Famous Proverbs

1] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

2] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

3] Bad news travels fast

4] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

5] He who leaps high must take a long run

6] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

7] Let not your tongue run at rover

8] Better be a fool than a knave

9] Plain dealing is best

10] Young colts will canter.

11] Necessity is the mother of invention

12] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

13] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

14] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

15] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

16] Strength grows stronger by being tried

17] Better ask the way than go astray

18] Good words are worth much and cost little

19] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

20] Little by little and bit by bit.

21] Standing pools gather fifth

22] Much learning makes men mad

23] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

24] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

25] All for one, and one for all.

26] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

27] The golden age was never the present age

28] He that is absent is soon forgotten

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

30] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

31] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

32] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

33] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

34] Hasty work, double work,

35] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

36] He that will thrive must rise at five

37] The exception proves the rule

38] The devil lurks behind the cross

39] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

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

41] Words and feathers the wind carries away

42] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

43] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

44] Wake not a sleeping lion

45] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

46] Fear of death is worse than death itself

47] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

48] Things are seldom what they seem.

49] The ant had wings to her hurt

50] Misfortune does not always come to injure

51] You can’t tell a book by its cover

52] Sickness shows us what we are

53] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

54] Lose a leg rather than a life

55] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

56] God’s lambs will play.

57] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

58] A rich man can do nothing wrong

59] He who has seen little marvels much

60] A willful man will have his way

61] Give and spend, and God will send

62] Gold will not buy everything

63] He that cannot ask, cannot live

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

65] It will be the same a hundred years hence

66] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

67] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

68] Love is sweet torment

69] See how the wind blows

70] Eat to live and not live to eat.

71] Example is the greatest of all seducers

72] Think of ease, but work on.

73] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

74] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

75] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

76] One is not smelt where all stink

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

78] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

79] Necessity knows no law

80] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

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

82] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

83] There is a black sheep in every flock

84] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

85] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

86] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

87] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

88] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

89] The biter is sometimes bit

90] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

91] Saving one man’s life is better than building a seven- storied temple.

92] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

93] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

94] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

95] The resolved mind has no cares

96] Without diligence, no prize

97] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

98] He laughs best who laughs last

99] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

100] Waste makes wants