Famous Proverbs

1] Forgive and forget

2] One fool praises another

3] You can’t clap with one hand

4] A little learning is dangerous thing

5] They are rich who have true friends

6] Gluttony kills more than the sword

7] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

8] Much meat, much malady

9] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

10] Woes unite foes

11] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

12] Experience must be bought

13] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

14] Pat any man and dust will fly

15] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

16] Great barkers are no biters

17] Soon gotten, soon spent

18] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

19] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

20] Forgive and forget

21] First impressions are the most lasting

22] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

23] He who does no good, does evil enough

24] Who suffers much is silent

25] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

26] If today will not, tomorrow may

27] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

28] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

29] Divide and rule

30] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

31] He that promises too much means nothing

32] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

33] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

34] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

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

36] Variety takes away satiety

37] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

38] Every man must carry his own cross

39] Curiosity killed the cat.

40] He thinks not well that thinks not again

41] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

42] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

43] Wink at small faults

44] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

45] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

46] Kill two birds with one stone

47] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

48] Great hopes make great men

49] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

50] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

51] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

52] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

53] No man is a hero to his valet

54] There is no garden without its weeds

55] He that has no money needs no purse

56] Sweet are the uses of adversity

57] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

58] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

59] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

60] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

61] Do as you would be done by

62] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

63] Words bind men

64] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

65] Learn to walk before you run

66] You are never too old to learn

67] One lie makes many

68] A beggar can never be bankrupt

69] A good wife makes a good husband

70] Harp not for ever on the same string

71] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

72] Too much hope deceives

73] Far from eye, far from heart

74] First catch your hare

75] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

76] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

77] Silence gives (or means) consent

78] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

79] The belly carries the legs

80] A good word stills great anger

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

82] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

83] Curiosity killed the cat.

84] In the end, things will mend

85] You never know what you can do till you try

86] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

87] The more you get, the more you want

88] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

89] Affection blinds reason

90] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

91] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

92] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

93] Things are only worth one makes them worth

94] Home is home though it be never so homely

95] If you play with fire you get burnt

96] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

97] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

98] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

99] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

100] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.