Famous Proverbs

1] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

2] Many eyes upon the king

3] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

4] Intimacy lessens fame

5] A man’s mother is his other God

6] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

7] Beauty is only skin deep

8] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

9] Human blood is all of a colour

10] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

11] Beauty is only skin deep

12] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

13] He that talks much, errs much

14] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

15] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

16] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

17] Dumb men get no lands

18] Experience is good if not bought too dear

19] The best fish swim near the bottom

20] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

21] He that can stay. Obtains

22] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

23] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

24] Do not triumph before the victory

25] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

26] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

27] Old foxes want no tutors

28] His bark is worse than his bite

29] Respect is greater from a distance

30] No good building without a good foundation.

31] Seek and you shall find

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

33] Time and tide wait for no man

34] All heiresses are beautiful.

35] Great minds think alike

36] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

37] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

38] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

39] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

40] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

41] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

42] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

43] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

44] Time flees without a delay

45] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

46] A wise man hears one word and understands two

47] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

48] A loveless life is a living death

49] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

50] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

51] Money is the sinews of war

52] The pen is the tongue of the hand

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

54] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

55] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

56] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

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

58] The beaten road is the safest

59] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

60] Like question, like answer.

61] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

62] An old fox is not easily snared

63] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

64] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

65] A short cut is often a wrong cut

66] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

67] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

68] Clothes do not make the man

69] Never do evil that good may come of it

70] A good marksman may miss

71] Ill luck is good for something

72] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

73] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

74] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

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

76] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

77] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

78] 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

79] It takes two to make a quarrel

80] When angry, count a hundred

81] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

82] After the extreme of cold comes spring

83] New lords, new laws

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

85] Sow thin and mow thin

86] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

87] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

88] A joke’s a very serious thing

89] A woman’s work is never done

90] The Pen is mightier than the sword

91] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

92] Light grows the burden which is well borne

93] Home is where the heart is

94] No land without stones, or meat without bones

95] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

96] Prevention is better than cure

97] Fair exchange is no robbery

98] Step by step the ladder is ascended

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

100] Good clothes open all doors