Famous Proverbs

1] There is nothing new under the sun

2] A parrot will only say what it is taught

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

4] A hedge between keeps friendship green

5] Crows are all completely black

6] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

7] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

8] Even a worm will turn

9] Anger managers everything badly.

10] Pat any man and dust will fly

11] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

12] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

13] Accidents will happen

14] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

15] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

16] A miss is as good as a mile

17] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

18] There’s always room at the top

19] There is honour among thieves

20] It costs more to do ill than to do well

21] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

22] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

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

24] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

25] Gold will not buy everything

26] Too much curiosity lost paradise

27] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

28] The fox may grow grey, but never good

29] Nature surpasses art

30] After the extreme of cold comes spring

31] He who envies admits his inferiority

32] An old horse knows the route

33] A knave and a fool never take thought

34] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

35] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

36] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

37] Live not to eat, but eat to live

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

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

40] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

41] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

42] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

43] Men are not angles

44] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

45] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

46] Dogs bark as they are bred.

47] Honesty is ill to thrive by

48] So many countries, so many customs

49] A heavy purse makes a light heart

50] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

51] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

52] Patience is a virtue

53] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

54] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

55] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

56] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

57] It is no use crying over spilt milk

58] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

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

60] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

61] God arms the harmless

62] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

63] Money is the root of all evil

64] Truth has no need of rhetoric

65] Wise men are caught in wiles

66] Sweet are the uses of adversity

67] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

68] The tailor makes the man

69] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

70] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

71] If today will not, tomorrow may

72] Prospect is often better than possession

73] He who considers too much will perform little.

74] Despair gives courage to a coward

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

76] Life would be too smooth, if it has no rubs in it.

77] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

78] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

79] When bees area old, they yield n honey

80] Wash your dirty linen at home

81] He stands not surely that never slips

82] White there’s life there’s hope

83] Tempt not a desperate man

84] Two blacks do not make a white

85] Evil to him who evil thinks.

86] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

87] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

88] Let bygones be bygones

89] All work and no play makes jack a dull boy

90] Learn to walk before you run

91] Second thoughts are best

92] Work won’t kill but worry will.

93] Tell a lie and stick to it.

94] Now is now, and then was then

95] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

96] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

97] Hitch your wagon to a star

98] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

99] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

100] A ragged colt may make a good horse.