Famous Proverbs

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

2] Erring is not heating

3] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

4] Law makers should not be law breakers

5] Knowledge is power

6] Truth has no need of rhetoric

7] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

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

9] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

10] He that will thrive must rise at five

11] Old cattle breed not

12] Facts are stubborn things

13] From small beginnings come great things

14] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

15] The tongue stings

16] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

17] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

18] A good husband makes a good wife

19] Desire beautifies what is ugly

20] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

21] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

22] Distance lends enchantment to the view

23] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

24] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

25] Findings are keepings

26] Paddle your own canoe

27] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

28] Words cut more than swords

29] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

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

31] No like is the same.

32] Better eye sore than al blind

33] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

34] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

35] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

36] Wise men propose, and fools determine

37] Much meat, much malady

38] Never grieve for what you cannot help

39] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

40] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

41] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

42] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

43] More than enough is too much

44] A crowd is not company

45] Things are seldom what they seem.

46] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

47] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

48] The poor suffer all the wrong

49] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

50] One lie makes many

51] God is a sure paymaster

52] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

53] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

54] III counsel mars all

55] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

56] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

57] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

58] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

59] Bold men have generous hearts

60] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

61] Leave well alone

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

63] A friend is easier lost than found

64] Harp not for ever on the same string

65] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

66] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

67] There is a great difference between words and deeds

68] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

69] Good wine needs no bush

70] By falling we learn to go safely

71] By falling we learn to go safely

72] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

73] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

74] Nature is content with little.

75] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

76] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

77] Think on the end before you begin

78] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

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

80] As you sow, so shall you reap

81] He freezes who does not burn

82] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

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

84] Better to be safe than sorry.

85] There is no rose without a thorn

86] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

87] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

88] Little things are pretty

89] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

90] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

91] The leopard cannot change its spots

92] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

93] A hungry man smells meat afar off

94] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

95] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

96] Fool’s haste is no speed

97] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

98] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

99] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

100] All things require skills but an appetite