Famous Proverbs

1] Every beginning is hard

2] No man is wise at all times

3] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

4] It is no use crying over spilt milk

5] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

6] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

7] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

8] Wise men are caught in wiles

9] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

10] Ale will make a cat speak

11] White there’s life there’s hope

12] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

13] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

14] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

15] Standing pools gather fifth

16] God makes the back for the burden

17] A mouse may help a lion

18] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

19] What’s in a name?

20] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

21] Often and little eating makes a man fat

22] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

23] Beauty opens locked doors

24] More haste, less speed

25] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

26] Patience is a plaster for all sores

27] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

28] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

29] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

30] Money is the sinew of affairs

31] One is what one eats

32] Rome was not built in a day

33] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

34] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

35] Kind hearts are more than coronets

36] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

37] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

38] A good marksman may miss

39] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

40] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

41] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

42] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

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

44] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

45] A jest breaks no bones

46] A black hen lays a white egg

47] An old ox makes a straight furrow

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

49] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

50] The axe falls on a straight tree first

51] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

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

53] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

54] Easier said than done

55] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

56] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

57] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

58] There is no royal road to learning

59] Content is better than riches

60] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

61] Misery loves company.

62] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

63] An old man is a bed full of bones

64] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

65] Failure teaches success

66] Think on the end before you begin

67] Great talkers are never great doers

68] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

69] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

70] A great city, a great solitude

71] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

72] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

73] Fortune is blind

74] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

75] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

76] Handsome is as handsome does

77] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

78] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

79] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

80] Curiosity killed the cat.

81] The weeds overgrow the corn.

82] There is truth in wine

83] Ambition loses many a man

84] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

85] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

86] A good name is better than a golden girdle

87] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

88] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

89] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

90] There are more ways to the wood than one.

91] We are all Adam’s children

92] Pardon makes offenders

93] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

94] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

95] A parrot will only say what it is taught

96] Sorrow will pay no debt

97] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

98] Better be a fool than a knave

99] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

100] Easy come, easy go