Famous Proverbs

1] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

2] Far fowls have fair feather

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

4] Garbage in, garbage out

5] A crowd is not company

6] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

7] Care brings grey hair.

8] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

9] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

10] There are more ways to the wood than one.

11] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

12] Two wrongs do not make a right

13] Wedlock is padlock

14] Past cure, past care

15] Thrift is a great revenue

16] Health is better than wealth

17] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

18] Some are wise and some are otherwise

19] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

20] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

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

22] No garden without its weeds.

23] Needs must when the evil drives

24] It never rains it pours

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

26] Care killed the cat

27] Like mistress, like maid

28] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

29] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

30] Waste makes wants

31] God provides for him that trusts

32] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

33] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

34] Great barkers are no biters

35] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

36] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

37] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

38] Fools live poor to die rich

39] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

40] Repentance comes too late

41] Patience is a plaster for all sores

42] An old fox is not easily snared

43] Poverty is not a crime

44] A good servant must have good wages

45] The labourer is worthy of his hire

46] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

47] Beauty is but skin-deep

48] Manners and money make a gentleman

49] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

50] Money is the root of all evil

51] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

52] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

53] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

54] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

55] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

56] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

57] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

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

59] Once bitten, twice shy.

60] The longest way round is the shortest way home

61] It is misery enough to have once been happy

62] Every shoe fits not every foot

63] One foot is better than two crutches

64] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

65] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

66] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

67] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

68] By falling we learn to go safely

69] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

70] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

71] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

72] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

73] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

74] A wicked man is his own hell

75] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

76] Cut your coat according to your cloth

77] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

78] As soon as there is life there is danger

79] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

80] A cat has nine lives

81] Creditors have better memories than debtors

82] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

83] First impressions are most lasting

84] The golden age was never the present age

85] Too many cooks spoil the broth

86] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

87] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

88] There is nothing like being on the safe side

89] Faint heart never won fair lady

90] Go not to hell for company

91] He would command must serve

92] Gifts blind the eyes.

93] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

94] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

95] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

96] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

97] Sooner begun, sooner done

98] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

99] No man fears what he has seen grow

100] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep