Famous Proverbs

1] Poverty is the mother of crime

2] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

3] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

4] Leave well alone

5] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

6] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

7] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

8] Crime does not pay

9] He is wise who looks ahead

10] A good lawyer must be a great liar

11] Nature abhors a vacuum

12] Words are but wind

13] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

14] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

15] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

16] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

17] He that is born a fool is never cured

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

19] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

20] The fairest silk is soonest stained

21] They say so’ is half a lie

22] As you brew, so shall you drink.

23] Precepts may lead but examples draw

24] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

25] Of a new prince, new bondage

26] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

27] For a web begun, God sends the thread

28] A great city, a great solitude

29] A good paymaster needs no surety

30] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

31] Needs must when the devil drives

32] He that praises himself, spatters himself

33] It is misery enough to have once been happy

34] Four eyes see more than two

35] In the land of hope there is never any winter

36] All for one, and one for all.

37] A willful man will have his way

38] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

39] God’s help is better than the early rising

40] Even silence may be eloquent

41] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

42] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

43] Corn him well and he will work better

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

45] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

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

47] Put not the bucket too often in the well

48] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

49] Even Homer sometimes nods

50] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

51] As long lives a merry man as a sad

52] Man cannot live by bread alone

53] Never too late to late to repent

54] Wise men are caught in wiles

55] Double charge will rive a cannon

56] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

57] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

58] A crust is better than no bread.

59] It is not every question that deserves an answer

60] None so deaf as those that will not hear

61] The hole calls the thief

62] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

63] A heavy purse makes a light heart

64] Procrastination is the thief of time

65] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

66] Tell the truth and shame the devil

67] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

68] Common fame is a liar

69] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

70] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

71] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

72] Wishes can never fill a sack

73] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

74] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

75] Children speak only words they have heard.

76] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

77] The ass that brays most eats

78] Adam’s ale is the best brew

79] Divine grace was never slow

80] Anger managers everything badly.

81] God sends cold after Clothes

82] No man can serve two masters

83] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

84] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

85] The best things are hard to come by.

86] Riches along make no men happy

87] He that is absent is soon forgotten

88] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

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

90] Every medal has its reverse

91] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

92] Liars should have good memories

93] Little wealth, little care

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

95] A good husband makes a good wife

96] Dumb dogs are dangerous

97] Health without money is half an ague

98] A straight stick is crooked in water

99] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

100] Creditors have better memories than debtors