Famous Proverbs

1] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

2] He who considers too much will perform little.

3] He knows the water best who has waded through it

4] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

5] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

6] The road to hell is paved with good action

7] The longest way round is the shortest way home

8] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

9] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

10] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

11] A good wife makes a good husband

12] Heaven helps those who help themselves

13] Desires are nourished by delays

14] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

15] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

16] Almost’ never killed a fly.

17] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

18] Threatened folk live long

19] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

20] Envy never enriched any man.

21] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

22] Needs must when the evil drives

23] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

24] Hunger is the best sauce

25] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

26] All must be as God will

27] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

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

29] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

30] When angry, count a hundred

31] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

32] A mouse may help a lion

33] Saying is one thing, and doing another

34] Innocence is no protection

35] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

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

37] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

38] Blood is thicker than water

39] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

40] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

41] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

42] There’s no great loss without some gain

43] III counsel mars all

44] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

45] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

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

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

48] Diamond cuts diamond

49] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

50] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

51] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

52] Trust not the many-minded populace

53] Love turns pimples

54] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

55] From small beginnings come great things

56] Good ware makes quick market

57] Waste is not grandeur

58] One man sows and another reaps

59] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

60] Great actions speak minds

61] Learning is the eye of the mind

62] Laughter makes good blood

63] Blood will have blood

64] All is fair in love and war

65] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

66] Example, is better than precept

67] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

68] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

69] There is many a true word spoken in jest

70] Man cannot live by bread alone

71] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

72] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

73] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

74] Things past cannot be recalled

75] Four eyes see more than two

76] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

77] No man can serve two masters

78] Everything is good in its season

79] There is no time like the present

80] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

81] The devil looks after his own

82] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

83] There is a great difference between words and deeds

84] Liars should have good memories

85] Kind hearts are more than coronets

86] Six feet of earth make all men equal

87] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

88] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

89] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

90] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

91] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

92] The money you refuse will never do you good

93] It is not work that kills but worry

94] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

95] Where there is peace, God is

96] A good heart conquers ill fortune

97] Don’t play with edged tools

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

99] Where there’s muck, there’s money

100] A healthy man is a successful man