Famous Proverbs

1] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

2] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

3] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

4] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

5] Let sleeping dogs lie

6] He who never was sick dies the first fit

7] The world is full of fools

8] Evil to him who evil thinks.

9] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

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

11] Never judge from appearances

12] What the king wills, that the law wills

13] Set a thief to catch a thief

14] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

15] He who does no good, does evil enough

16] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

17] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

18] A little body often harbours a great soul

19] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

20] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

21] Slow but sure wins the race

22] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

23] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

24] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

25] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

26] We live by laws, not by examples

27] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

28] Don’t cry stinking fish

29] There is no accounting for tastes

30] The ant had wings to her hurt

31] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

32] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

33] Patience surpasses learning

34] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

35] A bad excuse is better than none at all

36] We have all been once in our life

37] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

38] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

39] Every beginning is hard

40] The falling drops hollow the stone

41] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

42] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

43] One may change the place but not the mind.

44] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

45] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

46] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

47] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

48] Bad news travels fast

49] Too many cooks spoil the broth

50] Of evil manners, spring good laws

51] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

52] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

53] One can’t help many, but many can help one

54] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

55] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

56] Money refused loses its brightness

57] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

58] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

59] Dead men don’t bite

60] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

61] Love knows no limit

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

63] Good fences make good neighbours

64] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

65] Much would have more

66] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

67] One must be a servant before one can be a master

68] First try and then trust

69] The devil knows many things because he is old

70] Second thoughts are best

71] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

72] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

73] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

74] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

75] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

76] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

77] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

78] As you sow, so shall you reap

79] Charity begins at home.

80] There is a black sheep in every flock

81] No misfortune will go on forever

82] Ignorance is the peace of life

83] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

84] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

85] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

86] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

87] Too long burden makes weary bones

88] Kill two birds with one stone

89] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

90] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

91] Train the child in the way he should go.

92] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

93] The game is not worth the candle

94] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

95] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

96] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

97] One is what one eats

98] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

99] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

100] One today is worth two tomorrows