Famous Proverbs

1] One barber shaves another gratis

2] A healthy man is a successful man

3] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

4] The age of miracles is past

5] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

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

7] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

8] Every light has its shadow

9] Wrong has no warrant

10] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

11] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

12] It is all in the day’s work

13] All good things must come to an end

14] If you play with fire you get burnt

15] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

16] Our own opinion is never wrong

17] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

18] Quietness is a great treasure

19] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

20] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

21] The goat must browse where she is tied

22] An angry man is not fit to pray

23] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

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

25] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

26] He that talks much, errs much

27] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

28] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

29] A fool and his money are soon parted

30] Adam’s ale is the best brew

31] Wrong has no warrant

32] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

33] Even a worm will turn

34] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

35] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

36] Many dishes make many diseases

37] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

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

39] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

40] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

41] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

42] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

43] You can’t clap with one hand

44] In doing we learn.

45] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

46] Children should be seen and not heard

47] Set a thief to catch a thief

48] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

49] Through hardship to the stars

50] Praises fill not the belly

51] None so blind as those who will not see

52] Appetite comes with eating

53] Save your breath to cool the porridge

54] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

55] Tigers and deer do not over.

56] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

57] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

58] Much meat, much malady

59] Penny and penny laid up will be many

60] It is useless to flog a dead horse

61] Necessity is a powerful weapon

62] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

63] The early man ever borrows from the late man

64] Old vessels must leak

65] What is new cannot be true

66] United we stand, divided we fall

67] Patient waiters are no losers

68] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

69] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

70] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

71] Familiarity breeds contempt

72] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

73] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

74] Common fame is a liar

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

76] An old man is a bed full of bones

77] Look at the bright side

78] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

79] Penny wise, pound foolish

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

81] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

82] The cobbler should stick to his last

83] Between two stools you fall to the ground

84] The exception proves the rule

85] Cheats never prosper

86] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

87] Dirty linen should be washed at home

88] He that will thrive must rise at five

89] Don’t meet trouble half-way

90] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

91] Where there is whispering there is lying

92] He conquers who endures

93] In indecision itself, grief is present.

94] Variety is the spice of life

95] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

96] That which Nature paints never fades

97] Better no doctor at all than three.

98] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

99] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

100] Early sow, early mow