Famous Proverbs

1] Better belly burst than good meat lost

2] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

3] Open a book and you profit by what you read

4] What is new cannot be true

5] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

6] It is good fishing in troubled waters

7] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

8] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

9] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

10] A good name is sooner lost than won

11] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

12] Patience is the remedy of the world

13] The mob tramples on the coward

14] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

15] A monk can’t shave his own head

16] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

17] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

18] Help a lame dog over a stile

19] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

20] Dogs bark as they are bred.

21] Dead men tell no tales

22] Cheap is dear in the long run.

23] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

24] The first blow is half the battle

25] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

26] Children should be seen and not heard

27] Hard words break no bones

28] It is good to follow the old fox

29] It is ill jesting with edged tools

30] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

31] No land without stones, or meat without bones

32] Lovers are madmen

33] A hungry man smells meat afar off

34] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

35] The fairest flowers soonest fade

36] Men are not angles

37] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

38] Many eyes upon the king

39] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

40] He that seeks trouble never misses

41] Discretion is the better part of valour

42] A man of courage never wants weapons

43] You must grin and bear it

44] Hard words break no bones

45] Full of courtesy, full of craft

46] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

47] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

48] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

49] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

50] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

51] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

52] Example, is better than precept

53] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

54] Don’t tell tales out of school

55] Lookers-on see more than players

56] The best go first

57] Abundance, like want, ruins many

58] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

59] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

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

61] Where there is no might, right loses itself

62] Children and fools cannot lie.

63] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

64] It takes all sorts to make a world

65] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

66] Fair without, false within

67] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

68] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

69] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

70] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

71] Through hardship to the stars

72] Silence is a woman’s best garment

73] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

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

75] Good wine needs no bush

76] The righteous man sins before an open chest

77] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

78] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

79] A good word stills great anger

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

81] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

82] Love knows no limit

83] Paddle your own canoe

84] New lords, new laws

85] The belly carries the legs

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

87] Go not to hell for company

88] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

89] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

90] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

91] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

92] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

93] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

94] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

95] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

96] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

97] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

98] A prophet is without honour in his own country

99] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

100] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung