Famous Proverbs

1] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

2] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

3] Step by step the ladder is ascended

4] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

5] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

6] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

7] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

8] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

9] Many a little makes a mickle

10] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

11] Where there’s a will there’s a way

12] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

13] He may find fault that cannot mend

14] Better be alone than in bad company

15] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

16] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

17] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

18] Divide and rule

19] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

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

21] Many hands make light work

22] There is no fool like an old fool

23] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

24] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

25] What may be done at any time is done at no time

26] Sow thin and mow thin

27] Adventures are to be adventurous

28] The wisest of the wise may err.

29] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

30] Ill news comes unsent for.

31] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

32] Nature will have her course

33] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

34] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

35] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

36] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

37] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

38] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

39] As long lives a merry man as a sad

40] Failure teaches success

41] Fair play’s a jewel

42] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

43] Those near the temple deride the gods

44] Charity excuseth not cheating.

45] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

46] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

47] A crust is better than no bread.

48] A good face is a letter of recommendation

49] The fairest flowers soonest fade

50] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

51] No wrong without a remedy

52] New meat begets a new appetite

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

54] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

55] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

56] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

57] Nature is conquered by obeying her

58] Needs must when the evil drives

59] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

60] Great oaks from little acorns grow

61] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

62] A little learning is dangerous thing

63] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

64] He that knows little often repeats it

65] Much meat, much malady

66] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

67] Silence never makes mistakes

68] There’s a time and place for everything

69] Gossiping and lying go together

70] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

71] Bread is the staff of life.

72] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

73] There is many a true word spoken in jest

74] Good to begin well, better to end well.

75] Hitch your wagon to a star

76] A fool may give a wise man counsel

77] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

78] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

79] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

80] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

81] The deed comes back upon the doer.

82] Better late than never, but better never late

83] Misfortunes never come singly

84] Hunger is the best sauce

85] Tomorrow never comes

86] Put not the bucket too often in the well

87] Better eye sore than al blind

88] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

89] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

90] Manners make the man

91] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

92] Everything new is fine

93] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

94] Like master, like man

95] Everything comes to him who waits

96] Expectation is better than realisation

97] Good fences make good neighbours

98] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

99] The rich knows not who is his friend

100] God comes at last when think he is farthest off