Famous Proverbs

1] The result justifies the deed

2] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

3] Better at home than a mile from it

4] You may know by a handful the whole sack

5] Like breeds like

6] He that lives ill, fear follows him

7] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

8] Hungry bellies have no ears

9] Penny and penny laid up will be many

10] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

11] A little help is worth a deal of pity

12] No pain, no cure

13] Never buy a pig in a poke

14] Things past cannot be recalled

15] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

16] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

17] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

18] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

19] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

20] There is truth in wine

21] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

22] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

23] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

24] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

25] The pot calls the kettle black

26] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

27] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

28] He that can stay. Obtains

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

30] A fool always rushes to the fore.

31] The devil knows many things because he is old

32] You cannot have your cake and eat it

33] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

34] Familiarity breeds contempt

35] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

36] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

37] Silence gives (or means) consent

38] Every why has a wherefore

39] He may find fault that cannot mend

40] Sow thin and mow thin

41] Do right and fear no man

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

43] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

44] Too far east is west

45] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

46] Better be born lucky than wise.

47] The righteous man sins before an open chest

48] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

49] He that speaks not, God hears not

50] Beauty is only skin deep

51] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

52] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

53] Will is no skill

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

55] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

56] Diligence is the mother of good luck

57] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

58] If you would be well served, serve yourself

59] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

60] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

61] After a storm comes a calm

62] Wishes can never fill a sack

63] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

64] Bad luck often brings good luck

65] They that dance must pay the fiddler

66] There is nothing lost by civility

67] Discretion is the better part of valour

68] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

69] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

70] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

71] Better be a fool than a knave

72] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

73] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

74] Nature hates all sudden changes

75] Good is good but better carries it

76] Nothing comes from nothing

77] Garbage in, garbage out

78] The devil knows many things because he is old

79] Live not to eat, but eat to live

80] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

81] Man proposes, God disposes

82] Rats know the ways of rats

83] The fairest silk is soonest stained

84] Tomorrow is another day

85] The longest day must have an end

86] Nature is content with little.

87] An oak is not felled at one stroke

88] Money is power

89] Where there is whispering there is lying

90] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

91] What is worse than ill luck?

92] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

93] Homer sometimes nods

94] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

95] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

96] Pardon makes offenders

97] He that ventures not fails not.

98] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

99] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

100] Stolen goods never thrive