Famous Proverbs

1] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

2] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

3] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

4] All is vanity.

5] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

6] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

7] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

8] Better belly burst than good meat lost

9] Flesh is frail

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

11] Every oak has been an acorn

12] Better beg than steal.

13] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

14] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

15] Never too late to learn

16] Either mend or end

17] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

18] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

19] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

20] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

21] None so busy as those who do nothing.

22] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

23] No tie can oblige the perfidious

24] A rolling stone gathers no moss

25] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

26] There is no fool like an old fool

27] A goose drinks as much as gander

28] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

29] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

30] It is useless to flog a dead horse

31] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

32] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

33] What can’t be cured must be endured

34] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

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

36] Human blood is all of a colour

37] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

38] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

39] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

40] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

41] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

42] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

43] A fault confessed is half redressed

44] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

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

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

47] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

48] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

49] The first step is the hardest

50] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

52] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

53] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

54] Beggars must not be choosers

55] The devil dances in an empty pocket

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

57] They say so’ is half a lie

58] He thinks not well that thinks not again

59] Better to ask the way than go astray.

60] Nothing is given so freely as advice

61] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

62] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

63] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

64] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

65] Every commodity has its discommodity

66] The darkest place is under the candlestick

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

68] The thing which is rare is dear

69] New lords, new laws

70] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

71] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

72] An angry man is not fit to pray

73] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

74] In haste is error

75] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

76] Lookers-on see most of the game

77] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

78] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

79] The owl thinks her own young fairest

80] Change brings life

81] Other times, other manners

82] Ill luck is good for something

83] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

84] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

85] Great hopes make great men

86] A soft answer turns away wrath

87] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

88] Like question, like answer.

89] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

90] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

91] You cannot unscramble eggs

92] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

93] Dreams are lies

94] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

95] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

96] Who greases his way travels easily

97] The exception proves the rule

98] Six feet of earth make all men equal

99] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

100] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight