Famous Proverbs

1] There’s no such thing as free as a free lunch

2] A single rose does not mean spring

3] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

4] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

5] Every shoe fits not every foot

6] True doctrines require no miracles

7] Small is the seed of every greatness

8] Possibilities are infinite

9] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

10] At open doors, dogs come in

11] Marriage makes or mars a man

12] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

13] Experience is the mother of wisdom

14] Better an open enemy than a false friend

15] Penny and penny laid up will be many

16] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

17] Do as you would be done by

18] Too much cunning undoes

19] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

20] We don’t get something for nothing

21] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

22] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

23] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

24] A knave and a fool never take thought

25] Set a thief to catch a thief

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

27] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

28] No man is indispensable

29] He who leaps high must take a long run

30] Better bend than break

31] The best fish swim near the bottom

32] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

33] Every man has his faults

34] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

35] Love is never without jealousy

36] None so busy as those who do nothing.

37] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

38] The leopard cannot change its spots

39] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

40] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

41] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

42] Love is blind

43] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

44] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

45] Money makes the man

46] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

47] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

48] First think, and then speak

49] God is a sure paymaster

50] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

51] One foot is better than two crutches

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

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

54] Manners make the man

55] Love is without reason

56] Custom reconciles us to everything

57] Better the last smile than the first laugh

58] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

59] The ant had wings to her hurt

60] A prophet is without honour in his own country

61] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

62] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

63] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

64] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

65] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

66] Better learn late than never

67] The last drop makes the cup run over

68] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

69] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

70] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

71] Life means strife

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

73] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

74] Wash your dirty linen at home

75] An egg thief will become a camel thief

76] It is good fishing in troubled waters

77] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

78] Call a spade a spade

79] Hear twice before you speak once

80] Where there’s muck, there’s money

81] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

82] Good counsel never comes amiss

83] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

84] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

85] He who never was sick dies the first fit

86] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

87] Better say noting than no to the purpose

88] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

89] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

90] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

91] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

92] All lay loads on a willing horse

93] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

94] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

95] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

96] Fool’s haste is no speed

97] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

98] What’s done cannot be undone

99] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

100] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves