Famous Proverbs

1] Beauty is only skin deep

2] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

3] Old vessels must leak

4] First thrive then wive

5] High places have their precipices

6] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

7] A good paymaster never wants workmen

8] Parents are patterns

9] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

10] The devil knows many things because he is old

11] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

12] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

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

14] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

15] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

16] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

17] He is an ill husband who is not missed

18] A good heart cannot lie.

19] A secret fire is discovered by the smoke

20] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

21] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

22] Ignorance is the peace of life

23] There is death in the pot.

24] Bear with evil and expect good

25] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

26] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

27] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

28] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

29] Might overcome right.

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

31] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

32] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

33] What is a workman without his tools?

34] Possibilities are infinite

35] A change is as good as rest

36] Think of ease, but work on.

37] There is nothing that costs less than civility

38] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

39] Pitchers have ears

40] Long absent, soon forgotten

41] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

42] Every medal has its reverse

43] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

44] Idle folks have the least leisure

45] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

46] Crows are all completely black

47] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

48] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

49] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

50] Alms never make poor

51] He conquers who endures

52] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

53] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

54] Nothing is so certain as death

55] He that blows best, bears away the horn

56] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

57] God’s lambs will play.

58] No cross, no crown

59] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

60] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

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

62] Better to ask the way than go astray.

63] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

64] An army marches on its stomach

65] Call a spade a spade

66] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

67] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

68] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

69] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

70] Fortune is blind

71] A stitch in time saves nine

72] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

73] Extremes meet

74] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

75] Soft fire makes sweet malt

76] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

77] He who hesitates is lost

78] Better ask the way than go astray

79] Poor men’s words have little weight

80] Like master, like man

81] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

82] Patience is a virtue

83] Four eyes see better than two.

84] Faint heart never won fair lady

85] There are two sides to every question

86] Idleness is the root of all evil

87] Patient waiters are no losers

88] Christmas comes but once a year

89] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

90] Slow help is no help

91] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

92] A piece of churchyard fits every body

93] Without diligence, no prize

94] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

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

96] Gossiping and lying go together

97] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

98] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

99] Children and chickens must be always picking

100] Misfortune does not always come to injure