Famous Proverbs

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

2] No one betrays himself by silence

3] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

4] Men are known by the company they keep.

5] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

6] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

7] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

8] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

9] Misfortune makes foes of friends

10] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

11] Trusting often makes fidelity

12] Dreams go by contraries

13] Money is power

14] No man fears what he has seen grow

15] The age of miracles is past

16] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

17] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

18] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

19] Every why has a wherefore

20] We live by laws, not by examples

21] There is nothing new under the sun

22] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

23] Poverty parts friendship

24] Grief pent up will break the heart

25] It is too late to husband when all is spent

26] True doctrines require no miracles

27] Health is better than wealth

28] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

29] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

30] Two wrongs do not make a right

31] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

32] Half a word is enough for a wise man

33] A rich man’s joke is always funny

34] Lose a leg rather than a life

35] Never spend your money before you have it

36] All is vanity.

37] Every little helps

38] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

39] A little impatience will spoil great plans

40] He that sows virtue reaps fame

41] Work won’t kill but worry will.

42] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

43] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

44] It is not work that kills but worry

45] Lookers-on see more than players

46] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

47] Little things are pretty

48] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

49] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

50] Nature does nothing in vain

51] Long absent, soon forgotten

52] Wake not a sleeping lion

53] The absent saint gets no candle

54] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

55] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

56] Every advantage has its disadvantage

57] Every medal has two sides

58] Truth may walk through the world unarmed

59] There is nothing permanent except change

60] It is too late to look up after you have collided

61] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

62] Better never begin than never make an end

63] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

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

65] No misfortune will go on forever

66] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

67] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

68] Nearest the heart comes out first

69] He that knows little often repeats it

70] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

71] All things require skills but an appetite

72] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

73] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

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

75] Might overcome right.

76] No one betrays himself by silence

77] Silence and thinking can no man offend

78] Tomorrow never comes

79] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

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

81] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

82] The receiver is as bad as the thief

83] Long life has long misery

84] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

85] Lend your money and lose a friend

86] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

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

88] Make hay while the sun shines

89] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

90] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

91] Friends are thieves of time

92] Easier said than done

93] The slowest barker is the surest biter

94] The belly carries the legs

95] All meat pleases not all mouths

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

97] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

98] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

99] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

100] He that asks faintly begs a denial.