Famous Proverbs

1] Lookers-on see most of the game

2] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

3] To err is human

4] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

5] Waste is not grandeur

6] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

7] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

8] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

9] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

10] Love is never without jealousy

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

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

13] If you want peace, prepare for war

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

15] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

16] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

17] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

18] Diamond cuts diamond

19] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

20] Content is better than riches

21] Love is without reason

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

23] Two wrongs do not make a right

24] It’s dogged that does it

25] The last drop makes the cup run over

26] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

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

28] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

29] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

30] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

31] Saying is one thing, and doing another

32] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

33] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

34] Keep something for a rainy day

35] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

36] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

37] Marriage is a lottery

38] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

39] There is no garden without its weeds

40] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

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

42] It takes a wise man to be a fool

43] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

44] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

45] Friends agree best at a distance

46] He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages

47] Like breeds like

48] No man is indispensable

49] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

50] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

51] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

52] Covetousness is the root of all evil

53] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

54] The receiver is as bad as the thief

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

56] Every medal has its reverse

57] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

58] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

59] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

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

61] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

62] Old habits die hard

63] Every why has a wherefore

64] One fool praises another

65] Far from eye, far from heart

66] Do not limp before the lame

67] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

68] Weeds need no sowing

69] Everything would fain live

70] Better children weep than old men

71] Accidents will happen

72] Sickness soaks the purse

73] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

74] Common fame is a liar

75] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

76] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

77] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

78] White there’s life there’s hope

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

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

81] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

82] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

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

84] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

85] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

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

87] The thread breaks where it is weakest

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

89] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

90] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

91] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

92] The last suitor wins the maid

93] A burnt child dreads the fire

94] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

95] An ill paymaster never wants excuse

96] Harp not for ever on the same string

97] Save your breath to cool the porridge

98] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

99] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

100] It is better to have done something great than to have never been successful