Famous Proverbs

1] Love will go through stone walls

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

3] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

4] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

5] Debt is an evil conscience

6] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

7] What cannot gold do?

8] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

9] Four eyes see more than two

10] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

11] Great gain makes easy work

12] Friends agree best at a distance

13] Love laughs at locksmiths

14] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

15] Extremes are dangerous

16] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

17] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

18] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

19] Two blacks do not make a white

20] There’s a black sheep in every flock

21] All that glitters is not gold

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

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

24] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

25] You never know what you can do till you try

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

27] In the end, things will mend

28] You cannot have your cake and eat it

29] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

30] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

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

32] No hair so small but has his shadow

33] Pleasing ware is half sold

34] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

35] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

36] He gives twice who gives quickly

37] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

38] Even Homer sometimes nods

39] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

40] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

41] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

42] Sorrow will pay no debt

43] Misfortunes never come singly

44] What everybody says must be true

45] Hunger breaks stone walls

46] Two blacks do not make a white

47] None so deaf as those that will not hear

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

49] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

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

51] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

52] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

53] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

54] A word is enough to the wise

55] Fire is a good servant a bad master

56] Every medal has its reverse

57] Forecast is better than work-hard

58] Think of ease, but work on.

59] At a good bargain thinks twice

60] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

61] Haste is of (or from) the devil

62] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

63] Ambition loses many a man

64] A hungry man smells meat afar off

65] Better ask the way than go astray

66] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

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

68] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

69] He who excuses himself accuses himself

70] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

71] It is all in the day’s work

72] He that seeks trouble never misses

73] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

74] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

75] Nearest the heart comes out first

76] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

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

78] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

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

80] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

81] Do unto others as they should do unto you

82] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

83] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

84] Better be born lucky than wise.

85] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

86] The word is far him who has patience

87] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

88] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

89] Gifts blind the eyes.

90] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

91] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

92] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

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

94] The best things are hard to come by.

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

96] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

97] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

98] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

99] None can guess the jewel by the casket

100] He that has no money needs no purse