Famous Proverbs

1] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

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

3] Money is the only monarch

4] All for one, and one for all.

5] All lay loads on a willing horse

6] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

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

8] The borrower is servant to the lender

9] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

10] A good heart cannot lie.

11] Rome was not built in a day

12] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

13] A man in debt is caught in a net

14] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

15] Light burden I heavy if far borne

16] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

17] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

18] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

19] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

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

21] A jack of all traders is master of none

22] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

23] Where there’s a will there’s a way

24] Bear with evil and expect good

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

26] Every dog is valiant at his won door

27] There are more men threatened than stricken

28] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

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

30] Poverty is no sin

31] Custom makes all things easy

32] Dead men tell no tales

33] A little is better than none

34] He thinks not well that thinks not again

35] His bark is worse than his bite

36] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

37] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

38] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

39] The fairest silk is soonest stained

40] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

41] All things are easy, that are done willingly

42] Bad excuses are worse than none.

43] Charity begins at home.

44] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

45] He who envies admits his inferiority

46] Young saint, old devil.

47] Of evil manners, spring good laws

48] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

49] Words cut more than swords

50] New brooms sweep clean

51] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

52] One man sows and another reaps

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

54] Mercy surpasses justice

55] The end justifies the means

56] The weakest goes to the wall

57] Not good is it to harp on the frayed string

58] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

59] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

60] In everything consider the end

61] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

62] He who excuses himself accuses himself

63] A learned man has always riches in himself

64] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

65] The cowl does not make the monk.

66] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

67] Where there is no might, right loses itself

68] No one betrays himself by silence

69] What is the mother of industry

70] Adam’s ale is the best brew

71] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

72] Exchange is no robbery

73] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

74] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

75] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

76] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

77] The sun shines upon all alike.

78] Take heed is a fair thing

79] A good wife is a good prize

80] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

81] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

82] Plain dealing is a jewel

83] Time and tide wait for no man

84] A good paymaster needs no surety

85] He that has no money needs no purse

86] Let not your tongue run at rover

87] Every man has his price

88] A good tongue is a good weapon

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

90] Repentance is a bitter physic

91] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

92] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

93] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

94] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

95] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

96] The value of money is having it.

97] Many words, many buffets

98] The darkest place is under the candlestick

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

100] Honesty is ill to thrive by