Famous Proverbs

1] One may change the place but not the mind.

2] Better at home than a mile from it

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

4] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

5] Change of pasture makes fat calves

6] By falling we learn to go safely

7] Once a use and ever a custom

8] He that brings good news, knocks hard

9] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

10] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

11] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

12] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

13] He that obey cannot command

14] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

15] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

16] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

17] All that glitters is not gold

18] Charity begins at home.

19] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

20] There is no garden without its weeds

21] Paddle your own canoe

22] Nature surpasses art

23] All is vanity.

24] One man’s means another man’s poison

25] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

26] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

27] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

28] Honour is the reward of virtue

29] Little things please little minds

30] Where there is peace, God is

31] Fools rejoice at promises

32] Virtue carries a lean purse

33] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

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

35] What is deferred is not abandoned

36] Be just before you are generous

37] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

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

39] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

40] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

41] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

42] Appetite comes with eating

43] Suffering does not manifest itself

44] Pitchers have ears

45] Ale will make a cat speak

46] Four eyes see better than two.

47] Far from eye, far from heart

48] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

49] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

50] The bait hides the hook

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

52] There are more men threatened than stricken

53] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

54] Every flow must have its ebb

55] Every beginning is hard

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

57] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

58] He who has seen little marvels much

59] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

60] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

61] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

62] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

63] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

64] There is none misfortune cannot reach

65] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

66] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

67] A joke’s a very serious thing

68] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

69] You cannot put a quart into a pint pot

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

71] An evil life is a kind of death.

72] Every dog is a lion at home

73] Work expands so as to fill the time available

74] An old man is a bed full of bones

75] Little by little and bit by bit.

76] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

77] Great talkers are never great doers

78] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

79] One today is worth two tomorrows

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

81] All things are difficult before they are easy

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

83] Prove your friend ere you have need

84] It is easier to pull down than to build

85] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

86] One thief will not rob another

87] What is worth doing is worth doing well

88] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

89] First creep, then walk

90] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

91] The company makes the feast

92] Let us do evil that good may come

93] Manners and money make a gentleman

94] Everyone to his taste

95] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

96] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

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

98] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

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

100] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business