Famous Proverbs

1] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

2] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

3] Seek and you shall find

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

5] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

6] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

7] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

8] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

9] You can’t take it with you when you die

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

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

12] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

13] Weak things united become strong

14] Penny wise, pound foolish

15] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

16] The longest journey starts with a single step

17] Covetousness brings nothing home

18] He that speaks not, God hears not

19] Two blacks do not make a white

20] See which way the cat jumps

21] The golden age was never the present age

22] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

23] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

24] Long absent, soon forgotten

25] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

26] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

27] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

28] The worse luck now, the better another time

29] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

30] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

31] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

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

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

34] Bad excuses are worse than none.

35] You cannot make bricks without straw

36] No pains, no gains

37] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

38] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

39] A parrot will only say what it is taught

40] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

41] No misfortune will go on forever

42] Better learn late than never

43] Talk much end err much

44] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

45] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

46] Set a thief to catch a thief

47] Praise no man till he is dead.

48] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

49] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

50] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

51] The last suitor wins the maid

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

53] An honest good look covers many faults.

54] Love laughs at locksmiths

55] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

56] After a storm comes a calm

57] A good payer is master of another’s purse

58] Prove your friend ere you have need

59] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

60] Ill gotten, ill spent

61] Distance lends enchantment to the view

62] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

63] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

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

65] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

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

67] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

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

69] Flesh is frail

70] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

71] A bad padlock invites a picklock

72] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

73] Findings are keepings

74] The greatest step is that out of doors

75] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

76] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

77] The longest night will have an end

78] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

79] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

80] It is good to follow the old fox

81] The longest way round is the shortest way home

82] Hard cases make bad law

83] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

84] Good broth may be made in an old pot

85] What is worse than ill luck?

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

87] If you play with fire you get burnt

88] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

89] One is what one eats

90] Love me, love my dog

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

92] Every man must carry his own cross

93] Curiosity killed the cat.

94] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

95] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

96] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

97] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

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

99] Better never begin than never make an end

100] Cowards die many times before their deaths