Famous Proverbs

1] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

2] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

3] Beauty is only skin deep

4] Of two evils choose the lesser

5] Never hit a man when he’s down

6] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

7] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

8] Where there is whispering there is lying

9] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

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

11] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

12] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

13] Better eye sore than al blind

14] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

15] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

16] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

17] An old ox makes a straight furrow

18] All is fair in love and war

19] A great city, a great solitude

20] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

21] Ignorance is the peace of life

22] Ale will make a cat speak

23] An old dog barks not in vain

24] Manners make the man

25] Money isn’t everything

26] Danger makes men devout

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

28] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

29] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

30] He freezes who does not burn

31] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

32] You never know your luck

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

34] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

35] He that has plenty of goods will have more

36] An angry man is not fit to pray

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

38] He knows most who speaks least

39] Money is the root of all evil

40] God arms the harmless

41] There is no fool like an old fool

42] Men are known by the company they keep.

43] Death is the grand leveler

44] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

45] He that burns most, shines most

46] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

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

48] A man’s mother is his other God

49] Standing pools gather fifth

50] Other times, other manners

51] Advise none to marry or to go to war

52] Extremity of right is wrong

53] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

54] Every groom is a king at home

55] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

56] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

57] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

58] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

59] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

60] A stitch in time saves nine

61] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

62] No day so clear but has dark clouds

63] Four eyes see more than two

64] Never grieve for what you cannot help

65] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

66] Blood is thicker than water

67] Full of courtesy, full of craft

68] The labourer is worthy of his hire

69] Dead men don’t bite

70] Youth and age will never agree

71] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

72] Lucky men need no counsel

73] Bear and forbear

74] A jack of all traders is master of none

75] No man is infallible

76] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

77] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

78] The word is far him who has patience

79] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

80] Every may be has a may not be

81] Good clothes open all doors

82] Learn to walk before you run

83] Know thyself

84] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

85] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

86] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

87] Findings are keepings

88] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

89] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

90] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

91] God sends cold after Clothes

92] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

93] Penny and penny laid up will be many

94] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

95] Actions speak louder than words

96] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

97] New things are fair

98] Bind the sack before it be full

99] Custom reconciles us to everything

100] It is useless to flog a dead horse