Famous Proverbs

1] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

2] Home is home though it be never so homely

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

4] Lend never that thing you needed most

5] Train the child in the way he should go.

6] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

7] A good beginning makes a good ending.

8] The best things come in small packages

9] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

10] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

11] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

12] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

13] Every advantage has its disadvantage

14] Bare walls make giddy housewives

15] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

16] You must grin and bear it

17] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

18] No day so clear but has dark clouds

19] It is well to live that one may learn

20] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

21] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

22] Nothing comes from nothing

23] A man can do no more than he can

24] A jack of all traders is master of none

25] Don’t meet trouble half-way

26] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

27] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

28] Might is right

29] A loveless life is a living death

30] He is wise who looks ahead

31] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

32] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

33] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

34] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

35] There’s no great loss without some gain

36] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

37] Much law but little justice

38] The best wine comes from an old vessel

39] The day obliterates the promise of the might

40] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

41] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

42] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

43] A soft answer turns away wrath

44] III counsel mars all

45] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

46] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

47] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

48] Beauty draws more than oxen

49] There is nothing new under the sun

50] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

51] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

52] It takes a wise man to be a fool

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

54] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

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

56] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

57] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

58] Little pitchers have big ears.

59] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

60] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

61] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

62] Opportunity makes the thief

63] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

64] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

65] The devil dances in an empty pocket

66] We soon believe what we desire

67] It is misery enough to have once been happy

68] Many hands make light work

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

70] He that praises himself, spatters himself

71] First creep, then walk

72] Asking costs little

73] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

74] A friend is easier lost than found

75] Dead men tell no tales

76] No flying without wings.

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

78] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

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

80] Alms never make poor

81] Sow thin and mow thin

82] Fish and guests smell in three days

83] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

84] The tide must be taken when it comes

85] The devil looks after his own

86] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

87] Names are debts

88] A cat has nine lives

89] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

90] First catch your hare

91] A man with no hands is given a ring.

92] Take time by the forelock

93] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

94] Faint heart never won fair lady

95] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

96] Silence is golden

97] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

98] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

99] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

100] Necessity knows no law