Famous Proverbs

1] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

2] It is no use crying over spilt milk

3] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

4] A man without a wife is but half a man

5] It’s dogged that does it

6] Too long burden makes weary bones

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

8] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

9] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

10] The resolved mind has no cares

11] The mob tramples on the coward

12] You cannot have your cake and eat it

13] Half a word is enough for a wise man

14] A good conscience is a soft pillow

15] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

16] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

17] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

18] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

19] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

20] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

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

22] Boys will be boys

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

24] Health and wealth create beauty

25] Appetite comes with eating

26] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

27] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

28] Dumb dogs are dangerous

29] Everything is good in its season

30] The highest branch is not the safest roost

31] Two heads are better than one

32] Debt is an evil conscience

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

34] To teach is to learn twice over

35] A man of courage never wants weapons

36] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

37] Covetousness brings nothing home

38] Those near the temple deride the gods

39] Let like mate with like

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

41] Every little helps

42] It is a shame to be shameless

43] In my own house, I am king

44] There is nothing like being on the safe side

45] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

46] An empty sack cannot stand upright

47] A fool and his money are soon parted

48] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

49] Innocence is no protection

50] A good beginning is half the battle.

51] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

52] Little and often fills the purse

53] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

54] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

55] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

56] He that lends, gives

57] Every dog is valiant at his won door

58] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

59] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

60] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

61] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

62] The dog is a lion in his own house

63] There’s a time and place for everything

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

65] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

66] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

67] When wine sinks, words swim

68] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

69] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

70] Youth and age will never agree

71] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

72] Often and little eating makes a man fat

73] Hunger is sharper than the sword

74] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

75] Example is better than precept

76] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

77] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

78] It is good fishing in troubled waters

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

80] Well begun is half done.

81] Error cannot be defended but by error

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

83] Do not wear out your welcome

84] The unexpected always happens.

85] Things are seldom what they seem.

86] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

87] Do it now

88] Poverty is not a crime

89] Dreams are lies

90] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

91] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

92] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

93] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

94] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

95] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

96] Where there is peace, God is

97] Big words seldom go with good deeds

98] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

99] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

100] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers