Famous Proverbs

1] Every cloud has a silver lining

2] A little help is worth a deal of pity

3] There is no redemption from hell

4] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

5] Men do more things through habit than reason

6] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

7] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

8] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

9] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

10] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

11] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

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

13] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

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

15] Take things as you find them

16] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

17] Fool’s haste is no speed

18] Nothing succeeds like success

19] Eat to live and not live to eat.

20] He that has no shame has no conscience

21] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

22] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

23] Money has no smell

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

25] He that travels far knows much

26] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

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

28] Fair without, false within

29] Cast not the first stone.

30] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

31] A closed mouth catches no files

32] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

33] Words bind men

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

35] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

36] Sickness soaks the purse

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

38] He that cannot ask, cannot live

39] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

40] Wrong never comes right

41] Death keeps no calendar

42] The falling drops hollow the stone

43] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

44] First try and then trust

45] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

46] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

47] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

48] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

49] So many men, so many opinions

50] Ambition makes people diligent

51] Like mistress, like maid

52] They are rich who have true friends

53] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

54] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

55] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

56] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

57] Vice makes virtue shine

58] Little things are great to little men

59] Patience is a virtue

60] Nature hates all sudden changes

61] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

62] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

63] Innocence is no protection

64] The pen is the tongue of the hand

65] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

66] He that has good money, gives few alms

67] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

68] Poor folk fare the best

69] Common fame is a liar

70] He that desires but little has no deed of much

71] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

72] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

73] Soon gotten, soon spent

74] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

76] One sheep follows another

77] If you would be well served, serve yourself

78] Live and let live

79] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

80] Better unborn than untaught

81] Too far east is west

82] Seek and you shall find

83] One sword keeps another in the sheath

84] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

85] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

86] There’s no great loss without some gain

87] Change brings life

88] Little things are great to little men

89] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

90] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

91] Discontent is the first step in progress

92] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

93] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

94] Beware of no man more than himself

95] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

96] Praises fill not the belly

97] It is as natural to die as to be born

98] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

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

100] The noblest vengeance is to forgive