Famous Proverbs

1] The end crowns the work.

2] Experience must be bought

3] A good name is better than a golden girdle

4] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

5] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

6] None but the brave deserves the fair

7] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

8] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

9] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

10] Be careful to whom you give

11] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

12] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

13] Change of pasture makes fat calves

14] None but the brave deserves the fair

15] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

16] Better be safe than sorry

17] A good friend is my nearest relation

18] Now is now, and then was then

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

20] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

21] Wishes can never fill a sack

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

23] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

24] Like will to like

25] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

26] Help a lame dog over a stile

27] Love delights in praise

28] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

29] Enough is as good as a feast

30] If the cap fits, wear it

31] What must be must be

32] There is nothing permanent except change

33] What will not money do?

34] Truth is mighty and will prevail

35] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

36] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

37] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

38] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

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

40] Human blood is all of a colour

41] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

42] Every man to his trade.

43] Give and spend, and God will send

44] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

45] First try and then trust

46] He who begins many things, finishes but few

47] It is never too late to mend

48] Old foxes want no tutors

49] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

50] Asking costs little

51] Manners and money make a gentleman

52] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

53] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

54] The child is father of the man

55] More than enough is too much

56] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

57] A goose drinks as much as gander

58] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

59] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

60] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

61] He who excuses himself accuses himself

62] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

63] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

64] No one ought to judge in his own cause

65] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

66] If you have known one, you have known them all

67] He that pities another remembers himself

68] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

69] Every man has his price

70] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

71] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

72] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

73] Out of debt, out of danger

74] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

75] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

76] Alms never make poor

77] The hand that gives, gathers

78] The fox may grow grey, but never good

79] Don’t play with fire

80] The poor suffer all the wrong

81] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

82] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

83] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

84] He who serves is not free

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

86] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

87] Honesty is the best policy

88] It takes all sorts to make a world

89] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

90] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

91] Once bitten, twice shy.

92] Forgive and forget

93] There is nothing that costs less than civility

94] There is no smoke without fire

95] All for one, and one for all.

96] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

97] Take time by the forelock

98] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

99] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

100] Diamond cuts diamond