Famous Proverbs

1] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

2] He who excuses himself accuses himself

3] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

4] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

5] Out of sight, out of mind

6] Good fame is better than a good face

7] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

8] Prove your friend ere you have need

9] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

10] If the cap fits, wear it

11] The early man ever borrows from the late man

12] The longest journey starts with a single step

13] As you sow, so shall you reap

14] The highest branch is not the safest roost

15] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

16] Wisdom is better than strength

17] The company makes the feast

18] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

19] We are all Adam’s children

20] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

21] Dumb men get no lands

22] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

23] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

24] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

25] Never spend your money before you have it

26] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

27] The best things carried to excess are wrong

28] Poor folk fare the best

29] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

30] Do it now

31] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

32] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

33] Wise men are caught in wiles

34] Love cannot be compelled

35] A miss is as good as a mile

36] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

37] Fine feathers make fine birds.

38] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

39] Despair gives courage to a coward

40] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

41] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

42] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

43] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

44] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

45] Jack is as good as his master

46] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

47] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

48] Money has no smell

49] Wake not a sleeping lion

50] Best is cheapest

51] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

52] Health without money is half an ague

53] A monk can’t shave his own head

54] Beware of a silent man and still water

55] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

56] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

57] By falling we learn to go safely

58] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

59] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

60] Ill comes often on the back worse

61] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

62] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

63] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

64] Love knows no limit

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

66] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

67] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

68] God makes the back for the burden

69] He that cannot ask, cannot live

70] Laugh and grow fat

71] Haste is of (or from) the devil

72] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

73] Every oak has been an acorn

74] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

75] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

76] Silence never makes mistakes

77] The voice is the best music

78] When angry, count a hundred

79] There is no smoke without fire

80] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

81] Once a knave, always a knave

82] He that is born a fool is never cured

83] He may find fault that cannot mend

84] All things are easy, that are done willingly

85] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

86] It takes two to make a quarrel

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

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

89] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

90] Blood will have blood

91] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

92] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

93] The road to hell is paved with good action

94] Death alone can kill hope

95] Do not wear out your welcome

96] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

97] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

98] Cast not the first stone.

99] There is death in the pot.

100] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)