Famous Proverbs

1] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

2] Plain dealing is best

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

4] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

5] Sickness shows us what we are

6] All things for not all persons

7] Share and share alike

8] Kingdoms divided soon fall

9] Fish and guests smell in three days

10] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

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

12] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

13] Might is right

14] Friends are thieves of time

15] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

16] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

17] He that desires but little has no deed of much

18] Wrong never comes right

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

20] It is too late to call back yesterday

21] Beauty opens locked doors

22] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

23] As you sow, so shall you reap

24] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

25] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

26] Out of debt, out of danger

27] Wishes can never fill a sack

28] Patience is a plaster for all sores

29] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

30] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

31] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

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

33] Fools live poor to die rich

34] Nature will have her course

35] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

36] A cat has nine lives

37] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

38] It never rains it pours

39] Vice makes virtue shine

40] They are rich who have true friends

41] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

42] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

43] Once a knave, always a knave

44] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

45] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

46] The love of money is the root of all evil

47] The more laws, the more offenders

48] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

49] Health is not value till sickness comes

50] A good lawyer must be a great liar

51] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

52] A bad workman always blames his tools

53] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

54] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

55] The best of friends must part

56] The highest branch is not the safest roost

57] The devil dances in an empty pocket

58] From word to deed is a great space

59] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

60] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

61] Laugh and grow fat

62] Dirty linen should be washed at home

63] The day obliterates the promise of the might

64] None so busy as those who do nothing.

65] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

66] Too far east is west

67] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

68] Better belly burst than good meat lost

69] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

70] Much would have more

71] Few words are best

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

73] A little learning is dangerous thing

74] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

75] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

76] No cross, no crown

77] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

78] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

79] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

80] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

81] Precept begins, examples accomplish

82] Love is sweet torment

83] All things require skills but an appetite

84] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

85] Better an apple given than eaten

86] Life means strife

87] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

88] Ill news comes unsent for.

89] Company in misery makes it light

90] Never spur a willing horse

91] Love is never without jealousy

92] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

93] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

94] He that is born a fool is never cured

95] Heaven helps those who help themselves

96] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

97] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

98] There is no royal road to learning

99] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

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