Famous Proverbs

1] Example is the greatest of all seducers

2] The early man ever borrows from the late man

3] An old man is a bed full of bones

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

5] As you sow, so shall you reap

6] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

7] While there is life, there is hope

8] God is always on the side of the big battalions

9] One man’s means another man’s poison

10] Crust is better than no bread

11] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

12] No tie can oblige the perfidious

13] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

14] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

15] There are spots even in the sun

16] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

17] Patience surpasses learning

18] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

19] Needs must when the evil drives

20] Youth and age will never agree

21] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

22] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

23] No feast lasts forever.

24] Every light has its shadow

25] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

26] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

27] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

28] There is nothing permanent except change

29] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

30] Man punishes the action but God the intention

31] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

32] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

33] Little things please little minds

34] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

35] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

36] The pen is the tongue of the hand

37] He that speaks not, God hears not

38] Health without money is half an ague

39] All glory comes from daring to begin

40] Wise men do not argue with idiots

41] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

42] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

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

44] As long lives a merry man as a sad

45] He who begins many things, finishes but few

46] The eye is bigger than the belly

47] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

48] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

49] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

50] A bully is always a coward

51] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

52] They brag most who can do least

53] Better children weep than old men

54] Other times, other manners

55] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

56] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

57] Hear twice before you speak once

58] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

59] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

60] Make the best of a bad job

61] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

62] Advice when most needed is least heeded

63] Better ask the way than go astray

64] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

65] Content is more than a kingdom

66] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

67] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

68] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

69] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

70] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

71] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

72] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

73] He that wants health wants all

74] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

75] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

76] God is always on the side of the big battalions

77] He that seeks trouble never misses

78] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

79] The best go first

80] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

81] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

82] Nothing is given so freely as advice

83] Cast not the first stone.

84] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

85] Truth is stranger than fiction

86] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

87] Nature is the true law

88] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

89] It is good fishing in troubled waters

90] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

91] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

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

93] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

94] Never say die

95] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

96] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

97] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

98] A woman’s work is never done

99] A hungry man smells meat afar off

100] Long life has long misery