Famous Proverbs

1] A hedge between keeps friendship green

2] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

3] He who touches pitch will be defiled

4] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

5] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

6] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

7] Truth conquers all things

8] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

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

10] Money has no smell

11] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

12] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

13] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

14] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

15] Wisdom is better than strength

16] There is a black sheep in every flock

17] Death alone can kill hope

18] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

19] Every medal has two sides

20] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

21] Misfortune makes foes of friends

22] Every man is his own worst enemy

23] Everyone to his taste

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

25] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

26] Charity begins at home.

27] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

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

29] Dead men don’t bite

30] A cat has nine lives

31] Think on the end before you begin

32] He travels the fastest who travels alone

33] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

34] Dogs bark as they are bred.

35] Custom reconciles us to everything

36] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

37] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

38] One fool praises another

39] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

40] All things require skills but an appetite

41] Experience must be bought

42] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

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

44] Better be a fool than a knave

45] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

46] Numbers overcome the brave

47] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

48] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

49] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

50] Laugh and grow fat

51] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

52] Master easy, servant slack

53] When bees area old, they yield n honey

54] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

55] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

56] Open confession is good for the soul

57] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

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

59] Words cut more than swords

60] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

61] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

62] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

63] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

64] Do as the friar says, not as he does

65] Out of sight, out of mind

66] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

67] Things are seldom what they seem.

68] You cannot make bricks without straw

69] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

70] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

71] Moderation in all things

72] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

73] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

74] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

75] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

76] Love is lawless.

77] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

78] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

79] Bold men have generous hearts

80] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

81] To err is human; to forgive, divine

82] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

83] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

84] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

85] Long absent, soon forgotten

86] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

87] Good clothes open all doors

88] Tomorrow is another day

89] Give and spend, and God will send

90] A good dog deserves a good bone

91] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

92] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

93] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

94] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

95] Wine is the best broom for trouble

96] They also serve who only stand and wait

97] Poverty parts friendship

98] Ready money is a ready remedy

99] Double charge will rive a cannon

100] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late