Famous Proverbs

1] Revenge is sweet

2] A good paymaster needs no surety

3] Standing pools gather fifth

4] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

5] A cat has nine lives

6] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

7] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

8] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

9] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

10] When wine sinks, words swim

11] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

12] Gold will not buy everything

13] Now is now, and then was then

14] If today will not, tomorrow may

15] Dreams go by contraries

16] The wish is father to the thought

17] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

18] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

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

20] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

21] The more laws, the more offenders

22] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

23] Time flies

24] Nature will have her course

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

26] No remedy but patience

27] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

28] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

29] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

30] Practice makes perfect

31] One is what one eats

32] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

33] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

34] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

35] Money isn’t everything

36] Do unto others as they should do unto you

37] Handsome is as handsome does

38] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

39] Good luck beats early rising

40] Tomorrow is another day

41] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

42] Live not to eat, but eat to live

43] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

44] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

45] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

46] He that has no shame has no conscience

47] We are all Adam’s children

48] Beauty opens locked doors

49] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

50] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

51] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

52] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

53] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

54] A useful trade is a mine of gold

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

56] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

57] Like breeds like

58] One good turn deserves another

59] The fairest flowers soonest fade

60] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

61] When angry, count a hundred

62] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

63] Dead dogs bark not

64] The thing which is rare is dear

65] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

66] Marriages are made in heaven

67] Many drops make a shower

68] A parrot will only say what it is taught

69] The best fish swim near the bottom

70] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

71] The end makes all equal

72] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

73] Valour delights in the test

74] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

75] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

76] He that has no money needs no purse

77] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

78] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

79] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

80] The company makes the feast

81] At a good bargain thinks twice

82] A good lather is half the shave

83] A scalded cat fears hot water.

84] In doing we learn.

85] Homo is a common name to all men.

86] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

87] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

88] That which proves too much proves nothing

89] Soon hot, soon cold

90] There’s a black sheep in every flock

91] Accidents will happen

92] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

93] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

94] Garbage in, garbage out

95] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

96] Care is no cure

97] Nature does nothing in vain

98] Nothing is so certain as death

99] There’s no place like home

100] All’s grist that comes to the mill.