Famous Proverbs

1] Every advantage has its disadvantage

2] The tide must be taken when it comes

3] The last suitor wins the maid

4] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

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

6] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

7] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

8] Better be alone than in bad company

9] An ill tongue may do much

10] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

11] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

12] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

13] Don’t tell tales out of school

14] There are spots even in the sun

15] Circumstances alter cases

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

17] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

18] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

19] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

20] True gold is not transformed by fire

21] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

22] Experience is the mother of wisdom

23] An Englishman’s home is his castle

24] Honesty is ill to thrive by

25] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

26] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

27] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

28] Gluttony kills more than the sword

29] God makes the back for the burden

30] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

31] Birds once snared fear all bushes

32] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

33] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

34] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

35] Every Jack must have his Jill

36] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

37] We live laws, not by examples

38] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

39] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

40] The pot calls the kettle black

41] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

42] The mob tramples on the coward

43] Every dog has his day

44] Judge not the tree by its bark

45] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

46] The dog is a lion in his own house

47] There is no time like the present

48] It is not every question that deserves an answer

49] Look before you leap

50] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

51] Parents are patterns

52] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

53] A word before is worth two behind

54] The course of true love never did run smooth

55] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

56] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

57] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

58] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

59] A mouse may help a lion

60] Children speak only words they have heard.

61] We have all been once in our life

62] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

63] Men are not angles

64] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

65] The dog that fetches, will carry.

66] The devil looks after his own

67] All is vanity.

68] Rome was not built in a day

69] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

70] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

71] Repentance comes too late

72] It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse

73] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

74] The owl thinks her own young fairest

75] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

76] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

77] Failure teaches success

78] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

79] Without diligence, no prize

80] Nature does nothing in vain

81] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

82] When a man grows angry, his reason rides out.

83] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

84] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

85] The last suitor wins the maid

86] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

87] Every commodity has its discommodity

88] Enough is as good as a feast

89] Praise is always pleasant

90] Homo is a common name to all men.

91] Fortune does not stand waiting at any man’s door

92] He is an ill husband who is not missed

93] Venture a small fish to catch a big one

94] It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb

95] Wrong has no warrant

96] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

97] You never know your luck

98] Dreams go by contraries

99] Of evil manners, spring good laws

100] Share and share alike