Famous Proverbs

1] We have all been once in our life

2] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

3] Money is the only monarch

4] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

5] Handsome is as handsome does

6] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

7] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

8] White there’s life there’s hope

9] Diligence is the mother of good luck

10] First try and then trust

11] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

12] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

13] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

14] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

15] Content is more than a kingdom

16] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

17] Children and fools cannot lie.

18] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

19] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

20] Every medal has its reverse

21] While there is life, there is hope

22] He that cannot ask, cannot live

23] A man may learn wit every day.

24] The slowest barker is the surest biter

25] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

26] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

27] Strike while the iron is hot

28] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

29] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

30] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

31] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

32] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

33] Train the child in the way he should go.

34] Asking costs little

35] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

36] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

37] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

38] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

39] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

40] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

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

42] Look at the bright side

43] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

44] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

45] Homer sometimes nods

46] Lend never that thing you needed most

47] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

48] Many words, many buffets

49] Better to wear out than rust out

50] Everything comes to him who waits

51] The greatest talkers are the least doers

52] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

53] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

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

55] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

56] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

57] A straight stick is crooked in water

58] Custom reconciles us to everything

59] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

60] Every commodity has its discommodity

61] First impressions are half the battle

62] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

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

64] Little pitchers have big ears.

65] Exchange is no robbery

66] He knows which side his bread is buttered

67] He who pays the piper calls the tune

68] Crime does not pay

69] It is easy to be wise after the event

70] One potter envies another

71] Better be safe than sorry

72] The young will sow their wild oats

73] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

74] Better ask the way than go astray

75] No misfortune will go on forever

76] No convenience without its inconvenience

77] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

78] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

79] Virtue carries a lean purse

80] A bad workman always blames his tools

81] A monk can’t shave his own head

82] Full of courtesy, full of craft

83] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

84] They say so’ is half a lie

85] Bear with evil and expect good

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

87] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

88] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

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

90] Give and take is fair play

91] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

92] His bark is worse than his bite

93] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

94] How forceful are right words

95] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

96] Her that is down need fear no fall

97] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

98] The last suitor wins the maid

99] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

100] A man with no hands is given a ring.