Famous Proverbs

1] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

2] The age of miracles is past

3] Better be safe than sorry

4] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

5] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

6] Ambition loses many a man

7] Borrowed garments never fit well

8] One today is worth two tomorrows

9] Love delights in praise

10] The road to hell is paved with good action

11] Beware of a silent man and still water

12] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

13] The fox may grow grey, but never good

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

15] Never too late to repent

16] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

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

18] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

19] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

20] The unexpected always happens.

21] Set a thief to catch a thief

22] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

23] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

24] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

25] We shall lie all alike in our graves

26] There is no accounting for tastes

27] Bold men have generous hearts

28] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

29] Dead dogs bark not

30] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

31] Muck and money go together

32] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

33] Of two evils choose the lesser

34] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

35] One sheep follows another

36] He travels the fastest who travels alone

37] Weeds need no sowing

38] Borrowed garments never fit well

39] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

40] A burnt child dreads the fire

41] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

42] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

43] Nature hates all sudden changes

44] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

45] Bold men have generous hearts

46] The company makes the feast

47] Great gain makes easy work

48] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

49] He that repairs not a part, builds all

50] There is no garden without its weeds

51] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

52] Fish begins to stink at the head

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

54] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

55] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

56] Death does not recognize strength

57] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

58] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

59] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

60] Don’t cry stinking fish

61] Do as you would be done by

62] The absent party is always to blame.

63] Don’t ride the high horse

64] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

65] Many words, many buffets

66] There are more men threatened than stricken

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

68] A house divided against itself cannot stand

69] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

70] A friend in need is a friend indeed

71] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

72] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

73] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

74] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

75] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

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

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

78] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

79] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

80] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

81] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

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

83] A crowd is not company

84] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

85] The receiver is as bad as the thief

86] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

87] The longest way round is the shortest way home

88] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

89] All cats are grey in the dark

90] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

91] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

92] Nature will have her course

93] An empty sack cannot stand upright

94] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

95] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

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

97] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

98] Every law has a loophole

99] All griefs with bread are less

100] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war