Famous Proverbs

1] Once bitten, twice shy.

2] The slowest barker is the surest biter

3] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

4] Change brings life

5] Even water has its ebb and flow

6] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

7] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

8] First impressions are half the battle

9] Will is the cause of woe

10] Don’t cry stinking fish

11] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

12] The bull must be taken by the horns

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

14] Wink at small faults

15] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

16] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

17] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

18] No man fears what he has seen grow

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

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

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

22] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

23] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

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

25] Necessity is a powerful weapon

26] No man is a hero to his valet

27] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

28] A little help is worth a deal of pity

29] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

30] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

31] The axe falls on a straight tree first

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

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

34] Ill luck is good for something

35] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

36] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

37] Gluttony kills more than the sword

38] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

39] Cheats never prosper

40] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

41] He knows which side his bread is buttered

42] The absent party is always to blame.

43] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

44] He is rich that has few wants

45] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

46] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

47] There are two sides to every question

48] He that promises too much means nothing

49] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

50] One cannot put back the clock

51] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

52] Let sleeping dogs lie

53] Misfortune does not always come to injure

54] The sign brings customers

55] What is new cannot be true

56] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

57] Penny wise, pound foolish

58] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

59] Exchange is no robbery

60] Silence and thinking can no man offend

61] Common fame is a liar

62] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

63] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

64] Money is the only monarch

65] Better an open enemy than a false friend

66] The rich knows not who is his friend

67] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

68] Virtue is the only true nobility

69] Dying men speak true

70] Go while the going is good

71] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

72] As you bake, so shall you eat.

73] A good wife makes a good husband

74] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

75] Good luck beats early rising

76] His own ingenuity pricks him.

77] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

78] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

79] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

80] He may find fault that cannot mend

81] Boys will be boys

82] Blood is thicker than water

83] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

84] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

85] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

86] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

87] A man’s mother is his other God

88] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

89] When the word is out it belongs to another

90] Intimacy lessens fame

91] Necessity breaks iron

92] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

93] He that obey cannot command

94] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

95] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

96] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

97] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

98] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

99] In my own house, I am king

100] Care killed the cat