Famous Proverbs

1] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

2] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

3] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

4] Too much hope deceives

5] Gold will not buy everything

6] A scalded cat fears hot water.

7] Lovers are madmen

8] The first blow is half the battle

9] A goose drinks as much as gander

10] Great oaks from little acorns grow

11] The best things carried to excess are wrong

12] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

13] True gold is not transformed by fire

14] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

15] A man can do no more than he can

16] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

17] Business is business

18] Hope is the poor man’s bread

19] He who comes late must eat what is left

20] We don’t get something for nothing

21] Comparisons are odious

22] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

23] No man is indispensable

24] Give and spend, and God will send

25] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

26] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

27] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

28] A joke’s a very serious thing

29] By his deeds we know a man

30] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

31] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

32] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

33] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

34] One good turn deserves another

35] Better sit still than rise and fall

36] Work won’t kill but worry will.

37] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

38] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

39] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

40] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

41] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

42] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

43] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

44] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

45] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

46] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

47] When angry, count a hundred

48] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

49] Every shoe fits not every foot

50] Make the best of a bad job

51] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

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

53] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

54] Forewarned is forearmed

55] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

56] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

57] Valour delights in the test

58] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

59] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

60] Early sow, early mow

61] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

62] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

63] Wishes can never fill a sack

64] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

65] He who excuses himself accuses himself

66] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

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

68] Rip not up old sores

69] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

70] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

71] No man limps because another is hurt

72] Eat to live and not live to eat.

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

74] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

75] We soon believe what we desire

76] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

77] Wedlock is padlock

78] Fools live poor to die rich

79] Do as the friar says, not as he does

80] Never do evil that good may come of it

81] Every medal has its reverse

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

83] Love me, love my dog

84] A good paymaster needs no surety

85] A rich man’s joke is always funny

86] It is well to live that one may learn

87] Nature will have her course

88] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

89] Every dog has his (its) day

90] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

91] Practice is the science that gives confidence

92] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

93] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

94] A strong town is not won in an hour

95] Content is better than riches

96] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

97] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

98] Don’t kick against the pricks

99] Every dog is a lion at home

100] Prevention is better than cure