Famous Proverbs

1] Vice makes virtue shine

2] Pride goes before a fall

3] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

4] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

5] Every dog has his (its) day

6] Example, is better than precept

7] Wedlock is padlock

8] A good name is better than riches

9] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

10] The voice is the best music

11] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

12] Dreams go by contraries

13] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

14] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

15] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

16] Hunger breaks stone walls

17] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

18] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

19] Alms never make poor

20] Lookers-on see most of the game

21] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

22] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

23] Little and often fills the purse

24] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

25] Don’t cry for the moon

26] Every advantage has its disadvantage

27] Sickness soaks the purse

28] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

29] There is no place like home

30] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

31] Flesh is frail

32] Standing pools gather fifth

33] First impressions are half the battle

34] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

35] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

36] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

37] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

38] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

39] Soon hot, soon cold

40] Idle folks lack no excuses

41] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

42] A man may bear till his back breaks

43] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

44] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

45] Company in misery makes it light

46] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

47] A word before is worth two behind

48] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

49] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

50] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

51] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

52] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

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

54] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

55] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

56] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

57] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

58] Small is beautiful

59] A good name is better than a golden girdle

60] Better the last smile than the first laugh

61] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

62] A good Conscience is the best divinity

63] A crowd is not company

64] Laws were made to be broke

65] As you brew, so shall you drink.

66] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

67] Often and little eating makes a man fat

68] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

69] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

70] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

71] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

72] Death keeps no calendar

73] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

74] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

75] Easier said than done

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

77] A good payer is master of another’s purse

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

79] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

80] Never too late to repent

81] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

82] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

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

84] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

85] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

86] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

87] Better be a fool than a knave

88] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

89] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

90] Better an apple given than eaten

91] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

92] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

93] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

94] Love will find a way

95] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

96] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

97] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

98] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

99] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

100] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.