Famous Proverbs

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

2] There is no place like home

3] A light purse makes a heavy heart

4] A living dog is better than a dead lion

5] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

6] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

7] All’s fair in love and war

8] Nature surpasses art

9] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

10] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

11] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

12] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

13] Alms never make poor

14] Waste makes wants

15] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

16] First impressions are half the battle

17] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

18] He who leaps high must take a long run

19] Too much cunning undoes

20] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

21] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

22] The worse luck now, the better another time

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

24] It is a great victory that comes without blood

25] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

26] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

27] The labourer is worthy of his hire

28] Home is home though it be never so homely

29] Change brings life

30] Virtue joints man to god

31] Cheap is dear in the long run.

32] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

33] Things past cannot be recalled

34] Home is home though it be never so homely

35] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

36] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

37] One is never too old to learn

38] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

39] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

40] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

41] An old fox is not easily snared

42] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

43] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

44] Dying is as natural as living

45] Great actions speak minds

46] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

47] All’s fair in love and war

48] A rich man’s joke is always funny

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

50] He who wills the end, Wills the means

51] Blood will have blood

52] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

53] A good lather is half the shave

54] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

55] Every dog has his (its) day

56] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

57] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

58] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

59] The longest night will have an end

60] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

61] Don’t ride the high horse

62] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

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

64] Desires are nourished by delays

65] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

66] Never too late to repent

67] Grin and bear it

68] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

69] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

70] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

71] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

72] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

73] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

74] Seeing is believing

75] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

76] Trust is the mother of deceit

77] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

78] A fool may give a wise man counsel

79] Great hopes make great men

80] Misfortunes never come singly

81] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

82] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

83] At a good bargain thinks twice

84] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

85] The axe falls on a straight tree first

86] What can’t be cured must be endured

87] You may have too much of a good thing

88] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

89] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

90] An evil life is a kind of death.

91] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

92] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

93] Don’t cry before you are hurt

94] Rome was not built in a day

95] A stitch in time saves nine

96] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

97] A straight stick is crooked in water

98] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

99] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

100] Thrift is a great revenue