Famous Proverbs

1] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

2] Care brings grey hair.

3] Ready money is a ready remedy

4] New things are fair

5] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

6] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

7] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

8] A good wife makes a good husband

9] All things are difficult before they are easy

10] The longest way round is the shortest way home

11] Step by step the ladder is ascended

12] If you would be well served, serve yourself

13] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

14] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

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

16] Forgive and forget

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

18] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

19] Blood is thicker than water

20] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

21] Too far east is west

22] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

23] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

24] Everyone to his taste

25] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

26] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

27] Sorrow will pay no debt

28] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

29] Second thoughts are best

30] A good tongue is a good weapon

31] Dogs bark as they are bred.

32] The resolved mind has no cares

33] Poverty is no sin

34] Asking costs little

35] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

36] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

37] Never spur a willing horse

38] Cut your coat according to your cloth

39] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

40] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

41] All meat pleases not all mouths

42] More have repented speech than silence

43] His bark is worse than his bite

44] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

45] All must be as God will

46] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

47] It is no use crying over spilt milk

48] Great actions speak minds

49] He who leaps high must take a long run

50] You cannot have your cake and eat it

51] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

52] He thinks not well that thinks not again

53] What is worse than ill luck?

54] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

55] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

56] Like master, like man

57] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

58] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

59] Beware of no man more than himself

60] Opportunity makes the thief

61] When meat is in anger is out

62] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

63] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

64] He laughs best who laughs last

65] Divide and rule

66] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

67] Old foxes want no tutors

68] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

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

70] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

71] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

72] A good husband makes a good wife

73] An ill tongue may do much

74] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

75] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

76] Dead men don’t bite

77] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

78] No man is born wise or learned

79] One cannot put back the clock

80] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

81] A good example is the best sermon

82] Covetousness breaks the sack

83] Will is no skill

84] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

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

86] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

87] A true man and a thief think not the same

88] Let sleeping dogs lie

89] Experience must be bought

90] Lend your money and lose a friend

91] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

92] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

93] Give and spend, and God will send

94] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

95] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

96] The early bird catches the worm

97] No remedy but patience

98] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

99] Second thoughts are best

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