Famous Proverbs

1] It is too late to husband when all is spent

2] All that glitters is not gold

3] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

4] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

5] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

6] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

7] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

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

9] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

10] Boys will be boys

11] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

12] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

13] Crust is better than no bread

14] God sends cold after Clothes

15] One sheep follows another

16] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

17] Love knows hidden paths

18] Truth is mighty and will prevail

19] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

20] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

21] Little things are great to little men

22] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

23] What may be done at any time is done at no time

24] Every light has its shadow

25] Marriage makes or mars a man

26] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

27] Better bend than break

28] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

29] Clothes do not make the man

30] Wrong has no warrant

31] Every cloud has a silver lining

32] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

33] Practice makes perfect

34] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

35] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

36] Early sow, early mow

37] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

38] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

39] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

40] Petty laws breed great crimes

41] A golden key opens every door

42] They that dance must pay the fiddler

43] Nature hates all sudden changes

44] Money makes the man

45] Nothing crave, nothing have

46] Love is without reason

47] All truths are not to be told

48] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

49] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

50] Far from eye, far from heart

51] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

52] He who begins many things, finishes but few

53] Long looked for, comes at last

54] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

55] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

56] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

57] Without diligence, no prize

58] All lay loads on a willing horse

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

60] Light grows the burden which is well borne

61] He travels the fastest who travels alone

62] Practice what you preach

63] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

64] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

65] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

66] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

67] A knave and a fool never take thought

68] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

69] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

70] Gluttony kills more than the sword

71] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

72] No man fears what he has seen grow

73] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

74] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

75] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

76] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

77] Pitchers have ears

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

79] Weak things united become strong

80] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

81] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

82] If anything can go wrong, it will

83] Pride is at the bottom of all mistakes

84] Anger managers everything badly.

85] Rich folk have many friends

86] Love laughs at locksmiths

87] The day obliterates the promise of the might

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

89] Quickly come, quickly go

90] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

91] Words are but wind

92] The morning hour has gold in its mouth

93] One hand washes the other

94] Idle folks have the least leisure

95] Death is the grand leveler

96] Bare walls make giddy housewives

97] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

98] Experience is good if not bought too dear

99] Like master, like man

100] The tailor makes the man