Famous Proverbs

1] Slow help is no help

2] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

3] Dog does not eat dog

4] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

5] The devil lurks behind the cross

6] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

7] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

9] Never refuse a good offer

10] Death keeps no calendar

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

12] Don’t take your harp to the party

13] Kind hearts are more than coronets

14] Quickly come, quickly go

15] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

16] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

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

18] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

19] Laugh and grow fat

20] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

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

22] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

23] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

24] Be still and have thy will

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

26] Better are small fish than an empty dish

27] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

28] Never do things by halves

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

30] He who has seen little marvels much

31] Let not your tongue run at rover

32] More than enough is too much

33] Like question, like answer.

34] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

35] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

36] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

37] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

38] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

39] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

40] He that obey cannot command

41] After the extreme of cold comes spring

42] Sooner begun, sooner done

43] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

44] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

45] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

46] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

47] Dead men tell no tales

48] Despair gives courage to a coward

49] Love knows no limit

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

51] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

52] Seek and you shall find

53] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

54] Nothing crave, nothing have

55] Health is great riches

56] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

57] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

58] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

59] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

60] No misfortune will go on forever

61] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

62] It is good to follow the old fox

63] Good hand, good hire

64] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

65] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

66] Crows are all completely black

67] There is no blindness like ignorance

68] The beaten road is the safest

69] Virtue is its own reward

70] It is too late to look up after you have collided

71] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

72] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

73] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

74] Money has no smell

75] A living dog is better than a dead lion

76] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

77] Let bygones be bygones

78] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

79] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

80] There is none misfortune cannot reach

81] Go while the going is good

82] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

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

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

85] Hungry bellies have no ears

86] Cheats never prosper

87] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

88] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

89] Repentance comes too late

90] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

91] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

92] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

93] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

94] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

95] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

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

97] Tomorrow never comes

98] Take things as you find them

99] Save your breath to cool the porridge

100] As long lives a merry man as a sad