Famous Proverbs

1] The more laws, the more offenders

2] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

3] Love will go through stone walls

4] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

5] All for one, and one for all.

6] Better are small fish than an empty dish

7] Virtue joints man to god

8] Sickness soaks the purse

9] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

10] He that brings good news, knocks hard

11] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

12] The sign brings customers

13] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

14] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

15] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

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

17] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

18] First come, first served

19] Nature abhors a vacuum

20] Frugality is the mother of virtue

21] Practice what you preach

22] There is no blindness like ignorance

23] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

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

25] Set a thief to catch a thief

26] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

27] The great would have none great, and the little all little

28] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

29] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

30] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

31] Dogs bark as they are bred.

32] A good example is the best sermon

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

34] Time flies

35] In the end, things will mend

36] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

37] He that speaks not, God hears not

38] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

39] Light grows the burden which is well borne

40] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

41] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

42] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

43] The bait hides the hook

44] You can’t clap with one hand

45] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

46] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

47] There is none misfortune cannot reach

48] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

49] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

50] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

51] The good intention excuses the bad action

52] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

53] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

54] For a web begun, God sends the thread

55] Strength grows stronger by being tried

56] He that is absent is soon forgotten

57] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

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

59] Might is right

60] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

61] Possibilities are infinite

62] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

63] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

64] Good broth may be made in an old pot

65] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

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

67] The more you get, the more you want

68] Tell a lie and stick to it.

69] No good building without a good foundation.

70] From word to deed is a great space

71] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

72] Don’t tell tales out of school

73] If anything can go wrong, it will

74] All covet all lose.

75] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

76] Asking costs little

77] Least said, soonest mended

78] Ready money is a ready remedy

79] Money is the sinews of war

80] No feast lasts forever.

81] Ill news comes apace.

82] Health without money is half an ague

83] It will be the same a hundred years hence

84] New lords, new laws

85] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

86] All things require skills but an appetite

87] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

88] A rich man can do nothing wrong

89] Seeing is believing

90] Advice when most needed is least heeded

91] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

92] No man is wise at all times

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

94] Love your friend with his fault

95] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

96] Example is better than precept

97] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

98] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

99] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

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