Famous Proverbs

1] Ignorance is the peace of life

2] There’s no place like home

3] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

4] Excessive happiness produces pain

5] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

6] Creditors have better memories than debtors

7] The devil looks after his own

8] First think, and then speak

9] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

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

11] There are two sides to every question

12] Many dishes make many diseases

13] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

14] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

15] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

16] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

17] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

18] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

19] Wrong has no warrant

20] Every flow must have its ebb

21] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

22] Cheap is dear in the long run.

23] Every dog is valiant at his won door

24] Anger without power is folly

25] Nature is the true law

26] The best things are hard to come by.

27] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

28] Of one ill come many

29] Nature hates all sudden changes

30] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

31] A hungry man smells meat afar off

32] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

33] First things first

34] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

35] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

36] First impressions are the most lasting

37] Don’t cry stinking fish

38] If you want peace, prepare for war

39] Share and share alike

40] Love can find a way

41] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

42] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

43] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

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

45] The fox may grow grey, but never good

46] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

47] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

48] Variety takes away satiety

49] The good is often the enemy of the best

50] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

51] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

52] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

53] A good conscience is a sure card

54] Love delights in praise

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

56] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

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

58] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

59] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

60] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

61] Hunger is sharper than the sword

62] Men are known by the company they keep.

63] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

64] No one ought to judge in his own cause

65] Once bitten, twice shy.

66] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

67] What is the mother of industry

68] Help a lame dog over a stile

69] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

70] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

71] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

72] Make the best of a bad job

73] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

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

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

76] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

77] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

78] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

79] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

80] Faint heart never won fair lady

81] Heaven helps those who help themselves

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

83] Be still and have thy will

84] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

85] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

86] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

87] Wedlock is padlock

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

89] Never too late to repent

90] Hungry bellies have no ears

91] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

92] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

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

94] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

95] Curiosity killed the cat.

96] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

97] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

98] A good lather is half the shave

99] The early man ever borrows from the late man

100] Expectation is better than realisation