Famous Proverbs

1] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

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

3] One barber shaves another gratis

4] Gold may be bought too dear

5] Look on the bright side

6] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

7] All doors open to courtesy

8] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

9] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

10] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

11] A man without a wife is but half a man

12] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

13] Misfortune does not always come to injure

14] Let bygones be bygones

15] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

16] Everything in moderation.

17] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

18] They also serve who only stand and wait

19] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

20] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

21] He who leaps high must take a long run

22] He laughs best who laughs last

23] There is nothing new under the sun

24] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

25] Everyone to his taste

26] Will is the cause of woe

27] No man is content with his lot

28] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

29] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

30] Variety takes away satiety

31] The faulty stands on his guard

32] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

33] Great minds think alike

34] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

35] Beauty fades like a flower.

36] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

37] What’s in a name?

38] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

39] It is a great victory that comes without blood

40] Every commodity has its discommodity

41] He that will thrive, must rise at five; he that has thriven, may lie till seven; but he that will never thrive may lie till eleven

42] Boys will be boys

43] Men do more things through habit than reason

44] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

45] Kindness lies in one side of the house

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

47] There’s no place like home

48] Danger makes men devout

49] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

50] A good paymaster needs no surety

51] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

52] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

53] A bully is always a coward

54] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

55] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

56] Waste is not grandeur

57] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

58] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

59] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

60] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

61] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

62] Loyalty is worth more than money

63] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

64] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

65] Practice is the science that gives confidence

66] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

67] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

68] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

69] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

70] Wise men propose, and fools determine

71] Nothing is given so freely as advice

72] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

73] The pen is the tongue of the hand

74] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

75] Four eyes see more than two

76] Clothes do not make the man

77] Do it now

78] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

79] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

80] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

81] Hunger breaks stone walls

82] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

83] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

84] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

85] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

86] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

87] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

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

89] Don’t cry stinking fish

90] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

91] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

92] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

93] He that will thrive must rise at five

94] Man punishes the action but God the intention

95] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

96] A good conscience is a sure card

97] Silence gives (or means) consent

98] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

99] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

100] When meat is in anger is out