Famous Proverbs

1] The longest day must have an end

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

3] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

4] Kingdoms divided soon fall

5] A strong town is not won in an hour

6] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

7] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

8] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

9] One barber shaves another gratis

10] Human blood is all of a colour

11] There are more men threatened than stricken

12] Beauty fades like a flower.

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

14] New meat begets a new appetite

15] Every bean has its black

16] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

17] Where there are reeds, there is water

18] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

19] Content is more than a kingdom

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

21] Slow but sure wins the race

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

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

24] Wrong has no warrant

25] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

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

27] Change of pasture makes fat calves

28] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

29] You win some, you lose some

30] Poverty is no sin

31] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

32] All things are difficult before they are easy

33] Take things as they come

34] When bees area old, they yield n honey

35] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

36] The best wine comes from an old vessel

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

38] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

39] Enough is enough

40] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

41] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

42] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

43] Once bitten, twice shy.

44] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

45] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

46] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

47] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

48] What’s done cannot be undone

49] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

50] Where there is peace, God is

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

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

53] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

54] A man with no hands is given a ring.

55] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

56] Like breeds like

57] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

58] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

59] Give the devil his due

60] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

61] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

62] Sickness soaks the purse

63] He that travels far knows much

64] New things are fair

65] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

66] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

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

68] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

69] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

70] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

71] Speech is silver, silence is golden

72] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

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

74] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

75] Habit is second nature

76] Rust wastes more than use

77] Sooner begun, sooner done

78] He that has no shame has no conscience

79] Nature is the true law

80] Years know more than books

81] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

82] Little things please little minds

83] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

84] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

85] Let not your tongue run at rover

86] Virtue has all things in itself

87] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

88] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

89] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

90] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

91] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

92] Standing pools gather fifth

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

94] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

95] Health without money is half an ague

96] Never spur a willing horse

97] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

98] The last drop makes the cup run over

99] Be careful to whom you give

100] Fortune favours those who use their judgement