Famous Proverbs

1] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

2] Death is the grand leveler

3] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

4] A man of courage never wants weapons

5] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

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

7] Company in misery makes it light

8] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

9] Where there is peace, God is

10] Patience is a virtue

11] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

12] God’s help is better than the early rising

13] Change brings life

14] Do not kick against the pricks

15] Care is no cure

16] Grief pent up will break the heart

17] Too long burden makes weary bones

18] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

19] Haste is of (or from) the devil

20] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

21] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

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

23] The end justifies the means

24] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

25] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

26] One father is more than a hundred school masters

27] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

28] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

29] The falling drops hollow the stone

30] The devil is not as black as he is painted

31] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

32] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

33] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

34] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

35] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

36] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

37] You can’t clap with one hand

38] A woman’s work is never done

39] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

40] Misfortunes never come singly

41] Hungry bellies have no ears

42] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

43] Not even Hercules could contend against two

44] No remedy but patience

45] A word to the wise is enough

46] An old fox is not easily snared

47] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

48] Waste is not grandeur

49] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

50] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

51] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

52] A good marksman may miss

53] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

54] No road is long with good company

55] The cowl does not make the monk.

56] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

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

58] Extremes meet

59] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

60] He that pities another remembers himself

61] One man’s means another man’s poison

62] At a good bargain thinks twice

63] Threatened folk live long

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

65] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

66] Busiest men find the most time

67] Wise men propose, and fools determine

68] Misfortune does not always come to injure

69] Those near the temple deride the gods

70] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

71] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

72] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

73] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

74] Divine grace was never slow

75] None so blind as those who will not see

76] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

77] The coward threatens only when he is safe

78] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

79] No choice amongst stinking fish

80] Far from eye, far from heart

81] Pleasing ware is half sold

82] Weeds need no sowing

83] It is no use crying over spilt milk

84] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

85] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

86] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

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

88] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

89] Adventures are to be adventurous

90] As you sow, so shall you reap

91] It is all in the day’s work

92] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

93] Acorns were good till bread was found

94] Beware of no man more than himself

95] A good name is better than a golden girdle

96] There is death in the pot.

97] Cheap is dear in the long run.

98] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

99] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

100] Excessive happiness produces pain