Famous Proverbs

1] Life begins only in success

2] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

3] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

4] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

5] Practice makes perfect

6] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

7] Step by step the ladder is ascended

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

9] Every medal has two sides

10] Big fish eat little fish

11] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

12] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

13] No honest man ever repented his honesty

14] At a good bargain thinks twice

15] Men are not to be measured in inches

16] Debt is an evil conscience

17] There is many a fair thing full false

18] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

19] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

20] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

21] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

22] God is always on the side of the big battalions

23] The last suitor wins the maid

24] Dumb men get no lands

25] Often and little eating makes a man fat

26] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

27] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

28] No pains, no gains

29] A cat has nine lives

30] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

31] All things are easy, that are done willingly

32] A piece of churchyard fits every body

33] Habit is second nature

34] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

35] There is truth in wine

36] One of these days is none of these days

37] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

38] Spare the rod and spoil the child

39] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

40] There’s no great loss without some gain

41] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

42] Once a knave, always a knave

43] A crowd is not company

44] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

45] He that talks much, errs much

46] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

47] How forceful are right words

48] The resolved mind has no cares

49] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

50] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

51] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

52] Wink at small faults

53] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

54] A prophet is without honour in his own country

55] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

56] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

57] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

58] Great actions speak minds

59] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

60] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

61] Empty vessels make the most noise

62] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

63] You can’t win them all

64] A good beginning makes a good ending.

65] Better to ask the way than go astray.

66] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

67] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

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

69] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

70] Patience is a virtue

71] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

72] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

73] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

74] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

75] A little learning is dangerous thing

76] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

77] The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

78] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

79] The best things carried to excess are wrong

80] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

81] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

82] Fool’s haste is no speed

83] The wish is father to the thought

84] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

85] Better the foot slip than the tongue

86] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

87] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

88] The labour we delight in physics pain

89] Of two evils choose the lesser

90] Homo is a common name to all men.

91] Fair exchange is no robbery

92] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

93] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

94] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

95] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

96] All covet all lose.

97] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

98] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

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

100] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work