Famous Proverbs

1] A good marksman may miss

2] Variety takes away satiety

3] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

4] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

5] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

6] There is no fool like an old fool

7] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

8] Advise none to marry or to go to war

9] Take heed is a fair thing

10] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

11] Great trees keep down the little ones

12] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

13] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

14] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

15] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

16] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

17] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

18] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

19] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

20] Give and take is fair play

21] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

22] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

23] Judge not, that ye be not judged

24] Lose a leg rather than a life

25] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

26] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

27] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

28] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

29] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

30] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

31] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

32] A closed mouth catches no files

33] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

34] Far fowls have fair feather

35] Beggars must not be choosers

36] He that is born a fool is never cured

37] Quickly come, quickly go

38] Few words are best

39] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

40] Open confession is good for the soul

41] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

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

43] Repentance is a bitter physic

44] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

45] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

46] Don’t tell tales out of school

47] The company makes the feast

48] Poverty is not a crime

49] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

50] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

51] He who comes late must eat what is left

52] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

53] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

54] Dog does not eat dog

55] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

56] First creep, then walk

57] Lose a leg rather than a life

58] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

59] Beware of a silent man and still water

60] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

61] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

62] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

63] He who excuses himself accuses himself

64] Men are not to be measured in inches

65] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

66] Habit is second nature

67] A short cut is often a wrong cut

68] The good die young.

69] No hair so small but has his shadow

70] Self-praise is no recommendation

71] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

72] Needs must when the evil drives

73] A bribe will enter without knocking

74] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

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

76] Let the buyer beware

77] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

78] God arms the harmless

79] The weakest goes to the wall

80] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

81] The result justifies the deed

82] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

83] Fear of death is worse than death itself

84] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

85] Mirth is the sugar of life

86] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

87] He that repairs not a part, builds all

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

89] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

90] Knowledge is power

91] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

92] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

93] Change of pasture makes fat calves

94] You cannot unscramble eggs

95] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

96] A light purse makes a heavy heart

97] The unexpected always happens.

98] Give a loan and buy quarrel

99] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

100] All lay loads on a willing horse