Famous Proverbs

1] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

2] The lion had need of the mouse

3] Debt is an evil conscience

4] When angry, count a hundred

5] A learned man has always riches in himself

6] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

7] The golden age was never the present age

8] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

9] He that does most at once, does least

10] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

11] Forecast is better than work-hard

12] No man can serve two masters

13] Great hopes make great men

14] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

15] Change brings life

16] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

17] Give and take is fair play

18] An evil life is a kind of death.

19] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

20] An evil life is a kind of death.

21] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

22] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

23] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

24] What the king wills, that the law wills

25] A miss is as good as a mile

26] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

27] A wicked man is his own hell

28] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

29] Plain dealing is best

30] A good servant must have good wages

31] One hand washes the other

32] Mirth without measure is madness

33] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

34] A little is better than none

35] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

36] The cowl does not make the monk.

37] He knows most who speaks least

38] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

39] Better beg than steal.

40] Everything must have a beginning

41] He that can stay. Obtains

42] Success has many friends

43] The greatest step is that out of doors

44] The bull must be taken by the horns

45] He who hesitates is lost

46] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

47] All heiresses are beautiful.

48] Whatever man has done, man can do

49] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

50] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

51] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

52] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

53] Beware of him who makes thee presents

54] The company makes the feast

55] A man can die but once

56] Every bean has its black

57] So many countries, so many customs

58] Suffering does not manifest itself

59] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

60] The envious man shall never want woe

61] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

62] There is no tree but bears some fruit

63] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

64] One today is worth two tomorrows

65] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

66] A miss is as good as a mile

67] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

68] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

69] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

70] While there is life, there is hope

71] Enough is as good as a feast

72] Better no doctor at all than three.

73] A jack of all traders is master of none

74] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

75] One lie makes many

76] A fool and his money are soon parted

77] Four eyes see more than two

78] Men do more things through habit than reason

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

80] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

81] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

82] Every advantage has its disadvantage

83] Every oak has been an acorn

84] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

85] Much science, much sorrow

86] Train the child in the way he should go.

87] The slowest barker is the surest biter

88] Care brings grey hair.

89] Don’t put the cart before the horse

90] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

91] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

92] The devil knows many things because he is old

93] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

94] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

95] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

96] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

97] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

98] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

99] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

100] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood