Famous Proverbs

1] Love is never without jealousy

2] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

3] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

4] One barber shaves another gratis

5] A merchant that gains not, loses

6] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

7] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

8] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

9] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

10] As long lives a merry man as a sad

11] A bully never grows up.

12] Every dog is a lion at home

13] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

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

15] No one ought to judge in his own cause

16] Wise men propose, and fools determine

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

18] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

19] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

20] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

21] He knows the water best who has waded through it

22] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

23] Jack is as good as his master

24] Through hardship to the stars

25] No man fears what he has seen grow

26] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

27] Better late than never

28] Money can influence even the spirits

29] Poor men’s words have little weight

30] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

31] Example is the greatest of all seducers

32] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

33] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

34] Put out your tubs when it is raining

35] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

36] Share and share alike

37] The labourer is worthy of his hire

38] God arms the harmless

39] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

40] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

41] The hole calls the thief

42] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

43] A good conscience is a sure card

44] A penny saved is a penny gained

45] Fools rejoice at promises

46] A good lawyer must be a great liar

47] Grin and bear it

48] What is worth doing is worth doing well

49] Common fame is a liar

50] A joke’s a very serious thing

51] Do not kick against the pricks

52] Nature is the true law

53] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.

54] Hard cases make bad law

55] Ale will make a cat speak

56] Judge not, that ye be not judged

57] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

58] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

59] Even a worm will turn

60] Young saint, old devil.

61] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

62] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

63] Live and let live

64] One hand washes the other

65] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

66] Hunger is the best sauce

67] In fair weather prepare for foul

68] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

69] A good beginning makes a good ending.

70] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

71] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

72] In peace, prepare for war

73] Wine is the best broom for trouble

74] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

75] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

76] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

77] There is a great difference between words and deeds

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

79] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

80] Many eyes upon the king

81] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

82] The company makes the feast

83] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

84] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

85] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

86] Patience is the remedy of the world

87] When angry, count a hundred

88] Words fly, writings remain

89] Haste makes waste

90] Blood will have blood

91] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

92] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

93] Every cloud has a silver lining

94] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

95] What has been, may be

96] If anything can go wrong, it will

97] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

98] They that dance must pay the fiddler

99] We shall lie all alike in our graves

100] God comes at last when think he is farthest off