Famous Proverbs

1] White there’s life there’s hope

2] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

3] Liars should have good memories

4] Better to wear out than rust out

5] Know thyself

6] Much would have more

7] All meat pleases not all mouths

8] Covetousness breaks the sack

9] Virtue has all things in itself

10] A good name is a rich heritage

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

12] Poverty is not a crime

13] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

14] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

15] Ill news comes apace.

16] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

17] Let like mate with like

18] Better learn late than never

19] Better an apple given than eaten

20] Two heads are better than one

21] Better eye sore than al blind

22] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

23] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

24] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

25] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

26] Don’t put the cart before the horse

27] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

28] He that promises too much means nothing

29] God makes the back for the burden

30] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

31] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

32] It is more pain to do nothing than something

33] Extremity of right is wrong

34] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

35] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

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

37] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

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

39] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

40] Grasp all, lose all

41] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

42] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

43] High places have their precipices

44] Marriage is a lottery

45] Ill luck is good for something

46] One must howl with the wolves

47] Better an apple given than eaten

48] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

49] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

50] Thrift is a great revenue

51] Two wrongs do not make a right

52] Take the will for the deed

53] The end crowns the work.

54] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

55] Let sleeping dogs lie

56] By his deeds we know a man

57] Familiarity breeds contempt

58] Every dog is valiant at his won door

59] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

60] Nearest the heart comes out first

61] Don’t kick against the pricks

62] A cat may look at a king

63] All cats are grey in the dark

64] The resolved mind has no cares

65] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

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

67] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

68] Delays are not denials

69] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

70] A piece of churchyard fits every body

71] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

72] History repeats itself

73] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

74] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

75] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

76] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

77] So many men, so many opinions

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

79] Jesters do oft prove prophets

80] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

81] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

82] Variety takes away satiety

83] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

84] Every dog is a lion at home

85] Paddle your own canoe

86] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

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

88] There is no rose without a thorn

89] We live laws, not by examples

90] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

91] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

92] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

93] Old foxes want no tutors

94] An old ox makes a straight furrow

95] Learning is the eye of the mind

96] Good fences make good neighbours

97] Wine unveils the words of the heart

98] Well done is better than well said

99] Precepts may lead but examples draw

100] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold