Famous Proverbs

1] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

2] Better be alone than in bad company

3] Dead men tell no tales

4] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

5] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

6] Do not wear out your welcome

7] It takes a wise man to be a fool

8] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

9] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

10] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

11] Everything is good in its season

12] Every may be has a may not be

13] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

14] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

15] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

16] A merchant that gains not, loses

17] In doing we learn.

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

19] Make haste slowly

20] Dead dogs bark not

21] Early sow, early mow

22] No cross, no crown

23] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

24] Do not triumph before the victory

25] Example is better than precept

26] A good lather is half the shave

27] All things are possible with god

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

29] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

30] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

31] Haste makes waste

32] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

33] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

34] They are rich who have true friends

35] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

36] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

37] Where there is peace, God is

38] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

39] Nature surpasses art

40] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

41] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

42] It is all in the day’s work

43] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

44] The bait hides the hook

45] A good wife makes a good husband

46] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

47] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

48] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

49] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

50] A man may learn wit every day.

51] Covetousness brings nothing home

52] Knowledge is power

53] Health is better than wealth

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

55] At a good bargain thinks twice

56] Many a true word is spoken in jest

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

58] A fool always rushes to the fore.

59] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

60] Death alone can kill hope

61] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

62] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

63] A good word stills great anger

64] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

65] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

66] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

67] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

68] Curiosity killed the cat.

69] Wise men propose, and fools determine

70] Past cure, past care

71] Children should be seen and not heard

72] A house divided against itself cannot stand

73] Every man is his own worst enemy

74] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

75] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

76] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

77] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

78] Of one ill come many

79] There’s a time and place for everything

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

81] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

82] Lavishness is not generosity

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

84] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

85] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

86] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

87] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

88] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

89] Many a little makes a mickle

90] The weakest goes to the wall

91] Care is no cure

92] There’s always room at the top

93] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

94] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

95] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

96] A man may bear till his back breaks

97] A little learning is dangerous thing

98] The devil looks after his own

99] Ill news comes unsent for.

100] Change brings life