Famous Proverbs

1] Call a spade a spade

2] God arms the harmless

3] One may change the place but not the mind.

4] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

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

6] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

7] Love is sweet torment

8] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

9] First impressions are half the battle

10] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

11] The best things are hard to come by.

12] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

13] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

14] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

15] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

16] Better a bare foot than none

17] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

18] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

19] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

20] Well begun is half done.

21] No man is content with his lot

22] God made the country ,and man made the town

23] He who touches pitch will be defiled

24] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

25] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

26] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

27] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

28] A useful trade is a mine of gold

29] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

30] Too many cooks spoil the broth

31] Every dog is a lion at home

32] See how the wind blows

33] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

34] As soon as there is life there is danger

35] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

36] All things that great men do are well done

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

38] The receiver is as bad as the thief

39] Much learning makes men mad

40] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

41] The exception proves the rule

42] Names are debts

43] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

44] A man without a wife is but half a man

45] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

46] Laughter makes good blood

47] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

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

49] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

50] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

51] Tomorrow is another day

52] Familiarity breeds contempt

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

54] To teach is to learn twice over

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

56] A bully never grows up.

57] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

58] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

59] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

60] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

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

62] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

63] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

64] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

65] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

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

67] The last suitor wins the maid

68] An evil life is a kind of death.

69] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

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

71] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

72] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

73] One man’s means another man’s poison

74] Paddle your own canoe

75] Long absent, soon forgotten

76] An old dog barks not in vain

77] Every dog is valiant at his won door

78] Once a use and ever a custom

79] Much science, much sorrow

80] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

81] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

82] See how the wind blows

83] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

84] Words cut more than swords

85] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

86] Dogs bark as they are bred.

87] Young saint, old devil.

88] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

89] There’s a time and place for everything

90] Laugh and grow fat

91] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

92] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

93] He that blows best, bears away the horn

94] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

95] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

96] He who teaches learns

97] The king can do no wrong

98] It is best to be on the safe side

99] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

100] Laughter makes good blood