Famous Proverbs

1] The biter is sometimes bit

2] New lords, new laws

3] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

4] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

5] Crowns have cares

6] Where there are reeds, there is water

7] He that has a wife, has strife

8] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

9] A hungry man smells meat afar off

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

11] Better at home than a mile from it

12] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

13] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

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

15] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

16] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

17] The owl thinks her own young fairest

18] Fools live poor to die rich

19] What the king wills, that the law wills

20] Honest is the best policy

21] Youth and age will never agree

22] The righteous man sins before an open chest

23] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

24] Manners and money make a gentleman

25] The voice is the best music

26] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

27] Mirth is the sugar of life

28] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

29] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

30] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

31] Wise men silent, fools talk

32] The last drop makes the cup run over

33] Good luck beats early rising

34] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

35] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

36] Better beg than steal.

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

38] A traveller may lie with authority

39] Small is beautiful

40] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

41] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

42] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

43] The thread breaks where it is weakest

44] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

45] No remedy but patience

46] Variety is the spice of life

47] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

48] Paddle your own canoe

49] Hope is the poor man’s bread

50] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

51] Laws were made to be broke

52] Life is not all beer and skittles

53] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

54] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

55] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

56] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

57] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

58] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

59] To err is human; to forgive, divine

60] The end crowns the work.

61] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

62] Give and take is fair play

63] Success has many friends

64] The resolved mind has no cares

65] Necessity is the mother of invention

66] A goose drinks as much as gander

67] The worse luck now, the better another time

68] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

69] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

70] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

71] Light grows the burden which is well borne

72] Custom reconciles us to everything

73] The darkest place is under the candlestick

74] There is nothing lost by civility

75] New lords, new laws

76] For a web begun, God sends the thread

77] Never judge from appearances

78] Loyalty is worth more than money

79] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

80] The devil is not as black as he is painted

81] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

82] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

83] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

84] Every bean has its black

85] Every advantage has its disadvantage

86] Early sow, early mow

87] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

88] Much meat, much malady

89] He that lives ill, fear follows him

90] A good paymaster needs no surety

91] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

92] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

93] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

94] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

95] Do not wear out your welcome

96] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

97] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

98] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

99] There’s no great loss without some gain

100] A guilty conscience needs no accuser