Famous Proverbs

1] Truth is god’s daughter

2] Money isn’t everything

3] A monk can’t shave his own head

4] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

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

6] Lend your money and lose a friend

7] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

8] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

9] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

10] Every man is his own worst enemy

11] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

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

13] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

14] When angry, count a hundred

15] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

16] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

17] The poor suffer all the wrong

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

19] Sorrow will pay no debt

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

21] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

22] Fortune favours fools

23] Old vessels must leak

24] A light purse makes a heavy heart

25] Repentance comes too late

26] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

27] The exception proves the rule

28] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

29] Busiest men find the most time

30] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

31] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

32] He who demands does not command

33] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

34] Wine unveils the words of the heart

35] Go not to hell for company

36] Easier said than done

37] Fear of death is worse than death itself

38] A word spoken is past recalling

39] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

40] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

41] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

42] What must be must be

43] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

44] You can’t tell a book by its cover

45] The result justifies the deed

46] No choice amongst stinking fish

47] Better an apple given than eaten

48] Extremes meet

49] Let like mate with like

50] The first blow is half the battle

51] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

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

53] No convenience without its inconvenience

54] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

55] A man in debt is caught in a net

56] Ill luck is good for something

57] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

58] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

59] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

60] Least said, soonest mended

61] Gifts blind the eyes.

62] The world is full of fools

63] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

64] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

65] Health without money is half an ague

66] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

67] One cannot put back the clock

68] One good turn deserves another

69] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

70] It is good to follow the old fox

71] He who sows, trusts in God

72] The tongue stings

73] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

74] Busiest men find the most time

75] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

76] Save your breath to cool the porridge

77] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

78] Second thoughts are best

79] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

80] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

81] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

82] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

83] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

84] Like master, like man

85] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

86] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

87] Don’t kick against the pricks

88] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

89] The cowl does not make the monk.

90] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

91] A friend is easier lost than found

92] Brevity is the soul of wit

93] Do as say, not as I do

94] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

95] All men are mortal

96] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

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

98] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

99] Better to ask the way than go astray.

100] Every man for himself, and God for us all.