Famous Proverbs

1] Children and fools cannot lie.

2] Give and take is fair play

3] The good is often the enemy of the best

4] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

5] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

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

7] Never hit a man when he’s down

8] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

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

10] Money makes the man

11] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

12] Nature will have her course

13] No feast lasts forever.

14] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

15] It is good to follow the old fox

16] A good drink makes the old young

17] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

18] Least said, soonest mended

19] In haste is error

20] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

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

22] No pain, no cure

23] From hearing, comes wisdom; from speaking, repentance

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

25] At open doors, dogs come in

26] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

27] Soon hot, soon cold

28] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

29] Every commodity has its discommodity

30] It costs more to do ill than to do well

31] Great barkers are no biters

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

33] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

34] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

35] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

36] Wise men are caught in wiles

37] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

38] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

39] The mob tramples on the coward

40] One cannot love and be wise

41] It is not work that kills but worry

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

43] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

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

45] It is misery enough to have once been happy

46] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

47] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

48] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

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

50] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

51] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

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

53] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

54] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

55] All’s fair in love and war

56] Old habits die hard

57] He that blows best, bears away the horn

58] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

59] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

60] All lay loads on a willing horse

61] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

62] The darkest place is under the candlestick

63] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

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

65] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

66] Give a loan and buy quarrel

67] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

68] Nature is the true law

69] You may know by a handful the whole sack

70] A woman’s work is never done

71] The cobbler should stick to his last

72] One is not smelt where all stink

73] You cannot unscramble eggs

74] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

75] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

76] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

77] Time and tide wait for no man

78] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

79] Brevity is the soul of wit

80] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

81] A watched pot never boils

82] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

83] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

84] A good paymaster never wants workmen

85] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

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

87] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

88] Beware of a silent man and still water

89] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

90] There is nothing lost by civility

91] God’s lambs will play.

92] An honest good look covers many faults.

93] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

94] He freezes who does not burn

95] Hunger is the best sauce

96] Standing pools gather fifth

97] Misfortunes never come singly

98] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

99] Misfortunes never come singly

100] Great actions speak minds