Famous Proverbs

1] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

2] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

3] The sun shines upon all alike.

4] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

5] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

6] A good conscience is a constant feast

7] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

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

9] You never know your luck

10] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

11] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

12] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

13] All are not saints that go to church

14] Good wine needs no bush

15] Honesty is the best policy

16] One is never too old to learn

17] Change brings life

18] He who sows, trusts in God

19] What is worth doing is worth doing well

20] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

21] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

22] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

23] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

24] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

25] Silence never makes mistakes

26] The last drop makes the cup run over

27] Much meat, much malady

28] The owl thinks her own young fairest

29] Sooner begun, sooner done

30] As you bake, so shall you eat.

31] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

32] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

33] Diligence is the mother of good luck

34] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

35] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

36] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

37] Nothing crave, nothing have

38] Home is where the heart is

39] Life begins only in success

40] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

41] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

42] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

43] The best go first

44] Bold men have generous hearts

45] He that wants health wants all

46] Good fame is better than a good face

47] Choose thy company before thy drink

48] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

49] What is new cannot be true

50] Love conquers all

51] Needs must when the evil drives

52] Praise no man till he is dead.

53] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

54] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

55] Four eyes see more than two

56] Much science, much sorrow

57] No choice amongst stinking fish

58] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

59] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

60] The resolved mind has no cares

61] Long looked for, comes at last

62] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

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

64] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

65] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

66] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

67] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

68] A little is better than none

69] Hear twice before you speak once

70] Without luck, it is better not to be born

71] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

72] Hope keeps man alive

73] No convenience without its inconvenience

74] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

75] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

76] Few words are best

77] A good name is better than a golden girdle

78] All things for not all persons

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

80] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

81] When wine sinks, words swim

82] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

83] Better ask the way than go astray

84] Asking costs little

85] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

86] No pains, no gains

87] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

88] It is good fishing in troubled waters

89] Anger managers everything badly.

90] A knave and a fool never take thought

91] An ill tongue may do much

92] Good luck beats early rising

93] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

94] The greatest talkers are the least doers

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

96] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

97] Nature is conquered by obeying her

98] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

99] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

100] He that has no shame has no conscience