Famous Proverbs

1] Health is not value till sickness comes

2] Needs must when the devil drives

3] Time has wings

4] Still waters run deep

5] Harp not for ever on the same string

6] A loveless life is a living death

7] Every beginning is hard

8] You are never too old to learn

9] All glory comes from daring to begin

10] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

11] The end makes all equal

12] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

13] An honest good look covers many faults.

14] Coming events cast their shadows before

15] No wrong without a remedy

16] The falling drops hollow the stone

17] Virtue is the only true nobility

18] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

19] Facts are stubborn things

20] An evil life is a kind of death.

21] Soft fire makes sweet malt

22] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

23] The first step is the hardest

24] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

25] No news is good news

26] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

27] He conquers who endures

28] The sun shines upon all alike.

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

30] Wise men silent, fools talk

31] It is easy to be wise after the event

32] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

33] It will be the same a hundred years hence

34] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

35] Work expands so as to fill the time available

36] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

37] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

38] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

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

40] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

41] Where there’s muck, there’s money

42] Gifts blind the eyes.

43] Necessity is a powerful weapon

44] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

45] That which is easily done is soon believed

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

47] A fool always rushes to the fore.

48] More than enough is too much

49] Now is now, and then was then

50] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

51] It takes two to make a quarrel

52] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

53] Mirth without measure is madness

54] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

55] A little help is worth a deal of pity

56] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

57] Marriages are made in heaven

58] A mouse may help a lion

59] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

60] If you would be well served, serve yourself

61] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

62] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

63] Hungry bellies have no ears

64] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

65] It is the first step that is troublesome

66] Every man has his faults

67] Even a worm will turn

68] Company in misery makes it light

69] Don’t cry for the moon

70] Exchange is no robbery

71] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

72] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

73] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

74] Life means strife

75] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

76] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

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

78] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

79] No hair so small but has his shadow

80] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

81] One reason is as good as fifty

82] A good lather is half the shave

83] Gluttony kills more than the sword

84] Love turns pimples

85] The falling drops hollow the stone

86] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

87] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

88] Don’t take your harp to the party

89] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

90] Nearest the heart comes out first

91] A good dog deserves a good bone

92] Hope keeps man alive

93] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

94] They also serve who only stand and wait

95] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

96] Pride goes before a fall

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

98] He that promises too much means nothing

99] See how the wind blows

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