Famous Proverbs

1] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

2] An army marches on its stomach

3] A door must be either shut or open

4] The lion had need of the mouse

5] They brag most who can do least

6] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

7] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

8] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

9] The rich knows not who is his friend

10] After the extreme of cold comes spring

11] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

12] Lend your money and lose a friend

13] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

14] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

15] No man so good but another may be as good as he

16] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

17] First creep, then walk

18] Better an open enemy than a false friend

19] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

20] A heavy purse makes a light heart

21] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

22] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

23] It takes all sorts to make a world

24] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

25] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

26] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

27] Poverty is not a crime

28] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

29] It is ill jesting with edged tools

30] The unexpected always happens.

31] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

32] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

33] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

34] Ill comes often on the back worse

35] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

36] Love is sweet torment

37] Failure teaches success

38] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

39] Love can find a way

40] The dog is a lion in his own house

41] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

42] No man fears what he has seen grow

43] Practice is the science that gives confidence

44] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

45] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

46] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

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

48] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

49] Bread is the staff of life.

50] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

51] Little pitchers have big ears.

52] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

53] Poverty parts friendship

54] Silence is golden

55] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

56] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

57] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

58] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

59] Travel broadens the mind

60] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

61] He that talks much, errs much

62] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

63] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

64] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

65] A parrot will only say what it is taught

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

67] One potter envies another

68] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

69] The first step is the hardest

70] You never know your luck

71] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

72] An old man is a bed full of bones

73] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

74] Fools rejoice at promises

75] Lose a leg rather than a life

76] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

77] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

78] A good lather is half the shave

79] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

80] Muck and money go together

81] Take time by the forelock

82] Tempt not a desperate man

83] Good ware makes quick market

84] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

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

86] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

87] The thing which is rare is dear

88] Fair exchange is no robbery

89] Spend and be free, but make no waste

90] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

91] The end justifies the means

92] The end makes all equal

93] Marriages are made in heaven

94] Anything will fit a naked man.

95] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

96] Clothes do not make the man

97] The sign brings customers

98] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

99] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

100] Too far east is west