Famous Proverbs

1] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

2] East or west, home is best

3] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

4] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

5] When one door shuts, another opens

6] He that cannot ask, cannot live

7] Waste is not grandeur

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

9] By his deeds we know a man

10] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

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

12] New brooms sweep clean

13] The coward threatens only when he is safe

14] It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.

15] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

16] It is best to be on the safe side

17] The devil is not as black as he is painted

18] Double charge will rive a cannon

19] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

20] It is good to follow the old fox

21] Bad news travels fast

22] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

23] Other times, other manners

24] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

25] Goodness is better than beauty

26] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

27] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

28] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

29] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

30] Home is home though it be never so homely

31] Either mend or end

32] Of two evils choose the lesser

33] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

34] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

35] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

36] Crime does not pay

37] Harp not for ever on the same string

38] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

39] Fortune favours fools

40] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

41] First catch your hare

42] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

43] You cannot have your cake and eat it

44] Every light has its shadow

45] Everything would fain live

46] Nothing is so certain as death

47] No man is a hero to his valet

48] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

49] Dreams are lies

50] Waste makes wants

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

52] Hunger breaks stone walls

53] Art improves Nature

54] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

55] Appearances are deceptive

56] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

57] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

58] Things are seldom what they seem.

59] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

60] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

61] Dog does not eat dog

62] Tell the truth and shame the devil

63] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

64] Novelty always appears handsome

65] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

66] The tailor makes the man

67] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

68] Praise no man till he is dead.

69] Leave well alone

70] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

71] No misfortune will go on forever

72] Make the best of a bad bargain

73] The course of true love never did run smooth

74] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

75] Slow and steady wins the race

76] Forecast is better than work-hard

77] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

78] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

79] Discontent is the first step in progress

80] What must be must be

81] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

82] Tomorrow is another day

83] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

84] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

85] One foot is better than two crutches

86] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

87] Good to begin well, better to end well.

88] Conscience does make cowards of us all

89] A monk can’t shave his own head

90] He that praises himself, spatters himself

91] Wrong has no warrant

92] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

93] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

94] Where there is peace, God is

95] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

96] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

97] The more you get, the more you want

98] Better an open enemy than a false friend

99] Still waters run deep

100] You can’t clap with one hand