Famous Proverbs

1] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

2] He that wants health wants all

3] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

4] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

5] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

6] A word spoken is past recalling

7] Love sees no fault

8] The righteous man sins before an open chest

9] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

10] He that has a wife, has strife

11] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

12] Lavishness is not generosity

13] Corn him well and he will work better

14] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

15] True gold is not transformed by fire

16] It takes a wise man to be a fool

17] See which way the cat jumps

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

19] Honesty is the best policy

20] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

21] A cat may look at a king

22] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

23] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

24] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

25] Everything would fain live

26] An old man is a bed full of bones

27] Names and natures do often agree

28] A man in debt is caught in a net

29] Practice makes perfect

30] Flesh is frail

31] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

32] Kill two birds with one stone

33] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

34] Cheap is dear in the long run.

35] There is many a true word spoken in jest

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

37] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

38] Take things as you find them

39] A rolling stone gathers no moss

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

41] Either mend or end

42] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

43] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

44] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

45] The first step is the only difficulty

46] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

47] Every little helps

48] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

49] What cannot gold do?

50] They also serve who only stand and wait

51] Love laughs at locksmiths

52] Every advantage has its disadvantage

53] Money is the root of all evil

54] Death keeps no calendar

55] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

56] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

57] The highest branch is not the safest roost

58] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

59] Rust wastes more than use

60] Beauty is but skin-deep

61] A penny saved is a penny gained

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

63] Fair without, false within

64] No man so good but another may be as good as he

65] Live and let live

66] Truth conquers all things

67] In haste is error

68] What is money to a cat?

69] There is no time like the present

70] If the cap fits, wear it

71] A good name is better than riches

72] He who excuses himself accuses himself

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

74] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

75] The exception proves the rule

76] Better sit still than rise and fall

77] Be still and have thy will

78] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

79] Covetousness is the root of all evil

80] Appetite comes with eating

81] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

82] Every Jack must have his Jill

83] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

84] Those near the temple deride the gods

85] The resolved mind has no cares

86] It’s a long lane that has no turning

87] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

88] Better late than never, but better never late

89] Busiest men find the most time

90] It is more pain to do nothing than something

91] No man is a hero to his valet

92] Never do evil that good may come of it

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

94] Extremity of right is wrong

95] There is no rose without a thorn

96] Good counsel never comes amiss

97] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

98] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

99] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

100] A man can do no more than he can