Famous Proverbs

1] Haste makes waste

2] Trusting often makes fidelity

3] Save your breath to cool the porridge

4] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

5] Ambition loses many a man

6] A closed mouth catches no files

7] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

8] Friends are thieves of time

9] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

10] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

11] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

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

13] Learning is the eye of the mind

14] He that lends, gives

15] Spread the table, and contention will cease

16] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

17] That which Nature paints never fades

18] The good intention excuses the bad action

19] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

20] It never rains it pours

21] It takes two to make a quarrel

22] A wise man hears one word and understands two

23] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

24] Every law has a loophole

25] An honest good look covers many faults.

26] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

27] Marriage makes or mars a man

28] Prospect is often better than possession

29] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

30] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

31] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

32] It takes two to make a quarrel

33] Far from eye, far from heart

34] Prove your friend ere you have need

35] Virtue has all things in itself

36] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

37] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

38] Lend your money and lose a friend

39] Charity excuseth not cheating.

40] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

41] Good hand, good hire

42] Double charge will rive a cannon

43] He is an ill husband who is not missed

44] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

45] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

46] To teach is to learn twice over

47] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

48] The pot calls the kettle black

49] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

50] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

51] All our pomp the earth covers

52] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

53] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

54] A still tongue makes a wise head

55] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

56] Gossiping and lying go together

57] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

58] Wise men are caught in wiles

59] Good fame is better than a good face

60] Every beginning is hard

61] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

62] Who suffers much is silent

63] Love your friend with his fault

64] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

65] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

66] New things are fair

67] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

68] Safety lies in the middle course

69] Where there’s muck, there’s money

70] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

71] He mediates revenge who least complains.

72] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

73] The absent saint gets no candle

74] Wise men do not argue with idiots

75] You never know your luck

76] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

77] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

78] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

79] Cleanliness is next to godliness

80] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

81] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

82] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

83] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

84] Might overcome right.

85] First creep, then walk

86] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

87] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

88] Good broth may be made in an old pot

89] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

90] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

91] Diligence is the mother of good luck

92] Don’t play with edged tools

93] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

94] Far from eye, far from heart

95] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

96] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

97] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

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

99] The age of miracles is past

100] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse