Famous Proverbs

1] The ant had wings to her hurt

2] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

3] Revenge never repairs an injury

4] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

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

6] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

7] Never say die

8] There is nothing lost by civility

9] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

10] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

11] The company makes the feast

12] Better to wear out than rust out

13] Life is not all beer and skittles

14] One of these days is none of these days

15] Far fowls have fair feather

16] Little things are great to little men

17] Extremity of right is wrong

18] Don’t put the cart before the horse

19] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

20] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

21] Don’t tell tales out of school

22] God sends cold after Clothes

23] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

24] If you play with fire you get burnt

25] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

26] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

27] Asking costs little

28] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

29] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

30] Distance lends enchantment to the view

31] A fault confessed is half redressed

32] One is not smelt where all stink

33] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

34] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

35] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

36] The bull must be taken by the horns

37] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

38] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

39] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

40] A word spoken is past recalling

41] Better belly burst than good meat lost

42] What’s in a name?

43] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

44] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

45] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

46] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

47] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

48] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

49] Procrastination is the thief of time

50] Tigers and deer do not over.

51] Virtue carries a lean purse

52] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

53] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

54] Money talks

55] A man of courage never wants weapons

56] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

57] He gives twice who gives quickly

58] Numbers overcome the brave

59] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

60] Every dog has his (its) day

61] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

62] Self do, self have

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

64] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

65] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

66] He who pays the piper calls the tune

67] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

68] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

69] Easy come, easy go

70] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

71] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

72] Jack is as good as his master

73] Every dog is valiant at his won door

74] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

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

76] All must be as God will

77] Idle folks have the least leisure

78] Don’t play with fire

79] Where there is no might, right loses itself

80] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

81] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

82] Laugh and grow fat

83] Bad excuses are worse than none.

84] Every man praises his own wares

85] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

86] Wrong has no warrant

87] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

88] It is ill striving against the stream

89] Wrong has no warrant

90] The best things in life are free

91] Best is cheapest

92] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

93] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

94] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

95] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

96] We don’t get something for nothing

97] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

98] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

99] Hope often deludes the foolish man

100] A good lawyer must be a great liar