Famous Proverbs

1] Silence is also speech

2] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

3] Old foxes want no tutors

4] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

5] Lend your money and lose a friend

6] Nature will have her course

7] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

8] Love is blind

9] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

10] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

11] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

12] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

13] No news is good news

14] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

15] Love will find a way

16] Homo is a common name to all men.

17] The absent party is always to blame.

18] Do unto others as they should do unto you

19] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

20] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

21] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

22] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

23] Love sees no fault

24] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

25] When the cat is away, the mice will play

26] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

27] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

28] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

29] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

30] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

31] Where there is whispering there is lying

32] One today is worth two tomorrows

33] You are never too old to learn

34] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

35] Needs must when the devil drives

36] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

37] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

38] A man with no hands is given a ring.

39] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

40] We live laws, not by examples

41] He who pays the piper calls the tune

42] Love will go through stone walls

43] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

44] The longest night will have an end

45] Love is never without jealousy

46] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

47] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

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

49] Divine grace was never slow

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

51] A still tongue makes a wise head

52] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

53] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

54] Dumb dogs are dangerous

55] Better to be safe than sorry.

56] A mouse may help a lion

57] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

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

59] A good marksman may miss

60] Rip not up old sores

61] Look before you leap

62] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

63] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

64] Who greases his way travels easily

65] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

66] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

67] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

68] Too far east is west

69] Little and often fills the purse

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

71] Kill two birds with one stone

72] Man proposes, God disposes

73] That which proves too much proves nothing

74] He that sows virtue reaps fame

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

76] He that speaks well, flights well

77] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

78] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

79] Despair gives courage to a coward

80] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

81] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

82] He that has no money needs no purse

83] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

84] Patient waiters are no losers

85] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

86] We live by laws, not by examples

87] Much babbling is not without offence

88] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

89] Trust not the many-minded populace

90] We don’t get something for nothing

91] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

92] What cannot gold do?

93] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

94] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

95] Tigers and deer do not over.

96] One may change the place but not the mind.

97] Nature is the true law

98] Precepts may lead but examples draw

99] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

100] The company makes the feast