Famous Proverbs

1] Fair exchange is no robbery

2] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

3] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

4] Virtue is a jewel of great price.

5] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

6] Things are seldom what they seem.

7] It will be the same a hundred years hence

8] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

9] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

10] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

11] Might knows no right

12] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

13] Love sees no fault

14] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

15] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

16] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

17] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

18] True doctrines require no miracles

19] A fool may give a wise man counsel

20] The weeds overgrow the corn.

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

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

23] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

24] Possibilities are infinite

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

26] You must grin and bear it

27] An old fox is not easily snared

28] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

29] Sooner begun, sooner done

30] Time flees without a delay

31] The weakest goes to the wall

32] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

33] Every cloud has a silver lining

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

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

36] Erring is not heating

37] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

38] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

39] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

40] He is lifeless that is faultless

41] He who never was sick dies the first fit

42] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

43] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

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

45] Circumstances alter cases

46] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

47] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

48] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

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

50] What cannot gold do?

51] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

52] The game is not worth the candle

53] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

54] Debt is an evil conscience

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

56] Ready money is a ready remedy

57] Speech is silver, silence is golden

58] Pursuits become habits

59] Better an apple given than eaten

60] A little help is worth a deal of pity

61] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

62] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

63] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

64] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

65] A bribe will enter without knocking

66] The longest way round is the shortest way home

67] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

68] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

69] Think on the end before you begin

70] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

71] Will is no skill

72] Affection blinds reason

73] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

74] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

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

76] It is easy to be wise after the event

77] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

78] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

79] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

80] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

81] One of these days is none of these days

82] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

83] Bread is the staff of life.

84] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

85] Truth has no need of rhetoric

86] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

87] Dead dogs bark not

88] Patient men with the day.

89] The devil is not as black as he is painted

90] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

91] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

92] All is vanity.

93] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

94] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

95] Where there’s muck, there’s money

96] One sword keeps another in the sheath

97] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

98] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

99] One today is worth two tomorrows

100] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead