Famous Proverbs

1] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

2] Love me, love the crows on my roof

3] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

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

5] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

6] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

7] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

8] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

9] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

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

11] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

12] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

13] Kindness lies in one side of the house

14] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

15] A little help is worth a deal of pity

16] Love can find a way

17] A man’s mother is his other God

18] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

19] No man is wise at all times

20] Nothing is given so freely as advice

21] A merchant that gains not, loses

22] Friends are thieves of time

23] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

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

25] All’s fair in love and war

26] Liars should have good memories

27] He that lends, gives

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

29] Kind hearts are more than coronets

30] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

31] The coward threatens only when he is safe

32] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

33] All things that great men do are well done

34] Wake not a sleeping lion

35] Idle folks have the least leisure

36] The wish is father to the thought

37] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

38] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

39] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

40] Men are blind in their own cause

41] Don’t kick against the pricks

42] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

43] Step by step the ladder is ascended

44] There is nothing like being on the safe side

45] All things for not all persons

46] Idle folks lack no excuses

47] A bully never grows up.

48] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

49] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

50] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

51] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

52] Hope often deludes the foolish man

53] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

54] Advice when most needed is least heeded

55] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

56] Soon hot, soon cold

57] What costs little is little esteemed

58] He that promises too much means nothing

59] God sends cold after Clothes

60] There is no rose without a thorn

61] Nature surpasses art

62] He who wills the end, Wills the means

63] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

64] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

65] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

66] Ill luck is good for something

67] The last suitor wins the maid

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

69] Like mistress, like maid

70] God’s help is better than the early rising

71] A jest breaks no bones

72] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

73] Nearest the heart comes out first

74] Children speak only words they have heard.

75] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

76] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

77] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

78] Better at home than a mile from it

79] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

80] The mean is the best

81] There is no place like home

82] Travel broadens the mind

83] A parrot will only say what it is taught

84] More have repented speech than silence

85] Woes unite foes

86] His bark is worse than his bite

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

88] Call a spade a spade

89] The golden age was never the present age

90] The axe falls on a straight tree first

91] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

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

93] Better say noting than no to the purpose

94] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

95] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

96] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

97] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

98] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

99] No like is the same.

100] He who begins many things, finishes but few