Famous Proverbs

1] Better an open enemy than a false friend

2] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

3] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

4] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

5] No man is born wise or learned

6] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

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

8] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

9] Call a spade a spade

10] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

11] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

12] Death does not recognize strength

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

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

15] Time flies

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

17] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

18] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

19] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

20] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

21] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

22] Put out your tubs when it is raining

23] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

24] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

25] The pot calls the kettle black

26] Like master, like man

27] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

28] Life begins only in success

29] Necessity is mother of invention

30] There is honour among thieves

31] A word is enough to the wise

32] All’s well that ends well

33] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

34] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

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

36] Conscience does make cowards of us all

37] Think of ease, but work on.

38] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

39] Everything must have a beginning

40] New lords, new laws

41] Good words are worth much and cost little

42] God made the country ,and man made the town

43] Gold is tried in the fire

44] Dog does not eat dog

45] Judge not, that ye be not judged

46] Time and tide wait for no man

47] Tell a lie and stick to it.

48] It is the unexpected that always happens

49] Evil to him who evil thinks.

50] One hand washes the other

51] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

52] A good wife is a good prize

53] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

54] A black hen lays a white egg

55] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

56] A good paymaster never wants workmen

57] The best things carried to excess are wrong

58] Art improves Nature

59] Give and take is fair play

60] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

61] Wiles help weak folk

62] There is no tree but bears some fruit

63] There is many a fair thing full false

64] Example, is better than precept

65] A good heart cannot lie.

66] We live by laws, not by examples

67] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

68] Love me, love my dog

69] He knows the water best who has waded through it

70] Boys will be boys

71] Whatever man has done, man can do

72] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

73] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

74] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

75] A scalded cat fears hot water.

76] He that speaks well, flights well

77] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

78] In my own house, I am king

79] The devil dances in an empty pocket

80] A goose drinks as much as gander

81] No news is good news

82] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

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

84] Master easy, servant slack

85] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

86] Homer sometimes nods

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

88] Tomorrow is another day

89] You are never too old to learn

90] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

91] Everything must have a beginning

92] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

93] He thinks not well that thinks not again

94] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

95] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

96] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

97] So many countries, so many customs

98] Cheats never prosper

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

100] An Englishman’s home is his castle