Famous Proverbs

1] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

2] Look before you leap

3] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

4] Better late than never, but better never late

5] Little wealth, little care

6] Like mistress, like maid

7] Brevity is the soul of wit

8] Laughter makes good blood

9] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

10] He that seeks trouble never misses

11] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

12] A healthy man is a successful man

13] Trust is the mother of deceit

14] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

15] It is a great victory that comes without blood

16] The best is often the enemy of the good

17] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

18] Better an open enemy than a false friend

19] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

20] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

21] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

22] Money isn’t everything

23] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

24] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

25] Bind the sack before it be full

26] For a web begun, God sends the thread

27] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

28] An angry man is not fit to pray

29] The longest night will have an end

30] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

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

32] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

33] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

34] Friends agree best at a distance

35] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

36] Friendship should not be all on one side

37] First thrive then wive

38] Nature abhors a vacuum

39] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

40] He that has an ill name is half hanged

41] Quietness is a great treasure

42] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

43] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

44] Judge not, that ye be not judged

45] III counsel mars all

46] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

47] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

48] Lookers-on see more than players

49] Wise men are caught in wiles

50] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

51] Where god will help, nothing does harm

52] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

53] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

54] A soft answer turns away wrath

55] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

56] Variety is charming

57] By falling we learn to go safely

58] Nature is conquered by obeying her

59] Prove your friend ere you have need

60] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

61] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

62] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

63] Take the will for the deed

64] All griefs with bread are less

65] First things first

66] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

67] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

68] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

69] The longest night will have an end

70] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

71] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

72] A living dog is better than a dead lion

73] Do not triumph before the victory

74] No road is long with good company

75] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

76] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

77] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

78] Many a true word is spoken in jest

79] Union is strength.

80] Nature surpasses art

81] Never refuse a good offer

82] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

83] Example is better than precept

84] Never buy a pig in a poke

85] First creep, then walk

86] Busiest men find the most time

87] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

88] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

89] Every dog has his day

90] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

91] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

92] It never rains it pours

93] When in doubt, do nothing

94] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

95] Time has wings

96] There is no redemption from hell

97] Success has many friends

98] Tell a lie and stick to it.

99] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

100] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.