Famous Proverbs

1] A good beginning makes a good ending.

2] Do as the friar says, not as he does

3] Anger managers everything badly.

4] Human blood is all of a colour

5] You know what you can do till you try.

6] The cobbler should stick to his last

7] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

8] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

9] Men are blind in their own cause

10] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

11] A fault once denied is twice committed

12] Appetite comes with eating

13] Waste is not grandeur

14] You never know your luck

15] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

16] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

17] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

18] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

19] A good lawyer must be a great liar

20] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

21] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

22] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

23] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

24] Even a worm will turn

25] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

26] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

27] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

28] Take things as they come

29] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

30] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

31] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

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

33] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

34] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

35] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

36] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

37] Better to ask the way than go astray.

38] Blue are the far away hills

39] One thief will not rob another

40] An obedient wife commands her husband

41] Novelty always appears handsome

42] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

43] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

44] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

45] He that lives ill, fear follows him

46] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

47] No news is good news

48] Blood will have blood

49] Hard words break no bones

50] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

51] Fair exchange is no robbery

52] You cannot make bricks without straw

53] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

54] Everything in moderation.

55] Good is good but better carries it

56] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

57] He that knows little often repeats it

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

59] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

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

61] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

62] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

63] It is more blessed to give than to receive

64] Kill two birds with one stone

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

66] Nothing crave, nothing have

67] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

68] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

69] Never spend your money before you have it

70] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

71] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

72] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

73] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

74] Despair gives courage to a coward

75] Better an apple given than eaten

76] It is the unexpected that always happens

77] A good heart conquers ill fortune

78] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

79] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

80] A door must be either shut or open

81] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

82] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

83] An old horse knows the route

84] It is misery enough to have once been happy

85] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

86] There are more men threatened than stricken

87] He that has a wife, has strife

88] Lavishness is not generosity

89] Too much curiosity lost paradise

90] Dreams are lies

91] A good dog deserves a good bone

92] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

93] The voice is the best music

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

95] No sweet without sweat

96] The coward threatens only when he is safe

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

98] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

99] Woes unite foes

100] The golden age was never the present age