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Famous Proverbs

1] A miss is as good as a mile
2] God is a sure paymaster
3] Words fly, writings remain
4] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years
5] One master in a house is enough
6] No answer is also an answer
7] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.
8] He who teaches learns
9] Dreams are lies
10] Ill gotten, ill spent
11] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean
12] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt
13] Hear twice before you speak once
14] He that will not have peace, God gives him war
15] A drowning man will clutch at a straw
16] He that is born a fool is never cured
17] When you do not know what to do – wait.
18] Virtue joints man to god
19] Live and let live
20] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy
21] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man
22] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself
23] Worse things happen at sea
24] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty
25] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock
26] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted
27] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence
28] He who sows, trusts in God
29] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse
30] He that ventures not fails not.
31] Nature hates all sudden changes
32] The thief doth fear each bush an offer
33] Love turns pimples
34] What is the mother of industry
35] The more wicked, the more lucky
36] None but the brave deserves the fair
37] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost
38] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another
39] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind
40] A bad shearer never had a good sickle
41] Silence is golden
42] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once
43] A wise man is never less alone than when alone
44] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like
45] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence
46] Love laughs at locksmiths
47] Call no man happy till he is dead
48] Divide and rule
49] That which is easily done is soon believed
50] He who can does. He who cannot teaches
51] What’s done is done
52] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves
53] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf
54] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives
55] All glory comes from daring to begin
56] The mob has many heads but no brains
57] Hear twice before you speak once
58] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open
59] A constant guest is never welcome
60] Men are blind in their own cause
61] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand
62] Life begins only in success
63] Steer not after every mariner’s direction
64] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is
65] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss
66] An egg thief will become a camel thief
67] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark
68] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly
69] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.
70] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person
71] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string
72] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history
73] Faint heart never won fair lady
74] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear
75] Blood will have blood
76] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.
77] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man
78] One must be a servant before one can be a master
79] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.
80] Every man has his price
81] Great gain makes easy work
82] A friend is easier lost than found
83] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.
84] Everything would fain live
85] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich
86] A good conscience is a sure card
87] Every man to his trade.
88] Anger restrained is wisdom gained
89] He that obey cannot command
90] He is rich that has few wants
91] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business
92] Everything new is fine
93] Hope is grief’s best music
94] The early bird catches the worm
95] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.
96] A ragged colt may make a good horse.
97] Fools grow without watering.
98] Desire beautifies what is ugly
99] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.
100] A bully is always a coward



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