Famous Proverbs

1] Young saint, old devil.

2] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

3] Covetousness is the root of all evil

4] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

5] It is a great victory that comes without blood

6] Jesters do oft prove prophets

7] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

8] A bad workman always blames his tools

9] Few words are best

10] Never judge from appearances

11] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

12] He that cannot ask, cannot live

13] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

14] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

15] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

16] Patient waiters are no losers

17] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

18] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

19] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

20] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

21] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

22] Soon hot, soon cold

23] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

24] Between two stools you fall to the ground

25] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

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

27] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

28] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

29] An obedient wife commands her husband

30] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

31] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

32] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

33] He that has no shame has no conscience

34] Black will take no other hue

35] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

36] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

37] Acorns were good till bread was found

38] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

39] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

40] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

41] Company in misery makes it light

42] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

43] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

44] Human blood is all of a colour

45] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

46] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

47] He that knows little often repeats it

48] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

49] A hungry man is angry man

50] A good heart cannot lie.

51] Content is more than a kingdom

52] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

53] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

54] Tell a lie and stick to it.

55] Trusting often makes fidelity

56] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

57] God is a sure paymaster

58] Love cannot be compelled

59] Better children weep than old men

60] Pursuits become habits

61] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

62] Truth conquers all things

63] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

64] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

65] Sickness shows us what we are

66] Like breeds like

67] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

68] It is easier to pull down than to build

69] Faint heart never won fair lady

70] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

71] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

72] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

73] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

74] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

75] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

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

77] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

78] A good wife is a good prize

79] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

80] Beware of him who makes thee presents

81] Extremes meet

82] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

83] He that knows little often repeats it

84] Make the best of a bad bargain

85] All roads lead to Rome

86] Like mother, like daughter

87] The end justifies the means

88] He would command must serve

89] Mirth without measure is madness

90] The hand that gives, gathers

91] The best is often the enemy of the good

92] That which proves too much proves nothing

93] Friendship should not be all on one side

94] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

95] Everything new is fine

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

97] Youth will have its course.

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

99] Ill comes often on the back worse

100] A goose drinks as much as gander