Famous Proverbs

1] When wine sinks, words swim

2] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

3] Experience is the best teacher

4] An oak is not felled at one stroke

5] Slow but sure wins the race

6] First impressions are the most lasting

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

8] The longest way round is the shortest way home

9] A single rose does not mean spring

10] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

11] Two wrongs do not make a right

12] He who teaches learns

13] A good anvil does not fear the hammer

14] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

15] The best things come in small packages

16] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

17] A crust is better than no bread.

18] Hunger is the teacher of many

19] Ready money is a ready remedy

20] That which proves too much proves nothing

21] Every dog is valiant at his won door

22] He who leaps high must take a long run

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

24] Nature does nothing in vain

25] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

26] A jest breaks no bones

27] At a good bargain thinks twice

28] The golden age was never the present age

29] A penny saved is a penny gained

30] Forewarned is forearmed

31] Don’t try to run before you walk

32] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

33] Harp not for ever on the same string

34] What cannot gold do?

35] Conscience does make cowards of us all

36] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

37] Death does not recognize strength

38] The road to hell is paved with good action

39] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

40] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

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

42] Better are small fish than an empty dish

43] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

44] See how the wind blows

45] First think, and then speak

46] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

47] Danger makes men devout

48] Kind hearts are more than coronets

49] The sign brings customers

50] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

51] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

52] A good name is a rich heritage

53] The child is father of the man

54] Much meat, much malady

55] Praise is always pleasant

56] Extremity of right is wrong

57] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

58] Friends agree best at a distance

59] Even a worm will turn

60] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

61] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

62] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

63] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

64] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

65] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

66] Step by step the ladder is ascended

67] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

68] Too much cunning undoes

69] Time lost cannot be recalled

70] The sun shines upon all alike.

71] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

72] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

73] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

74] He that is absent is soon forgotten

75] Borrowed garments never fit well

76] Ambition loses many a man

77] Too much hope deceives

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

79] Better eye sore than al blind

80] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

81] The receiver is as bad as the thief

82] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

83] Water is the king of food

84] Better late than never, but better never late

85] Without luck, it is better not to be born

86] Long absent, soon forgotten

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

88] How forceful are right words

89] It is too late to look up after you have collided

90] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

91] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

92] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

93] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

94] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

95] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

96] When the word is out it belongs to another

97] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

98] Crust is better than no bread

99] A living dog is better than a dead lion

100] In doing we learn.