Famous Proverbs

1] Every dog is valiant at his won door

2] Crows are all completely black

3] Dirty linen should be washed at home

4] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

5] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

6] It is more blessed to give than to receive

7] Man cannot live by bread alone

8] There’s no great loss without some gain

9] An Englishman’s home is his castle

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

11] Safety lies in the middle course

12] Old habits die hard

13] Nature is the true law

14] A little is better than none

15] He has not lost all who has one cast left

16] Of evil manners, spring good laws

17] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

18] The longest night will have an end

19] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

20] Wake not a sleeping lion

21] An ill tongue may do much

22] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

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

24] Don’t ride the high horse

25] God arms the harmless

26] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

27] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

28] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

29] Custom reconciles us to everything

30] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

31] Crows are all completely black

32] Hard cases make bad law

33] Almost’ never killed a fly.

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

35] He that lends, gives

36] Laughter makes good blood

37] He that is born a fool is never cured

38] Homo is a common name to all men.

39] A loveless life is a living death

40] He that has plenty of goods will have more

41] A good lather is half the shave

42] Love turns pimples

43] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

44] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

45] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

46] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

47] Love knows no limit

48] Delay is the antidote of anger

49] He who wills the end, Wills the means

50] Acorns were good till bread was found

51] No one betrays himself by silence

52] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

53] Spread the table, and contention will cease

54] There is no tree but bears some fruit

55] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

56] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

57] He that speaks well, flights well

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

59] It is a great victory that comes without blood

60] Findings are keepings

61] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

62] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

63] Time flees without a delay

64] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

65] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

66] One must be a servant before one can be a master

67] Cheap is dear in the long run.

68] Even reckoning makes long friends

69] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

70] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

71] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

72] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

73] He stands not surely that never slips

74] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

75] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

76] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

77] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

78] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

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

80] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

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

82] A house divided against itself cannot stand

83] What can’t be cured must be endured

84] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

85] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

86] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

87] Much babbling is not without offence

88] Be still and have thy will

89] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

90] In the end, things will mend

91] Fools grow without watering.

92] Every bean has its black

93] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

94] What is a workman without his tools?

95] Divide and rule

96] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

97] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

98] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

99] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

100] Extremes are dangerous