Famous Proverbs

1] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

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

3] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

4] One foot is better than two crutches

5] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

6] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

7] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

8] After the extreme of cold comes spring

9] Lookers-on see most of the game

10] A great city, a great solitude

11] Suffering does not manifest itself

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

13] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

14] Water is the king of food

15] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

16] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

17] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

18] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

19] Wife and Children are bills of charges

20] Call a spade a spade

21] The voice is the best music

22] For a web begun, God sends the thread

23] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

24] Self do, self have

25] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

26] No wrong without a remedy

27] Example is better than precept

28] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

29] There’s a black sheep in every flock

30] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

31] All is vanity.

32] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

33] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

34] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

35] He who wills the end, Wills the means

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

37] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

38] A little impatience will spoil great plans

39] Alms never make poor

40] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

41] A good drink makes the old young

42] Good is good but better carries it

43] It is well to live that one may learn

44] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

45] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

46] Silence and thinking can no man offend

47] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

48] All’s well that ends well

49] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

50] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

51] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

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

53] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

54] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

55] Virtue is the only true nobility

56] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

57] We shall lie all alike in our graves

58] Laughter makes good blood

59] Make the best of a bad bargain

60] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

61] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

62] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

63] In the land of hope there is never any winter

64] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

65] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

66] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

67] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

68] What costs little is little esteemed

69] The company makes the feast

70] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

71] Better an open enemy than a false friend

72] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

73] Better sit still than rise and fall

74] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

75] Quietness is a great treasure

76] Beware of him who makes thee presents

77] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

78] Spare the rod and spoil the child

79] Great trees keep down the little ones

80] Little by little and bit by bit.

81] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

82] There is truth in wine

83] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

84] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

85] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

86] Little and often fills the purse

87] Ambition makes people diligent

88] Confess and be hanged

89] Man proposes, God disposes

90] You cannot make bricks without straw

91] Ill luck is good for something

92] Dead dogs bark not

93] Many doctors, death accomplished

94] He who demands does not command

95] Beauty opens locked doors

96] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

97] God’s lambs will play.

98] He that can stay. Obtains

99] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

100] The word is far him who has patience