Famous Proverbs

1] Grasp all, lose all

2] Who suffers much is silent

3] Quickly come, quickly go

4] A good dog deserves a good bone

5] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

6] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

7] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

8] A good beginning makes a good ending.

9] The greatest step is that out of doors

10] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

11] Little things are great to little men

12] Man does what he can, and God what he will

13] Seeing is believing

14] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

15] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

16] A penny saved is a penny gained

17] Actions speak louder than words

18] Time and tide wait for no man

19] Every medal has two sides

20] The fox may grow grey, but never good

21] Forewarned is forearmed

22] Change of pasture makes fat calves

23] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

24] Death keeps no calendar

25] No tie can oblige the perfidious

26] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

27] Life is not all beer and skittles

28] Years know more than books

29] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

30] An empty sack cannot stand upright

31] Don’t cry stinking fish

32] Nothing is given so freely as advice

33] It is never too late to mend

34] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

35] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

36] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

37] The thing which is rare is dear

38] Ale will make a cat speak

39] What can’t be cured must be endured

40] He knows which side his bread is buttered

41] The Pen is mightier than the sword

42] Friendship should not be all on one side

43] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

44] The fox may grow grey, but never good

45] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

46] Every dog has his day

47] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

48] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

49] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

50] Opportunity makes the thief

51] Think on the end before you begin

52] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

53] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

54] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

55] No like is the same.

56] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

57] You may have too much of a good thing

58] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

59] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

60] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

61] Saying is one thing, and doing another

62] The more wicked, the more lucky

63] Who greases his way travels easily

64] They are rich who have true friends

65] It is never too late to mend

66] Not even Hercules could contend against two

67] A hungry man smells meat afar off

68] Dreams go by contraries

69] There are more men threatened than stricken

70] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

71] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

72] Children should be seen and not heard

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

74] Every advantage has its disadvantage

75] Don’t cry before you are hurt

76] Health is great riches

77] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

78] There is no accounting for tastes

79] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

80] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

81] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

82] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

83] Better a bare foot than none

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

85] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

86] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

87] Honesty is the best policy

88] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

89] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

90] So many countries, so many customs

91] The devil looks after his own

92] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

93] New things are fair

94] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

95] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

96] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

97] The best fish swim near the bottom

98] Mirth is the sugar of life

99] Fine feathers make fine birds.

100] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread