Famous Proverbs

1] The longest day must have an end

2] He who pays the piper calls the tune

3] Great barkers are no biters

4] There are spots even in the sun

5] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

6] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

7] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

8] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

9] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

10] No feast lasts forever.

11] Better unborn than untaught

12] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

13] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

14] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

15] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

16] The wish is father to the thought

17] A fool always rushes to the fore.

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

19] A bribe will enter without knocking

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

21] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

22] The world is full of fools

23] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

24] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

25] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

26] Fools live poor to die rich

27] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

28] A rich man’s joke is always funny

29] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

30] Numbers overcome the brave

31] The borrower is servant to the lender

32] Almost’ never killed a fly.

33] God makes the back for the burden

34] A little body often harbours a great soul

35] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

36] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

37] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

38] You cannot make a crab walk straight

39] After a storm comes a calm

40] Strength grows stronger by being tried

41] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

42] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

43] There is truth in wine

44] Home is where the heart is

45] Money talks

46] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

47] Few words are best

48] Half an egg is better than empty shell

49] Her that is down need fear no fall

50] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

51] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

52] One must howl with the wolves

53] Each day brings its own bread

54] Experience is the mother of wisdom

55] Poverty is the mother of crime

56] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

57] A good wife makes a good husband

58] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

59] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

60] No one ought to judge in his own cause

61] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

62] Law makers should not be law breakers

63] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

64] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

65] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

66] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

67] He who owes is in all the wrong

68] One good turn deserves another

69] Money talks

70] Honest is the best policy

71] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

72] By falling we learn to go safely

73] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

74] Grasp all, lose all

75] Custom reconciles us to everything

76] Safety lies in the middle course

77] Do as I say, not as I do

78] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

79] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

80] Half a word is enough for a wise man

81] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

82] There is no fool like an old fool

83] Do it now

84] Innocence is no protection

85] Better children weep than old men

86] By falling we learn to go safely

87] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

88] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

89] Example, is better than precept

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

91] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

92] Nothing seek, nothing find

93] Long life has long misery

94] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

95] We don’t get something for nothing

96] Step by step the ladder is ascended

97] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

98] Look at the bright side

99] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

100] Debt is an evil conscience