Famous Proverbs

1] All’s well that ends well

2] A rich man can do nothing wrong

3] Where god will help, nothing does harm

4] Train the child in the way he should go.

5] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

6] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

7] He that repairs not a part, builds all

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

9] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

10] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

11] God made the country ,and man made the town

12] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

13] Tomorrow never comes

14] Of a new prince, new bondage

15] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

16] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

17] Content is more than a kingdom

18] A good beginning is half the battle.

19] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

20] No man fears what he has seen grow

21] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

22] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

23] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

24] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

25] So many men, so many opinions

26] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

27] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

28] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

29] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

30] Necessity is mother of invention

31] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

32] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

33] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

34] The love of money is the root of all evil

35] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

36] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

37] Better children weep than old men

38] An angry man is not fit to pray

39] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

40] Numbers overcome the brave

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

42] In haste is error

43] Words and feathers the wind carries away

44] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

45] Truth has no need of rhetoric

46] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

47] Go while the going is good

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

49] Haste is of (or from) the devil

50] Morning dreams come true

51] God provides for him that trusts

52] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

53] Everything in moderation.

54] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

55] Forecast is better than work-hard

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

57] It is well to live that one may learn

58] All are not saints that go to church

59] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

60] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

61] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

62] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

63] Things are only worth one makes them worth

64] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

65] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

66] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

67] Wise men do not argue with idiots

68] Appetite comes with eating

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

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

71] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

72] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

73] Wiles help weak folk

74] Money is the root of all evil

75] Love and business teach eloquence

76] After the extreme of cold comes spring

77] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

78] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

79] Rust wastes more than use

80] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

81] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

82] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

83] A strong town is not won in an hour

84] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

85] Fine words dress ill deeds

86] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

87] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

88] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

89] Plain dealing is a jewel

90] An egg thief will become a camel thief

91] You never know your luck

92] Grasp all, lose all

93] Open confession is good for the soul

94] Names are debts

95] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

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

97] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

98] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

99] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

100] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent