Famous Proverbs

1] Kind hearts are more than coronets

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

3] There is nothing new under the sun

4] Give the devil his due

5] Poverty is no sin

6] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

7] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

8] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

9] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

10] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

11] The thing which is rare is dear

12] The axe falls on a straight tree first

13] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

14] Homer sometimes nods

15] Bad news travels fast

16] It is easy to be wise after the event

17] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

18] Far from eye, far from heart

19] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

20] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

21] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

22] Let like mate with like

23] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

24] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

25] Dogs bark as they are bred.

26] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

27] Brevity is the soul of wit

28] Fair exchange is no robbery

29] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

30] First impressions are half the battle

31] One is never too old to learn

32] Nature is content with little.

33] Never too late to learn

34] There is no royal road to learning

35] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

36] Mirth is the sugar of life

37] The greatest step is that out of doors

38] Dirty water does not wash clean.

39] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

40] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

41] The tongue stings

42] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

43] Small is beautiful

44] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

45] Make haste slowly

46] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

47] A healthy man is a successful man

48] The mob tramples on the coward

49] Flesh is frail

50] Idle folks have the least leisure

51] The envious man shall never want woe

52] Necessity is the mother of invention

53] Excessive happiness produces pain

54] You can’t clap with one hand

55] True gold is not transformed by fire

56] One thief will not rob another

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

58] What has been, may be

59] As soon as there is life there is danger

60] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

61] In everything consider the end

62] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

63] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

64] Experience is the best teacher

65] Let sleeping dogs lie

66] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

67] Better unborn than untaught

68] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

69] Tomorrow never comes

70] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

71] He that can stay. Obtains

72] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

73] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

74] A light purse makes a heavy heart

75] Nothing is given so freely as advice

76] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

77] One may change the place but not the mind.

78] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

79] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

80] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

81] The absent party is always to blame.

82] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

83] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

84] God’s lambs will play.

85] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

86] Strike while the iron is hot

87] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

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

89] New things are fair

90] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

91] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

92] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

93] Gluttony kills more than the sword

94] Every oak has been an acorn

95] Words fly, writings remain

96] Put not the bucket too often in the well

97] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

98] A good word stills great anger

99] Time flies

100] Safety lies in the middle course