Famous Proverbs

1] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

2] Still waters run deep

3] Care brings grey hair.

4] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

5] III counsel mars all

6] The day obliterates the promise of the might

7] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

8] Ignorance is the peace of life

9] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

10] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

11] Gifts blind the eyes.

12] One father is more than a hundred school masters

13] Coming events cast their shadows before

14] No man is his craft’s master the first day

15] See which way the cat jumps

16] Learning is the eye of the mind

17] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

18] In doing we learn.

19] Do as I say, not as I do

20] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

21] Money is the sinews of war

22] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

23] Boys will be boys

24] The race is got by running

25] Come with the wind, got with the water

26] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

27] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

28] Still waters run deep

29] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

30] Easier said than done

31] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

32] The more laws, the more offenders

33] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

34] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

35] The highest tree has the greatest fall

36] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

37] One is what one eats

38] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

39] Love delights in praise

40] A man’s mother is his other God

41] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

42] Almost’ never killed a fly.

43] Riches along make no men happy

44] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

45] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

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

47] Give and spend, and God will send

48] Forewarned is forearmed

49] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

50] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

51] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

52] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

53] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

54] A soft answer turns away wrath

55] Almost’ never killed a fly.

56] Take heed is a fair thing

57] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

58] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

59] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

60] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

61] Don’t tell tales out of school

62] Fools rejoice at promises

63] It is ill jesting with edged tools

64] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

65] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

66] The best fish swim near the bottom

67] Good words are worth much and cost little

68] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

69] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

70] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

71] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

72] Borrowed garments never fit well

73] None but the brave deserves the fair

74] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

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

76] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

77] Wrong never comes right

78] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

79] Slow help is no help

80] What is worth doing is worth doing well

81] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

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

83] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

84] Dumb dogs are dangerous

85] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

86] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

87] Danger makes men devout

88] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

89] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

90] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

91] First try and then trust

92] Everything would fain live

93] Double charge will rive a cannon

94] There is none misfortune cannot reach

95] They can do least two boast loudest

96] Cut your coat according to your cloth

97] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

98] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

99] The devil looks after his own

100] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it