Famous Proverbs

1] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

2] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

3] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

4] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

5] The borrower is servant to the lender

6] The good die young.

7] Easier said than done

8] All that glitters is not gold

9] Faint heart never won fair lady

10] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

11] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

12] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

13] Charity excuseth not cheating.

14] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

15] Revenge is sweet

16] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

17] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

18] Strike while the iron is hot

19] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

20] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

21] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

22] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

23] It is good fishing in troubled waters

24] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

25] Little things are pretty

26] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

27] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

28] An old ox makes a straight furrow

29] Two wrongs do not make a right

30] Cowards die many times before their deaths

31] If you have known one, you have known them all

32] Truth conquers all things

33] Life means strife

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

35] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

36] The age of miracles is past

37] Homo is a common name to all men.

38] A gift much expected is paid, not given

39] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

40] A monk can’t shave his own head

41] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

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

43] Wedlock is padlock

44] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

45] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

46] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

47] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

48] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

49] Beauty is only skin deep

50] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

51] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

52] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

53] You know what you can do till you try.

54] Never too late to learn

55] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

56] It will be the same a hundred years hence

57] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

58] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

59] A man’s studies pass in to his character

60] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

61] Better a bare foot than none

62] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

63] None so busy as those who do nothing.

64] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

65] Four eyes see more than two

66] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

67] Patient men with the day.

68] Talk much end err much

69] Work expands so as to fill the time available

70] Laugh and grow fat

71] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

72] Hunger is the teacher of many

73] Small is the seed of every greatness

74] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

75] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

76] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

77] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

78] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

79] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

80] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

81] The king can do no wrong

82] Once a use and ever a custom

83] When the cat is away, the mice will play

84] Virtue is the only true nobility

85] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

86] Children and fools have merry lives

87] All meat pleases not all mouths

88] Patience is a virtue

89] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

90] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

91] Too much money makes one mad

92] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

93] The cowl does not make the monk.

94] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

95] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

96] Take time by the forelock

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

98] No choice amongst stinking fish

99] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

100] Who lives by hope will die in hunger