Famous Proverbs

1] Live and let live

2] Gold will not buy everything

3] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

4] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

5] Time flies

6] Small is beautiful

7] It is never too late to mend

8] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

9] Love is without reason

10] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

11] Health without money is half an ague

12] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

13] It is not every question that deserves an answer

14] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

15] A good husband makes a good wife

16] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

17] Barking dogs seldom bite

18] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

19] Common fame is a liar

20] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

21] Every bean has its black

22] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

23] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

24] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

25] The good is often the enemy of the best

26] Do as I say, not as I do

27] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

28] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

29] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

30] Human blood is all of a colour

31] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

32] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

33] Make hay while the sun shines

34] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

35] What cannot gold do?

36] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

37] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

38] Cleanliness is next to godliness

39] Between two stools you fall to the ground

40] The mob tramples on the coward

41] The end makes all equal

42] It takes all sorts to make a world

43] Virtue has all things in itself

44] Be still and have thy will

45] A word spoken is past recalling

46] No man is wise at all times

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

48] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

49] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

50] Every Jack must have his Jill

51] Advice when most needed is least heeded

52] Innocence is no protection

53] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

54] Better the foot slip than the tongue

55] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

56] A good conscience is a constant feast

57] Truth has no need of rhetoric

58] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

59] Waste makes wants

60] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

61] All men are mortal

62] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

63] Mercy surpasses justice

64] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

65] One man sows and another reaps

66] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

67] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

68] What is word but wind?

69] Wise men propose, and fools determine

70] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

71] If you want peace, prepare for war

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

73] A true man and a thief think not the same

74] Cleanliness is next to godliness

75] Every man must carry his own cross

76] Either mend or end

77] Don’t cry for the moon

78] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

79] First thrive then wive

80] It is useless to flog a dead horse

81] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

82] First creep, then walk

83] The longest journey starts with a single step

84] A healthy man is a successful man

85] There is no blindness like ignorance

86] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

87] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

88] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

89] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

90] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

91] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

92] A loveless life is a living death

93] There is no time like the present

94] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

95] Where there is no might, right loses itself

96] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

97] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

98] Every commodity has its discommodity

99] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

100] Many eyes upon the king