Famous Proverbs

1] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

2] A change is as good as rest

3] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

4] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

5] Like will to like

6] Business is business

7] One man’s loss is another’s gain

8] Take things as they come

9] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

10] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

11] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

12] Like mother, like daughter

13] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

14] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

15] Dirty water does not wash clean.

16] Black will take no other hue

17] Might overcome right.

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

19] Never refuse a good offer

20] Woes unite foes

21] There is a great difference between words and deeds

22] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

23] Nothing seek, nothing find

24] Live and let live

25] Vice makes virtue shine

26] Asking costs little

27] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

28] The fox may grow grey, but never good

29] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

30] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

31] Nature surpasses art

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

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

34] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

35] All that glitters is not gold

36] Better say noting than no to the purpose

37] Poor folk fare the best

38] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

39] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

40] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

41] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

42] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

43] Laugh and grow fat

44] What is new cannot be true

45] There is no fool like an old fool

46] Never do things by halves

47] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

48] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

49] He that talks much, errs much

50] Great minds think alike

51] Love me, love the crows on my roof

52] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

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

54] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

55] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

56] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

57] The darkest place is under the candlestick

58] Manners make the man

59] Look on the bright side

60] He who does no good, does evil enough

61] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

62] In haste is error

63] An Englishman’s home is his castle

64] Fools rejoice at promises

65] Best is cheapest

66] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

67] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

68] The poor suffer all the wrong

69] One sheep follows another

70] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

71] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

72] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

73] One foot is better than two crutches

74] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

75] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

76] Many a little makes a mickle

77] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

78] No garden without its weeds.

79] It’s dogged that does it

80] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

81] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

82] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

83] Much science, much sorrow

84] It costs more to do ill than to do well

85] The best go first

86] Things are seldom what they seem.

87] There is a black sheep in every flock

88] Money is the sinews of war

89] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

90] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

91] Much law but little justice

92] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

93] Wishes can never fill a sack

94] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

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

96] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

97] Silence gives (or means) consent

98] Poverty parts friendship

99] Give the devil his due

100] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves