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Famous Proverbs

1] He has not lost all who has one cast left
2] Example is the greatest of all seducers
3] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman
4] Delays are not denials
5] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself
6] Crime does not pay
7] You cannot know the wine by the barrel
8] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil
9] There is honour among thieves
10] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door
11] At open doors, dogs come in
12] He that loveth danger shall perish therein
13] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path
14] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.
15] An army marches on its stomach
16] Money is power
17] It is as well to know which way the wind blows
18] Everything new is fine
19] Every man is his own worst enemy
20] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another
21] Children speak only words they have heard.
22] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel
23] Kingdoms divided soon fall
24] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon
25] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand
26] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater
27] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
28] Things past cannot be recalled
29] Learning is the eye of the mind
30] Better be first in a village than second at Rome
31] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth
32] East or west, home is best
33] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
34] Respect is greater from a distance
35] Rain water leaks through the roof-top
36] Experience is the mother of wisdom
37] Wise men do not argue with idiots
38] Too much hope deceives
39] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow
40] He that falls today may rise tomorrow
41] Jack is as good as his master
42] Better go about than fall in to the ditch
43] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
44] Well begun is half done.
45] They that dance must pay the fiddler
46] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom
47] Adam’s ale is the best brew
48] Seldom seen, soon forgotten
49] Variety takes away satiety
50] Virtue joints man to god
51] Far from eye, far from heart
52] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent
53] A contented mind is a perpetual feast
54] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
55] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away
56] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves
57] A bad workman always blames his tools
58] The young will sow their wild oats
59] Plain dealing is best
60] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
61] Possibilities are infinite
62] A penny saved is a penny gained
63] All is fair in love and war
64] Silence is a woman’s best garment
65] A gift much expected is paid, not given
66] Wisdom is better than strength
67] If anything can go wrong, it will
68] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly
69] Strike while the iron is hot
70] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed
71] One sheep follows another
72] Soon hot, soon cold
73] Blood is thicker than water
74] The fairest silk is soonest stained
75] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts
76] He is wise who looks ahead
77] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.
78] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
79] Fields have eyes and woods have ears
80] Every man to his trade.
81] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
82] Beauty is only skin deep
83] A still tongue makes a wise head
84] Love me, love my dog
85] He who begins many things, finishes but few
86] Little things are pretty
87] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone
88] Every man must carry his own cross
89] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen
90] Will is no skill
91] White there’s life there’s hope
92] Many doctors, death accomplished
93] The thread breaks where it is weakest
94] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor
95] Hard cases make bad law
96] Homo is a common name to all men.
97] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
98] There is nothing new under the sun
99] One hand washes the other
100] One reason is as good as fifty



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