Famous Proverbs

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

2] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

3] Like will to like

4] Much science, much sorrow

5] Much babbling is not without offence

6] Long life has long misery

7] Through obedience learn to command.

8] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

9] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

10] Better at home than a mile from it

11] The absent party is always to blame.

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

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

14] High places have their precipices

15] In everything consider the end

16] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

17] A penny saved is a penny gained

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

19] While there is life, there is hope

20] Crime does not pay

21] One sheep follows another

22] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

23] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

24] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

25] Water is the king of food

26] Bind the sack before it be full

27] Tomorrow is another day

28] Wash your dirty linen at home

29] At open doors, dogs come in

30] One reason is as good as fifty

31] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

32] Better at home than a mile from it

33] Don’t cry for the moon

34] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

35] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

36] One must be a servant before one can be a master

37] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

38] Remember, you are but a man

39] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

40] God’s lambs will play.

41] He knows most who speaks least

42] Each day brings its own bread

43] Quietness is a great treasure

44] One potter envies another

45] Desires are nourished by delays

46] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

47] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

48] Great oaks from little acorns grow

49] A cat may look at a king

50] A good word stills great anger

51] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

52] Take things as they come

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

54] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

55] Handsome is as handsome does

56] If one will not, another will

57] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

58] A wise man hears one word and understands two

59] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

60] There is safety in numbers

61] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

62] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

63] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

64] Let us do evil that good may come

65] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

66] Great actions speak minds

67] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

68] Every groom is a king at home

69] The grace of God enough

70] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

71] One must howl with the wolves

72] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

73] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

74] Dumb dogs are dangerous

75] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

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

77] He who last, laughs longest.

78] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

79] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

80] Frugality is the mother of virtue

81] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

82] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

83] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

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

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

86] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

87] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

88] The highest branch is not the safest roost

89] He that knows little often repeats it

90] Suffering does not manifest itself

91] A wise man hears one word and understands two

92] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

93] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

94] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

95] Other times, other manners

96] Like father, like son

97] Every dog has his (its) day

98] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

99] If you have known one, you have known them all

100] You never know what you can do till you try