Famous Proverbs

1] Common fame is a liar

2] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

3] What everybody says must be true

4] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

5] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

6] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

7] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

8] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

9] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

10] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

11] An empty sack cannot stand upright

12] Tempt not a desperate man

13] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

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

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

16] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

17] Marriages are made in heaven

18] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

19] The end justifies the means

20] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

21] Honesty is ill to thrive by

22] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

23] Many a true word is spoken in jest

24] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

25] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

26] Books and friends should be few but good

27] The borrower is servant to the lender

28] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

29] Many hands make light work

30] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

31] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

32] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

33] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

34] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

35] No garden without its weeds.

36] A little body often harbours a great soul

37] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

38] Wisdom is better than strength

39] A learned man has always riches in himself

40] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

41] No one ought to judge in his own cause

42] An old man is a bed full of bones

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

44] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

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

46] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

47] Crust is better than no bread

48] Wiles help weak folk

49] There is many a true word spoken in jest

50] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

51] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

52] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

53] The tongue talks at the heads cost

54] No remedy but patience

55] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

56] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

57] Beware of him who makes thee presents

58] What is new cannot be true

59] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

60] No garden without its weeds.

61] Love will go through stone walls

62] One man sows and another reaps

63] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

64] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

65] A crowd is not company

66] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

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

68] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

69] Every light has its shadow

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

71] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

72] The ass that brays most eats

73] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

74] There’s no place like home

75] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

76] A crust is better than no bread.

77] Home is home though it be never so homely

78] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

79] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

80] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

81] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

82] Slow and steady wins the race

83] A man with no hands is given a ring.

84] Better the last smile than the first laugh

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

86] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

87] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

88] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

89] The darkest place is under the candlestick

90] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

91] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

92] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

93] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

94] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

95] Better ask the way than go astray

96] Better unborn than untaught

97] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

98] New meat begets a new appetite

99] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

100] Necessity knows no law