Famous Proverbs

1] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

2] The darkest place is under the candlestick

3] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

4] Necessity is a powerful weapon

5] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

6] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

7] A loveless life is a living death

8] Everything is good in its season

9] Poverty is no sin

10] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

11] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

12] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

13] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

14] Every flow must have its ebb

15] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

16] Every light has its shadow

17] Barking dogs seldom bite

18] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

19] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

20] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

21] No wrong without a remedy

22] Fair face, foul heart

23] Love can find a way

24] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

25] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

26] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

27] A fool and his money are soon parted

28] Self-praise is no recommendation

29] Everyone to his taste

30] Desire beautifies what is ugly

31] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

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

33] Better beg than steal.

34] Go while the going is good

35] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

36] Fortune favours fools

37] Like mistress, like maid

38] He that brings good news, knocks hard

39] Jack is as good as his master

40] Fair play’s a jewel

41] The best of men are but men at best.

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

43] The devil dances in an empty pocket

44] Prospect is often better than possession

45] Weapons breed peace

46] Two blacks do not make a white

47] Every dog is a lion at home

48] Patience is the remedy of the world

49] Step by step the ladder is ascended

50] Every bean has its black

51] The longest journey starts with a single step

52] Idle folks lack no excuses

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

54] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

55] Years know more than books

56] The last drop makes the cup run over

57] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

58] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

59] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

60] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

61] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

62] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

63] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

64] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

65] You can’t clap with one hand

66] Love is without reason

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

68] Never grieve for what you cannot help

69] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

70] The absent saint gets no candle

71] Children speak only words they have heard.

72] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

73] Content is more than a kingdom

74] Expectation is better than realisation

75] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

76] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

77] Union is strength.

78] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

79] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

80] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

81] The longest journey starts with a single step

82] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

83] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

84] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

85] Let us do evil that good may come

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

87] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

88] Will is no skill

89] Cast not the first stone.

90] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

91] There is a black sheep in every flock

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

93] He who last, laughs longest.

94] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

95] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

96] As you bake, so shall you eat.

97] There is nothing new under the sun

98] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

99] He that wants health wants all

100] Every law has a loophole