Famous Proverbs

1] Marriage is a lottery

2] All’s fair in love and war

3] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

4] Through obedience learn to command.

5] The falling drops hollow the stone

6] Half a word is enough for a wise man

7] There’s no place like home

8] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

9] Parents are patterns

10] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

11] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

12] Little pitchers have big ears.

13] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

14] Idle folks lack no excuses

15] You know what you can do till you try.

16] Little by little and bit by bit.

17] It takes a wise man to be a fool

18] One barber shaves another gratis

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

20] When the cat is away, the mice will play

21] Good ware makes quick market

22] Too much hope deceives

23] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

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

25] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

26] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

27] He who comes late must eat what is left

28] Two wrongs do not make a right

29] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

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

31] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

32] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

33] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

34] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

35] No man is infallible

36] Desires are nourished by delays

37] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

38] Hope is grief’s best music

39] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

40] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

41] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

42] Do not kick against the pricks

43] Death does not recognize strength

44] You cannot unscramble eggs

45] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

46] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

47] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

48] Don’t put the cart before the horse

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

50] Like breeds like

51] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

52] He that sows virtue reaps fame

53] A bad excuse is better than none at all

54] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

55] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

56] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

57] Many a little makes a mickle

58] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

59] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

60] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

61] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

62] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

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

64] Intimacy lessens fame

65] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

66] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

67] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

68] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

69] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

70] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

71] Let the buyer beware

72] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

73] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

74] One hand washes the other

75] God’s help is better than the early rising

76] The longest day must have an end

77] The absent saint gets no candle

78] He who demands does not command

79] A useful trade is a mine of gold

80] Stolen sweets are sweeter

81] Love knows hidden paths

82] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

83] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

84] You cannot have your cake and eat it

85] Some are wise and some are otherwise

86] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

87] The weakest goes to the wall

88] The voice is the best music

89] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

90] Don’t cry before you are hurt

91] Liars should have good memories

92] Trusting often makes fidelity

93] Don’t try to run before you walk

94] A man’s studies pass in to his character

95] At open doors, dogs come in

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

97] He that is down need fear no fall

98] Misfortune makes foes of friends

99] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

100] Self-praise is no recommendation