Famous Proverbs

1] Respect is greater from a distance

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

3] A little body often harbours a great soul

4] Step by step the ladder is ascended

5] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

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

7] Like will to like

8] See how the wind blows

9] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

10] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

11] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

12] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

13] Nothing is given so freely as advice

14] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

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

16] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

17] Better the last smile than the first laugh

18] So many countries, so many customs

19] There is nothing new under the sun

20] A little help is worth a deal of pity

21] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

22] Words and feathers the wind carries away

23] There is honour among thieves

24] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

25] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

26] Experience is good if not bought too dear

27] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

28] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

29] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

30] Better be alone than in bad company

31] Love me, love the crows on my roof

32] Cast not the first stone.

33] A man may bear till his back breaks

34] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

35] Truth is god’s daughter

36] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

37] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

38] All things for not all persons

39] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

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

41] No wrong without a remedy

42] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

43] Better be a fool than a knave

44] Home is home though it be never so homely

45] Slow help is no help

46] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

47] Self-praise is no recommendation

48] Love will go through stone walls

49] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

50] All’s fish that comes to the net

51] If today will not, tomorrow may

52] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

53] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

54] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

55] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

56] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

57] Safety lies in the middle course

58] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

59] He that lends, gives

60] There is a great difference between words and deeds

61] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

62] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

63] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

64] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

65] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

66] It is all in the day’s work

67] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

68] Idle folks lack no excuses

69] Health and wealth create beauty

70] Fools rejoice at promises

71] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

72] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

73] Money is the only monarch

74] Desert and reward seldom keep company

75] Come with the wind, got with the water

76] Spend and be free, but make no waste

77] It’s dogged that does it

78] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

79] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

80] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

81] Where there is no trust there is no love

82] Mirth is the sugar of life

83] If you want peace, prepare for war

84] Dumb dogs are dangerous

85] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

86] The hole calls the thief

87] Hunger breaks stone walls

88] All’s fair in love and war

89] A learned man has always riches in himself

90] Easier said than done

91] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

92] Walls have ears

93] One cannot love and be wise

94] Lookers-on see more than players

95] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

96] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

97] He who begins many things, finishes but few

98] Even reckoning makes long friends

99] A good beginning is half the battle.

100] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress