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Famous Proverbs

1] There is no accounting for tastes
2] A cat may look at a king
3] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
4] Little by little and bit by bit.
5] Tell the truth and shame the devil
6] No man is indispensable
7] Make haste slowly
8] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good
9] No man can serve two masters
10] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer
11] Laws were made to be broke
12] Weeds need no sowing
13] The first blow is half the battle
14] A word before is worth two behind
15] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom
16] Go not to hell for company
17] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck
18] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools
19] Waste is not grandeur
20] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off
21] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief
22] True doctrines require no miracles
23] If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.
24] If one will not, another will
25] It takes all sorts to make a world
26] He who has seen little marvels much
27] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck
28] Extremes meet
29] Do as say, not as I do
30] The thread breaks where it is weakest
31] He who hesitates is lost
32] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.
33] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning
34] A drowning man will clutch at a straw
35] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind
36] Do unto others as they should do unto you
37] If you want peace, prepare for war
38] Don’t play with edged tools
39] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners
40] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly
41] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie
42] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces
43] Custom reconciles us to everything
44] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown
45] A good friend is my nearest relation
46] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday
47] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some
48] Look before you leap
49] Take away fuel, take away flame
50] Love is blind
51] Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure
52] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers
53] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
54] A traveller may lie with authority
55] All lay loads on a willing horse
56] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another
57] Failure teaches success
58] The best things carried to excess are wrong
59] No news is good news
60] Beauty is only skin deep
61] Every dog has his day
62] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
63] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way
64] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best
65] A good servant must have good wages
66] Ale will make a cat speak
67] Don’t cry for the moon
68] We don’t get something for nothing
69] Far from eye, far from heart
70] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day
71] He that pities another remembers himself
72] Care killed the cat
73] Young saint, old devil.
74] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before
75] The squeaking wheel gets the grease
76] It will be the same a hundred years hence
77] The falling drops hollow the stone
78] He who comes late must eat what is left
79] Familiarity breeds contempt
80] A guilty conscience needs no accuser
81] Fortune is blind
82] Sweet are the uses of adversity
83] No man is infallible
84] The devil finds work for idle hands to do
85] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken
86] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses
87] A good lawyer must be a great liar
88] No hair so small but has his shadow
89] Comparisons are odious
90] Each day brings its own bread
91] A fool and his money are soon parted
92] Never do things by halves
93] One sword keeps another in the sheath
94] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery
95] Pride goes before a fall
96] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.
97] Never hit a man when he’s down
98] Woods that grows warped can never be straightened
99] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream
100] Mere wishes are silly fishes



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