Famous Proverbs

1] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

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

3] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

4] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

5] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

6] Hope is the poor man’s bread

7] Better are small fish than an empty dish

8] Hard cases make bad law

9] Well done is better than well said

10] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

11] Advice when most needed is least heeded

12] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

13] A word before is worth two behind

14] At a good bargain thinks twice

15] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

16] Money isn’t everything

17] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

18] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

19] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

20] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

21] It is good fishing in troubled waters

22] Train the child in the way he should go.

23] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

24] A good example is the best sermon

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

26] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

27] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

28] No pains, no gains

29] Bad excuses are worse than none.

30] Better ask the way than go astray

31] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

32] He who wills the end, Wills the means

33] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

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

35] Experience must be bought

36] If you play with fire you get burnt

37] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

38] III counsel mars all

39] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

40] Save your breath to cool the porridge

41] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

42] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

43] A word spoken is past recalling

44] A door must be either shut or open

45] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

46] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

47] A fool may give a wise man counsel

48] Fair exchange is no robbery

49] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

50] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

51] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

52] He that sows virtue reaps fame

53] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

54] Nothing seek, nothing find

55] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

56] The best things carried to excess are wrong

57] Time has wings

58] Don’t meet trouble half-way

59] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

60] The dog that fetches, will carry.

61] All things are easy, that are done willingly

62] Sow thin and mow thin

63] Early sow, early mow

64] Confess and be hanged

65] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

66] Live and let live

67] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

68] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

69] As you brew, so shall you drink.

70] All are not saints that go to church

71] Never hit a man when he’s down

72] Love is lawless.

73] Parents are patterns

74] Anything will fit a naked man.

75] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

76] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

77] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

78] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

79] One cannot put back the clock

80] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

81] An old fox is not easily snared

82] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

83] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

84] The dog is a lion in his own house

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

86] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

87] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

88] He that repairs not a part, builds all

89] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

90] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

91] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

92] Past cure, past care

93] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

94] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

95] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

96] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

97] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

98] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

99] Bad luck often brings good luck

100] Good broth may be made in an old pot