Famous Proverbs

1] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

2] Fair exchange is no robbery

3] Better a bare foot than none

4] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

5] Lend your money and lose a friend

6] One today is worth two tomorrows

7] Love is lawless.

8] They can do least two boast loudest

9] Love conquers all

10] Wake not a sleeping lion

11] Years know more than books

12] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

13] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

14] Eat to live and not live to eat.

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

16] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

17] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

18] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

19] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

20] A little is better than none

21] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

22] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

23] Take heed is a fair thing

24] Every flow must have its ebb

25] It is not every question that deserves an answer

26] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

27] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

28] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

29] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

30] Remember, you are but a man

31] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

32] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

33] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

34] The fairest flowers soonest fade

35] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

36] Do not limp before the lame

37] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

38] No remedy but patience

39] Ambition loses many a man

40] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

41] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

42] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

43] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

44] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

45] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

46] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

47] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

48] For a web begun, God sends the thread

49] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

50] Slow and steady wins the race

51] Sow thin and mow thin

52] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

53] He conquers who endures

54] Hunger is sharper than the sword

55] Do as say, not as I do

56] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

57] Health is great riches

58] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

59] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

60] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

61] Envy never enriched any man.

62] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

63] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

64] Full of courtesy, full of craft

65] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

66] There is nothing that costs less than civility

67] He who has seen little marvels much

68] Repentance comes too late

69] The word is far him who has patience

70] It is easy to be wise after the event

71] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

72] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

73] There is truth in wine

74] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

75] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

76] No pain, no cure

77] Children and chickens must be always picking

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

79] Common fame is a liar

80] Don’t cry for the moon

81] Practice is the science that gives confidence

82] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

83] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

84] Conscience does make cowards of us all

85] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

86] Silence and thinking can no man offend

87] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

88] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

89] Don’t ride the high horse

90] Best is cheapest

91] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

92] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

93] Nature surpasses art

94] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

95] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

96] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

97] When meat is in anger is out

98] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

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

100] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.