Famous Proverbs

1] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

2] The result justifies the deed

3] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

4] Fear of death is worse than death itself

5] All meat pleases not all mouths

6] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

7] Virtue is its own reward

8] Too much curiosity lost paradise

9] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

10] Love me, love my dog

11] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

12] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

13] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

15] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

16] Virtue has all things in itself

17] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

18] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

19] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

20] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

21] Findings are keepings

22] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

23] Trusting often makes fidelity

24] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

25] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

26] Lookers-on see more than players

27] Everything comes to him who waits

28] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

29] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

30] Intimacy lessens fame

31] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

32] You cannot have your cake and eat it

33] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

34] Don’t take your harp to the party

35] What everybody says must be true

36] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

37] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

38] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

39] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

40] The goat must browse where she is tied

41] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

42] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

43] Hope often deludes the foolish man

44] Better an open enemy than a false friend

45] He knows which side his bread is buttered

46] One can’t help many, but many can help one

47] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

48] The fairest silk is soonest stained

49] The end justifies the means

50] God’s help is better than the early rising

51] Prospect is often better than possession

52] There is safety in numbers

53] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

54] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

55] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

56] He that has plenty of goods will have more

57] Old vessels must leak

58] Jack is as good as his master

59] The labour we delight in physics pain

60] Little things are great to little men

61] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

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

63] When in doubt, do nothing

64] A little learning is dangerous thing

65] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

66] A rolling stone gathers no moss

67] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

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

69] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

70] From small beginnings come great things

71] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

72] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

73] Silence gives (or means) consent

74] He that praises himself, spatters himself

75] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

76] One is what one eats

77] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

78] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

79] Small is the seed of every greatness

80] To err is human

81] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

82] The sun shines upon all alike.

83] Through hardship to the stars

84] Blood will have blood

85] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

86] Water is the king of food

87] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

88] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

89] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

90] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

91] Money is power

92] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

93] The falling drops hollow the stone

94] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

95] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

96] A bully never grows up.

97] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

98] If you would be well served, serve yourself

99] III luck is good for something

100] Plain dealing is best