Famous Proverbs

1] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

2] Exchange is no robbery

3] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

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

5] God provides for him that trusts

6] Between two stools you fall to the ground

7] An Englishman’s home is his castle

8] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

9] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

10] Lavishness is not generosity

11] What is deferred is not abandoned

12] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

13] Thrift is a great revenue

14] It is the unexpected that always happens

15] There is no garden without its weeds

16] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

17] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

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

19] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

20] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

21] Example is the greatest of all seducers

22] Practice is the science that gives confidence

23] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

24] Never too late to repent

25] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

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

27] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

28] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

29] Make the best of a bad bargain

30] We shall lie all alike in our graves

31] Bad excuses are worse than none.

32] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

33] Four eyes see more than two

34] One may change the place but not the mind.

35] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

36] What the king wills, that the law wills

37] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

38] One is not smelt where all stink

39] Patience is a plaster for all sores

40] Good luck beats early rising

41] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

42] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

43] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

44] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

45] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

46] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

47] He thinks not well that thinks not again

48] He that talks much, errs much

49] Faint heart never won fair lady

50] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

51] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

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

53] Love is blind

54] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

55] No remedy but patience

56] Loyalty is worth more than money

57] It takes all sorts to make a world

58] The hand that gives, gathers

59] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

60] All roads lead to Rome

61] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

62] The devil is not as black as he is painted

63] Anger without power is folly

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

65] All’s fish that comes to the net

66] Divide and rule

67] Fair without, false within

68] An open door may tempt a saint

69] Through hardship to the stars

70] Comparisons are odious

71] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

72] A knave and a fool never take thought

73] Give credit where credit is due

74] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

75] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

76] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

77] A stitch in time saves nine

78] Silence and thinking can no man offend

79] Precepts may lead but examples draw

80] He that pities another remembers himself

81] Bread is the staff of life.

82] Accidents will happen

83] Waste makes wants

84] You can’t tell a book by its cover

85] Every law has a loophole

86] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

87] Company in misery makes it light

88] Experience is the mother of wisdom

89] Needs must when the evil drives

90] No garden without its weeds.

91] Art improves Nature

92] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

93] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

94] Where god will help, nothing does harm

95] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

96] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

97] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

98] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

99] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

100] You must lose a fly to catch a trout