Famous Proverbs

1] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

2] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

3] The greatest step is that out of doors

4] The best things carried to excess are wrong

5] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

6] It is all in the day’s work

7] The result justifies the deed

8] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

9] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

10] Too much curiosity lost paradise

11] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

12] It is the unexpected that always happens

13] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

14] Money talks

15] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

16] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

17] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

18] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

19] Common fame is seldom to blame

20] Things past cannot be recalled

21] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

22] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

23] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

24] The cowl does not make the monk.

25] He travels the fastest who travels alone

26] Dog does not eat dog

27] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

28] Actions speak louder than words

29] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

30] As long lives a merry man as a sad

31] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

32] Desert and reward seldom keep company

33] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

34] Error cannot be defended but by error

35] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

36] A good word stills great anger

37] A good conscience is a soft pillow

38] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

39] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

40] Where god will help, nothing does harm

41] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

42] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

43] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

44] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

45] Praise is always pleasant

46] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

47] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

48] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

49] Accidents will happen

50] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

51] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

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

53] Nothing is so certain as death

54] The race is got by running

55] There is no time like the present

56] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

57] The love of money is the root of all evil

58] He that eats well should do his duty well

59] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

60] Fish and guests smell in three days

61] A good beginning makes a good ending.

62] Envy never enriched any man.

63] Who greases his way travels easily

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

65] Go not to hell for company

66] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

67] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

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

69] Poverty is no sin

70] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

71] It is easy to be wise after the event

72] All things are possible with god

73] Love is lawless.

74] Little things please little minds

75] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

76] The voice is the best music

77] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

78] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

79] Heaven helps those who help themselves

80] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

81] We shall lie all alike in our graves

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

83] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

84] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

85] At open doors, dogs come in

86] The more you have the more you want

87] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

88] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

89] Virtue has all things in itself

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

91] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

92] It’s dogged that does it

93] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

94] Tomorrow never comes

95] Valour delights in the test

96] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

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

98] Stolen sweets are sweeter

99] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

100] He conquers who endures