Famous Proverbs

1] The greatest talkers are the least doers

2] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

3] Too far east is west

4] Four eyes see better than two.

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

6] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

7] He is lifeless that is faultless

8] A still tongue makes a wise head

9] Despair gives courage to a coward

10] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

11] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

12] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

13] Where there is no might, right loses itself

14] A little impatience will spoil great plans

15] Homer sometimes nods

16] Even silence may be eloquent

17] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

18] Common fame is a liar

19] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

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

21] Some are wise and some are otherwise

22] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

23] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

24] A good drink makes the old young

25] Life means strife

26] Good fame is better than a good face

27] Beauty is only skin deep

28] The best wine comes from an old vessel

29] Variety is the spice of life

30] No news is good news

31] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

32] A fault confessed is half redressed

33] He that is absent is soon forgotten

34] The day obliterates the promise of the might

35] Laws were made to be broke

36] Cheap is dear in the long run.

37] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

38] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

39] Waste makes wants

40] A man in debt is caught in a net

41] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

42] No one ought to judge in his own cause

43] As you brew, so shall you drink.

44] Cowards die many times before their deaths

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

46] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

47] There is no tree but bears some fruit

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

49] A good face is a letter of recommendation

50] Health is better than wealth

51] A willful man will have his way

52] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

53] Will is the cause of woe

54] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

55] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

56] They brag most who can do least

57] Alms never make poor

58] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

59] Big fish eat little fish

60] Bread is the staff of life.

61] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

62] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

63] From small beginnings come great things

64] Appearances are deceptive

65] New lords, new laws

66] By falling we learn to go safely

67] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

68] Names are debts

69] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

70] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

71] First think, and then speak

72] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

73] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

74] Who suffers much is silent

75] No wrong without a remedy

76] A soft answer turns away wrath

77] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

78] When the word is out it belongs to another

79] Goodness is better than beauty

80] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

81] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

82] Love can find a way

83] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

84] Little things please little minds

85] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

86] The highest tree has the greatest fall

87] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

88] Do not kick against the pricks

89] Every law has a loophole

90] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

91] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

92] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

93] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

94] Nothing seek, nothing find

95] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

96] Erring is not heating

97] What will not money do?

98] You can’t take it with you when you die

99] Set a thief to catch a thief

100] No man is a hero to his valet