Famous Proverbs

1] Every beginning is hard

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

3] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

4] The absent saint gets no candle

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

6] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

7] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

8] It is good to follow the old fox

9] Never grieve for what you cannot help

10] Second thoughts are best

11] What’s done is done

12] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

13] Pitchers have ears

14] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

15] What’s done is done

16] Riches along make no men happy

17] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

18] Wake not a sleeping lion

19] Old vessels must leak

20] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

21] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

22] A healthy man is a successful man

23] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

24] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

25] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

26] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

27] Conscience does make cowards of us all

28] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

29] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

30] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

31] Self-praise is no recommendation

32] Rats know the ways of rats

33] Better beg than steal.

34] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

35] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

36] Many dishes make many diseases

37] Change brings life

38] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

39] What costs little is little esteemed

40] A man with no hands is given a ring.

41] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

42] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

43] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

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

45] Be careful to whom you give

46] Well done is better than well said

47] All’s fair in love and war

48] Love me, love my dog

49] Tempt not a desperate man

50] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

51] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

52] One sword keeps another in the sheath

53] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

54] Art improves Nature

55] Good hand, good hire

56] Six feet of earth make all men equal

57] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

58] Tigers and deer do not over.

59] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

60] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

61] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

62] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

63] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

64] Corn him well and he will work better

65] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

66] Man does what he can, and God what he will

67] Well done is better than well said

68] Every dog is a lion at home

69] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

70] All things are easy, that are done willingly

71] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

72] Out of sight, out of mind

73] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

74] Like master, like man

75] Never do evil that good may come of it

76] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

77] Dirty linen should be washed at home

78] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

79] One cannot love and be wise

80] Youth will have its course.

81] As you bake, so shall you eat.

82] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

83] Every light has its shadow

84] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

85] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

86] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

87] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

88] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

89] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

90] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

91] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

92] Children speak only words they have heard.

93] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

94] Black will take no other hue

95] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

96] Ill comes often on the back worse

97] One reason is as good as fifty

98] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

99] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

100] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.