Famous Proverbs

1] Wink at small faults

2] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

3] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

4] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

5] Silence and thinking can no man offend

6] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

7] An Englishman’s home is his castle

8] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

9] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

10] He that has an ill name is half hanged

11] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

12] A good conscience is a sure card

13] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

14] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

15] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

16] Silence and thinking can no man offend

17] A miss is as good as a mile

18] Don’t tell tales out of school

19] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

20] It is good to follow the old fox

21] A man may bear till his back breaks

22] What’s done is done

23] Small is the seed of every greatness

24] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

25] None but the brave deserves the fair

26] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

27] The devil looks after his own

28] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

29] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

30] A burnt child dreads the fire

31] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

32] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

33] A hedge between keeps friendship green

34] He that knows little often repeats it

35] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

36] Poverty is the mother of crime

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

38] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

39] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

40] Fools grow without watering.

41] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

42] The good intention excuses the bad action

43] Better bend than break

44] Let bygones be bygones

45] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

46] Muck and money go together

47] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

48] Good to begin well, better to end well.

49] Like question, like answer.

50] Man does what he can, and God what he will

51] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

52] The more you have the more you want

53] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

54] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

55] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

56] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

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

58] He that cannot ask, cannot live

59] Better ask the way than go astray

60] Alms never make poor

61] He that is absent is soon forgotten

62] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

63] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

64] The pen is the tongue of the hand

65] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

66] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

67] Do right and fear no man

68] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

69] The young will sow their wild oats

70] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

71] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

72] Pride goes before a fall

73] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

74] There is death in the pot.

75] Never refuse a good offer

76] Hunger is sharper than the sword

77] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

78] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

79] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

80] One man’s means another man’s poison

81] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

82] Beauty fades like a flower.

83] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

84] A penny saved is a penny gained

85] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

86] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

87] Care killed the cat

88] Crows are all completely black

89] He thinks not well that thinks not again

90] Stolen goods never thrive

91] Of two evils choose the lesser

92] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

93] No man is infallible

94] In peace, prepare for war

95] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

96] Children speak only words they have heard.

97] Extremes meet

98] Other times, other manners

99] Variety is the spice of life

100] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.