Famous Proverbs

1] The longest way round is the shortest way home

2] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

3] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

4] A word spoken is past recalling

5] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

6] Sweet are the uses of adversity

7] Fair without, false within

8] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

9] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

10] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

11] He that has plenty of goods will have more

12] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

13] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

14] Waste not, want not

15] Charity begins at home.

16] A straight stick is crooked in water

17] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

18] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

19] There is no place like home

20] Man proposes, God disposes

21] The beaten road is the safest

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

23] Money is the only monarch

24] The weakest goes to the wall

25] One good turn deserves another

26] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

27] Every light has its shadow

28] Other times, other manners

29] There is many a true word spoken in jest

30] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

31] He is rich that has few wants

32] Example, is better than precept

33] Petty laws breed great crimes

34] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

35] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

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

37] He who begins many things, finishes but few

38] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

39] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

40] Friendship should not be all on one

41] Time flees without a delay

42] Words are but wind

43] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

44] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

45] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

46] Repentance comes too late

47] A hungry man is angry man

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

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

50] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

51] A fault once denied is twice committed

52] No wrong without a remedy

53] Little wealth, little care

54] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

55] Lose a leg rather than a life

56] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

57] Good clothes open all doors

58] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

59] It takes a wise man to be a fool

60] Familiarity breeds contempt

61] Weeds need no sowing

62] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

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

64] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

65] High places have their precipices

66] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

67] God helps those who help themselves

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

69] III counsel mars all

70] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

71] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

72] Money can influence even the spirits

73] Money is the sinews of war

74] Goodness is better than beauty

75] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

76] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

77] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

78] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

79] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

80] The dog that fetches, will carry.

81] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

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

83] Trusting often makes fidelity

84] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

85] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

86] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

87] No sweet without sweat

88] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

89] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

90] An old ox makes a straight furrow

91] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

92] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

93] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

94] All griefs with bread are less

95] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

96] He that has a wife, has strife

97] What is worse than ill luck?

98] Hunger breaks stone walls

99] Out of debt, out of danger

100] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law