Famous Proverbs

1] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

2] A good paymaster never wants workmen

3] Advise none to marry or to go to war

4] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

5] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

6] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

7] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

8] A wicked man is his own hell

9] More than enough is too much

10] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

11] Prospect is often better than possession

12] A closed mouth catches no files

13] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

14] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

15] All things are difficult before they are easy

16] Be just before you are generous

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

18] Many hands make light work

19] Too much money makes one mad

20] When the word is out it belongs to another

21] Once bitten, twice shy.

22] There is nothing permanent except change

23] Adam’s ale is the best brew

24] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

25] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

26] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

27] He knows most who speaks least

28] Death does not recognize strength

29] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

30] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

31] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

32] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

33] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

34] Crust is better than no bread

35] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

36] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

37] The race is got by running

38] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

39] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

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

41] No man can serve two masters

42] Every man must carry his own cross

43] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

44] Necessity knows no law

45] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

46] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

47] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

48] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

49] Ill luck is good for something

50] He conquers who endures

51] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

52] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

53] He that pities another remembers himself

54] An empty sack cannot stand upright

55] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

56] Things are only worth one makes them worth

57] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

58] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

59] An old man is a bed full of bones

60] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

61] Accidents will happen

62] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

63] Little things are great to little men

64] A good conscience is a constant feast

65] Example, is better than precept

66] His bark is worse than his bite

67] Wishes can never fill a sack

68] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

69] Poverty parts friendship

70] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

71] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

72] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

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

74] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

75] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

76] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

77] There is nothing permanent except change

78] Saying is one thing, and doing another

79] Judge not of men and things at first sight

80] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

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

82] All must be as God will

83] Hunger is the teacher of many

84] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

85] Better bend than break

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

87] Old habits die hard

88] Good ware makes quick market

89] Bear and forbear

90] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

91] He that talks much, errs much

92] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

93] None so busy as those who do nothing.

94] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

95] Words fly, writings remain

96] They brag most who can do least

97] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

98] An old horse knows the route

99] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

100] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow