Famous Proverbs

1] Silence is golden

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

3] Birds of a feather flock together

4] What’s done cannot be undone

5] Laugh and grow fat

6] Do as say, not as I do

7] Lookers-on see most of the game

8] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

9] He that ventures not fails not.

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

11] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

12] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

13] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

14] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

15] He who excuses himself accuses himself

16] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

17] There is many a true word spoken in jest

18] Eat to live and not live to eat.

19] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

20] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

21] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

22] An obedient wife commands her husband

23] You can’t win them all

24] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

25] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

26] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

27] Debt is an evil conscience

28] A good name is better than a golden girdle

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

30] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

31] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

32] Love is sweet torment

33] Put out your tubs when it is raining

34] No day so clear but has dark clouds

35] Confess and be hanged

36] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

37] The unexpected always happens.

38] A short cut is often a wrong cut

39] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

40] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

41] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

42] Extremity of right is wrong

43] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

44] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

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

46] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

47] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

48] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

49] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

50] Two blacks do not make a white

51] There’s no place like home

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

53] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

54] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

55] Good words are worth much and cost little

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

57] Better an open enemy than a false friend

58] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

59] Self-praise is no recommendation

60] No man is content with his lot

61] Great trees keep down the little ones

62] Rich folk have many friends

63] Never too late to late to repent

64] Wishes can never fill a sack

65] Distance lends enchantment to the view

66] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

67] A little is better than none

68] Live and Learn

69] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

70] Past cure, past care

71] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

72] He who excuses himself accuses himself

73] There are spots even in the sun

74] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

75] Take away fuel, take away flame

76] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

77] All things require skills but an appetite

78] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

79] Names are debts

80] No remedy but patience

81] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

82] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

83] What’s done cannot be undone

84] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

85] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

86] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

87] Little things please little minds

88] God arms the harmless

89] The highest branch is not the safest roost

90] Fair without, false within

91] Far fowls have fair feather

92] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

93] He is rich that has few wants

94] Little things are pretty

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

96] What’s in a name?

97] A fool always rushes to the fore.

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

99] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

100] Prospect is often better than possession