Famous Proverbs

1] You can’t win them all

2] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

3] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

4] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

5] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

6] Bad news travels fast

7] The word is far him who has patience

8] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

9] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

10] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

11] Make haste slowly

12] Common fame is seldom to blame

13] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

14] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

15] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

16] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

17] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

18] None but the brave deserves the fair

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

20] Trust is the mother of deceit

21] Standing pools gather fifth

22] Things past cannot be recalled

23] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

24] Every medal has its reverse

25] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

26] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

27] Covetousness breaks the sack

28] A man may learn wit every day.

29] You may know by a handful the whole sack

30] Put not the bucket too often in the well

31] Dead men tell no tales

32] A word to the wise is enough

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

34] They can do least two boast loudest

35] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

36] A rich man’s joke is always funny

37] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

38] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

39] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

40] Garbage in, garbage out

41] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

42] Little things are great to little men

43] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

44] As long lives a merry man as a sad

45] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

46] There is nothing that costs less than civility

47] A single rose does not mean spring

48] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

49] Every oak has been an acorn

50] Youth and age will never agree

51] The wish is father to the thought

52] The dog is a lion in his own house

53] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

54] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

55] Old cattle breed not

56] Hunger is the teacher of many

57] Strike while the iron is hot

58] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

59] None so blind as those who will not see

60] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

61] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

62] Love can find a way

63] A miss is as good as a mile

64] Live and Learn

65] A bully is always a coward

66] Wrong never comes right

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

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

69] Hard cases make bad law

70] Love is never without jealousy

71] Ready money is a ready remedy

72] It is too late to look up after you have collided

73] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

74] Old habits die hard

75] Don’t play with edged tools

76] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

77] A little help is worth a deal of pity

78] Easy come, easy go

79] One cannot love and be wise

80] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

81] The best wine comes from an old vessel

82] Kill two birds with one stone

83] A fool may give a wise man counsel

84] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

85] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

86] Cut your coat according to your cloth

87] Work smart; don’t work hard

88] Every cloud has a silver lining

89] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

90] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

91] The longest night will have an end

92] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

93] When meat is in anger is out

94] Every dog is a lion at home

95] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

96] Books and friends should be few but good

97] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

98] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

99] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

100] Better unborn than untaught