Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

2] Work smart; don’t work hard

3] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

4] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

5] So many countries, so many customs

6] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

7] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

8] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

9] The bait hides the hook

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

11] A gift much expected is paid, not given

12] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

13] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

14] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

15] All covet all lose.

16] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

17] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

18] Virtue is its own reward

19] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

20] All men are mortal

21] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

22] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

23] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

24] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

25] Young colts will canter.

26] Nature abhors a vacuum

27] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

28] No hair so small but has his shadow

29] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

30] Faint heart never won fair lady

31] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

32] Don’t try to run before you walk

33] A monk can’t shave his own head

34] Hope is grief’s best music

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

36] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

37] Acorns were good till bread was found

38] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

39] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

40] Train the child in the way he should go.

41] A good lawyer must be a great liar

42] Fingers were made before forks

43] There is nothing that costs less than civility

44] They say so’ is half a lie

45] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

46] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

47] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

48] It is the unexpected that always happens

49] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

50] No one betrays himself by silence

51] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

52] Don’t tell tales out of school

53] A goose drinks as much as gander

54] How forceful are right words

55] All lay loads on a willing horse

56] Truth is mighty and will prevail

57] The tongue stings

58] Dead men tell no tales

59] Fair face, foul heart

60] Don’t put the cart before the horse

61] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

62] Might knows no right

63] Rip not up old sores

64] He that eats least eats most

65] Nearest the heart comes out first

66] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

67] Don’t play with edged tools

68] All meat pleases not all mouths

69] A little too late, is much too late

70] Death alone can kill hope

71] Health and wealth create beauty

72] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

73] There is no royal road to learning

74] Time and tide wait for no man

75] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

76] From word to deed is a great space

77] The game is not worth the candle

78] Ready money is a ready remedy

79] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

80] Dead men don’t bite

81] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

82] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

83] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

84] Do not limp before the lame

85] The best is often the enemy of the good

86] Creditors have better memories than debtors

87] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

88] Let us do evil that good may come

89] You must grin and bear it

90] The voice is the best music

91] The end justifies the means

92] III counsel mars all

93] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

94] The lion had need of the mouse

95] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

96] A good conscience is a constant feast

97] Common fame is a liar

98] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

99] Extremity of right is wrong

100] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower