Famous Proverbs

1] Crust is better than no bread

2] Many a true word is spoken in jest

3] A learned man has always riches in himself

4] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

5] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

6] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

7] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

8] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

9] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

10] Dirty water does not wash clean.

11] While there is life, there is hope

12] A bad workman always blames his tools

13] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

14] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

15] Strength grows stronger by being tried

16] Out of debt, out of danger

17] Ale will make a cat speak

18] III counsel mars all

19] He who hesitates is lost

20] An old fox is not easily snared

21] It is all in the day’s work

22] Wake not a sleeping lion

23] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

24] Hope is the poor man’s bread

25] Bad excuses are worse than none.

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

27] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

28] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

29] Hunger breaks stone walls

30] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

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

32] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

33] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

34] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

35] Wise men propose, and fools determine

36] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

37] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

38] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

39] Valour delights in the test

40] Four eyes see more than two

41] A word to the wise is enough

42] Truth has no need of rhetoric

43] He who owes is in all the wrong

44] Light grows the burden which is well borne

45] The last suitor wins the maid

46] It is not work that kills but worry

47] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

48] What will not money do?

49] At a good bargain thinks twice

50] Needs must when the devil drives

51] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

52] What can’t be cured must be endured

53] No man limps because another is hurt

54] A crust is better than no bread.

55] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

56] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

58] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

59] Youth will have its course.

60] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

61] Don’t try to run before you walk

62] Walls have ears

63] There is a great difference between words and deeds

64] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

65] Morning dreams come true

66] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

67] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

68] Every man must carry his own cross

69] Time has wings

70] Whatever man has done, man can do

71] Let bygones be bygones

72] The great would have none great, and the little all little

73] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

74] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

75] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

76] Gold may be bought too dear

77] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

78] Tell a lie and stick to it.

79] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

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

81] He who wills the end, Wills the means

82] A cat has nine lives

83] Like question, like answer.

84] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

85] Cowards die many times before their deaths

86] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

87] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

88] The goat must browse where she is tied

89] The king can do no wrong

90] See which way the cat jumps

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

92] Men are not angles

93] One father is more than a hundred school masters

94] He may find fault that cannot mend

95] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

96] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

97] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

98] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

99] You can’t take it with you when you die

100] Poverty parts friendship