Famous Proverbs

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

2] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

3] Love is sweet torment

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

5] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

6] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

7] Care killed the cat

8] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

9] Life is short and time is swift

10] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

11] Long absent, soon forgotten

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

13] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

14] The devil is not as black as he is painted

15] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

16] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

17] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

18] So many countries, so many customs

19] We soon believe what we desire

20] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

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

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

23] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

24] We live by laws, not by examples

25] The result justifies the deed

26] Facts are stubborn things

27] Half a loaf is better than do bread

28] The greatest talkers are the least doers

29] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

30] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

31] Take the will for the deed

32] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

33] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

34] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

35] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

36] Change of pasture makes fat calves

37] The devil lurks behind the cross

38] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

39] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

40] Don’t put the cart before the horse

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

42] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

43] Fools rejoice at promises

44] Where there is whispering there is lying

45] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

46] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

47] A straight stick is crooked in water

48] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

49] One man’s loss is another’s gain

50] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

51] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

52] Wisdom is better than strength

53] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

54] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

55] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

56] Birds once snared fear all bushes

57] The sun shines upon all alike.

58] Children and fools have merry lives

59] Love your friend with his fault

60] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

61] Experience is the best teacher

62] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

63] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

64] Judge not the tree by its bark

65] By falling we learn to go safely

66] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

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

68] The highest branch is not the safest roost

69] Love me, love the crows on my roof

70] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

71] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

72] A little learning is dangerous thing

73] Necessity breaks iron

74] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

75] Desires are nourished by delays

76] Experience must be bought

77] Gluttony kills more than the sword

78] Money talks

79] A good heart cannot lie.

80] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

81] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

82] The tide must be taken when it comes

83] Love conquers all

84] A penny saved is a penny gained

85] Waste is not grandeur

86] He who does no good, does evil enough

87] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

88] Wrong has no warrant

89] A bad workman always blames his tools

90] Young saint, old devil.

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

92] The devil knows many things because he is old

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

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

95] There is honour among thieves

96] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

97] Experience must be bought

98] No pain, no cure

99] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

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