Famous Proverbs

1] Judge not of men and things at first sight

2] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

3] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

4] Like father, like son

5] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

6] Exchange is no robbery

7] Sickness shows us what we are

8] Cast not the first stone.

9] Light burden I heavy if far borne

10] A good garden may have some ill weeds

11] There is nothing like being on the safe side

12] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

13] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

14] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

15] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

16] What costs little is little esteemed

17] Live not to eat, but eat to live

18] Lend never that thing you needed most

19] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

20] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

21] Ill gotten, ill spent

22] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

23] Intimacy lessens fame

24] Wine is the best broom for trouble

25] Hasty work, double work,

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

27] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

28] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

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

30] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

31] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

32] Good clothes open all doors

33] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

34] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

35] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

36] Advise none to marry or to go to war

37] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

38] Haste makes waste

39] A black hen lays a white egg

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

41] The bait hides the hook

42] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

43] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

44] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

45] Much meat, much malady

46] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

47] Beauty opens locked doors

48] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

49] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

50] 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

51] He that obey cannot command

52] He that ventures not fails not.

53] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

54] Every man has his price

55] One barber shaves another gratis

56] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

57] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

58] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

59] Spend and be free, but make no waste

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

61] A mouse may help a lion

62] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

63] A good paymaster never wants workmen

64] Youth and age will never agree

65] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

66] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

67] Example, is better than precept

68] Everything is good in its season

69] Bad news travels fast

70] Everything would fain live

71] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

72] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

73] Every shoe fits not every foot

74] One thief will not rob another

75] Jack is as good as his master

76] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

77] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

78] The good is often the enemy of the best

79] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

80] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

81] He is wise who looks ahead

82] After the extreme of cold comes spring

83] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

84] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

85] A little too late, is much too late

86] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

87] The lion had need of the mouse

88] Quietness is a great treasure

89] All’s fair in love and war

90] Stolen goods never thrive

91] Master easy, servant slack

92] He that sows virtue reaps fame

93] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

94] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

95] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

96] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

97] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

98] All men are mortal

99] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

100] In fair weather prepare for foul