Famous Proverbs

1] The hand that gives, gathers

2] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

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

4] An oak is not felled at one stroke

5] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

6] Bad news travels fast

7] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

8] A word to the wise is enough

9] Give the devil his due

10] None so blind as those who will not see

11] None so busy as those who do nothing.

12] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

13] Everything comes to him who waits

14] No answer is also an answer

15] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

16] The more you have the more you want

17] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

18] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

19] Children and chickens must be always picking

20] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

21] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

22] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

23] It is too late to call back yesterday

24] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

25] The poor suffer all the wrong

26] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

27] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

28] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

29] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

30] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

31] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

32] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

33] All things are easy, that are done willingly

34] By falling we learn to go safely

35] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

36] The darkest place is under the candlestick

37] Take time by the forelock

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

39] Bear with evil and expect good

40] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

41] Every may be has a may not be

42] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

43] If you play with fire you get burnt

44] The tongue talks at the heads cost

45] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

46] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

47] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

48] Good hand, good hire

49] Better be safe than sorry

50] Friendship should not be all on one side

51] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

52] Coming events cast their shadows before

53] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

54] Health and wealth create beauty

55] No pain, no cure

56] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

57] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

58] Flesh is frail

59] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

60] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

61] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

62] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

63] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

64] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

65] The cowl does not make the monk.

66] Seek and you shall find

67] Honesty is ill to thrive by

68] Divine grace was never slow

69] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

70] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

71] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

72] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

73] Think of ease, but work on.

74] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

75] No day so clear but has dark clouds

76] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

77] Opportunity makes the thief

78] The unexpected always happens.

79] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

80] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

81] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

82] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

83] In peace, prepare for war

84] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

85] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

86] All doors open to courtesy

87] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

88] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

89] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

90] Words cut more than swords

91] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

92] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

93] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

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

95] Gold will not buy everything

96] After a storm comes a calm

97] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

98] Sickness soaks the purse

99] Good words are worth much and cost little

100] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless