Famous Proverbs

1] Crows are all completely black

2] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

3] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

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

5] Long absent, soon forgotten

6] All things require skills but an appetite

7] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

8] Possibilities are infinite

9] He is lifeless that is faultless

10] In wine there is truth

11] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

12] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

13] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

14] Self-praise is no recommendation

15] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

16] Poverty is not a crime

17] When wine sinks, words swim

18] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

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

20] Plain dealing is best

21] The first blow is half the battle

22] See how the wind blows

23] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

24] There is no redemption from hell

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

26] Anger without power is folly

27] When wine sinks, words swim

28] He that will thrive must rise at five

29] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

30] The fairest flowers soonest fade

31] He who considers too much will perform little.

32] Gluttony kills more than the sword

33] A good lawyer must be a great liar

34] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

35] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

36] All things for not all persons

37] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

38] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

39] Content is better than riches

40] He that lives ill, fear follows him

41] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

42] Empty vessels make the most noise

43] The exception proves the rule

44] Every oak has been an acorn

45] Love knows hidden paths

46] Custom makes all things easy

47] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

48] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

49] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

50] Money is the root of all evil

51] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

52] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

53] Valour delights in the test

54] They brag most who can do least

55] Ale will make a cat speak

56] An Englishman’s home is his castle

57] Every dog has his (its) day

58] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

59] Children and fools cannot lie.

60] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

61] Intimacy lessens fame

62] There is death in the pot.

63] Never refuse a good offer

64] Woes unite foes

65] Virtue joints man to god

66] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

67] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

68] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

69] Grin and bear it

70] One cannot put back the clock

71] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

72] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

73] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

74] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

75] One sword keeps another in the sheath

76] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

77] A good wife makes a good husband

78] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

79] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

80] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

81] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

82] He who serves is not free

83] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

84] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

85] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

86] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

87] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

88] He who demands does not command

89] Don’t take your harp to the party

90] Every shoe fits not every foot

91] It is ill striving against the stream

92] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

93] First think, and then speak

94] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

95] Lose a leg rather than a life

96] Laugh and grow fat

97] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

98] Better never begin than never make an end

99] It’s dogged that does it

100] The longest night will have an end