Famous Proverbs

1] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

2] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

3] Suffering does not manifest itself

4] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

5] None but the brave deserves the fair

6] There is no redemption from hell

7] Good counsel never comes amiss

8] Even Homer sometimes nods

9] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

10] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

11] Experience is good if not bought too dear

12] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

13] Big words seldom go with good deeds

14] Love can find a way

15] Love me, love the crows on my roof

16] Master easy, servant slack

17] Health without money is half an ague

18] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

19] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

20] A living dog is better than a dead lion

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

22] One man’s loss is another’s gain

23] Hope is the poor man’s bread

24] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

25] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

26] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

27] No man is born wise or learned

28] The golden age was never the present age

29] Change of pasture makes fat calves

30] See which way the cat jumps

31] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

32] Good clothes open all doors

33] A hedge between keeps friendship green

34] Delay is the antidote of anger

35] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

36] A man with no hands is given a ring.

37] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

38] Blood will have blood

39] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

40] Time flees without a delay

41] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

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

43] Health is great riches

44] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

45] Through hardship to the stars

46] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

47] What’s done is done

48] Do it now

49] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

50] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

51] Books and friends should be few but good

52] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

53] Saying is one thing, and doing another

54] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

55] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

56] Kingdoms divided soon fall

57] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

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

59] Better children weep than old men

60] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

61] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

62] Law makers should not be law breakers

63] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

64] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

65] Think of ease, but work on.

66] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

67] A little too late, is much too late

68] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

69] Man proposes, God disposes

70] A bad padlock invites a picklock

71] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

72] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

73] Ill news comes unsent for.

74] Many dishes make many diseases

75] Our own opinion is never wrong

76] The thing which is rare is dear

77] A useful trade is a mine of gold

78] The good intention excuses the bad action

79] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

80] Nature does nothing in vain

81] The dog is a lion in his own house

82] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

83] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

84] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

85] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

86] Take things as they come

87] Enough is enough

88] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

89] Dirty linen should be washed at home

90] Hope often deludes the foolish man

91] Love can find a way

92] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

93] Half a word is enough for a wise man

94] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

95] Money isn’t everything

96] A strong town is not won in an hour

97] A man can do no more than he can

98] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

99] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

100] Death and life are in the power of the tongue