Famous Proverbs

1] Spend and be free, but make no waste

2] A good wife makes a good husband

3] Findings are keepings

4] Open confession is good for the soul

5] Of evil manners, spring good laws

6] Where there are reeds, there is water

7] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

8] No remedy but patience

9] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

10] No hair so small but has his shadow

11] He who wills the end, Wills the means

12] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

13] Eat to live and not live to eat.

14] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

15] Things are only worth one makes them worth

16] If the cap fits, wear it

17] After the extreme of cold comes spring

18] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

19] No like is the same.

20] A good drink makes the old young

21] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

22] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

23] Love and business teach eloquence

24] Beware of him who makes thee presents

25] Threatened folk live long

26] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

27] Barking dogs seldom bite

28] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

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

30] Love me, love the crows on my roof

31] No choice amongst stinking fish

32] Adam’s ale is the best brew

33] A fool believes everything

34] There is no rose without a thorn

35] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

36] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

37] He that has no money needs no purse

38] He is wise who looks ahead

39] Blood will have blood

40] Shrouds have no pockets

41] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

42] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

43] Charity begins at home.

44] One cannot put back the clock

45] Dying men speak true

46] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

47] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

48] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

49] Good fame is better than a good face

50] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

51] Man proposes, God disposes

52] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

53] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

54] A learned man has always riches in himself

55] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

56] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

57] Everything new is fine

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

59] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

60] Soon hot, soon cold

61] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

62] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

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

64] The absent party is always to blame.

65] Best is cheapest

66] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

67] Let like mate with like

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

69] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

70] Every why has a wherefore

71] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

72] Judge not the tree by its bark

73] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

74] Every dog is valiant at his won door

75] Never too late to learn

76] The race is got by running

77] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

78] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

79] The company makes the feast

80] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

81] Death does not recognize strength

82] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

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

84] Virtue joints man to god

85] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

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

87] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

88] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

89] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

90] Bear with evil and expect good

91] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

92] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

93] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

94] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

95] The coward threatens only when he is safe

96] A fool may give a wise man counsel

97] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

98] Change of pasture makes fat calves

99] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

100] There is death in the pot.