

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

78] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

79] Extremes are dangerous

80] Wrong has no warrant

81] Where there is whispering there is lying

82] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

83] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

84] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

85] Every dog is valiant at his won door

86] By his deeds we know a man

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

88] We shall lie all alike in our graves

89] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

90] Don’t cry stinking fish

91] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

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

93] A hungry man smells meat afar off

94] Remember, you are but a man

95] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

96] Grief pent up will break the heart

97] God is always on the side of the big battalions

98] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

99] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

100] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.