Famous Proverbs

1] Valour delights in the test

2] The poor suffer all the wrong

3] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

4] Muck and money go together

5] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

6] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

7] Safety lies in the middle course

8] Variety is charming

9] Fish and guests smell in three days

10] Appetite comes with eating

11] Quickly come, quickly go

12] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

13] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

14] Don’t meet trouble half-way

15] Look at the bright side

16] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

17] Two wrongs do not make a right

18] While there is life, there is hope

19] In doing we learn.

20] Business is business

21] Every man must carry his own cross

22] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

23] Precepts may lead but examples draw

24] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

25] He laughs best who laughs last

26] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

27] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

28] He is an ill husband who is not missed

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

30] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

31] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

33] Second thoughts are best

34] No man is his craft’s master the first day

35] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

36] Bear with evil and expect good

37] Good fences make good neighbours

38] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

39] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

40] Life begins only in success

41] Look on the bright side

42] Better ask the way than go astray

43] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

44] What costs little is little esteemed

45] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

46] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

47] Love turns pimples

48] Too much hope deceives

49] Great hopes make great men

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

51] He who never was sick dies the first fit

52] Full of courtesy, full of craft

53] No man is infallible

54] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

55] The mean is the best

56] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

57] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

58] Wife and Children are bills of charges

59] Possibilities are infinite

60] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

61] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

62] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

63] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

64] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

65] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

66] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

67] All good things must come to an end

68] The best of friends must part

69] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

70] All men are mortal

71] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

72] All is vanity.

73] No wrong without a remedy

74] Many a true word is spoken in jest

75] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

76] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

77] A cat may look at a king

78] Better be a fool than a knave

79] Common fame is seldom to blame

80] Necessity is the mother of invention

81] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

82] Do it now

83] Many doctors, death accomplished

84] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

85] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

86] He that blows best, bears away the horn

87] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

88] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

89] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

90] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

91] Faint heart never won fair lady

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

93] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

94] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

95] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

96] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

97] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

98] Misfortunes never come singly

99] Nothing crave, nothing have

100] Man cannot live by bread alone