Famous Proverbs

1] Never too late to learn

2] Children learn to creep ere they can go

3] Rats know the ways of rats

4] Every may be has a may not be

5] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

6] Ill luck is good for something

7] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

8] When wine sinks, words swim

9] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

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

11] Every medal has its reverse

12] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

13] Patience is a virtue

14] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

15] Safety lies in the middle course

16] You are never too old to learn

17] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

18] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

19] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

20] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

21] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

22] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

23] Of two evils choose the lesser

24] The good intention excuses the bad action

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

26] Fair without, false within

27] Do as the friar says, not as he does

28] Every dog is valiant at his won door

29] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

30] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

31] Time and tide wait for no man

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

33] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

34] What the king wills, that the law wills

35] When you do not know what to do – wait.

36] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

37] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

38] No man so good but another may be as good as he

39] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

40] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

41] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

42] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

43] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

44] Anger managers everything badly.

45] No choice amongst stinking fish

46] Silence is golden

47] The greatest step is that out of doors

48] Many drops make a shower

49] Every man praises his own wares

50] Pleasing ware is half sold

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

52] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

53] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

54] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

55] Like father, like son

56] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

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

58] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

59] Better ask the way than go astray

60] All’s well that ends well

61] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

62] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

63] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

64] A bribe will enter without knocking

65] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

66] First catch your hare

67] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

68] The bait hides the hook

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

70] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

71] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

72] Do as say, not as I do

73] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

74] All griefs with bread are less

75] Familiarity breeds contempt

76] All cats are grey in the dark

77] It’s a long lane that has no turning

78] No man so good but another may be as good as he

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

80] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

81] While there is life, there is hope

82] Don’t kick against the pricks

83] A hungry man is angry man

84] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

85] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

86] The sun shines upon all alike.

87] White there’s life there’s hope

88] He that wants health wants all

89] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

90] A word is enough to the wise

91] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

92] In doing we learn.

93] Men are not angles

94] Comparisons are odious

95] What is money to a cat?

96] Things are seldom what they seem.

97] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

98] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

99] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

100] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once