Famous Proverbs

1] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

2] Things are only worth one makes them worth

3] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

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

5] Wake not a sleeping lion

6] When wine sinks, words swim

7] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

8] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

9] Love will find a way

10] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

11] Weeds need no sowing

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

13] Little things please little minds

14] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

15] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

16] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

17] Words bind men

18] No remedy but patience

19] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

20] Walls have ears

21] He who comes late must eat what is left

22] Little things are pretty

23] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

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

25] A penny saved is a penny gained

26] The best things carried to excess are wrong

27] Dead men tell no tales

28] Better be safe than sorry

29] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

30] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

31] Every dog has his day

32] Good fame is better than a good face

33] Of evil manners, spring good laws

34] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

35] Love is never without jealousy

36] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

37] Where there’s muck, there’s money

38] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

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

40] Will is no skill

41] III luck is good for something

42] There are two sides to every question

43] Wife and Children are bills of charges

44] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

45] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

46] One can’t help many, but many can help one

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

48] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

49] What has been, may be

50] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

51] There is many a true word spoken in jest

52] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

53] Excessive happiness produces pain

54] The end crowns the work.

55] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

56] A joke’s a very serious thing

57] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

58] Practice is the science that gives confidence

59] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

60] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

61] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

62] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

63] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

64] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

65] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

66] Half an egg is better than empty shell

67] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

68] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

69] Soft fire makes sweet malt

70] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

71] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

72] Facts are stubborn things

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

74] Bare walls make giddy housewives

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

76] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

77] He has not lost all who has one cast left

78] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

79] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

80] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

81] Fair play’s a jewel

82] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

83] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

84] Poor men’s words have little weight

85] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

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

87] He that talks much, errs much

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

89] As long lives a merry man as a sad

90] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

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

92] A stitch in time saves nine

93] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

94] A willful man will have his way

95] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

96] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

97] Ill gotten, ill spent

98] Call no man happy till he is dead

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

100] Every ass likes to hear himself bray