Famous Proverbs

1] Woes unite foes

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

3] Familiarity breeds contempt

4] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

5] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

6] Fair face, foul heart

7] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

8] Sow thin and mow thin

9] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

10] The exception proves the rule

11] A word to the wise is enough

12] It is too late to look up after you have collided

13] No man is his craft’s master the first day

14] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

15] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

16] You cannot make a crab walk straight

17] Idleness is the root of all evil

18] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

19] Rome was not built in a day

20] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

21] Two heads are better than one

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

23] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

24] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

25] A man may learn wit every day.

26] Familiarity breeds contempt

27] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

28] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

29] Sweet are the uses of adversity

30] What has been, may be

31] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

32] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

33] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

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

35] Patience surpasses learning

36] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

37] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

38] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

39] It is good to follow the old fox

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

41] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

42] Like father, like son

43] Kindness lies in one side of the house

44] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

45] An old fox is not easily snared

46] Idle folks have the least leisure

47] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

48] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

49] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

50] The road to hell is paved with good action

51] Better be safe than sorry

52] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

53] He gives twice who gives quickly

54] Pride goes before a fall

55] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

56] Love me, love my dog

57] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

58] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

59] A useful trade is a mine of gold

60] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

61] Out of debt, out of danger

62] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

63] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

64] Wise men silent, fools talk

65] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

66] Every why has a wherefore

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

68] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

69] He who hesitates is lost

70] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

71] None so deaf as those that will not hear

72] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

73] Wrong has no warrant

74] Train the child in the way he should go.

75] Step by step the ladder is ascended

76] Big words seldom go with good deeds

77] The wisest of the wise may err.

78] Health is better than wealth

79] It costs more to do ill than to do well

80] Trust is the mother of deceit

81] Pursuits become habits

82] The devil looks after his own

83] He that ventures not fails not.

84] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

85] The king can do no wrong

86] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

87] Save your breath to cool the porridge

88] Barking dogs seldom bite

89] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

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

91] A fault confessed is half redressed

92] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

93] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

94] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

95] Live and let live

96] Business is business

97] A good conscience is a constant feast

98] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

99] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

100] Much would have more