Famous Proverbs

1] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

2] Tell the truth and shame the devil

3] New meat begets a new appetite

4] Manners make the man

5] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

6] Save your breath to cool the porridge

7] Who greases his way travels easily

8] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

9] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

10] A good heart cannot lie.

11] Waste makes wants

12] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

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

14] All is fair in love and war

15] One good turn deserves another

16] Great actions speak minds

17] Dreams go by contraries

18] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

19] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

20] There’s always room at the top

21] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

22] One can’t help many, but many can help one

23] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

24] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

25] The money you refuse will never do you good

26] Too many cooks spoil the broth

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

28] No man can serve two masters

29] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

30] Beauty is only skin deep

31] Forewarned is forearmed

32] Patience surpasses learning

33] Where there is no trust there is no love

34] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

35] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

36] Fair exchange is no robbery

37] One must be a servant before one can be a master

38] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

39] Heaven helps those who help themselves

40] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

41] Of evil manners, spring good laws

42] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

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

44] A good husband makes a good wife

45] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

46] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

47] You are never too old to learn

48] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

49] A friend is easier lost than found

50] Give a fool (or a thief) enough rope and he will hang himself

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

52] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

53] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

54] Brevity is the soul of wit

55] That which Nature paints never fades

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

57] Water is the king of food

58] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

59] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

60] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

61] Bad excuses are worse than none.

62] Curiosity killed the cat.

63] The mob tramples on the coward

64] There’s no great loss without some gain

65] Open confession is good for the soul

66] He that blows best, bears away the horn

67] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

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

69] He that burns most, shines most

70] A man’s mother is his other God

71] Anything will fit a naked man.

72] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

73] Words bind men

74] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

75] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

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

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

78] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

79] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

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

81] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

82] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

83] A cat may look at a king

84] A man’s studies pass in to his character

85] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

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

87] A change is as good as rest

88] He that eats well should do his duty well

89] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

90] Bad news travels fast

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

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

93] He knows the water best who has waded through it

94] The great fish eat up the small

95] One may change the place but not the mind.

96] Laws were made to be broke

97] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

98] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

99] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

100] Love your friend with his fault