Famous Proverbs

1] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

2] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

3] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

4] Money is the sinews of war

5] A soft answer turns away wrath

6] Brevity is the soul of wit

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

8] Many doctors, death accomplished

9] There is no accounting for tastes

10] There is no rose without a thorn

11] Health without money is half an ague

12] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

13] He who comes first, grinds first.

14] Business is business

15] A good name is a rich heritage

16] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

17] Good fences make good neighbours

18] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

19] Wife and Children are bills of charges

20] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

21] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

22] Love is never without jealousy

23] When one door shuts, another opens

24] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

25] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

26] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

27] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

28] Silence is a woman’s best garment

29] The best things in life are free

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

31] Petty laws breed great crimes

32] No pain, no cure

33] Her that is down need fear no fall

34] He that obey cannot command

35] Wisdom is better than strength

36] Idleness is the root of all evil

37] Birds once snared fear all bushes

38] A light purse makes a heavy heart

39] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

40] Fish begins to stink at the head

41] Misfortune does not always come to injure

42] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

43] The more you have the more you want

44] Every why has a wherefore

45] Practice what you preach

46] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

47] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

48] So many men, so many opinions

49] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

50] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

51] Needs must when the evil drives

52] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

53] The garment worn determines how one is served

54] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

55] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

56] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

57] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

58] A little is better than none

59] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

60] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

61] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

62] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

63] Silence never makes mistakes

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

65] Little things are great to little men

66] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

67] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

68] The golden age was never the present age

69] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

70] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

71] Water is the king of food

72] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

73] Look at the bright side

74] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

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

76] He who has seen little marvels much

77] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

78] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

79] Enough is enough

80] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

81] He that is down need fear no fall

82] Virtue is the only true nobility

83] Change brings life

84] He that brings good news, knocks hard

85] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

86] No good building without a good foundation.

87] The company makes the feast

88] Dead men tell no tales

89] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

90] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

91] Laws were made to be broke

92] A friend is easier lost than found

93] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

94] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

95] A good word stills great anger

96] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

97] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

98] Hunger is sharper than the sword

99] Practice is the science that gives confidence

100] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives