Famous Proverbs

1] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

2] It is as natural to die as to be born

3] We live by laws, not by examples

4] The mob tramples on the coward

5] The golden age was never the present age

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

7] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

8] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

9] Lavishness is not generosity

10] In the land of hope there is never any winter

11] There is nothing lost by civility

12] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

13] No pains, no gains

14] He who comes first, grinds first.

15] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

16] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

17] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

18] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

19] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

20] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

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

22] All truths are not to be told

23] Garbage in, garbage out

24] Better be born lucky than wise.

25] Necessity is a powerful weapon

26] A traveller may lie with authority

27] Even water has its ebb and flow

28] There are two sides to every question

29] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

30] Out of debt, out of danger

31] There is no blindness like ignorance

32] All is vanity.

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

34] A crust is better than no bread.

35] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

36] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

37] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

38] Charity begins at home.

39] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

40] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

41] There is many a fair thing full false

42] If today will not, tomorrow may

43] Better unborn than untaught

44] Water is the king of food

45] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

46] No hair so small but has his shadow

47] A good word stills great anger

48] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

49] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

50] Every Jack must have his Jill

51] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

52] Covetousness breaks the sack

53] Praises fill not the belly

54] Might is right

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

56] Better be a fool than a knave

57] Great oaks from little acorns grow

58] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

59] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

60] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

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

62] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

63] He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person

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

65] Abundance, like want, ruins many

66] All doors open to courtesy

67] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

68] Better belly burst than good meat lost

69] Boys will be boys

70] Share and share alike

71] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

72] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

73] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

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

75] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

76] He that pities another remembers himself

77] Misfortune makes foes of friends

78] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

79] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

80] White there’s life there’s hope

81] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

82] Precept begins, examples accomplish

83] He freezes who does not burn

84] It is the unexpected that always happens

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

86] The tailor makes the man

87] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

88] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

89] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

90] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

91] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

92] The hole calls the thief

93] The course of true love never did run smooth

94] He travels the fastest who travels alone

95] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

96] Everything is good in its season

97] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

98] A soft answer turns away wrath

99] Sow thin and mow thin

100] Easy come, easy go