Famous Proverbs

1] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

2] If you want peace, prepare for war

3] Union (or Unity) is strength

4] There is no place like home

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

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

7] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

8] Small is the seed of every greatness

9] Rip not up old sores

10] Of evil manners, spring good laws

11] An empty sack cannot stand upright

12] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

13] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

14] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

15] The more laws, the more offenders

16] You cannot make a crab walk straight

17] His own ingenuity pricks him.

18] No misfortune will go on forever

19] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

20] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

21] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

22] All doors open to courtesy

23] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

24] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

25] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

26] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

27] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

28] It is not every question that deserves an answer

29] Pitchers have ears

30] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

31] Of a new prince, new bondage

32] Men are not to be measured in inches

33] Fire is a good servant a bad master

34] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

35] Custom makes all things easy

36] A mouse may help a lion

37] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

38] Lookers-on see most of the game

39] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

40] Better learn late than never

41] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

42] Moderation in all things

43] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

44] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

45] Too much money makes one mad

46] Travel broadens the mind

47] Every dog has his day

48] Man does what he can, and God what he will

49] Kingdoms divided soon fall

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

51] Laughter makes good blood

52] It is as natural to die as to be born

53] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

54] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

55] He that praises himself, spatters himself

56] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

57] He that pities another remembers himself

58] Necessity is the mother of invention

59] White there’s life there’s hope

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

61] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

62] Little and often fills the purse

63] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

64] A bully is always a coward

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

66] Wash your dirty linen at home

67] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

68] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

69] Plain dealing is best

70] No garden without its weeds.

71] A bribe will enter without knocking

72] Health is better than wealth

73] Every path has a puddle

74] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

75] The greatest talkers are the least doers

76] A woman’s work is never done

77] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

78] The garment worn determines how one is served

79] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

80] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

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

82] He who has seen little marvels much

83] Desires are nourished by delays

84] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

85] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

86] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

87] Don’t cry before you are hurt

88] Brevity is the soul of wit

89] Worse things happen at sea

90] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

91] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

92] Woes unite foes

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

94] Wink at small faults

95] It is no use crying over spilt milk

96] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

97] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

98] Fish and guests smell in three days

99] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

100] Lookers-on see most of the game