Famous Proverbs

1] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

2] The more you get, the more you want

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

4] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

5] Great trees keep down the little ones

6] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

7] One foot is better than two crutches

8] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

9] All meat pleases not all mouths

10] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

11] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

12] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

13] He that talks much, errs much

14] The devil knows many things because he is old

15] Bread is the staff of life.

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

17] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

18] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

20] It will be the same a hundred years hence

21] One of these days is none of these days

22] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

23] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

24] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

25] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

26] He that is absent is soon forgotten

27] Wise men are caught in wiles

28] Cast not the first stone.

29] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

30] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

31] Ill news comes unsent for.

32] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

33] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

34] All cats are grey in the dark

35] Enough is as good as a feast

36] No convenience without its inconvenience

37] He that desires but little has no deed of much

38] The best things come in small packages

39] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

40] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

41] No hair so small but has his shadow

42] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

43] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

44] Never hit a man when he’s down

45] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

46] Hunger is the best sauce

47] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

48] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

49] Nothing is so certain as death

50] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

51] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

52] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

53] A bad workman always blames his tools

54] Men make houses, women make homes

55] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

56] Who suffers much is silent

57] When the word is out it belongs to another

58] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

59] Corn him well and he will work better

60] Slow and steady wins the race

61] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

62] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

63] Who suffers much is silent

64] Laughter makes good blood

65] As long lives a merry man as a sad

66] Lookers-on see most of the game

67] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

68] See how the wind blows

69] A single rose does not mean spring

70] You cannot unscramble eggs

71] Things are only worth one makes them worth

72] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

73] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

74] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

75] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

76] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

77] You never know your luck

78] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

79] Light grows the burden which is well borne

80] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

81] Praise is always pleasant

82] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

83] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

84] The envious man shall never want woe

85] He that knows little often repeats it

86] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

87] A man of courage never wants weapons

88] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

89] Between two stools you fall to the ground

90] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

91] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

92] Needs must when the evil drives

93] A hungry man smells meat afar off

94] What must be must be

95] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

96] Bear with evil and expect good

97] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

98] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

99] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

100] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.