Famous Proverbs

1] Might is right

2] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

3] Better say noting than no to the purpose

4] Cleanliness is next to godliness

5] He who never was sick dies the first fit

6] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

7] Beware of him who makes thee presents

8] Erring is not heating

9] A word spoken is past recalling

10] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

11] Love is never without jealousy

12] Of evil manners, spring good laws

13] Too many cooks spoil the broth

14] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

15] Money refused loses its brightness

16] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

17] He that travels far knows much

18] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

19] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

20] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

21] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

22] Lookers-on see more than players

23] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

24] You may have too much of a good thing

25] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

26] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

27] It is never too late to mend

28] Success has many friends

29] All’s well that ends well

30] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

31] An Englishman’s home is his castle

32] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

33] Gold will not buy everything

34] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

35] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

36] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

37] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

38] Self do, self have

39] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

40] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

41] A beggar can never be bankrupt

42] Pursuits become habits

43] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

44] The last suitor wins the maid

45] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

46] You know what you can do till you try.

47] No tie can oblige the perfidious

48] Diamond cuts diamond

49] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

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

51] Weapons breed peace

52] That which proves too much proves nothing

53] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

54] Blue are the far away hills

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

56] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

57] Silence is golden

58] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

59] Necessity is a powerful weapon

60] First impressions are most lasting

61] Every oak has been an acorn

62] Long life has long misery

63] All’s fair in love and war

64] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

65] A rolling stone gathers no moss

66] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

67] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

68] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

69] It is the first step that is troublesome

70] For a web begun, God sends the thread

71] Virtue has all things in itself

72] Ready money is ready medicine

73] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

74] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

75] Travel broadens the mind

76] Adventures are to be adventurous

77] Man punishes the action but God the intention

78] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

79] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

80] The coward threatens only when he is safe

81] A man’s mother is his other God

82] Waste makes wants

83] The word is far him who has patience

84] Nothing succeeds like success

85] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

86] When you do not know what to do – wait.

87] Danger makes men devout

88] Men make houses, women make homes

89] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

90] Beware of him who makes thee presents

91] He that lends, gives

92] Books and friends should be few but good

93] The first step is the hardest

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

95] Everything new is fine

96] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

97] Truth is stranger than fiction

98] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

99] The pot calls the kettle black

100] So many countries, so many customs