Famous Proverbs

1] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

2] The rich knows not who is his friend

3] He who never was sick dies the first fit

4] Hunger is the best sauce

5] Where god will help, nothing does harm

6] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

7] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

8] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

9] If you would be well served, serve yourself

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

11] Kill two birds with one stone

12] No feast lasts forever.

13] The more you get, the more you want

14] Not even Hercules could contend against two

15] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

16] No road is long with good company

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

18] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

19] The absent saint gets no candle

20] Ale will make a cat speak

21] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

22] Better sit still than rise and fall

23] Covetousness breaks the sack

24] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

25] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

26] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

27] Let like mate with like

28] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

29] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

30] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

31] Where there is whispering there is lying

32] Grin and bear it

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

34] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

35] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

36] Familiarity breeds contempt

37] Silence is a woman’s best garment

38] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

39] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

40] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

41] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

42] Nature does nothing in vain

43] Hope often deludes the foolish man

44] Patience surpasses learning

45] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

46] The end justifies the means

47] New meat begets a new appetite

48] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

49] Quickly come, quickly go

50] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

51] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

52] Love will find a way

53] Beauty is but skin-deep

54] A friend is easier lost than found

55] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

56] A woman’s work is never done

57] Half a loaf is better than do bread

58] An old ox makes a straight furrow

59] Do as you would be done by

60] Every dog is valiant at his won door

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

62] Give credit where credit is due

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

64] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

65] A good heart conquers ill fortune

66] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

67] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

68] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

69] Hard words break no bones

70] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

71] Men make houses, women make homes

72] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

73] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

74] Covetousness breaks the sack

75] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

76] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

77] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

79] No pains, no gains

80] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

81] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

82] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

83] Those near the temple deride the gods

84] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

85] All roads lead to Rome

86] Cut your coat according to your cloth

87] All things for not all persons

88] Evil to him who evil thinks.

89] A little is better than none

90] They can do least two boast loudest

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

92] Misfortune makes foes of friends

93] Men are not to be measured in inches

94] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

95] A change is as good as rest

96] Words cut more than swords

97] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

98] All things are difficult before they are easy

99] As you bake, so shall you eat.

100] He that burns most, shines most