Famous Proverbs

1] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

2] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

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

4] You can’t take it with you when you die

5] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

6] A bully never grows up.

7] Every medal has two sides

8] Go not to hell for company

9] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

10] At a good bargain thinks twice

11] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

12] Do not wear out your welcome

13] A fault confessed is half redressed

14] One father is more than a hundred school masters

15] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

16] Birds of a feather flock together

17] Laughter makes good blood

18] Pride goes before a fall

19] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

20] A man’s studies pass in to his character

21] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

22] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

23] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

24] Blood will have blood

25] He who considers too much will perform little.

26] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

27] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

28] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

29] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

30] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

31] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

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

33] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

34] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

35] How forceful are right words

36] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

37] You may have too much of a good thing

38] A friend is easier lost than found

39] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

40] Take the tone of the company you are in

41] Necessity is mother of invention

42] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

43] Between two stools you fall to the ground

44] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

45] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

46] It is not every question that deserves an answer

47] Beware of no man more than himself

48] The absent party is always to blame.

49] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

50] Love is never without jealousy

51] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

52] Every groom is a king at home

53] He that has good money, gives few alms

54] Moderation in all things

55] A rich man can do nothing wrong

56] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

57] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

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

59] When wine sinks, words swim

60] He who does no good, does evil enough

61] Manners and money make a gentleman

62] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

63] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

64] By falling we learn to go safely

65] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

66] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

67] None but the brave deserves the fair

68] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

69] You may know by a handful the whole sack

70] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

71] Hungry bellies have no ears

72] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

73] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

74] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

75] He stands not surely that never slips

76] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

77] After the extreme of cold comes spring

78] Hunger breaks stone walls

79] All’s fish that comes to the net

80] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

81] Goodness is better than beauty

82] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

83] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

84] None but the brave deserves the fair

85] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

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

87] Pleasing ware is half sold

88] Give and take is fair play

89] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

90] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

91] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

92] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

93] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

94] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

95] No choice amongst stinking fish

96] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

97] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

99] Coming events cast their shadows before

100] Gossiping and lying go together