Famous Proverbs

1] Second thoughts are best

2] Of two evils choose the lesser

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

4] Garbage in, garbage out

5] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

6] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

7] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

8] Divide and rule

9] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

10] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

11] No one betrays himself by silence

12] Tomorrow is another day

13] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

14] The axe falls on a straight tree first

15] Master easy, servant slack

16] Open a book and you profit by what you read

17] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

18] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

19] Friendship should not be all on one

20] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

21] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

22] Good words are worth much and cost little

23] Every shoe fits not every foot

24] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

25] Tomorrow never comes

26] Money is power

27] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

28] The longest night will have an end

29] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

30] Birds of a feather flock together

31] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

32] He that lives ill, fear follows him

33] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

34] The game is not worth the candle

35] Union is strength.

36] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

37] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

38] It is good fishing in troubled waters

39] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

40] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

41] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

42] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

43] Beauty fades like a flower.

44] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

45] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

46] What is worse than ill luck?

47] Hasty work, double work,

48] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

49] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

50] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

51] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

52] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

53] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

54] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

55] Crust is better than no bread

56] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

57] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

58] Do unto others as they should do unto you

59] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

60] A piece of churchyard fits every body

61] True gold is not transformed by fire

62] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

63] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

64] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

65] Misfortune does not always come to injure

66] Dirty water does not wash clean.

67] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

68] Bear with evil and expect good

69] Keep something for a rainy day

70] Far fowls have fair feather

71] He that knows little often repeats it

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

73] By his deeds we know a man

74] True gold is not transformed by fire

75] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

76] You never miss the water till the well runs dry

77] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

78] Men are blind in their own cause

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

80] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

81] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

82] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

83] Birds once snared fear all bushes

84] Many a little makes a mickle

85] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

86] First come, first served

87] A good husband makes a good wife

88] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

89] A little body often harbours a great soul

90] Far from eye, far from heart

91] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

92] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

93] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

94] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

95] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

96] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

97] It never rains it pours

98] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

99] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

100] Every cloud has a silver lining