Famous Proverbs

1] To forget a wrong is the best revenge

2] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

3] One sword keeps another in the sheath

4] Better ask the way than go astray

5] Money has no smell

6] Affection blinds reason

7] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

8] Never refuse a good offer

9] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

10] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

11] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

12] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

13] As soon as there is life there is danger

14] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

15] A little too late, is much too late

16] What will not money do?

17] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

18] Much science, much sorrow

19] Clothes do not make the man

20] A fool may give a wise man counsel

21] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

22] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

23] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

24] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

25] The course of true love never did run smooth

26] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

27] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

28] Spare the rod and spoil the child

29] None so deaf as those that will not hear

30] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

31] Never do things by halves

32] Experience is good if not bought too dear

33] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

34] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

35] There’s a black sheep in every flock

36] A good heart cannot lie.

37] New lords, new laws

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

39] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

40] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

41] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

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

43] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

44] Past cure, past care

45] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

46] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

47] Familiarity breeds contempt

48] Great barkers are no biters

49] A learned man has always riches in himself

50] No convenience without its inconvenience

51] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

52] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

53] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

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

55] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

56] The best fish swim near the bottom

57] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

58] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

59] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

60] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

61] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

62] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

63] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

64] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

65] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

66] Like breeds like

67] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure

68] All heiresses are beautiful.

69] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

70] You never know your luck

71] Delays are not denials

72] Fish begins to stink at the head

73] One may change the place but not the mind.

74] You cannot make bricks without straw

75] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

76] Crows are all completely black

77] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

78] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

79] There is honour among thieves

80] First impressions are half the battle

81] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

82] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

83] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

84] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

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

86] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

87] A hungry man is angry man

88] God made the country ,and man made the town

89] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

90] You can’t tell a book by its cover

91] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

92] If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

93] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

94] Might overcome right.

95] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

96] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

97] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

98] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

99] The eye is bigger than the belly

100] Death devours lambs as well as sheep