Famous Proverbs

1] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

2] Don’t tell tales out of school

3] Weapons breed peace

4] One foot is better than two crutches

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

6] A good lather is half the shave

7] Beware of a silent man and still water

8] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

9] Many words, many buffets

10] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

11] To err is human; to forgive, divine

12] Many eyes upon the king

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

14] A great city, a great solitude

15] Gifts blind the eyes.

16] A man may learn wit every day.

17] Despair gives courage to a coward

18] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

19] Seek and you shall find

20] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

21] There is truth in wine

22] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

23] A goose drinks as much as gander

24] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

25] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

26] True doctrines require no miracles

27] East or west, home is best

28] Ambition loses many a man

29] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

30] Every oak has been an acorn

31] Slow but sure wins the race

32] He that travels far knows much

33] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

34] A golden key opens every door

35] Hunger breaks stone walls

36] Do not wear out your welcome

37] Hunger is the best sauce

38] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

39] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

40] It is easier to pull down than to build

41] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

42] Change of pasture makes fat calves

43] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

44] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

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

46] Things past cannot be recalled

47] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

48] A little impatience will spoil great plans

49] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

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

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

52] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

53] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

54] The game is not worth the candle

55] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

56] The age of miracles is past

57] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

58] There is many a fair thing full false

59] Birds once snared fear all bushes

60] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

61] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

62] Variety is charming

63] You cannot unscramble eggs

64] He that promises too much means nothing

65] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

66] Live and Learn

67] Ambition loses many a man

68] Learn to walk before you run

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

70] A scalded cat fears hot water.

71] Laughter makes good blood

72] He conquers who endures

73] One kindness is the price of another

74] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

75] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

76] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

77] Good fences make good neighbours

78] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

79] If anything can go wrong, it will

80] Where there is no might, right loses itself

81] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

82] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

83] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

84] Silence gives (or means) consent

85] Every advantage has its disadvantage

86] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

87] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

88] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

89] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

90] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

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

92] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

93] Through obedience learn to command.

94] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

95] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

96] When bees area old, they yield n honey

97] Easier said than done

98] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

99] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

100] Barking dogs seldom bite