Famous Proverbs

1] Give and spend, and God will send

2] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

3] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

4] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

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

6] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

7] Much meat, much malady

8] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

9] Muck and money go together

10] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

11] A good paymaster never wants workmen

12] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

13] All things are possible with god

14] Children speak only words they have heard.

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

16] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

17] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

18] Better at home than a mile from it

19] Distance lends enchantment to the view

20] He that has no money needs no purse

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

22] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

23] The deed comes back upon the doer.

24] Good counsel never comes amiss

25] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

26] Let us do evil that good may come

27] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

28] Moderation in all things

29] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

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

31] First creep, then walk

32] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

33] Let bygones be bygones

34] Step by step the ladder is ascended

35] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

36] Don’t play with edged tools

37] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

38] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

39] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

40] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

41] God’s lambs will play.

42] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

43] Don’t meet trouble half-way

44] Valour delights in the test

45] All things are difficult before they are easy

46] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

47] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

48] Let sleeping dogs lie

49] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

50] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

51] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

52] Mirth without measure is madness

53] There are spots even in the sun

54] Water is the king of food

55] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

56] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

57] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

58] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

59] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

60] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

61] What has been, may be

62] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

63] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

64] Well begun is half done.

65] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

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

67] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

68] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

69] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

70] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

71] Little by little and bit by bit.

72] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

73] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

74] A good Conscience is the best divinity

75] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

76] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

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

78] God sends cold after Clothes

79] Ready money is a ready remedy

80] Money isn’t everything

81] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

82] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

83] God provides for him that trusts

84] The devil looks after his own

85] God helps those who help themselves

86] Anger managers everything badly.

87] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

88] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

89] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

90] Give the devil his due

91] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

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

93] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

94] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

95] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

96] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

97] Do unto others as they should do unto you

98] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

99] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

100] Friends are thieves of time