Famous Proverbs

1] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

2] Love me, love my dog

3] What’s done is done

4] A single rose does not mean spring

5] The envious man shall never want woe

6] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

7] III luck is good for something

8] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

9] He stands not surely that never slips

10] Enough is enough

11] Some are wise and some are otherwise

12] Divide and rule

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

14] Pitchers have ears

15] He who hesitates is lost

16] A bad excuse is better than none at all

17] Vice makes virtue shine

18] Hope keeps man alive

19] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

20] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

21] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

22] He that praises himself, spatters himself

23] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

24] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

25] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

26] Paddle your own canoe

27] Do as I say, not as I do

28] New lords, new laws

29] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

30] Save your breath to cool the porridge

31] It is easier to pull down than to build

32] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

33] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

34] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

35] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

36] Little and often fills the purse

37] He knows most who speaks least

38] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

39] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

40] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

41] No man is infallible

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

43] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

44] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

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

46] A straight stick is crooked in water

47] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

48] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

49] Fair play’s a jewel

50] When you do not know what to do – wait.

51] Divine grace was never slow

52] There is nothing permanent except change

53] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

54] When angry, count a hundred

55] New brooms sweep clean

56] He stands not surely that never slips

57] What is word but wind?

58] He who sows, trusts in God

59] Desires are nourished by delays

60] The good is often the enemy of the best

61] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

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

63] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

64] Needs must when the evil drives

65] Where there is peace, God is

66] No garden without its weeds.

67] Better a bare foot than none

68] Garbage in, garbage out

69] Every groom is a king at home

70] It is not work that kills but worry

71] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

72] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

73] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

74] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

75] First thrive then wive

76] The longest day must have an end

77] Little things please little minds

78] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

79] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

80] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

81] Money is the root of all evil

82] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

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

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

85] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

86] Content is more than a kingdom

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

88] Take the tone of the company you are in

89] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

90] It is good fishing in troubled waters

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

92] A constant guest is never welcome

93] Experience is the best teacher

94] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

95] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

96] No one betrays himself by silence

97] Take heed is a fair thing

98] All’s well that ends well

99] Good to begin well, better to end well.

100] Expectation is better than realisation