Famous Proverbs

1] Things past cannot be recalled

2] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

3] Save your breath to cool the porridge

4] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

5] Judge not, that ye be not judged

6] Four eyes see better than two.

7] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

8] Novelty always appears handsome

9] That which proves too much proves nothing

10] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

11] Many doctors, death accomplished

12] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

13] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

14] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

15] Custom reconciles us to everything

16] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

17] Love is without reason

18] He that can stay. Obtains

19] Honesty is the best policy

20] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

21] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

22] Every man praises his own wares

23] A woman’s work is never done

24] One father is more than a hundred school masters

25] Wrong never comes right

26] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

28] Bad excuses are worse than none.

29] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

30] Grin and bear it

31] Little things are pretty

32] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

33] Rats know the ways of rats

34] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

35] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

36] Gold is tried in the fire

37] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

38] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

39] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

40] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

41] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

42] There is no garden without its weeds

43] Advice when most needed is least heeded

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

45] Tempt not a desperate man

46] Shrouds have no pockets

47] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

48] A little body often harbours a great soul

49] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

50] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

51] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

52] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

53] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

54] Much science, much sorrow

55] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

56] Waste makes wants

57] So many countries, so many customs

58] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

59] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

60] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

61] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

62] Crowns have cares

63] Every cloud has a silver lining

64] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

65] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

66] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

67] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

68] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

69] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

70] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

71] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

72] A fool and his money are soon parted

73] Words cut more than swords

74] One foot is better than two crutches

75] Misfortune makes foes of friends

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

77] It is too late to look up after you have collided

78] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

79] The longest night will have an end

80] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

81] The best things are hard to come by.

82] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

83] The sign brings customers

84] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

85] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

86] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

87] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

88] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

89] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

90] An old ox makes a straight furrow

91] In indecision itself, grief is present.

92] A jack of all traders is master of none

93] A good conscience is a soft pillow

94] We are all Adam’s children

95] Never say die

96] Everything must have a beginning

97] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

98] Death does not recognize strength

99] Fool’s haste is no speed

100] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty