Famous Proverbs

1] Vice makes virtue shine

2] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

3] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

4] All things for not all persons

5] A woman’s work is never done

6] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

7] Better say noting than no to the purpose

8] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

9] Shrouds have no pockets

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

11] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

12] Love knows hidden paths

13] It is well to live that one may learn

14] Lucky men need no counsel

15] One lie makes many

16] Now is now, and then was then

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

18] A good dog deserves a good bone

19] The great would have none great, and the little all little

20] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

21] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

22] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

23] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

24] There’s always room at the top

25] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

26] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

27] You cannot have it both ways

28] The coward threatens only when he is safe

29] Circumstances alter cases

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

31] A hungry man is angry man

32] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

33] High places have their precipices

34] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

35] Let us do evil that good may come

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

37] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

38] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

39] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

40] The labourer is worthy of his hire

41] Garbage in, garbage out

42] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

43] He that repairs not a part, builds all

44] Never spend your money before you have it

45] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

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

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

48] At open doors, dogs come in

49] Great actions speak minds

50] Look before you leap

51] God is always on the side of the big battalions

52] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

53] The best things carried to excess are wrong

54] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

55] When bees area old, they yield n honey

56] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

57] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

58] Dumb men get no lands

59] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

60] Of one ill come many

61] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

62] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

63] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

64] Silence is golden

65] A strong town is not won in an hour

66] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

67] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

68] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

69] Two heads are better than one

70] The darkest place is under the candlestick

71] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

72] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

73] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

74] Far from eye, far from heart

75] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

76] Better no doctor at all than three.

77] Kindness lies in one side of the house

78] Nature is the true law

79] Vice makes virtue shine

80] Lookers-on see more than players

81] The exception proves the rule

82] Nature surpasses art

83] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

84] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

85] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

86] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

87] A little learning is dangerous thing

88] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

89] There is no smoke without fire

90] Every advantage has its disadvantage

91] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

92] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

93] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

94] Use makes mastery

95] Hunger is the teacher of many

96] Take time by the forelock

97] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

98] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

99] Charity excuseth not cheating.

100] Do as you would be done by