Famous Proverbs

1] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

2] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

3] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

4] You can’t tell a book by its cover

5] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

6] Repentance comes too late

7] Comparisons are odious

8] He would command must serve

9] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

10] Every little helps

11] Laughter makes good blood

12] Little things please little minds

13] Everything is good in its season

14] Better eye sore than al blind

15] Safety lies in the middle course

16] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

17] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

18] Circumstances alter cases

19] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

20] His own ingenuity pricks him.

21] The highest tree has the greatest fall

22] He that knows little often repeats it

23] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

24] Men do more things through habit than reason

25] The word is far him who has patience

26] Where there’s muck, there’s money

27] Love me, love my dog

28] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

29] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

30] Success makes a fool seem wise.

31] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

32] Never say die

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

34] Silence is a woman’s best garment

35] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

36] The worse luck now, the better another time

37] You may know by a handful the whole sack

38] The absent party is always to blame.

39] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

40] See how the wind blows

41] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

42] Muck and money go together

43] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

44] The deed comes back upon the doer.

45] He who does no good, does evil enough

46] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

47] Better never begin than never make an end

48] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

49] Excessive happiness produces pain

50] Small is beautiful

51] Nature abhors a vacuum

52] There is nothing that costs less than civility

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

54] Empty vessels make the most sound

55] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

56] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

57] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

58] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

59] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

60] A word to the wise is enough

61] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

62] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

63] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

64] Virtue joints man to god

65] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

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

67] History repeats itself

68] It takes two to make a quarrel

69] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

70] Rust wastes more than use

71] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

72] Judge not the tree by its bark

73] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

74] Every dog is valiant at his won door

75] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

76] At a good bargain thinks twice

77] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

78] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

79] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

80] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

81] You never know your luck

82] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

83] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

84] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

85] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

86] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

87] One is not smelt where all stink

88] Where there’s a will there’s a way

89] All lay loads on a willing horse

90] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

91] Think of ease, but work on.

92] A rich man can do nothing wrong

93] There is death in the pot.

94] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

95] Affection blinds reason

96] A short cut is often a wrong cut

97] Money is the only monarch

98] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

99] He that blows best, bears away the horn

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