Famous Proverbs

1] Extremes meet

2] Christmas comes but once a year

3] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

4] It is best to be on the safe side

5] The mean is the best

6] Envy never enriched any man.

7] Abundance, like want, ruins many

8] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

9] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

10] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

11] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

12] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

13] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

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

15] It is no use crying over spilt milk

16] Many doctors, death accomplished

17] Every flow must have its ebb

18] Possibilities are infinite

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

20] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

21] Frugality is the mother of virtue

22] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

23] The more cost, the more honour

24] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

25] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

26] An old fox is not easily snared

27] When the cat is away, the mice will play

28] Do unto others as they should do unto you

29] Almost’ never killed a fly.

30] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

31] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

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

33] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

34] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

35] Sow thin and mow thin

36] Love me, love my dog

37] Dying is as natural as living

38] Don’t tell tales out of school

39] So many countries, so many customs

40] He who does no good, does evil enough

41] As long lives a merry man as a sad

42] Virtue is its own reward

43] A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.

44] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

45] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

46] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

47] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

48] Still waters run deep

49] Men are not to be measured in inches

50] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

51] There are more ways to the wood than one.

52] Every light has its shadow

53] He conquers who endures

54] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

55] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

56] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

57] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

58] A fool may give a wise man counsel

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

60] By his deeds we know a man

61] The biter is sometimes bit

62] All meat pleases not all mouths

63] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

64] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

65] Homo is a common name to all men.

66] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

67] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

68] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

69] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

70] Do right and fear no man

71] When angry, count a hundred

72] Even reckoning makes long friends

73] We live by laws, not by examples

74] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

75] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

76] Will is no skill

77] Where there are reeds, there is water

78] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

79] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

80] Great talkers are never great doers

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

82] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

83] There are more men threatened than stricken

84] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

85] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

86] Better an apple given than eaten

87] There is no fool like an old fool

88] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

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

90] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

91] He who comes late must eat what is left

92] One hand washes the other

93] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

94] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

95] Ale will make a cat speak

96] Money talks

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

98] Union (or Unity) is strength

99] Fools live poor to die rich

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