Famous Proverbs

1] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

2] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

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

4] A bribe will enter without knocking

5] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

6] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

7] It takes a wise man to be a fool

8] Never refuse a good offer

9] A cat may look at a king

10] An army marches on its stomach

11] The rich knows not who is his friend

12] Where there is whispering there is lying

13] We soon believe what we desire

14] Be still and have thy will

15] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

16] Slow help is no help

17] He that blows best, bears away the horn

18] Saying is one thing, and doing another

19] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

20] Two wrongs do not make a right

21] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

22] Time and tide wait for no man

23] The game is not worth the candle

24] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

25] Alms never make poor

26] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

27] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

28] He that eats well should do his duty well

29] Friendship should not be all on one

30] Necessity is the mother of invention

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

32] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

33] Love laughs at locksmiths

34] Diamond cuts diamond

35] Of evil manners, spring good laws

36] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

37] The devil knows many things because he is old

38] Virtue joints man to god

39] All good things must come to an end

40] Come with the wind, got with the water

41] You cannot have your cake and eat it

42] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

43] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

44] Experience is the best teacher

45] Where there’s muck, there’s money

46] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

47] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

48] Cast not the first stone.

49] Train the child in the way he should go.

50] The beaten road is the safest

51] By his deeds we know a man

52] Cut your coat according to your cloth

53] Moderation in all things

54] Love will find a way

55] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

56] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

57] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

58] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

59] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

60] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

61] The owl thinks her own young fairest

62] Other times, other manners

63] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

64] Appetite comes with eating

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

66] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

67] Best is cheapest

68] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

69] A living dog is better than a dead lion

70] He travels the fastest who travels alone

71] Crows are all completely black

72] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

73] Hard words break no bones

74] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

75] Health is great riches

76] Everything new is fine

77] Don’t cry for the moon

78] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

79] So many men, so many opinions

80] Time has wings

81] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

82] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

83] Everything in moderation.

84] Intimacy lessens fame

85] All that glitters is not gold

86] He who envies admits his inferiority

87] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

88] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

89] Open confession is good for the soul

90] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

91] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

92] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

93] He that speaks not, God hears not

94] Every man has his faults

95] No man fears what he has seen grow

96] It is the first step that is troublesome

97] Do it now

98] We are all Adam’s children

99] Pleasing ware is half sold

100] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse