Famous Proverbs

1] None so deaf as those that will not hear

2] Old habits die hard

3] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

4] Of evil manners, spring good laws

5] Divide and rule

6] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

7] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

8] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

9] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

10] The best things are hard to come by.

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

12] Woes unite foes

13] Without luck, it is better not to be born

14] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

15] In fair weather prepare for foul

16] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

17] He knows most who speaks least

18] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

19] Better at home than a mile from it

20] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

21] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

22] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

23] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

24] Success makes a fool seem wise.

25] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

26] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

27] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

28] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

29] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

30] It takes two to make a quarrel

31] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

32] Pursuits become habits

33] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

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

35] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

36] You cannot have your cake and eat it

37] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

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

39] Too much money makes one mad

40] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

41] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

42] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

43] A good drink makes the old young

44] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

45] Nothing is so certain as death

46] Love conquers all

47] Patience is the remedy of the world

48] Faint heart never won fair lady

49] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

50] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

51] Will is the cause of woe

52] What can’t be cured must be endured

53] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

54] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

55] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

56] Waste not, want not

57] He stands not surely that never slips

58] Every dog has his (its) day

59] Every Jack must have his Jill

60] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

61] As you sow, so shall you reap

62] Custom makes all things easy

63] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

64] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

65] The lion had need of the mouse

66] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

67] There is no garden without its weeds

68] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

69] In the land of hope there is never any winter

70] Don’t cry stinking fish

71] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

72] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

73] Will is the cause of woe

74] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

75] Kill two birds with one stone

76] Patience is a plaster for all sores

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

78] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

79] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

80] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

81] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

82] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

83] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

84] Master easy, servant slack

85] Take the tone of the company you are in

86] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

87] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

88] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

89] Nothing is so certain as death

90] Marriage makes or mars a man

91] Goodness is better than beauty

92] No man can serve two masters

93] Children speak only words they have heard.

94] Jesters do oft prove prophets

95] Divide and rule

96] A beggar can never be bankrupt

97] A good tongue is a good weapon

98] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

99] Spend and be free, but make no waste

100] No man is his craft’s master the first day