Famous Proverbs

1] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

2] Where there are reeds, there is water

3] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

4] Care killed the cat

5] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

6] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

7] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

8] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

9] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

10] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

11] Life is not all beer and skittles

12] Children and chickens must be always picking

13] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

14] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

15] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

16] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

17] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

18] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

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

20] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

21] Quietness is a great treasure

22] There is no fool like an old fool

23] The devil dances in an empty pocket

24] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

25] Money is the sinews of war

26] Life begins only in success

27] Extremes are dangerous

28] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

29] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

30] Don’t tell tales out of school

31] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

32] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

33] Better be born lucky than wise.

34] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

35] Never too late to learn

36] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

37] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

38] Things are only worth one makes them worth

39] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

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

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

42] Diamond cuts diamond

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

44] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

45] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

46] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

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

48] Better ask the way than go astray

49] Fair play’s a jewel

50] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

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

52] There is nothing new under the sun

53] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

54] A constant guest is never welcome

55] He who begins many things, finishes but few

56] He thinks not well that thinks not again

57] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

58] What’s done cannot be undone

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

60] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

61] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

62] Beauty is only skin deep

63] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

64] Children and chickens must be always picking

65] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

66] He that is born a fool is never cured

67] Men make houses, women make homes

68] Woes unite foes

69] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

70] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

71] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

72] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

73] Where there are reeds, there is water

74] Don’t kick against the pricks

75] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

76] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

77] He knows most who speaks least

78] One cannot love and be wise

79] Everything is good in its season

80] Bad news travels fast

81] A beggar can never be bankrupt

82] What the king wills, that the law wills

83] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

84] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

85] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

86] God sends cold after Clothes

87] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

88] As you bake, so shall you eat.

89] He knows which side his bread is buttered

90] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

91] Men are blind in their own cause

92] Paddle your own canoe

93] Better say noting than no to the purpose

94] Go not to hell for company

95] Practice is the science that gives confidence

96] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

97] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

98] Much science, much sorrow

99] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

100] Too much curiosity lost paradise