Famous Proverbs

1] It is too late to call back yesterday

2] A merchant that gains not, loses

3] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

4] Love will find a way

5] What costs little is little esteemed

6] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

7] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

8] Let sleeping dogs lie

9] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

10] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

11] We shall lie all alike in our graves

12] First catch your hare

13] Men do more things through habit than reason

14] Love is never without jealousy

15] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

16] One foot is better than two crutches

17] All heiresses are beautiful.

18] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

19] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

20] Virtue has all things in itself

21] No day so clear but has dark clouds

22] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

23] Art improves Nature

24] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

25] Things are only worth one makes them worth

26] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

27] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

28] A good word stills great anger

29] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

30] Youth and age will never agree

31] It is useless to flog a dead horse

32] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

33] He that talks much, errs much

34] A cat may look at a king

35] Affection blinds reason

36] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

37] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

38] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

39] Love your friend with his fault

40] The rich knows not who is his friend

41] Example is the greatest of all seducers

42] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

43] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

44] The child is father of the man

45] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

46] A crowd is not company

47] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

48] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

49] Weapons breed peace

50] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

51] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

52] A cat has nine lives

53] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

54] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

55] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

56] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

57] Repentance comes too late

58] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

59] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

60] Evil to him who evil thinks.

61] Better the last smile than the first laugh

62] One reason is as good as fifty

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

64] Misfortunes never come singly

65] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

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

67] Practice what you preach

68] Example is better than precept

69] A jest breaks no bones

70] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

71] Money is the sinew of affairs

72] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

73] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

74] It is not work that kills but worry

75] That which is easily done is soon believed

76] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

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

78] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

79] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

80] Dying men speak true

81] Better ask the way than go astray

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

83] He who comes late must eat what is left

84] The bait hides the hook

85] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

86] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

87] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

88] Spare the rod and spoil the child

89] Good counsel never comes amiss

90] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

91] The greatest step is that out of doors

92] Goodness is better than beauty

93] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

94] The mean is the best

95] Like breeds like

96] Do not kick against the pricks

97] If the cap fits, wear it

98] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

99] Home is where the heart is

100] Goods that are much on show lose their colour