Famous Proverbs

1] You win some, you lose some

2] Love is blind

3] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

4] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

5] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

6] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

7] Much science, much sorrow

8] None can guess the jewel by the casket

9] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

10] Let us do evil that good may come

11] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

12] Nature is conquered by obeying her

13] Poverty is not a crime

14] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

15] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

16] Small is the seed of every greatness

17] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

18] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

19] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

20] Ill luck is good for something

21] Words are but wind

22] There’s no great loss without some gain

23] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

24] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

25] Half a word is enough for a wise man

26] The eye is bigger than the belly

27] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

28] Truth is mighty and will prevail

29] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

30] None so busy as those who do nothing.

31] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

32] What is money to a cat?

33] Manners and money make a gentleman

34] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

35] Of evil manners, spring good laws

36] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

37] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

38] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

39] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

40] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

41] The greatest step is that out of doors

42] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

43] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

44] Crust is better than no bread

45] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

46] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

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

48] Dead dogs bark not

49] Good ware makes quick market

50] Necessity is the mother of invention

51] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

52] It is too late to husband when all is spent

53] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

54] Love me, love my dog

55] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

56] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

57] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

58] Look at the bright side

59] There is no tree but bears some fruit

60] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

62] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

63] Little wealth, little care

64] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

65] The wisest of the wise may err.

66] From small beginnings come great things

67] A word is enough to the wise

68] He that has an ill name is half hanged

69] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

70] Homo is a common name to all men.

71] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

72] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

73] Death is the grand leveler

74] It is not work that kills but worry

75] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

76] Youth and age will never agree

77] Envy never enriched any man.

78] Appearances are deceptive

79] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

80] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

81] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

82] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

83] He that repairs not a part, builds all

84] A useful trade is a mine of gold

85] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

86] Practice what you preach

87] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

88] He who last, laughs longest.

89] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

90] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

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

92] Double charge will rive a cannon

93] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

94] Seeing is believing

95] Every may be has a may not be

96] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

97] Patience is the remedy of the world

98] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

99] Often and little eating makes a man fat

100] Dogs bark as they are bred.