Famous Proverbs

1] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

2] A jest breaks no bones

3] Little by little and bit by bit.

4] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

5] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

6] What cannot gold do?

7] The day obliterates the promise of the might

8] It is never too late to mend

9] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

10] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

11] Every dog is valiant at his won door

12] God arms the harmless

13] Confess and be hanged

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

15] Patience is the remedy of the world

16] All things for not all persons

17] Diamond cuts diamond

18] Work expands so as to fill the time available

19] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

20] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

21] Patience surpasses learning

22] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

23] Use makes mastery

24] Don’t kick against the pricks

25] What has been, may be

26] Like will to like

27] A good conscience is a sure card

28] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

29] Do not kick against the pricks

30] Fish begins to stink at the head

31] Grasp all, lose all

32] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

33] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

34] What is worth doing is worth doing well

35] Death alone can kill hope

36] Common fame is a liar

37] Hunger breaks stone walls

38] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

39] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

40] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

41] At open doors, dogs come in

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

43] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

44] Covetousness is the root of all evil

45] Numbers overcome the brave

46] He that does most at once, does least

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

48] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

49] The last drop makes the cup run over

50] Possibilities are infinite

51] The mean is the best

52] A good beginning is half the battle.

53] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

54] Cleanliness is next to godliness

55] Health is great riches

56] The best things are hard to come by.

57] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

58] The end justifies the means

59] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

60] First thrive then wive

61] Every medal has two sides

62] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

63] Truth is god’s daughter

64] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

65] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

66] No honest man ever repented his honesty

67] Danger makes men devout

68] Nearest the heart comes out first

69] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

70] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

71] Our own opinion is never wrong

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

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

74] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

75] Fair play’s a jewel

76] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

77] Names and natures do often agree

78] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

79] Lucky men need no counsel

80] Words bind men

81] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

82] Children and fools cannot lie.

83] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

84] All good things must come to an end

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

86] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

87] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

88] A parrot will only say what it is taught

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

90] Take things as you find them

91] Pride dines on vanity, sups on contempt

92] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

93] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

94] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

95] Never spur a willing horse

96] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

97] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

98] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

99] Idle folks have the least leisure

100] Variety is charming