Famous Proverbs

1] The course of true love never did run smooth

2] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

3] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

4] Love will go through stone walls

5] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

6] No cross, no crown

7] A good lather is half the shave

8] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

9] Dirty linen should be washed at home

10] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

11] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

12] It is too late to call back yesterday

13] Truth has no need of rhetoric

14] The devil lurks behind the cross

15] First impressions are most lasting

16] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

17] New brooms sweep clean

18] The mean is the best

19] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

20] Every advantage has its disadvantage

21] He that lives ill, fear follows him

22] Big words seldom go with good deeds

23] Truth is god’s daughter

24] Repentance comes too late

25] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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

27] In indecision itself, grief is present.

28] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

29] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

30] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

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

32] Poor men’s words have little weight

33] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

34] The highest tree has the greatest fall

35] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

36] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

37] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

38] Experience is the mother of wisdom

39] No one betrays himself by silence

40] Forgive and forget

41] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

42] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

43] Train the child in the way he should go.

44] Beware of him who makes thee presents

45] All covet all lose.

46] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

47] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

48] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

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

50] Life means strife

51] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

52] The sun shines upon all alike.

53] Rome was not built in a day

54] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

55] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

56] None are so fond of secrets as those who don’t mean to keep them

57] The cowl does not make the monk.

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

59] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

60] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

61] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

62] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

63] Boys will be boys

64] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

65] Once bitten, twice shy.

66] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

67] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

68] He is an ill husband who is not missed

69] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

70] A wise man hears one word and understands two

71] All good things must come to an end

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

73] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

74] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

75] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

76] Christmas comes but once a year

77] The coward threatens only when he is safe

78] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

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

80] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

81] There is nothing lost by civility

82] New lords, new laws

83] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

84] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

85] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

86] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

87] A living dog is better than a dead lion

88] A true friend is forever a friend

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

90] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

91] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

92] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

93] Appearances are deceptive

94] Love will find a way

95] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

96] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

97] Give credit where credit is due

98] No man so good but another may be as good as he

99] The fairest flowers soonest fade

100] A monk can’t shave his own head