Famous Proverbs

1] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

2] Every commodity has its discommodity

3] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

4] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

5] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

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

7] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

8] Soon gotten, soon spent

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

10] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

11] History repeats itself

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

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

14] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

15] What’s done is done

16] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

17] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

18] All’s fair in love and war

19] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

20] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

21] Pardon makes offenders

22] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

23] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

24] A good friend is my nearest relation

25] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

26] Youth will have its course.

27] Haste makes waste

28] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

29] God helps those who help themselves

30] The value of money is having it.

31] There’s a black sheep in every flock

32] Kindness lies in one side of the house

33] Speech is silver, silence is golden

34] Honesty is the best policy

35] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

36] Fire is a good servant a bad master

37] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

38] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

39] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

40] Hitch your wagon to a star

41] It is more blessed to give than to receive

42] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

43] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

44] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

45] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

46] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

47] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

48] Anger managers everything badly.

49] Idleness is the root of all evil

50] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

51] First things first

52] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

53] Good ware makes quick market

54] Ill comes often on the back worse

55] He who considers too much will perform little.

56] Woes unite foes

57] Seeing is believing

58] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

59] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

60] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

61] The highest tree has the greatest fall

62] Time flies

63] The borrower is servant to the lender

64] The first step is the only difficulty

65] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

66] Every dog is valiant at his won door

67] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

68] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

69] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

70] A monk can’t shave his own head

71] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

72] A good heart conquers ill fortune

73] A golden key opens every door

74] All heiresses are beautiful.

75] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

76] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

77] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

78] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

79] Laws were made to be broke

80] An honest good look covers many faults.

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

82] A good paymaster never wants workmen

83] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

84] Desert and reward seldom keep company

85] None but the brave deserves the fair

86] The fairest silk is soonest stained

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

88] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

89] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

90] Erring is not heating

91] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

92] Take the will for the deed

93] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

94] There’s always room at the top

95] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

96] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

97] Where there is no trust there is no love

98] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

99] Put out your tubs when it is raining

100] All glory comes from daring to begin