Famous Proverbs

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

2] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

3] It is good to follow the old fox

4] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

5] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

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

7] All things are easy, that are done willingly

8] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

9] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

10] The absent party is always to blame.

11] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

12] Beggars must not be choosers

13] Many a true word is spoken in jest

14] He that has plenty of goods will have more

15] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

16] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

17] All’s fair in love and war

18] A strong town is not won in an hour

19] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

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

21] A learned man has always riches in himself

22] Extremes meet

23] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

24] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

25] The dog is a lion in his own house

26] There’s always room at the top

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

28] Procrastination is the thief of time

29] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

30] He who leaps high must take a long run

31] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

32] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

33] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

34] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

35] A scalded cat fears hot water.

36] Between two stools you fall to the ground

37] First impressions are half the battle

38] Never spur a willing horse

39] He who last, laughs longest.

40] Blood will have blood

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

42] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

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

44] A good servant must have good wages

45] Help a lame dog over a stile

46] A man without a wife is but half a man

47] Nature hates all sudden changes

48] Circumstances alter cases

49] You cannot unscramble eggs

50] Hunger is the best sauce

51] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

52] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

53] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

54] Walls have ears

55] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

56] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

57] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

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

59] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

60] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

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

62] The devil looks after his own

63] Love is never without jealousy

64] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

65] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

66] Weak things united become strong

67] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

68] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

69] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

70] Many doctors, death accomplished

71] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

72] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

73] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

74] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

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

76] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

77] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

78] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

79] Long life has long misery

80] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

81] A constant guest is never welcome

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

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

84] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

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

86] Not even Hercules could contend against two

87] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

88] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

89] Bad news travels fast

90] The best of men are but men at best.

91] All truths are not to be told

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

93] One swallow does not make a summer

94] Anything will fit a naked man.

95] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

96] What’s done cannot be undone

97] A good servant must have good wages

98] Affection blinds reason

99] An army marches on its stomach

100] Like father, like son