Famous Proverbs

1] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

2] Young saint, old devil.

3] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

4] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

5] Better ask the way than go astray

6] The dog that fetches, will carry.

7] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

8] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

9] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

10] At open doors, dogs come in

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

12] Make the best of a bad bargain

13] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

14] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

15] It never rains it pours

16] Misery loves company.

17] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

18] A penny saved is a penny gained

19] Erring is not heating

20] An old fox is not easily snared

21] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

22] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

23] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

24] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

25] Better beg than steal.

26] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

27] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

28] No pain, no cure

29] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

30] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

31] If you want peace, prepare for war

32] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

33] Borrowed garments never fit well

34] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

35] No man is a hero to his valet

36] Stolen sweets are sweeter

37] Nature surpasses art

38] Dumb men get no lands

39] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

40] A wicked man is his own hell

41] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

42] There are more ways to the wood than one.

43] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

44] Through obedience learn to command.

45] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

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

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

48] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

49] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

50] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

51] Love conquers all

52] You cannot have it both ways

53] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

54] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

55] Things are seldom what they seem.

56] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

57] Best is cheapest

58] What has been, may be

59] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

60] Everyone to his taste

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

62] If you want peace, prepare for war

63] Common fame is a liar

64] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

65] Every little helps

66] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

67] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

68] Don’t tell tales out of school

69] Will is no skill

70] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

71] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

72] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

73] Light grows the burden which is well borne

74] He that blows best, bears away the horn

75] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

76] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

77] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

78] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

79] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

80] Love can find a way

81] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

82] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

83] Harp not for ever on the same string

84] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

85] Better late than never, but better never late

86] One cannot love and be wise

87] Do not limp before the lame

88] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

89] Too much hope deceives

90] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

91] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

92] Excessive happiness produces pain

93] Many doctors, death accomplished

94] Travel broadens the mind

95] Silence is a woman’s best garment

96] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

97] A good dog deserves a good bone

98] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

99] One is not smelt where all stink

100] The unexpected always happens.