Famous Proverbs

1] Custom reconciles us to everything

2] Suffering does not manifest itself

3] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

4] Penny and penny laid up will be many

5] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

6] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

7] Care is no cure

8] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

9] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

10] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

11] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

12] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

13] Good clothes open all doors

14] Company in misery makes it light

15] Everything in moderation.

16] Our own opinion is never wrong

17] He who owes is in all the wrong

18] Discontent is the first step in progress

19] Lucky men need no counsel

20] No feast lasts forever.

21] Be just before you are generous

22] Walls have ears

23] He that pities another remembers himself

24] The more you get, the more you want

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

26] The love of money is the root of all evil

27] Young saint, old devil.

28] A good name is better than riches

29] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

30] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

31] Past cure, past care

32] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

33] Nature is content with little.

34] A good wife is a good prize

35] The best things in life are free

36] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

37] Don’t cry before you are hurt

38] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

39] No misfortune will go on forever

40] He knows the water best who has waded through it

41] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

42] Who suffers much is silent

43] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

44] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

45] Stolen goods never thrive

46] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

47] There are more men threatened than stricken

48] Whatever man has done, man can do

49] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

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

51] Common fame is a liar

52] There is many a fair thing full false

53] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

54] Where there is no trust there is no love

55] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

56] Lovers are madmen

57] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

58] Of three main roads, take the middle one

59] Soft fire makes sweet malt

60] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

61] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

62] The falling drops hollow the stone

63] Never spur a willing horse

64] He that can stay. Obtains

65] Discretion is the better part of valour

66] Experience is the best teacher

67] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

68] Children and fools cannot lie.

69] Praise no man till he is dead.

70] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

71] Ale will make a cat speak

72] All doors open to courtesy

73] Nothing seek, nothing find

74] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

75] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

76] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

77] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

78] The fairest flowers soonest fade

79] Never too late to repent

80] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

81] Heaven helps those who help themselves

82] The beaten road is the safest

83] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

84] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

85] Men are not to be measured in inches

86] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

87] Virtue carries a lean purse

88] Better the last smile than the first laugh

89] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

90] There is honour among thieves

91] It is best to be on the safe side

92] Fair without, false within

93] He who touches pitch will be defiled

94] A man of courage never wants weapons

95] An egg thief will become a camel thief

96] Prove your friend ere you have need

97] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

98] Many drops make a shower

99] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

100] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell