Famous Proverbs

1] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

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

3] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

4] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

5] Do unto others as they should do unto you

6] From small beginnings come great things

7] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

8] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

9] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

10] The mean is the best

11] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

12] The sun shines upon all alike.

13] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

14] Every law has a loophole

15] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

16] A cat has nine lives

17] Blue are the far away hills

18] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

19] If the cap fits, wear it

20] God’s lambs will play.

21] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

22] There is nothing new under the sun

23] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

24] Never refuse a good offer

25] First creep, then walk

26] Sickness shows us what we are

27] First creep, then walk

28] Danger makes men devout

29] Misfortune makes foes of friends

30] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

31] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

32] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

33] Many eyes upon the king

34] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

35] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

36] A bully is always a coward

37] He that eats well should do his duty well

38] Liars should have good memories

39] The axe falls on a straight tree first

40] The longest day must have an end

41] Other times, other manners

42] Black will take no other hue

43] Frugality is the mother of virtue

44] The owl thinks her own young fairest

45] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

46] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

47] Quietness is a great treasure

48] If you play with fire you get burnt

49] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

50] Love can find a way

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

52] Better at home than a mile from it

53] Learning is the eye of the mind

54] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

55] You cannot serve God and Mammon

56] A mouse may help a lion

57] He knows the water best who has waded through it

58] Better children weep than old men

59] Laughter makes good blood

60] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

61] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

62] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

63] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

64] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

65] It is ill striving against the stream

66] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

67] Least said, soonest mended

68] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

69] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

70] Through obedience learn to command.

71] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

72] Truth is god’s daughter

73] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

74] No news is good news

75] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

76] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

77] Content is better than riches

78] There’s no place like home

79] He that has an ill name is half hanged

80] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

81] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

82] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

83] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

84] The devil looks after his own

85] There is no smoke without fire

86] If one will not, another will

87] Love knows no limit

88] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

89] The more wicked, the more lucky

90] Every may be has a may not be

91] One reason is as good as fifty

92] Comparisons are odious

93] Misfortunes never come singly

94] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

95] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

96] Manners and money make a gentleman

97] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

98] Hard words break no bones

99] Slow help is no help

100] Everyone is a kin to the rich man