Famous Proverbs

1] The dog is a lion in his own house

2] Kill two birds with one stone

3] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

4] Love is blind

5] Like mistress, like maid

6] Needs must when the devil drives

7] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

8] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

9] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

10] Two blacks do not make a white

11] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

12] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

13] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

14] Dog does not eat dog

15] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

16] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

17] The more cost, the more honour

18] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

19] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

20] Good fame is better than a good face

21] A bribe will enter without knocking

22] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

23] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

24] A good Conscience is the best divinity

25] Self do, self have

26] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

27] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

28] Do as you would be done by

29] We are all Adam’s children

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

31] Everything is good in its season

32] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

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

34] Give a loan and buy quarrel

35] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

36] Home is where the heart is

37] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

38] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

39] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

40] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

41] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

42] A good name is better than riches

43] A true man and a thief think not the same

44] Money is power

45] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

46] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

47] Harp not for ever on the same string

48] A bully is always a coward

49] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

50] Numbers overcome the brave

51] Patient men with the day.

52] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

53] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

54] The fairest flowers soonest fade

55] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

56] Cheats never prosper

57] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

58] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

59] Desert and reward seldom keep company

60] Bad news travels fast

61] A word to the wise is enough

62] The leopard cannot change its spots

63] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

64] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

65] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

66] A good conscience is a soft pillow

67] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

68] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

69] Better the foot slip than the tongue

70] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

71] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

72] Better never begin than never make an end

73] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

74] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

75] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

76] Live not to eat, but eat to live

77] III luck is good for something

78] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

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

80] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

81] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

82] A useful trade is a mine of gold

83] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

84] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

85] Penny and penny laid up will be many

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

87] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

88] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

89] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

90] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

91] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

92] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

93] Men are blind in their own cause

94] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

95] He that promises too much means nothing

96] Step by step the ladder is ascended

97] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

98] All glory comes from daring to begin

99] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

100] Gold may be bought too dear