Famous Proverbs

1] No pain, no cure

2] The devil lurks behind the cross

3] Out of debt, out of danger

4] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

5] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

6] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

7] Respect is greater from a distance

8] The more wicked, the more lucky

9] The company makes the feast

10] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

11] A good dog deserves a good bone

12] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

13] A good heart conquers ill fortune

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

15] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

16] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

17] A man can do no more than he can

18] The pot calls the kettle black

19] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

20] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

21] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

22] Creditors have better memories than debtors

23] Slow and steady wins the race

24] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

25] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

26] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

27] What is word but wind?

28] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

29] New brooms sweep clean

30] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

31] A wise man hears one word and understands two

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

33] Crust is better than no bread

34] A good paymaster needs no surety

35] There is no tree but bears some fruit

36] Mirth without measure is madness

37] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

38] Men are known by the company they keep.

39] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

40] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

41] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

42] Love is without reason

43] There are more men threatened than stricken

44] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

45] Never buy a pig in a poke

46] It is too late to husband when all is spent

47] Business is business

48] He who has seen little marvels much

49] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

50] Good wine needs no bush

51] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

52] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

53] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

54] Precepts may lead but examples draw

55] If you have known one, you have known them all

56] A friend in need is a friend indeed

57] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

58] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

59] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

60] Extremes are dangerous

61] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

62] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

63] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

64] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

65] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

66] Revenge never repairs an injury

67] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

68] Wife and Children are bills of charges

69] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

70] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

71] The exception proves the rule

72] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

73] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

74] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

75] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

76] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

77] All’s fair in love and war

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

79] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

80] Example is the greatest of all seducers

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

82] Judge not, that ye be not judged

83] Love is blind

84] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

85] Everything in moderation.

86] A man in debt is caught in a net

87] Advise none to marry or to go to war

88] He who owes is in all the wrong

89] One kindness is the price of another

90] Our own opinion is never wrong

91] Every dog has his day

92] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

93] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

94] We live laws, not by examples

95] Old vessels must leak

96] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

97] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

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

99] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

100] Slow but sure wins the race