Famous Proverbs

1] Moderation in all things

2] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

3] Every beginning is hard

4] A good name is sooner lost than won

5] So many countries, so many customs

6] All heiresses are beautiful.

7] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

8] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

9] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

10] An honest good look covers many faults.

11] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

12] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

13] Weeds need no sowing

14] Beauty is only skin deep

15] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

16] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

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

18] Bad news travels fast

19] Practice what you preach

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

21] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

22] Gold will not buy everything

23] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

24] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

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

26] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

27] He that has good money, gives few alms

28] Long absent, soon forgotten

29] Make the best of a bad bargain

30] Better an apple given than eaten

31] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

32] Never do things by halves

33] He freezes who does not burn

34] A gift much expected is paid, not given

35] He that blows best, bears away the horn

36] Be just before you are generous

37] No pain, no cure

38] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

39] He laughs best who laughs last

40] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

41] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

42] Good wine needs no bush

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

44] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

45] Take away fuel, take away flame

46] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

47] There is no place like home

48] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

49] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

50] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

51] The worse luck now, the better another time

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

53] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

54] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

55] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

56] Anger without power is folly

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

58] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

59] The mob tramples on the coward

60] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

61] Make the best of a bad job

62] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

63] Once a use and ever a custom

64] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

65] It is ill jesting with edged tools

66] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

67] One kindness is the price of another

68] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

69] God is a sure paymaster

70] What is new cannot be true

71] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

72] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

73] Great oaks from little acorns grow

74] Good fame is better than a good face

75] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

76] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

77] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

78] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

79] Every groom is a king at home

80] Nature is conquered by obeying her

81] Spread the table, and contention will cease

82] True gold is not transformed by fire

83] Virtue joints man to god

84] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

85] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

86] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

87] Everything is good in its season

88] Beauty opens locked doors

89] Variety is the spice of life

90] Better be a fool than a knave

91] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

92] So many men, so many opinions

93] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

94] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

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

96] Honesty is ill to thrive by

97] Parents are patterns

98] God makes the back for the burden

99] All is vanity.

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