Famous Proverbs

1] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

2] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

3] Kill two birds with one stone

4] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

5] The labourer is worthy of his hire

6] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

7] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

8] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

9] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

10] Law makers should not be law breakers

11] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

12] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

13] Great talkers are never great doers

14] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

15] Good fences make good neighbours

16] Time flees without a delay

17] Never grieve for what you cannot help

18] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

19] An egg thief will become a camel thief

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

21] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

22] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

23] If you have known one, you have known them all

24] A good conscience is a soft pillow

25] Truth has no need of rhetoric

26] Truth is god’s daughter

27] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

28] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

29] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

30] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

31] Trust is the mother of deceit

32] Many words, many buffets

33] Wrong has no warrant

34] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

35] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

36] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

37] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

38] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

39] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

40] Experience is good if not bought too dear

41] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

42] No honest man ever repented his honesty

43] Dreams go by contraries

44] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

45] He that is born a fool is never cured

46] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

47] Do it now

48] First impressions are the most lasting

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

50] Too many cooks spoil the broth

51] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

52] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

53] Pleasant hours fly past

54] The darkest place is under the candlestick

55] As you sow, so shall you reap

56] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

57] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

58] Good wine needs no bush

59] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

60] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

61] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

62] Fear of death is worse than death itself

63] All roads lead to Rome

64] Too much cunning undoes

65] What the king wills, that the law wills

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

67] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

68] It is as natural to die as to be born

69] In everything consider the end

70] The unexpected always happens.

71] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

72] He that repairs not a part, builds all

73] Laugh and grow fat

74] Do as say, not as I do

75] The devil lurks behind the cross

76] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

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

78] Poor men’s words have little weight

79] He that desires but little has no deed of much

80] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

81] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

82] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

83] Better to wear out than rust out

84] After the extreme of cold comes spring

85] Full of courtesy, full of craft

86] There is no redemption from hell

87] Of two evils choose the lesser

88] Eat to live and not live to eat.

89] Pride goes before a fall

90] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

91] Petty laws breed great crimes

92] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

93] Penny wise, pound foolish

94] A good word stills great anger

95] Every dog is valiant at his won door

96] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

97] All for one, and one for all.

98] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

99] There is no royal road to learning

100] The devil looks after his own