Famous Proverbs

1] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

2] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

3] Have two strings to your bow

4] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

5] A good wife makes a good husband

6] Fingers were made before forks

7] No man is wise at all times

8] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

9] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

10] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

11] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

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

13] It is easy to be wise after the event

14] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

15] The devil dances in an empty pocket

16] It is too late to call back yesterday

17] Silence is also speech

18] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

19] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

20] Love sees no fault

21] Money makes the man

22] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

23] Every cloud has a silver lining

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

25] Better be born lucky than wise.

26] The more wicked, the more lucky

27] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

28] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

29] He knows which side his bread is buttered

30] Good luck beats early rising

31] Every why has a wherefore

32] He that eats well should do his duty well

33] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

34] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

35] Haste is of (or from) the devil

36] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

37] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

38] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

39] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

40] By falling we learn to go safely

41] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

42] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

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

44] Take things as they come

45] A good word stills great anger

46] As you brew, so shall you drink.

47] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

48] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

49] Many words, many buffets

50] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

51] Respect is greater from a distance

52] Money can influence even the spirits

53] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

54] To teach is to learn twice over

55] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

56] Take time by the forelock

57] Silence is also speech

58] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

59] A useful trade is a mine of gold

60] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

61] High places have their precipices

62] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

63] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

64] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

65] Extremes are dangerous

66] An old ox makes a straight furrow

67] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

68] From word to deed is a great space

69] Every why has a wherefore

70] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

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

72] Little things please little minds

73] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

74] Long life has long misery

75] One thief will not rob another

76] Books and friends should be few but good

77] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

78] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

79] Goodness is better than beauty

80] All are not saints that go to church

81] Wise men propose, and fools determine

82] There is no place like home

83] Words cut more than swords

84] Will is the cause of woe

85] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

86] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

87] A bad padlock invites a picklock

88] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

89] A hungry man smells meat afar off

90] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

91] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

92] Fools grow without watering.

93] Better be alone than in bad company

94] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

95] Better the foot slip than the tongue

96] Like mistress, like maid

97] Common fame is seldom to blame

98] The leopard cannot change its spots

99] Nature abhors a vacuum

100] Coming events cast their shadows before