Famous Proverbs

1] He who serves is not free

2] Truth conquers all things

3] A little too late, is much too late

4] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

5] Virtue joints man to god

6] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

7] Woes unite foes

8] If you have known one, you have known them all

9] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

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

11] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

12] Ill luck is good for something

13] Wise men are caught in wiles

14] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

15] No garden without its weeds.

16] Her that is down need fear no fall

17] Soon hot, soon cold

18] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

19] Never too late to learn

20] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

21] Help a lame dog over a stile

22] Fear of death is worse than death itself

23] Ignorance is the peace of life

24] He that will thrive must rise at five

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

26] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

27] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

28] A man with no hands is given a ring.

29] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

30] Hard cases make bad law

31] Gold is tried in the fire

32] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

33] Cut your coat according to your cloth

34] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

35] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

36] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

37] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

38] Hunger is sharper than the sword

39] Respect is greater from a distance

40] Tomorrow is another day

41] First impressions are half the battle

42] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

43] Beware of a silent man and still water

44] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

45] The best of friends must part

46] Experience is the mother of wisdom

47] The last suitor wins the maid

48] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

49] Words cut more than swords

50] All meat pleases not all mouths

51] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

52] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

53] Empty vessels make the most sound

54] The hole calls the thief

55] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

56] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

57] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

58] Make the best of a bad job

59] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

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

61] Better bend than break

62] As long lives a merry man as a sad

63] It takes all sorts to make a world

64] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

65] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

66] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

67] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

68] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

69] Great barkers are no biters

70] An old fox is not easily snared

71] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

72] Fish and guests smell in three days

73] None but the brave deserves the fair

74] Much babbling is not without offence

75] Jesters do oft prove prophets

76] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

77] Distance lends enchantment to the view

78] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

79] Now is now, and then was then

80] Our own opinion is never wrong

81] Good words are worth much and cost little

82] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

83] Many hands make light work

84] Children and chickens must be always picking

85] Knowledge is power

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

87] One reason is as good as fifty

88] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

89] Pleasing ware is half sold

90] Judge not of men and things at first sight

91] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

92] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

93] Live not to eat, but eat to live

94] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

95] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

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

97] Precept begins, examples accomplish

98] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

99] Mere wishes are silly fishes

100] A fool’s mouth is his destruction