Famous Proverbs

1] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

2] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

3] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

4] They say so’ is half a lie

5] There are more men threatened than stricken

6] There is a black sheep in every flock

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

8] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

9] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

10] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

11] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

12] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

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

14] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

15] One fool praises another

16] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

17] All men are mortal

18] A good tongue is a good weapon

19] Come with the wind, got with the water

20] Lose a leg rather than a life

21] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

22] Open confession is good for the soul

23] Children speak only words they have heard.

24] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

25] He who wills the end, Wills the means

26] If anything can go wrong, it will

27] The good intention excuses the bad action

28] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

29] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

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

31] Of two evils choose the lesser

32] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

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

34] Little wealth, little care

35] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

36] From word to deed is a great space

37] Long absent, soon forgotten

38] Lavishness is not generosity

39] Novelty always appears handsome

40] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

41] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

42] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

43] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

44] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

45] He who pays the piper calls the tune

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

47] Circumstances alter cases

48] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

49] Wise men silent, fools talk

50] You may have too much of a good thing

51] It costs more to do ill than to do well

52] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

53] He that knows little often repeats it

54] Talk much end err much

55] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

56] He that is down need fear no fall

57] First try and then trust

58] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

59] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

60] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

61] He that repairs not a part, builds all

62] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

63] Take heed is a fair thing

64] Repentance is a bitter physic

65] Sow thin and mow thin

66] Now is now, and then was then

67] He that is absent is soon forgotten

68] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

69] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

70] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

71] Rip not up old sores

72] Kingdoms divided soon fall

73] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

74] Long life has long misery

75] A little body often harbours a great soul

76] Eat to live and not live to eat.

77] One may change the place but not the mind.

78] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

79] Help a lame dog over a stile

80] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

81] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

82] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

83] Without luck, it is better not to be born

84] Seeing is believing

85] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

86] Who greases his way travels easily

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

88] Pleasant hours fly past

89] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

90] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

91] Big fish eat little fish

92] You cannot have it both ways

93] Man cannot live by bread alone

94] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

95] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

96] Health and money go far

97] It is good to follow the old fox

98] Step by step the ladder is ascended

99] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

100] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed