Famous Proverbs

1] Dumb men get no lands

2] Love can find a way

3] Take the will for the deed

4] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

5] Revenge never repairs an injury

6] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

7] There is death in the pot.

8] Love is lawless.

9] The hole calls the thief

10] Fool’s haste is no speed

11] More have repented speech than silence

12] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

13] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened

14] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

15] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

16] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

17] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

18] No honest man ever repented his honesty

19] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

20] One barber shaves another gratis

21] Pleasing ware is half sold

22] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

23] One sword keeps another in the sheath

24] Never judge from appearances

25] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

26] Lookers-on see more than players

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

28] The thread breaks where it is weakest

29] It takes two to make a quarrel

30] Do not wear out your welcome

31] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

32] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

33] Pitchers have ears

34] Nature is the true law

35] He who excuses himself accuses himself

36] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

37] There is a great difference between words and deeds

38] Like question, like answer.

39] Names and natures do often agree

40] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

41] The mean is the best

42] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

43] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

44] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

45] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

46] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

47] The cowl does not make the monk.

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

49] He that speaks well, flights well

50] Choose thy company before thy drink

51] A change is as good as rest

52] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

53] We shall lie all alike in our graves

54] Wink at small faults

55] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

56] Innocence is no protection

57] Never hit a man when he’s down

58] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

59] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

60] All lay loads on a willing horse

61] Dumb dogs are dangerous

62] Keep something for a rainy day

63] We have all been once in our life

64] All good things must come to an end

65] One is what one eats

66] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

67] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

68] Don’t cry stinking fish

69] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

70] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

71] A monk can’t shave his own head

72] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

73] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

74] Content is better than riches

75] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

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

77] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

78] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

79] Money is the sinew of affairs

80] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

81] No man is indispensable

82] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

83] By his deeds we know a man

84] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

85] Without diligence, no prize

86] Much science, much sorrow

87] An empty sack cannot stand upright

88] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

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

90] Many eyes upon the king

91] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

92] Life means strife

93] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

94] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

95] Custom makes all things easy

96] One father is more than a hundred school masters

97] Too much cunning undoes

98] Live and let live

99] Love is blind

100] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.