Famous Proverbs

1] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

2] Misery loves company.

3] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

4] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

5] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

6] Money has no smell

7] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

8] Love me, love my dog

9] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

10] Too much cunning undoes

11] Sickness soaks the purse

12] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

13] Two blacks do not make a white

14] Health without money is half an ague

15] The race is got by running

16] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

17] Through obedience learn to command.

18] He who never was sick dies the first fit

19] Truth is god’s daughter

20] The thing which is rare is dear

21] You cannot have your cake and eat it

22] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

23] A man can do no more than he can

24] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

25] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

26] All for one, and one for all.

27] Revenge is sweet

28] Death is the grand leveler

29] Give and take is fair play

30] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

31] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

32] Give a loan and buy quarrel

33] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

34] He that eats least eats most

35] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

36] One may change the place but not the mind.

37] Precepts may lead but examples draw

38] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

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

40] The tongue stings

41] One sheep follows another

42] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

43] The leopard cannot change its spots

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

45] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

46] Soon hot, soon cold

47] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

48] The mob tramples on the coward

49] The hole calls the thief

50] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

51] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

52] Never hit a man when he’s down

53] He that does most at once, does least

54] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

55] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

56] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

57] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

58] A man can do no more than he can

59] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

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

61] A bad padlock invites a picklock

62] Love is without reason

63] No man is content with his lot

64] Take things as you find them

65] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

66] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

67] Step by step the ladder is ascended

68] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

69] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

70] Beware of him who makes thee presents

71] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

72] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

73] An army marches on its stomach

74] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

75] Out of sight, out of mind

76] Without luck, it is better not to be born

77] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

78] Take heed is a fair thing

79] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

80] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

81] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

82] Great hopes make great men

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

84] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

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

86] No garden without its weeds.

87] White there’s life there’s hope

88] Live and let live

89] Prevention is better than cure

90] A good lawyer must be a great liar

91] Never too late to repent

92] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

93] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

94] An old man is a bed full of bones

95] Great barkers are no biters

96] Wife and Children are bills of charges

97] Through hardship to the stars

98] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

99] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

100] A good name is a rich heritage