Famous Proverbs

1] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

2] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

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

4] Muck and money go together

5] An egg thief will become a camel thief

6] Moderation in all things

7] Honesty is the best policy

8] Don’t meet trouble half-way

9] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

10] Once a use and ever a custom

11] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

12] He that has an ill name is half hanged

13] The longest way round is the shortest way home

14] Excessive happiness produces pain

15] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

16] A wicked man is his own hell

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

18] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

19] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

20] Let like mate with like

21] The great would have none great, and the little all little

22] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

23] Marriages are made in heaven

24] A crust is better than no bread.

25] Beauty is only skin deep

26] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

27] Nothing crave, nothing have

28] All that glitters is not gold

29] Heaven helps those who help themselves

30] Take the will for the deed

31] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

32] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

33] What’s done is done

34] Life begins only in success

35] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

36] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

37] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

38] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

39] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

40] Let bygones be bygones

41] No day so clear but has dark clouds

42] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

43] Lavishness is not generosity

44] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

45] You cannot have it both ways

46] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

47] Years know more than books

48] No hair so small but has his shadow

49] The good intention excuses the bad action

50] Where there is no might, right loses itself

51] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

52] Virtue is the only true nobility

53] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

54] Crows are all completely black

55] Fine words dress ill deeds

56] All glory comes from daring to begin

57] Old vessels must leak

58] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

59] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

60] The cobbler should stick to his last

61] A hedge between keeps friendship green

62] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

63] Four eyes see more than two

64] A fool may give a wise man counsel

65] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

66] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

67] Every commodity has its discommodity

68] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

69] Better say noting than no to the purpose

70] Virtue has all things in itself

71] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

72] Bare walls make giddy housewives

73] Facts are stubborn things

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

75] A closed mouth catches no files

76] Don’t cry for the moon

77] The bait hides the hook

78] It never rains it pours

79] In indecision itself, grief is present.

80] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

81] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

82] Kingdoms divided soon fall

83] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

84] Strength grows stronger by being tried

85] He who sows, trusts in God

86] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

87] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

88] A good payer is master of another’s purse

89] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

90] Big words seldom go with good deeds

91] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

92] He that has an ill name is half hanged

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

94] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

95] A miss is as good as a mile

96] Silence is a woman’s best garment

97] He laughs best who laughs last

98] One is what one eats

99] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

100] He that lends, gives