Famous Proverbs

1] It is easier to pull down than to build

2] He that speaks not, God hears not

3] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

4] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

5] All lay loads on a willing horse

6] Charity excuseth not cheating.

7] Bread is the staff of life.

8] Cast not the first stone.

9] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

10] Learn to walk before you run

11] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

12] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

13] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

14] Faint heart never won fair lady

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

16] Strength grows stronger by being tried

17] The word is far him who has patience

18] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

19] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

20] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

21] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

22] Lend your money and lose a friend

23] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

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

25] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

26] Still waters run deep

27] Nothing is so certain as death

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

29] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

30] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

31] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

32] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

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

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

35] The company makes the feast

36] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

37] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

38] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

39] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

40] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

41] Desires are nourished by delays

42] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

43] Dreams are lies

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

45] There is many a fair thing full false

46] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

47] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

48] Half a word is enough for a wise man

49] Two blacks do not make a white

50] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

51] He that sows virtue reaps fame

52] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

53] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

54] Life is not all beer and skittles

55] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

56] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

57] Goodness is better than beauty

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

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

60] Wrong has no warrant

61] No man can serve two masters

62] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

63] The absent saint gets no candle

64] Pardon makes offenders

65] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

66] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

67] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

68] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

69] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

70] The absent party is always to blame.

71] Suffering does not manifest itself

72] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

73] Practice is the science that gives confidence

74] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

75] Nature will have her course

76] Silence is a woman’s best garment

77] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

78] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

79] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

80] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

81] He who does no good, does evil enough

82] A rich man can do nothing wrong

83] High places have their precipices

84] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

85] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

86] Fair exchange is no robbery

87] Where there are reeds, there is water

88] Men are blind in their own cause

89] Our own opinion is never wrong

90] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

91] Seek and you shall find

92] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

93] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

94] Keep something for a rainy day

95] Parents are patterns

96] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

97] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

98] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

99] The worse luck now, the better another time

100] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another