Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

2] Put not the bucket too often in the well

3] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

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

5] Lend your money and lose a friend

6] Experience is the mother of wisdom

7] Children and fools cannot lie.

8] No one betrays himself by silence

9] One good turn deserves another

10] A still tongue makes a wise head

11] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

12] Do not kick against the pricks

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

14] Look on the bright side

15] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

16] Haste makes waste

17] No hair so small but has his shadow

18] He that speaks not, God hears not

19] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

20] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

21] Better unborn than untaught

22] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

23] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

24] Everyone to his taste

25] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

26] Soon hot, soon cold

27] Death keeps no calendar

28] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

29] Four eyes see more than two

30] Open a book and you profit by what you read

31] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

32] Sow thin and mow thin

33] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

34] It is good fishing in troubled waters

35] Love knows hidden paths

36] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

37] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

38] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

39] He gives twice who gives quickly

40] Have two strings to your bow

41] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

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

43] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

44] In the land of hope there is never any winter

45] Old cattle breed not

46] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

47] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

48] There is nothing that costs less than civility

49] No man so good but another may be as good as he

50] Second thoughts are best

51] A great city, a great solitude

52] One barber shaves another gratis

53] Love is never without jealousy

54] Extremes are dangerous

55] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

56] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

57] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

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

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

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

61] Even reckoning makes long friends

62] Content is more than a kingdom

63] The bait hides the hook

64] Without luck, it is better not to be born

65] Many hands make light work

66] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

67] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

68] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

69] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

70] There is nothing permanent except change

71] Beware of no man more than himself

72] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

73] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

74] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

75] The ass that brays most eats

76] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

77] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

78] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

79] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

80] A constant guest is never welcome

81] You know what you can do till you try.

82] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

83] Brevity is the soul of wit

84] Words are but wind

85] The absent saint gets no candle

86] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

87] Rip not up old sores

88] Of three main roads, take the middle one

89] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

90] Moderation in all things

91] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

92] Many a true word is spoken in jest

93] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

94] Dead men tell no tales

95] Little wealth, little care

96] Praise no man till he is dead.

97] Take the will for the deed

98] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

99] Every Jack must have his Jill

100] Cleanliness is next to godliness