Famous Proverbs

1] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

2] Every flow must have its ebb

3] Good ware makes quick market

4] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

5] Weak things united become strong

6] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

7] Tomorrow is another day

8] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

9] Borrowed garments never fit well

10] Success makes a fool seem wise.

11] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

12] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

13] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

14] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

15] The tailor makes the man

16] What may be done at any time is done at no time

17] Good luck beats early rising

18] A knave and a fool never take thought

19] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

20] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

21] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

22] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

23] He that speaks not, God hears not

24] Fair play’s a jewel

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

26] Soon hot, soon cold

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

28] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

29] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

30] None so deaf as those that will not hear

31] There is honour among thieves

32] All roads lead to Rome

33] The weeds overgrow the corn.

34] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

35] A man can do no more than he can

36] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

37] An evil life is a kind of death.

38] Coming events cast their shadows before

39] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

40] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

41] Better no doctor at all than three.

42] Cut your coat according to your cloth

43] What is money to a cat?

44] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

45] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

46] The thing which is rare is dear

47] Dogs bark as they are bred.

48] Fortune favours fools

49] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

50] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

51] He that wants health wants all

52] No answer is also an answer

53] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

54] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

55] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

56] Success makes a fool seem wise.

57] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

58] Truth is stranger than fiction

59] Light burden I heavy if far borne

60] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

61] Time flees without a delay

62] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

63] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

64] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

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

66] Love laughs at locksmiths

67] Great oaks from little acorns grow

68] Better to ask the way than go astray.

69] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

70] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

71] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

72] He that lends, gives

73] East or west, home is best

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

75] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

76] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

77] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

78] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

79] Marriages are made in heaven

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

81] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

82] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

83] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

84] Hunger breaks stone walls

85] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

86] Half an egg is better than empty shell

87] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

88] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

89] Every commodity has its discommodity

90] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

91] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

92] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

93] Give the devil his due

94] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

95] The money you refuse will never do you good

96] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

97] Little wealth, little care

98] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

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

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