Famous Proverbs

1] The borrower is servant to the lender

2] What the king wills, that the law wills

3] Between two stools you fall to the ground

4] Dirty water does not wash clean.

5] All heiresses are beautiful.

6] Ready money is ready medicine

7] Harp not for ever on the same string

8] Health is great riches

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

10] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

11] Never judge from appearances

12] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

13] He that is born a fool is never cured

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

15] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

16] You are never too old to learn

17] Old cattle breed not

18] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

19] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

20] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

21] The grace of God enough

22] Waste makes wants

23] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

24] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

25] Every medal has its reverse

26] The devil dances in an empty pocket

27] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

28] Intimacy lessens fame

29] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

30] Better to ask the way than go astray.

31] A true friend is forever a friend

32] Time lost cannot be recalled

33] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

34] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

35] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

36] The leopard cannot change its spots

37] Two blacks do not make a white

38] He who begins many things, finishes but few

39] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

40] Death is the grand leveler

41] Little things are great to little men

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

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

44] Travel broadens the mind

45] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

46] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

47] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

48] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

49] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

50] A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

52] There are spots even in the sun

53] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

54] Old vessels must leak

55] What is worse than ill luck?

56] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

57] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

58] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

59] Hunger is sharper than the sword

60] A hungry man smells meat afar off

61] It costs more to do ill than to do well

62] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

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

64] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

65] Better a bare foot than none

66] Health without money is half an ague

67] When bees area old, they yield n honey

68] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

69] One sword keeps another in the sheath

70] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

71] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

72] Pleasing ware is half sold

73] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

74] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

75] Every man to his trade.

76] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

77] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

78] A hungry man smells meat afar off

79] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

80] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

81] Mere wishes are silly fishes

82] Once bitten, twice shy.

83] Excessive happiness produces pain

84] Precepts may lead but examples draw

85] Light grows the burden which is well borne

86] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

87] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

88] It is as natural to die as to be born

89] A little is better than none

90] Death does not recognize strength

91] Half a loaf is better than do bread

92] It is a shame to be shameless

93] Long absent, soon forgotten

94] The early man ever borrows from the late man

95] Children learn to creep ere they can go

96] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

97] If the cap fits, wear it

98] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

99] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

100] Every dog has his (its) day