Famous Proverbs

1] The devil looks after his own

2] All heiresses are beautiful.

3] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

4] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

5] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

6] Better an apple given than eaten

7] If you would be well served, serve yourself

8] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

9] The golden age was never the present age

10] Don’t meet trouble half-way

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

12] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

13] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

14] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

15] The great would have none great, and the little all little

16] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

17] Youth and age will never agree

18] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

19] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

20] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

21] There’s a time and place for everything

22] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

23] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

24] In the end, things will mend

25] Virtue joints man to god

26] Too many cooks spoil the broth

27] God is always on the side of the big battalions

28] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

29] Of three main roads, take the middle one

30] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

31] The lion had need of the mouse

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

33] Far fowls have fair feather

34] Give the devil his due

35] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

36] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

37] Will is the cause of woe

38] The first step is the hardest

39] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

40] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

41] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

42] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

43] Without diligence, no prize

44] A man with no hands is given a ring.

45] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

46] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

47] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

48] Every dog is a lion at home

49] Cheap is dear in the long run.

50] Judge not of men and things at first sight

51] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

52] They say so’ is half a lie

53] Sickness soaks the purse

54] One is what one eats

55] Never too late to repent

56] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

57] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

58] Nothing succeeds like success

59] A bully is always a coward

60] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

61] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

62] No man is content with his lot

63] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

64] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

65] A man may bear till his back breaks

66] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

67] Exchange is no robbery

68] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

69] Might is right

70] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

71] Home is where the heart is

72] Money talks

73] Paddle your own canoe

74] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

75] What has been, may be

76] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

77] Best is cheapest

78] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

79] He that obey cannot command

80] There is no time like the present

81] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

82] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

83] Money is power

84] Things are only worth one makes them worth

85] The money you refuse will never do you good

86] A word before is worth two behind

87] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

88] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

89] It is the first step that is troublesome

90] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

91] Let bygones be bygones

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

93] Take things as they come

94] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

95] Better to be safe than sorry.

96] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

97] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

98] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

99] Adventures are to be adventurous

100] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men