Famous Proverbs

1] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

2] Human blood is all of a colour

3] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

4] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

5] Possibilities are infinite

6] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

7] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

8] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

9] Ambition makes people diligent

10] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

11] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

12] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

13] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

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

15] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

16] Love delights in praise

17] Fair face, foul heart

18] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

19] All things are difficult before they are easy

20] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

21] Good to begin well, better to end well.

22] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

23] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

25] A soft answer turns away wrath

26] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

27] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

28] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

29] God sends cold after Clothes

30] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

31] Tell the truth and shame the devil

32] It is more blessed to give than to receive

33] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

34] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

35] Fish begins to stink at the head

36] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

37] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

38] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

39] Great minds think alike

40] The exception proves the rule

41] Sickness soaks the purse

42] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

43] New things are fair

44] Virtue is the only true nobility

45] Bad excuses are worse than none.

46] The tongue stings

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

48] One man sows and another reaps

49] He that obey cannot command

50] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

51] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

52] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

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

54] After the extreme of cold comes spring

55] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

56] So many men, so many opinions

57] He that desires but little has no deed of much

58] Manners make the man

59] Better late than never

60] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

61] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

62] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

63] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

64] What costs little is little esteemed

65] Poverty is the mother of crime

66] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

67] More have repented speech than silence

68] An old ox makes a straight furrow

69] Better an apple given than eaten

70] Never too late to repent

71] Think of ease, but work on.

72] A man in debt is caught in a net

73] Many dishes make many diseases

74] Big words seldom go with good deeds

75] Death alone can kill hope

76] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

77] Poverty is no sin

78] Every advantage has its disadvantage

79] He that knows little often repeats it

80] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

81] Silence never makes mistakes

82] Every medal has two sides

83] Dirty water does not wash clean.

84] After the extreme of cold comes spring

85] Early sow, early mow

86] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

87] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

88] Prove your friend ere you have need

89] All things are easy, that are done willingly

90] Beware of him who makes thee presents

91] Ignorance is the peace of life

92] A door must be either shut or open

93] Every medal has two sides

94] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

95] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

96] The weeds overgrow the corn.

97] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

98] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

99] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

100] Fine feathers make fine birds.