Famous Proverbs

1] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

2] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

3] There is no fool like an old fool

4] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

5] Beauty is but skin-deep

6] Things are seldom what they seem.

7] Nature abhors a vacuum

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

9] You may have too much of a good thing

10] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

11] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

12] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

13] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

14] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

15] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

16] He who comes first, grinds first.

17] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

18] By falling we learn to go safely

19] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

20] Ambition loses many a man

21] It’s dogged that does it

22] The lion had need of the mouse

23] The best things in life are free

24] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

25] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

26] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

27] It is not work that kills but worry

28] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

29] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

30] Mirth is the sugar of life

31] All griefs with bread are less

32] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

33] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

34] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

35] It is easy to be wise after the event

36] No answer is also an answer

37] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

38] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

39] Let not your tongue run at rover

40] Better eye sore than al blind

41] Little and often fills the purse

42] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

43] Take things as you find them

44] Custom reconciles us to everything

45] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

46] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

47] He who serves is not free

48] In everything consider the end

49] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

50] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

51] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

52] Weeds need no sowing

53] Better no doctor at all than three.

54] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

55] Corn him well and he will work better

56] There is none misfortune cannot reach

57] You never know what you can do till you try

58] Borrowed garments never fit well

59] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

60] Give credit where credit is due

61] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

62] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

63] No garden without its weeds.

64] Bind the sack before it be full

65] Nothing is given so freely as advice

66] Money is the root of all evil

67] Prevention is better than cure

68] Christmas comes but once a year

69] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

70] Forecast is better than work-hard

71] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

72] Help a lame dog over a stile

73] A word to the wise is enough

74] Homo is a common name to all men.

75] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

76] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

77] Worse things happen at sea

78] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

80] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

81] One reason is as good as fifty

82] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

83] Love sees no fault

84] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

85] One sheep follows another

86] It is as natural to die as to be born

87] If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir

88] The best fish swim near the bottom

89] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

90] Pleasant hours fly past

91] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

92] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

93] Liars should have good memories

94] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

95] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

96] What has been, may be

97] The absent saint gets no candle

98] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

99] Wash your dirty linen at home

100] Spare the rod and spoil the child