Famous Proverbs

1] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

2] Blood is thicker than water

3] A friend is easier lost than found

4] Better beg than steal.

5] No news is good news

6] The wish is father to the thought

7] Every medal has two sides

8] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

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

10] All our pomp the earth covers

11] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

12] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

13] Nature is content with little.

14] Give a loan and buy quarrel

15] Save your breath to cool the porridge

16] Care is no cure

17] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

18] The Pen is mightier than the sword

19] An Englishman’s home is his castle

20] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

21] Ill gotten, ill spent

22] Facts are stubborn things

23] The first blow is half the battle

24] Alms never make poor

25] The race is got by running

26] The best of friends must part

27] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

28] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

29] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

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

31] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

32] There is safety in numbers

33] Dreams go by contraries

34] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

35] No man is content with his lot

36] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

37] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

38] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

39] Better say noting than no to the purpose

40] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

41] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

42] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

43] He who pays the piper calls the tune

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

45] A rich man’s joke is always funny

46] Ill luck is good for something

47] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

48] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

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

50] He that sows virtue reaps fame

51] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

52] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

53] Lookers-on see most of the game

54] Love is blind

55] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

56] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

57] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

58] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

59] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

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

61] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

62] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

63] Habit is second nature

64] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

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

66] Truth is stranger than fiction

67] Give and take is fair play

68] Seeing is believing

69] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

70] Money is power

71] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

72] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

73] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

74] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

75] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

76] No sweet without sweat

77] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

78] A man can die but once

79] Marriages are made in heaven

80] Good wine needs no bush

81] A scalded cat fears hot water.

82] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

83] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

84] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

85] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

86] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

87] Walls have ears

88] Barking dogs seldom bite

89] A good lawyer must be a great liar

90] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

91] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

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

93] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

94] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

95] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

96] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

97] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

98] Live and let live

99] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

100] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot