Famous Proverbs

1] Love me, love the crows on my roof

2] Of a new prince, new bondage

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

4] There are more ways to the wood than one.

5] The first step is the only difficulty

6] See which way the cat jumps

7] Ale will make a cat speak

8] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

9] Every man praises his own wares

10] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

11] Take things as you find them

12] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

13] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

14] A gift much expected is paid, not given

15] Beware of him who makes thee presents

16] Manners and money make a gentleman

17] First try and then trust

18] They say so’ is half a lie

19] It takes two to make a quarrel

20] Honesty is the best policy

21] You can’t tell a book by its cover

22] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

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

24] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

25] Better be safe than sorry

26] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

27] If today will not, tomorrow may

28] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

29] Mirth is the sugar of life

30] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

31] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

32] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

33] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

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

35] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

36] It is more blessed to give than to receive

37] Open confession is good for the soul

38] A good name is a rich heritage

39] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

40] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

41] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

42] Be careful to whom you give

43] He stands not surely that never slips

44] A good lawyer must be a great liar

45] The longest way round is the shortest way home

46] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

47] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

48] Remember, you are but a man

49] More have repented speech than silence

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

51] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

52] Soon gotten, soon spent

53] The fox may grow grey, but never good

54] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

55] Of a new prince, new bondage

56] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

57] Bear and forbear

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

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

60] All things that great men do are well done

61] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

62] Better unborn than untaught

63] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

64] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

65] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

66] Good fame is better than a good face

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

68] Where there’s muck, there’s money

69] Silence is golden

70] Every medal has two sides

71] No answer is also an answer

72] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

73] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

74] Once bitten, twice shy.

75] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

76] Pleasant hours fly past

77] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

78] The resolved mind has no cares

79] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

80] A light purse makes a heavy heart

81] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

82] Silence never makes mistakes

83] Of evil manners, spring good laws

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

85] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

86] Spare the rod and spoil the child

87] Money is the sinews of war

88] A strong town is not won in an hour

89] Give and spend, and God will send

90] Common fame is seldom to blame

91] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

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

93] Loyalty is worth more than money

94] Speech is silver, silence is golden

95] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

96] Everyone to his taste

97] Few words are best

98] No convenience without its inconvenience

99] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

100] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts