Famous Proverbs

1] An old man is a bed full of bones

2] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

3] There is safety in numbers

4] Talk much end err much

5] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

6] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

7] The highest branch is not the safest roost

8] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

9] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

10] One thief will not rob another

11] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

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

13] First impressions are half the battle

14] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

15] A straight stick is crooked in water

16] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

17] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

18] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

19] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

20] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

21] A rich man can do nothing wrong

22] When meat is in anger is out

23] A wicked man is his own hell

24] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

25] Money talks

26] Who greases his way travels easily

27] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

28] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

29] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

30] Either mend or end

31] Lend never that thing you needed most

32] There is nothing that costs less than civility

33] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

34] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

35] Great talkers are never great doers

36] Fools rejoice at promises

37] You must grin and bear it

38] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

39] Honour is the reward of virtue

40] Best is cheapest

41] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

42] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

43] The more you have the more you want

44] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

45] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

46] A good name is a rich heritage

47] Money has no smell

48] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

49] A learned man has always riches in himself

50] Honesty is ill to thrive by

51] The fairest silk is soonest stained

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

53] Fools live poor to die rich

54] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

55] Young saint, old devil.

56] Beauty is but skin-deep

57] Great hopes make great men

58] A jack of all traders is master of none

59] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

60] The belly carries the legs

61] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

62] Fair play’s a jewel

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

64] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

65] Extremity of right is wrong

66] A jest breaks no bones

67] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

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

69] If one will not, another will

70] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

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

72] First think, and then speak

73] A hungry man is angry man

74] Revenge is sweet

75] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

76] Success has many friends

77] Cowards die many times before their deaths

78] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

79] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

80] Repentance comes too late

81] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

82] Pride goes before a fall

83] Good hand, good hire

84] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

85] The money you refuse will never do you good

86] What’s done cannot be undone

87] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

88] Home is home though it be never so homely

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

90] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

91] Everything is good in its season

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

93] What can’t be cured must be endured

94] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

95] A piece of churchyard fits every body

96] Half a word is enough for a wise man

97] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

98] There is no accounting for tastes

99] All truths are not to be told

100] A good Jack makes a good Jill.