Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

2] Truth is stranger than fiction

3] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

4] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

5] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

6] After the extreme of cold comes spring

7] Appearances are deceptive

8] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

9] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

10] Take things as they come

11] The weeds overgrow the corn.

12] Two heads are better than one

13] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

14] All doors open to courtesy

15] As long lives a merry man as a sad

16] There is no place like home

17] Much meat, much malady

18] He that desires but little has no deed of much

19] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

20] Riches along make no men happy

21] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

22] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

23] Better be alone than in bad company

24] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

25] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

26] A change is as good as rest

27] Like breeds like

28] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

29] Fortune is blind

30] Ignorance is the peace of life

31] It’s dogged that does it

32] New brooms sweep clean

33] It is useless to flog a dead horse

34] The child is father of the man

35] There is a great difference between words and deeds

36] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

37] Worse things happen at sea

38] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

39] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

40] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

41] No man can serve two masters

42] Lavishness is not generosity

43] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

44] Everything would fain live

45] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

46] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

47] In the end, things will mend

48] The longest day must have an end

49] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

50] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

51] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

52] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

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

54] He that has no shame has no conscience

55] Everything new is fine

56] Idleness is the root of all evil

57] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

58] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

59] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

60] Patience surpasses learning

61] Many hands make light work

62] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

63] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

64] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

65] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

66] Ill news comes apace.

67] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

68] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

69] Don’t cry for the moon

70] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

71] Make the best of a bad job

72] Every oak has been an acorn

73] Better the last smile than the first laugh

74] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

75] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

76] Better be safe than sorry

77] Lend never that thing you needed most

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

79] God makes the back for the burden

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

81] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

82] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

83] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

84] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

85] Now is now, and then was then

86] Money is the sinew of affairs

87] The deed comes back upon the doer.

88] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

89] No wrong without a remedy

90] It takes all sorts to make a world

91] A man can do no more than he can

92] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

93] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

94] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

95] No man is born wise or learned

96] It’s a long lane that has no turning

97] A crowd is not company

98] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

99] What cannot gold do?

100] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.