Famous Proverbs

1] A living dog is better than a dead lion

2] Judge not of men and things at first sight

3] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

4] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

5] Poverty is no sin

6] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

7] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

8] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

9] One thief will not rob another

10] Beware of no man more than himself

11] If one will not, another will

12] Men do more things through habit than reason

13] A fool and his money are soon parted

14] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

15] Never refuse a good offer

16] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

17] A merchant that gains not, loses

18] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

19] An evil life is a kind of death.

20] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

21] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

22] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

23] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

24] Necessity is a powerful weapon

25] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

26] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

27] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

28] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

29] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

30] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

31] A stitch in time saves nine

32] It is not every question that deserves an answer

33] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

34] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

35] If anything can go wrong, it will

36] None so deaf as those that will not hear

37] Speech is silver, silence is golden

38] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

39] Empty vessels make the most sound

40] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

41] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

42] Corn him well and he will work better

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

44] Mercy surpasses justice

45] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

46] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

47] He that lives ill, fear follows him

48] Everything new is fine

49] A good name is sooner lost than won

50] Bear with evil and expect good

51] Put not the bucket too often in the well

52] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

53] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

54] Poverty is not a crime

55] Prevention is better than cure

56] Big fish eat little fish

57] A good drink makes the old young

58] He that sows virtue reaps fame

59] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

60] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

61] Love delights in praise

62] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

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

64] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

65] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

66] Variety takes away satiety

67] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

68] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

69] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

70] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

71] Look on the bright side

72] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

73] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

74] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

75] All for one, and one for all.

76] Money is the only monarch

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

78] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

79] Self-praise is no recommendation

80] Precepts may lead but examples draw

81] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

82] At a good bargain thinks twice

83] Money isn’t everything

84] Take away fuel, take away flame

85] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

86] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

87] There is safety in numbers

88] There’s always room at the top

89] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

90] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

91] Acorns were good till bread was found

92] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

93] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

94] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

96] The best go first

97] Better eye sore than al blind

98] A house divided against itself cannot stand

99] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful

100] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget