Famous Proverbs

1] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

2] Bad excuses are worse than none.

3] Mount Fuji itself is not So beautiful to one who is cold and hungry

4] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

5] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

6] Anything will fit a naked man.

7] History repeats itself

8] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

9] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

10] Honesty is ill to thrive by

11] A closed mouth catches no files

12] Laughter makes good blood

13] Blood will have blood

14] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

15] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

16] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

17] A single rose does not mean spring

18] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

19] Tell a lie and stick to it.

20] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

21] All that glitters is not gold

22] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

23] An Englishman’s home is his castle

24] Every commodity has its discommodity

25] The bull must be taken by the horns

26] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

27] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

28] What is deferred is not abandoned

29] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

30] He who hesitates is lost

31] You are never too old to learn

32] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

33] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

34] A rich man can do nothing wrong

35] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

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

37] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

38] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

39] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

40] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

41] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

42] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

43] Every cloud has a silver lining

44] Where there is no trust there is no love

45] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite

46] Poor folk fare the best

47] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

48] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

49] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

50] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

51] A rich man’s joke is always funny

52] The envious man shall never want woe

53] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

54] There’s always room at the top

55] A good name is better than riches

56] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

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

58] Every may be has a may not be

59] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

60] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

61] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

62] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

63] He gives twice who gives quickly

64] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

65] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

66] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

67] Every dog is valiant at his won door

68] Beware of a silent man and still water

69] Like will to like

70] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

71] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

72] Care is no cure

73] Years know more than books

74] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

75] Silence is golden

76] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

77] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

78] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

79] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

80] Ill comes often on the back worse

81] Liars should have good memories

82] Thrift is a great revenue

83] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

84] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

85] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

86] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

87] Truth is mighty and will prevail

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

89] All things are difficult before they are easy

90] The end crowns the work.

91] He would command must serve

92] A good garden may have some ill weeds

93] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

94] Every law has a loophole

95] The best things carried to excess are wrong

96] Two blacks do not make a white

97] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

98] One sword keeps another in the sheath

99] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

100] A bully is always a coward