Famous Proverbs

1] Learn not and know not

2] Blood is thicker than water

3] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

4] Words are but wind

5] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

6] God’s help is better than the early rising

7] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

8] There is no smoke without fire

9] They say so’ is half a lie

10] They are rich who have true friends

11] Like breeds like

12] He that has good money, gives few alms

13] It never rains it pours

14] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

15] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

16] A bad workman always blames his tools

17] When one door shuts, another opens

18] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

20] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

21] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

22] Everything new is fine

23] Necessity knows no law

24] Do right and fear no man

25] Poor folk fare the best

26] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

27] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

28] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

29] First catch your hare

30] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

31] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

32] No pain, no cure

33] There is no place like home

34] Take things as they come

35] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

36] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

37] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

38] An angry man is not fit to pray

39] United we stand, divided we fall

40] Death alone can kill hope

41] A man in debt is caught in a net

42] The end makes all equal

43] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

44] To err is human; to forgive, divine

45] Care is no cure

46] Make haste slowly

47] He that repairs not a part, builds all

48] Still waters run deep

49] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

50] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

51] A fool may give a wise man counsel

52] The last drop makes the cup run over

53] You can’t take it with you when you die

54] None but the brave deserves the fair

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

56] Many hands make light work

57] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

58] Love will go through stone walls

59] Findings are keepings

60] The longest way round is the shortest way home

61] Don’t kick against the pricks

62] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

63] Words bind men

64] He who begins many things, finishes but few

65] The wish is father to the thought

66] Better unborn than untaught

67] See how the wind blows

68] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

69] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

70] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

71] Cast not the first stone.

72] Be just before you are generous

73] The weeds overgrow the corn.

74] Never too late to late to repent

75] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

76] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

77] Every law has a loophole

78] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

79] Wedlock is padlock

80] We are all Adam’s children

81] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

82] Don’t put the cart before the horse

83] He conquers who endures

84] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

85] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

86] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

87] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

88] It is more pain to do nothing than something

89] Beauty fades like a flower.

90] God sends cold after Clothes

91] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

92] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

93] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

94] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

95] Quickly come, quickly go

96] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

97] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

98] Our own opinion is never wrong

99] Little things please little minds

100] An honest good look covers many faults.