Famous Proverbs

1] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

2] No man is indispensable

3] No one betrays himself by silence

4] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

5] Excessive happiness produces pain

6] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

7] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

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

9] He who never was sick dies the first fit

10] Great minds think alike

11] Knowledge is power

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

13] Facts are stubborn things

14] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

15] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

16] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

17] He that can stay. Obtains

18] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

19] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

20] There is nothing that costs less than civility

21] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

22] All good things must come to an end

23] Sickness soaks the purse

24] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

25] It is a shame to be shameless

26] Expectation is better than realisation

27] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

28] What the king wills, that the law wills

29] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

30] Love me, love the crows on my roof

31] Even silence may be eloquent

32] The ass that brays most eats

33] One cannot put back the clock

34] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

35] Honesty is the best policy

36] Silence never makes mistakes

37] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

38] Plain dealing is best

39] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

40] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

41] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

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

43] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

44] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

45] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

46] Change brings life

47] Wisdom is better than strength

48] Saying is one thing, and doing another

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

50] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

51] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

52] Familiarity breeds contempt

53] Small is the seed of every greatness

54] All is fair in love and war

55] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

56] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

57] Go not to hell for company

58] Riches along make no men happy

59] Every medal has its reverse

60] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

61] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

62] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

63] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

64] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

65] The day obliterates the promise of the might

66] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

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

68] No man can serve two masters

69] Hungry bellies have no ears

70] Use makes mastery

71] One of these days is none of these days

72] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

73] First creep, then walk

74] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

75] Never too late to repent

76] One must be a servant before one can be a master

77] Time and tide wait for no man

78] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

79] Every man has his faults

80] Diligence is the mother of good luck

81] Penny and penny laid up will be many

82] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

83] All things are possible with god

84] Failure teaches success

85] Great hopes make great men

86] The more cost, the more honour

87] All cats are grey in the dark

88] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

89] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

90] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

91] Hungry bellies have no ears

92] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

93] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

94] He that seeks trouble never misses

95] Lucky men need no counsel

96] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

97] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

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

99] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

100] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country