Famous Proverbs

1] Four eyes see better than two.

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

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

4] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

5] There is a black sheep in every flock

6] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

7] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

8] The darkest place is under the candlestick

9] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

10] There is many a true word spoken in jest

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

12] Exchange is no robbery

13] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

14] Travel broadens the mind

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

16] Sooner begun, sooner done

17] There is nothing that costs less than civility

18] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

19] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

20] Error cannot be defended but by error

21] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

22] Necessity breaks iron

23] All griefs with bread are less

24] Many a little makes a mickle

25] What costs little is little esteemed

26] It is all in the day’s work

27] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

28] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

29] Wedlock is padlock

30] Company in misery makes it light

31] A cat has nine lives

32] Confess and be hanged

33] The lion had need of the mouse

34] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

35] The more you have the more you want

36] Mere wishes are silly fishes

37] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

38] The thing which is rare is dear

39] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

40] You can’t take it with you when you die

41] The longest journey starts with a single step

42] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

43] Half an egg is better than empty shell

44] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

45] Better unborn than untaught

46] There is nothing like being on the safe side

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

48] He that has a wife, has strife

49] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

50] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

51] Four eyes see better than two.

52] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

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

54] He that burns most, shines most

55] Precept begins, examples accomplish

56] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

57] True doctrines require no miracles

58] Where there is peace, God is

59] Manners and money make a gentleman

60] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

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

62] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

63] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

64] The day obliterates the promise of the might

65] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

66] Honesty is the best policy

67] There is safety in numbers

68] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

69] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

70] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

71] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

72] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

73] Gifts blind the eyes.

74] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

75] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

76] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

77] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

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

79] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

80] He who never was sick dies the first fit

81] A good friend is my nearest relation

82] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

83] Care brings grey hair.

84] Patient men with the day.

85] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

86] He that wants health wants all

87] Repentance comes too late

88] Even water has its ebb and flow

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

90] A bad excuse is better than none at all

91] The best wine comes from an old vessel

92] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

93] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

94] Even silence may be eloquent

95] Practice is the science that gives confidence

96] A short cut is often a wrong cut

97] We are all Adam’s children

98] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

99] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

100] God helps those who help themselves