Famous Proverbs

1] The best go first

2] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

3] Never buy a pig in a poke

4] None so busy as those who do nothing.

5] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

6] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

7] It is as natural to die as to be born

8] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

9] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

10] Thrift is a great revenue

11] He who teaches learns

12] Discretion is the better part of valour

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

14] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

15] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

16] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

17] Young saint, old devil.

18] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

19] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

20] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

21] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

22] The tongue stings

23] Harp not for ever on the same string

24] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

25] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

26] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

27] Work smart; don’t work hard

28] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

29] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

30] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

31] The best things are hard to come by.

32] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

33] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

34] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

35] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

36] It is well to live that one may learn

37] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

38] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

39] Variety takes away satiety

40] One barber shaves another gratis

41] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

42] It is no use crying over spilt milk

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

44] Once a knave, always a knave

45] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

46] Charity begins at home.

47] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

48] The game is not worth the candle

49] A good example is the best sermon

50] Love your friend with his fault

51] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

52] Death is the grand leveler

53] Men are blind in their own cause

54] Waste is not grandeur

55] The eye is bigger than the belly

56] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

57] In the land of hope there is never any winter

58] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

59] Excessive happiness produces pain

60] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

61] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

62] Every law has a loophole

63] Circumstances alter cases

64] Empty vessels make the most sound

65] Go while the going is good

66] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

67] Plain dealing is a jewel

68] Health is great riches

69] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

70] A hungry man is angry man

71] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

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

73] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

74] Crowns have cares

75] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

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

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

78] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

79] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

80] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

81] Even reckoning makes long friends

82] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

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

84] The leopard cannot change its spots

85] The mob has many heads but no brains

86] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

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

88] Ready money is a ready remedy

89] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

90] Time flees without a delay

91] He knows which side his bread is buttered

92] Laughter makes good blood

93] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

94] A stitch in time saves nine

95] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

96] Never too late to repent

97] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

98] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

99] Never do evil that good may come of it

100] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck