Famous Proverbs

1] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

2] Spare the rod and spoil the child

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

4] Don’t ride the high horse

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

6] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

7] Crowns have cares

8] Be just before you are generous

9] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

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

11] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

12] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

13] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

14] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

15] He that promises too much means nothing

16] The best go first

17] Young saint, old devil.

18] The best wine comes from an old vessel

19] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

20] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

21] You cannot serve God and Mammon

22] The axe falls on a straight tree first

23] It is a great victory that comes without blood

24] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

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

26] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

27] Praise is always pleasant

28] The mean is the best

29] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

30] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

31] Let bygones be bygones

32] Weeds need no sowing

33] None but the brave deserves the fair

34] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

35] Might overcome right.

36] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

37] The greatest step is that out of doors

38] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

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

40] Clothes do not make the man

41] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

42] What is worth doing is worth doing well

43] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

44] Enough is as good as a feast

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

46] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

47] Custom reconciles us to everything

48] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

49] Goodness is better than beauty

50] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

51] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

52] Pleasing ware is half sold

53] Care killed the cat

54] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

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

56] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

57] When angry, count a hundred

58] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

59] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

60] A stitch in time saves nine

61] All griefs with bread are less

62] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

63] Choose thy company before thy drink

64] A good dog deserves a good bone

65] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

66] God’s help is better than the early rising

67] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

68] Ill news comes unsent for.

69] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

70] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

71] Do unto others as they should do unto you

72] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

73] Every path has a puddle

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

75] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

76] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

77] Desert and reward seldom keep company

78] History repeats itself

79] He who serves is not free

80] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

81] When angry, count a hundred

82] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

83] Every shoe fits not every foot

84] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

85] You may have too much of a good thing

86] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

87] Wise men do not argue with idiots

88] First thrive then wive

89] He is wise who looks ahead

90] Manners and money make a gentleman

91] Debt is an evil conscience

92] Soon hot, soon cold

93] Every Jack must have his Jill

94] Jack is as good as his master

95] He thinks not well that thinks not again

96] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

97] He who comes late must eat what is left

98] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

99] A rolling stone gathers no moss

100] Better be first in a village than second at Rome