Famous Proverbs

1] Even reckoning makes long friends

2] Idleness is the root of all evil

3] A stitch in time saves nine

4] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

5] Fish and guests smell in three days

6] All heiresses are beautiful.

7] No man is wise at all times

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

9] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

10] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

11] Be just before you are generous

12] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

13] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

14] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

15] The pot calls the kettle black

16] Don’t tell tales out of school

17] A stitch in time saves nine

18] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

19] Many doctors, death accomplished

20] The thing which is rare is dear

21] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

22] Patient waiters are no losers

23] It will be the same a hundred years hence

24] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

25] A bully is always a coward

26] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

27] Marriage is a lottery

28] Better are small fish than an empty dish

29] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

30] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

31] Lookers-on see more than players

32] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

33] Ill news comes apace.

34] A man without a wife is but half a man

35] That which Nature paints never fades

36] Dumb men get no lands

37] He mediates revenge who least complains.

38] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

39] The more laws, the more offenders

40] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

41] There are spots even in the sun

42] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

43] Trust is the mother of deceit

44] A strong town is not won in an hour

45] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

46] It is more pain to do nothing than something

47] Life begins only in success

48] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

49] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

50] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

51] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

52] A door must be either shut or open

53] A mouse may help a lion

54] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

55] Far from eye, far from heart

56] Once a use and ever a custom

57] He that ventures not fails not.

58] Who suffers much is silent

59] Silence is golden

60] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

61] There is no redemption from hell

62] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

63] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

64] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

65] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

66] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

67] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

68] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

69] Virtue is its own reward

70] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

71] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

72] Ignorance is the peace of life

73] One sheep follows another

74] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

75] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

76] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

77] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

78] No one ought to judge in his own cause

79] Abundance, like want, ruins many

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

81] Money makes the man

82] Self do, self have

83] Talk much end err much

84] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

85] Do not wear out your welcome

86] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

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

88] Small is beautiful

89] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

90] As you brew, so shall you drink.

91] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

92] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

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

94] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

95] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

96] He is wise who looks ahead

97] He that has an ill name is half hanged

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

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

100] All glory comes from daring to begin