Famous Proverbs

1] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

2] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

3] He that eats least eats most

4] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

5] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

6] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

7] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

8] Better to be safe than sorry.

9] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

10] The leopard cannot change its spots

11] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

12] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

13] The longest journey starts with a single step

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

15] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

16] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

17] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

18] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

19] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

20] There is no accounting for tastes

21] A crust is better than no bread.

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

23] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

24] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

25] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

26] A stitch in time saves nine

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

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

29] Not even Hercules could contend against two

30] That which proves too much proves nothing

31] What the king wills, that the law wills

32] Nothing succeeds like success

33] Long life has long misery

34] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

35] Needs must when the devil drives

36] There is no royal road to learning

37] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

38] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

39] A good conscience is a constant feast

40] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

41] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

42] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

43] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

44] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

45] Bold men have generous hearts

46] Poverty is no sin

47] Still waters run deep

48] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

49] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

50] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

51] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

52] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

53] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

55] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

56] His bark is worse than his bite

57] Debt is an evil conscience

58] Nature does nothing in vain

59] It takes a wise man to be a fool

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

61] The greatest talkers are the least doers

62] Wishes can never fill a sack

63] Gold will not buy everything

64] If one will not, another will

65] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

66] Give and spend, and God will send

67] Good wine needs no bush

68] The exception proves the rule

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

70] Manners make the man

71] He travels the fastest who travels alone

72] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

73] Dog does not eat dog

74] He that desires but little has no deed of much

75] Repentance comes too late

76] He who serves is not free

77] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

78] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

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

80] Mercy surpasses justice

81] The labour we delight in physics pain

82] Easy come, easy go

83] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

84] He that seeks trouble never misses

85] Every beginning is hard

86] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

87] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

88] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

89] An empty sack cannot stand upright

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

91] Penny wise, pound foolish

92] A crust is better than no bread.

93] All are not saints that go to church

94] There is nothing that costs less than civility

95] Too many cooks spoil the broth

96] In doing we learn.

97] Use makes mastery

98] A fool and his money are soon parted

99] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

100] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing