Famous Proverbs

1] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

2] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

3] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

4] Time flees without a delay

5] He that pities another remembers himself

6] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

7] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

8] Pride goes before a fall

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

10] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

11] Love is sweet torment

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

13] His own ingenuity pricks him.

14] You cannot make a crab walk straight

15] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

16] Pursuits become habits

17] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

18] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

19] Put not the bucket too often in the well

20] The resolved mind has no cares

21] Too many cooks spoil the broth

22] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

23] None so deaf as those that will not hear

24] Remember, you are but a man

25] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

26] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

27] God is a sure paymaster

28] Bold men have generous hearts

29] The money you refuse will never do you good

30] Pleasing ware is half sold

31] A closed mouth catches no files

32] Who greases his way travels easily

33] Friendship should not be all on one

34] The company makes the feast

35] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

36] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

37] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

38] Wishes can never fill a sack

39] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

40] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

41] Revenge never repairs an injury

42] He is lifeless that is faultless

43] The Pen is mightier than the sword

44] Misery loves company.

45] Never say die

46] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

47] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

48] A good face is a letter of recommendation

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

50] As long lives a merry man as a sad

51] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

52] The bull must be taken by the horns

53] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

54] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

55] There is no royal road to learning

56] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

57] Kill two birds with one stone

58] It is more blessed to give than to receive

59] He that travels far knows much

60] Better say noting than no to the purpose

61] To err is human; to forgive, divine

62] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

63] Dogs bark as they are bred.

64] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

65] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

66] All men are mortal

67] Great trees keep down the little ones

68] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

69] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

70] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

71] He that seeks trouble never misses

72] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

73] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

74] It is a shame to be shameless

75] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

76] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

77] He who serves is not free

78] It takes all sorts to make a world

79] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

80] Better no doctor at all than three.

81] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

82] He freezes who does not burn

83] Everything is good in its season

84] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

85] Two heads are better than one

86] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

87] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

88] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

89] Virtue joints man to god

90] Gold will not buy everything

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

92] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

93] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

94] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

95] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

96] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

97] Acorns were good till bread was found

98] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

99] Empty vessels make the most noise

100] A bad padlock invites a picklock