Famous Proverbs

1] The best things come in small packages

2] Every medal has its reverse

3] Learn to walk before you run

4] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

5] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

6] Hear twice before you speak once

7] Blood is thicker than water

8] Two wrongs do not make a right

9] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

10] In the end, things will mend

11] Early sow, early mow

12] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

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

14] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

15] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

16] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

17] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

18] All things require skills but an appetite

19] Good ware makes quick market

20] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

21] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

22] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

23] Failure teaches success

24] All are not saints that go to church

25] No road is long with good company

26] Content is better than riches

27] The highest branch is not the safest roost

28] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

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

30] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

31] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

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

33] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

34] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

35] All are not saints that go to church

36] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

37] Kind hearts are more than coronets

38] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

39] All things that great men do are well done

40] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

41] Hitch your wagon to a star

42] A good garden may have some ill weeds

43] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

44] Never too late to late to repent

45] Like mother, like daughter

46] Vice makes virtue shine

47] A little body often harbours a great soul

48] Old vessels must leak

49] What is new cannot be true

50] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

51] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

52] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

53] He is rich that has few wants

54] Don’t kick against the pricks

55] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

56] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

57] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

58] Money is the only monarch

59] Out of sight, out of mind

60] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

61] It is too late to call back yesterday

62] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

63] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

64] A good wife makes a good husband

65] Christmas comes but once a year

66] Other times, other manners

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

68] Cast not the first stone.

69] A beggar can never be bankrupt

70] The wish is father to the thought

71] Common fame is seldom to blame

72] Empty vessels make the most noise

73] Ill news comes apace.

74] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

75] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

76] Truth has no need of rhetoric

77] Even Homer sometimes nods

78] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

79] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

80] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

81] A man of courage never wants weapons

82] Like master, like man

83] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

84] No one betrays himself by silence

85] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

86] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

87] Love is sweet torment

88] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

89] A hedge between keeps friendship green

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

91] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

92] An ill tongue may do much

93] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

94] Heaven helps those who help themselves

95] A goose drinks as much as gander

96] The hand that gives, gathers

97] Every groom is a king at home

98] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

99] Where there are reeds, there is water

100] He that sows virtue reaps fame