Famous Proverbs

1] After the extreme of cold comes spring

2] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

3] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

4] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

5] Great oaks from little acorns grow

6] Love is lawless.

7] A hungry man smells meat afar off

8] The king can do no wrong

9] He stands not surely that never slips

10] Debt is an evil conscience

11] He who owes is in all the wrong

12] Be careful to whom you give

13] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

14] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

15] No wrong without a remedy

16] A burnt child dreads the fire

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

18] Time and tide wait for no man

19] Patience surpasses learning

20] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

21] A woman’s work is never done

22] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

23] Marriage makes or mars a man

24] Nothing seek, nothing find

25] The absent saint gets no candle

26] Care killed the cat

27] Morning dreams come true

28] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

29] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

30] Don’t meet trouble half-way

31] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

32] Needs must when the devil drives

33] It is a great victory that comes without blood

34] Never too late to repent

35] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

36] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

37] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

38] Necessity knows no law

39] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

40] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

41] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

42] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

43] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

44] There’s no place like home

45] Good fences make good neighbours

46] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

47] Never refuse a good offer

48] No news is good news

49] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

50] Example is the greatest of all seducers

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

52] Blood will have blood

53] Seeing is believing

54] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

55] A word to the wise is enough

56] The age of miracles is past

57] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

58] You cannot make a crab walk straight

59] Homo is a common name to all men.

60] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

61] Walls have ears

62] Words bind men

63] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

64] Gold is tried in the fire

65] What costs little is little esteemed

66] Do as I say, not as I do

67] Love your friend with his fault

68] Nothing succeeds like success

69] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

70] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

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

72] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

73] The wish is father to the thought

74] Love cannot be compelled

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

76] The weeds overgrow the corn.

77] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

78] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

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

80] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

81] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

82] Let us do evil that good may come

83] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

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

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

86] More have repented speech than silence

87] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

88] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

89] Better belly burst than good meat lost

90] First impressions are the most lasting

91] A willful man will have his way

92] He who sows, trusts in God

93] After the extreme of cold comes spring

94] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

95] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

96] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

97] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

98] Every Jack must have his Jill

99] Example is better than precept

100] Better bend than break