Famous Proverbs

1] A bad workman always blames his tools

2] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

3] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

4] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

5] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

6] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

7] Good broth may be made in an old pot

8] First think, and then speak

9] Sweet are the uses of adversity

10] Beware of a silent man and still water

11] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

12] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

13] Don’t meet trouble half-way

14] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

15] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

16] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

17] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

18] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

19] One must howl with the wolves

20] All things are difficult before they are easy

21] He that promises too much means nothing

22] Take away fuel, take away flame

23] A light purse makes a heavy heart

24] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

25] Safety lies in the middle course

26] He that sows virtue reaps fame

27] There’s a black sheep in every flock

28] Kind hearts are more than coronets

29] A still tongue makes a wise head

30] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

31] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

32] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

33] Ill luck is good for something

34] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

35] The devil is not as black as he is painted

36] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

37] Love can find a way

38] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

39] He that talks much, errs much

40] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

41] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

42] Example is better than precept

43] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

44] Confess and be hanged

45] Never buy a pig in a poke

46] To err is human

47] Practice what you preach

48] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

49] Divide and rule

50] A wise man hears one word and understands two

51] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

52] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

53] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

54] Nearest the heart comes out first

55] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

56] Never say die

57] Those near the temple deride the gods

58] There is no accounting for tastes

59] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

60] A fool and his money are soon parted

61] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

62] Nothing crave, nothing have

63] Our own opinion is never wrong

64] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

65] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

66] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

67] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

68] Bind the sack before it be full

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

70] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

71] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

72] No man is born wise or learned

73] Much would have more

74] When in doubt, do nothing

75] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

76] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

77] When bees area old, they yield n honey

78] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

79] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

80] Dead dogs bark not

81] The longest day must have an end

82] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

83] A man may learn wit every day.

84] Gold may be bought too dear

85] Might is right

86] He knows which side his bread is buttered

87] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

88] Affection blinds reason

89] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

90] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

91] Dog does not eat dog

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

93] A burnt child dreads the fire

94] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

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

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

97] The worse luck now, the better another time

98] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

99] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

100] A good wife makes a good husband