Famous Proverbs

1] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

2] Walls have ears

3] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

4] Fear of death is worse than death itself

5] Let the buyer beware

6] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

7] God made the country ,and man made the town

8] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

9] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

10] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

11] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

12] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

13] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

14] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

15] Where there is whispering there is lying

16] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

17] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

18] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

19] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

20] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

21] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

22] Might knows no right

23] There’s no place like home

24] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

25] Better to be safe than sorry.

26] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

27] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

28] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

29] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

30] We don’t get something for nothing

31] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

32] It’s dogged that does it

33] The coward threatens only when he is safe

34] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

35] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

36] Six feet of earth make all men equal

37] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

38] Where there is peace, God is

39] A good face is a letter of recommendation

40] History repeats itself

41] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

42] Discontent is the first step in progress

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

44] A wise man hears one word and understands two

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

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

47] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

48] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

49] Often and little eating makes a man fat

50] Two heads are better than one

51] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

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

53] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

54] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

55] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

56] God is a sure paymaster

57] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

58] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

59] Conscience does make cowards of us all

60] Virtue is its own reward

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

62] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

63] A crust is better than no bread.

64] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

65] It is well to live that one may learn

66] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

67] New meat begets a new appetite

68] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

69] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

70] Don’t play with fire

71] First think, and then speak

72] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

73] Do as you would be done by

74] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

75] Even silence may be eloquent

76] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

77] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

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

79] Haste is of (or from) the devil

80] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

81] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

82] Money is power

83] Hear twice before you speak once

84] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

85] Strike while the iron is hot

86] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

87] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

88] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

89] Speech is silver, silence is golden

90] Haste makes waste

91] A man can do no more than he can

92] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

93] The early man ever borrows from the late man

94] Enough is enough

95] A true man and a thief think not the same

96] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

97] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

98] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

99] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

100] Every law has a loophole