Famous Proverbs

1] Make the best of a bad bargain

2] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

3] All that glitters is not gold

4] Custom reconciles us to everything

5] He that has no shame has no conscience

6] Love can find a way

7] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

8] Children and fools cannot lie.

9] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

10] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

11] An old fox is not easily snared

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

13] Leave well alone

14] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

15] In doing we learn.

16] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

17] Fear of death is worse than death itself

18] There is death in the pot.

19] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

20] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

21] An empty sack cannot stand upright

22] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

23] No choice amongst stinking fish

24] There is honour among thieves

25] Silence and thinking can no man offend

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

27] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

28] The best things in life are free

29] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

30] No man is wise at all times

31] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

32] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

33] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

34] Strike while the iron is hot

35] Idle folks have the least leisure

36] Open a book and you profit by what you read

37] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

38] Better belly burst than good meat lost

39] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

40] Open confession is good for the soul

41] A bully never grows up.

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

43] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

44] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

45] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

46] Wiles help weak folk

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

48] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

49] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

50] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

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

52] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

53] Pitchers have ears

54] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

55] Intimacy lessens fame

56] Ill news comes unsent for.

57] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

58] Prospect is often better than possession

59] Beauty is but skin-deep

60] A fool believes everything

61] Handsome is as handsome does

62] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

63] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

64] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

65] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

66] Needs must when the devil drives

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

68] Sweet are the uses of adversity

69] Empty vessels make the most noise

70] Charity excuseth not cheating.

71] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

72] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

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

74] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

75] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

76] He that has a wife, has strife

77] Stolen goods never thrive

78] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

79] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

80] Love is blind

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

82] A rich man can do nothing wrong

83] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

84] Hitch your wagon to a star

85] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

86] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

87] First think, and then speak

88] First impressions are most lasting

89] Two wrongs do not make a right

90] Other times, other manners

91] It is never too late to mend

92] Fish and guests smell in three days

93] East or west, home is best

94] Don’t play with fire

95] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

96] Great oaks from little acorns grow

97] A rolling stone gathers no moss

98] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

99] No hair so small but has his shadow

100] It takes all sorts to make a world