Famous Proverbs

1] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

2] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

3] Where there is no trust there is no love

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

5] You cannot have it both ways

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

7] Every advantage has its disadvantage

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

9] He that lives ill, fear follows him

10] It is more pain to do nothing than something

11] Money refused loses its brightness

12] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

13] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

14] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

15] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

16] Frugality is the mother of virtue

17] Beware of no man more than himself

18] Too far east is west

19] Kingdoms divided soon fall

20] Idle folks have the least leisure

21] Nothing is given so freely as advice

22] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

23] There is no rose without a thorn

24] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

25] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

26] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

27] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

28] The more wicked, the more lucky

29] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

30] Everything is good in its season

31] The hole calls the thief

32] Love is blind

33] Health without money is half an ague

34] Nature is conquered by obeying her

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

36] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

37] The deed comes back upon the doer.

38] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

39] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

40] Poverty is not a crime

41] It is never too late to mend

42] The pot calls the kettle black

43] It takes two to make a quarrel

44] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

45] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

46] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

47] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

48] Better be born lucky than wise.

49] The cowl does not make the monk.

50] Work won’t kill but worry will.

51] Fortune is blind

52] It is more blessed to give than to receive

53] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

54] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

55] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

56] Prove your friend ere you have need

57] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

58] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

59] Shrouds have no pockets

60] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

61] Too much money makes one mad

62] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

63] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

64] Of evil manners, spring good laws

65] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

66] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

67] A closed mouth catches no files

68] Half an egg is better than empty shell

69] Needs must when the evil drives

70] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

71] Learn not and know not

72] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

73] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

74] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

75] Familiarity breeds contempt

76] When wine sinks, words swim

77] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

78] It is a great victory that comes without blood

79] Every man has his faults

80] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

81] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

82] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

83] Pride goes before a fall

84] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

85] New meat begets a new appetite

86] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

87] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

88] There’s a time and place for everything

89] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

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

91] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

92] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

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

94] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

95] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

96] Money refused loses its brightness

97] Much babbling is not without offence

98] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

99] Fish and guests smell in three days

100] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm