Famous Proverbs

1] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

2] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

3] United we stand, divided we fall

4] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

5] It is no use crying over spilt milk

6] Tempt not a desperate man

7] Penny wise, pound foolish

8] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

9] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

10] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

11] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

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

13] Easy come, easy go

14] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

15] Be just before you are generous

16] The tide must be taken when it comes

17] By falling we learn to go safely

18] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

19] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

20] The weakest goes to the wall

21] Discretion is the better part of valour

22] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

23] Quickly come, quickly go

24] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

25] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

26] Wink at small faults

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

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

29] What is money to a cat?

30] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

31] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

32] Misery loves company.

33] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

34] A rich man can do nothing wrong

35] Men are blind in their own cause

36] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

37] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

38] Tigers and deer do not over.

39] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

40] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

41] To err is human

42] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

43] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

44] Death does not recognize strength

45] All heiresses are beautiful.

46] You cannot make a crab walk straight

47] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

48] Charity begins at home.

49] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

50] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

51] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

52] Seek and you shall find

53] Respect is greater from a distance

54] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

55] What may be done at any time is done at no time

56] By his deeds we know a man

57] You cannot serve God and Mammon

58] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

59] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

60] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

61] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

62] Common fame is a liar

63] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

64] Hasty work, double work,

65] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

66] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

67] The bait hides the hook

68] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

69] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

70] Despair gives courage to a coward

71] Good hand, good hire

72] We don’t get something for nothing

73] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

74] Plain dealing is a jewel

75] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

76] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

77] That which proves too much proves nothing

78] Better late than never

79] One must howl with the wolves

80] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

81] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

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

83] A hundred pounds of sorrow pays not one ounce of debt

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

85] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

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

87] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

88] Trusting often makes fidelity

89] Friends agree best at a distance

90] Love is never without jealousy

91] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

92] First come, first served

93] It is not work that kills but worry

94] Bread is the staff of life.

95] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

96] When a friend asks, there is not tomorrow

97] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

98] Gold may be bought too dear

99] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

100] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience