Famous Proverbs

1] As soon as there is life there is danger

2] No feast lasts forever.

3] Great trees keep down the little ones

4] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

5] Dumb dogs are dangerous

6] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

7] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

8] The best of friends must part

9] Good ware makes quick market

10] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

11] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

12] Little things are great to little men

13] Tell a lie and stick to it.

14] Good broth may be made in an old pot

15] By his deeds we know a man

16] Good broth may be made in an old pot

17] Man punishes the action but God the intention

18] Marriages are made in heaven

19] The world is full of fools

20] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

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

22] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

23] An ill tongue may do much

24] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

25] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

26] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

27] The thread breaks where it is weakest

28] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

29] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

30] He is wise who looks ahead

31] Much meat, much malady

32] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

33] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

34] The thing which is rare is dear

35] In the end, things will mend

36] A good word stills great anger

37] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

38] Money makes the man

39] The ant had wings to her hurt

40] Appetite comes with eating

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

42] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

43] The dog that fetches, will carry.

44] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

45] A good name is better than riches

46] All good things must come to an end

47] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

48] Let sleeping dogs lie

49] Friends are thieves of time

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

51] A learned man has always riches in himself

52] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

53] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

54] Covetousness breaks the sack

55] Exchange is no robbery

56] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

57] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

58] Everything is good in its season

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

60] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

61] Use makes mastery

62] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

63] Men are not to be measured in inches

64] There is none misfortune cannot reach

65] Man does what he can, and God what he will

66] Better never begin than never make an end

67] He that has no money needs no purse

68] An angry man is not fit to pray

69] Where there’s a will there’s a way

70] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

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

72] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

73] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

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

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

76] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

77] Keep something for a rainy day

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

79] Prove your friend ere you have need

80] Bad excuses are worse than none.

81] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

82] The end makes all equal

83] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

84] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

85] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

86] Lend never that thing you needed most

87] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

88] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

89] We are all Adam’s children

90] There is a great difference between words and deeds

91] More have repented speech than silence

92] Praise is always pleasant

93] God helps those who help themselves

94] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

95] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

96] Fair without, false within

97] The more wicked, the more lucky

98] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

99] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

100] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence