Famous Proverbs

1] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

2] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

3] Pitchers have ears

4] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

5] Dead dogs bark not

6] Forgive and forget

7] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

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

9] He who does no good, does evil enough

10] What is word but wind?

11] The highest tree has the greatest fall

12] Like will to like

13] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

14] Dogs bark as they are bred.

15] Past cure, past care

16] No man is wise at all times

17] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

18] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

19] Things are seldom what they seem.

20] Much learning makes men mad

21] True doctrines require no miracles

22] Truth is mighty and will prevail

23] Better a bare foot than none

24] A bad padlock invites a picklock

25] The leopard cannot change its spots

26] Time has wings

27] Plain dealing is a jewel

28] Men do more things through habit than reason

29] A black hen lays a white egg

30] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

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

32] Virtue is the only true nobility

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

34] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

35] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

36] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

37] Love your friend with his fault

38] Great hopes make great men

39] Well begun is half done.

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

41] Honey catches more files than vinegar.

42] He who leaps high must take a long run

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

44] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

45] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

46] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

47] Opportunity makes the thief

48] Frugality is the mother of virtue

49] When the word is out it belongs to another

50] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

51] There is no time like the present

52] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

53] The longest night will have an end

54] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

55] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

56] The tide must be taken when it comes

57] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

58] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

59] There is a black sheep in every flock

60] Charity excuseth not cheating.

61] Beware of him who makes thee presents

62] Ill gotten, ill spent

63] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

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

65] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

66] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

67] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

68] Little pitchers have big ears.

69] Prospect is often better than possession

70] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

71] Worse things happen at sea

72] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

73] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

74] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

75] Big words seldom go with good deeds

76] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

77] The last drop makes the cup run over

78] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

79] The greatest step is that out of doors

80] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

81] Man does what he can, and God what he will

82] Anger without power is folly

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

84] None so busy as those who do nothing.

85] The best is often the enemy of the good

86] God helps those who help themselves

87] What is a workman without his tools?

88] Patience is a plaster for all sores

89] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

90] Experience is good if not bought too dear

91] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

92] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

93] Fool’s haste is no speed

94] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

95] He that has no rest at home is in the world’s hell

96] There is no accounting for tastes

97] Be careful to whom you give

98] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

99] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

100] An apple a day keeps the doctor away