Famous Proverbs

1] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

2] Still waters run deep

3] Nothing seek, nothing find

4] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

5] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

6] One hand washes the other

7] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

8] A good heart conquers ill fortune

9] Dead men tell no tales

10] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

11] Words bind men

12] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

13] Home is home though it be never so homely

14] Death keeps no calendar

15] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

16] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

17] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

18] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

19] An obedient wife commands her husband

20] It is the unexpected that always happens

21] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

22] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

23] Early sow, early mow

24] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

25] Curiosity killed the cat.

26] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

27] There are more men threatened than stricken

28] Children learn to creep ere they can go

29] The devil is not as black as he is painted

30] Take the will for the deed

31] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

32] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

33] All good things must come to an end

34] Don’t cry before you are hurt

35] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

36] Too far east is west

37] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

38] There is many a true word spoken in jest

39] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

40] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

41] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

42] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

43] Six feet of earth make all men equal

44] Good is good but better carries it

45] Far from eye, far from heart

46] Extremes are dangerous

47] We live laws, not by examples

48] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

49] Every man must carry his own cross

50] The righteous man sins before an open chest

51] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

52] The greatest talkers are the least doers

53] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

54] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

55] God is always on the side of the big battalions

56] Truth conquers all things

57] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

58] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

59] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

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

61] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

62] First creep, then walk

63] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

64] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

65] A good name is a rich heritage

66] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

67] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

68] Old vessels must leak

69] Nature is conquered by obeying her

70] He that is down need fear no fall

71] Much would have more

72] A bully never grows up.

73] Everything must have a beginning

74] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

75] Bad luck often brings good luck

76] Every bean has its black

77] Diamond cuts diamond

78] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

79] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

80] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

81] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

82] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

83] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

84] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

85] Fear of death is worse than death itself

86] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

87] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

88] A rolling stone gathers no moss

89] Flesh is frail

90] There is honour among thieves

91] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

92] Wrong has no warrant

93] Plain dealing is best

94] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

95] Hope is grief’s best music

96] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

97] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

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

99] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

100] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses