Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

2] The mob tramples on the coward

3] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

4] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

5] He who teaches learns

6] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

7] Habit is second nature

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

9] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

10] A burnt child dreads the fire

11] An ill tongue may do much

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

13] Least said, soonest mended

14] Eat to live and not live to eat.

15] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

16] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

17] A man’s mother is his other God

18] Patient waiters are no losers

19] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

20] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

21] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

22] Still waters run deep

23] A miss is as good as a mile

24] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

25] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

26] The best things are hard to come by.

27] Good is good but better carries it

28] The tongue talks at the heads cost

29] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

30] Like father, like son

31] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

32] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

33] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

34] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

35] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

36] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

37] Handsome is as handsome does

38] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

39] We always weaken whatever we exaggerate

40] The garment worn determines how one is served

41] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

42] A fault confessed is half redressed

43] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

44] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

45] Children should be seen and not heard

46] To err is human

47] He that cannot ask, cannot live

48] No cross, no crown

49] All things are possible with god

50] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

51] Of two evils choose the lesser

52] Love knows hidden paths

53] The goat must browse where she is tied

54] Long looked for, comes at last

55] Money is power

56] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

57] Honour is the reward of virtue

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

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

60] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

61] Friendship should not be all on one side

62] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

63] Like will to like

64] A good conscience is a sure card

65] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

66] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

67] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

68] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

69] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

70] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

71] There is no accounting for tastes

72] Love is sweet torment

73] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

74] What everybody says must be true

75] Full of courtesy, full of craft

76] All heiresses are beautiful.

77] Circumstances alter cases

78] When wine sinks, words swim

79] There is no smoke without fire

80] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

81] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

82] By falling we learn to go safely

83] A man can do no more than he can

84] Plain dealing is best

85] The word is far him who has patience

86] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

87] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

88] Like mother, like daughter

89] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

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

91] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

92] Union (or Unity) is strength

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

94] Every dog is a lion at home

95] Misfortune does not always come to injure

96] Some are wise and some are otherwise

97] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

98] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

99] A heavy purse makes a light heart

100] Content is better than riches