Famous Proverbs

1] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

2] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

3] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

4] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

5] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

6] He that promises too much means nothing

7] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

8] Money is the root of all evil

9] Take things as you find them

10] The hole calls the thief

11] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

12] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

13] Nature hates all sudden changes

14] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

15] Set a thief to catch a thief

16] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

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

18] Better beg than steal.

19] Call no man happy till he is dead

20] Cut your coat according to your cloth

21] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

22] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

23] Two heads are better than one

24] There is death in the pot.

25] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

26] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

27] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

28] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

29] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

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

31] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

32] Love me, love my dog

33] Plain dealing is a jewel

34] All that glitters is not gold

35] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

36] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

37] There is no place like home

38] Pride goes before a fall

39] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

40] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

41] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

42] Words bind men

43] A good conscience is a constant feast

44] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

45] Through obedience learn to command.

46] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

47] Where there is no might, right loses itself

48] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

49] Misfortunes never come singly

50] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

51] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

52] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

53] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

54] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

55] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

56] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

57] An Englishman’s home is his castle

58] Sorrow will pay no debt

59] An egg thief will become a camel thief

60] Many doctors, death accomplished

61] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

62] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

63] A good heart cannot lie.

64] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

65] Who greases his way travels easily

66] Even Homer sometimes nods

67] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

68] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

69] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

70] Let the buyer beware

71] Grief pent up will break the heart

72] Other times, other manners

73] He that talks much, errs much

74] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

75] The best go first

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

77] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

78] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

79] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

80] A good marksman may miss

81] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

82] Everything in moderation.

83] The mean is the best

84] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

85] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

86] Things past cannot be recalled

87] What is new cannot be true

88] Flesh is frail

89] Make the best of a bad bargain

90] Do it now

91] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

92] The leopard cannot change its spots

93] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

94] Care is no cure

95] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

96] Do not limp before the lame

97] Death alone can kill hope

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

99] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

100] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut