Famous Proverbs

1] Easier said than done

2] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

3] Actions speak louder than words

4] Silence is also speech

5] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

6] The best things are hard to come by.

7] Delays are not denials

8] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

9] Home is where the heart is

10] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

11] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

12] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

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

14] Wisdom is better than strength

15] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

16] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

17] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

18] The borrower is servant to the lender

19] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

20] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

21] Bread is the staff of life.

22] The good intention excuses the bad action

23] Health is better than wealth

24] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

25] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

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

27] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

28] When wine sinks, words swim

29] The day obliterates the promise of the might

30] One potter envies another

31] A single rose does not mean spring

32] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

33] Truth has no need of rhetoric

34] Hunger is sharper than the sword

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

36] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

37] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

38] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

39] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

40] Jesters do oft prove prophets

41] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

42] Learn to walk before you run

43] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

44] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

45] There is no rose without a thorn

46] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

47] Ambition loses many a man

48] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

49] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

50] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

51] Rats know the ways of rats

52] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

53] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

54] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

55] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

56] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

57] A man of courage never wants weapons

58] Young saint, old devil.

59] The faulty stands on his guard

60] From small beginnings come great things

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

62] A good Conscience is the best divinity

63] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

64] No one ought to judge in his own cause

65] All for one, and one for all.

66] No feast lasts forever.

67] Master easy, servant slack

68] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

69] III luck is good for something

70] Creditors have better memories than debtors

71] Extremes meet

72] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

73] Petty laws breed great crimes

74] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

75] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

76] Manners make the man

77] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

78] Gold may be bought too dear

79] Ambition loses many a man

80] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

81] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

82] From word to deed is a great space

83] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

84] Make the best of a bad bargain

85] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

86] Better eye sore than al blind

87] Marriages are made in heaven

88] When one door shuts, another opens

89] There is nothing lost by civility

90] The pen is the tongue of the hand

91] Once a use and ever a custom

92] He who owes is in all the wrong

93] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

94] He that promises too much means nothing

95] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

96] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

97] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

98] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

99] It is easier to pull down than to build

100] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water