Famous Proverbs

1] Health without money is half an ague

2] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

3] Youth and age will never agree

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

5] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

6] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

7] Rich folk have many friends

8] Wise men do not argue with idiots

9] Through obedience learn to command.

10] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

11] Art improves Nature

12] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

13] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

14] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

15] Patience is a plaster for all sores

16] Facts are stubborn things

17] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

18] Live and Learn

19] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

20] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

21] Self do, self have

22] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

23] You may know by a handful the whole sack

24] Better be a fool than a knave

25] Poor folk fare the best

26] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

27] A living dog is better than a dead lion

28] Not even Hercules could contend against two

29] All doors open to courtesy

30] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

31] The labourer is worthy of his hire

32] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

33] The last drop makes the cup run over

34] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

35] One potter envies another

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

37] The fairest silk is soonest stained

38] Every shoe fits not every foot

39] A cat may look at a king

40] That which Nature paints never fades

41] Better the foot slip than the tongue

42] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

43] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

44] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

45] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

46] Enough is enough

47] When wine sinks, words swim

48] Better unborn than untaught

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

50] There is no rose without a thorn

51] He that sows virtue reaps fame

52] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

53] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

54] Wise men do not argue with idiots

55] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

56] Money isn’t everything

57] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

58] A constant guest is never welcome

59] The last suitor wins the maid

60] Love your friend with his fault

61] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

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

63] Extremity of right is wrong

64] Learn not and know not

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

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

67] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

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

69] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

70] Homo is a common name to all men.

71] One father is more than a hundred school masters

72] Poverty is no sin

73] Company in misery makes it light

74] Rich folk have many friends

75] He who does no good, does evil enough

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

77] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

78] Virtue has all things in itself

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

80] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

81] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

82] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

83] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

84] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

85] Sooner begun, sooner done

86] At a good bargain thinks twice

87] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

88] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

89] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

90] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

91] The highest tree has the greatest fall

92] Of two evils choose the lesser

93] As soon as there is life there is danger

94] Will is no skill

95] No man is born wise or learned

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

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

98] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

99] Rome was not built in a day

100] The unexpected always happens.