Famous Proverbs

1] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

2] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

3] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

4] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

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

6] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

7] Better say noting than no to the purpose

8] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

9] An oak is not felled at one stroke

10] Put out your tubs when it is raining

11] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

12] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

13] An old ox makes a straight furrow

14] Empty vessels make the most noise

15] Enough is enough

16] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

17] He that ventures not fails not.

18] A good name is better than riches

19] Give a loan and buy quarrel

20] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

21] Health without money is half an ague

22] Good wine needs no bush

23] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

24] Go not to hell for company

25] Like master, like man

26] Easy come, easy go

27] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

28] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

29] Without luck, it is better not to be born

30] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

31] Love turns pimples

32] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

33] There is no blindness like ignorance

34] Where there is peace, there is blessing

35] Everything new is fine

36] Honesty is the best policy

37] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

38] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

39] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

40] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

41] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

42] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

43] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

44] Like will to like

45] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

46] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

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

48] Virtue joints man to god

49] Erring is not heating

50] Desires are nourished by delays

51] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

52] A joke’s a very serious thing

53] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

54] Better children weep than old men

55] Distance lends enchantment to the view

56] As you bake, so shall you eat.

57] Example is the greatest of all seducers

58] Extremity of right is wrong

59] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

60] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

61] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

62] New brooms sweep clean

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

64] Call no man happy till he is dead

65] He that obey cannot command

66] God provides for him that trusts

67] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

68] It is too late to look up after you have collided

69] As you brew, so shall you drink.

70] No man fears what he has seen grow

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

72] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

73] It never rains it pours

74] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

75] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

76] Too much money makes one mad

77] Out of sight, out of mind

78] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

79] The best fish swim near the bottom

80] Never refuse a good offer

81] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

82] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

83] Four eyes see better than two.

84] No road is long with good company

85] So many men, so many opinions

86] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

87] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

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

89] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

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

91] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

92] An old dog barks not in vain

93] Advice when most needed is least heeded

94] Soon gotten, soon spent

95] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

96] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

97] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

98] As soon as there is life there is danger

99] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

100] Give me fire and I’ll give you light