Famous Proverbs

1] Grasp all, lose all

2] Better unborn than untaught

3] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

4] An angry man is not fit to pray

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

6] Suffering does not manifest itself

7] Love is lawless.

8] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

9] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

10] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

11] Better unborn than untaught

12] A good beginning makes a good ending.

13] Hope is the poor man’s bread

14] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

15] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

16] Content is more than a kingdom

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

18] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

19] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

20] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

21] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

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

23] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

24] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

25] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

26] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

27] New things are fair

28] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

29] Give credit where credit is due

30] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

31] Good fame is better than a good face

32] He who touches pitch will be defiled

33] Rust wastes more than use

34] The day obliterates the promise of the might

35] No choice amongst stinking fish

36] If you would be well served, serve yourself

37] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

38] The course of true love never did run smooth

39] Great hopes make great men

40] Ready money is ready medicine

41] The goat must browse where she is tied

42] Everything new is fine

43] No man is his craft’s master the first day

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

45] Wedlock is padlock

46] Like mistress, like maid

47] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

48] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

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

50] Other times, other manners

51] He that is down need fear no fall

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

53] Faint heart never won fair lady

54] Judge not, that ye be not judged

55] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

56] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

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

58] Covetousness brings nothing home

59] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

60] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

61] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

62] You cannot have your cake and eat it

63] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

64] Health is better than wealth

65] Be careful to whom you give

66] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

67] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

68] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

69] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

70] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

71] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

72] He that brings good news, knocks hard

73] From word to deed is a great space

74] First try and then trust

75] One is what one eats

76] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

77] Little things please little minds

78] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

79] A good beginning is half the battle.

80] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

81] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

82] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

83] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

84] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

85] His bark is worse than his bite

86] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

87] Prove your friend ere you have need

88] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

89] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

90] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

91] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

92] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

93] Fair play’s a jewel

94] All griefs with bread are less

95] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

96] Small is beautiful

97] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

98] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

99] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

100] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse