Famous Proverbs

1] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

2] Appearances are deceptive

3] Dying is as natural as living

4] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

5] Good hand, good hire

6] An old ox makes a straight furrow

7] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

8] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

9] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

10] Better beg than steal.

11] Train the child in the way he should go.

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

13] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

14] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

15] Don’t kick against the pricks

16] Children and chickens must be always picking

17] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

18] Where there is no might, right loses itself

19] Delays are not denials

20] Hungry bellies have no ears

21] Old cattle breed not

22] You can’t clap with one hand

23] He that ventures not fails not.

24] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

25] No day so clear but has dark clouds

26] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

27] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

28] Things are seldom what they seem.

29] An army marches on its stomach

30] If anything can go wrong, it will

31] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

32] Through obedience learn to command.

33] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

34] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

35] He who comes late must eat what is left

36] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

37] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

38] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

39] A wicked man is his own hell

40] Many doctors, death accomplished

41] Love is blind

42] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

43] Despair gives courage to a coward

44] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

45] Hitch your wagon to a star

46] He that has plenty of goods will have more

47] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

48] Care brings grey hair.

49] A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse

50] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

51] The ass that brays most eats

52] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

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

54] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

55] One is never too old to learn

56] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

57] Lose a leg rather than a life

58] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

59] You never know your luck

60] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

61] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

62] Quickly come, quickly go

63] Waste makes wants

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

65] There’s a black sheep in every flock

66] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

67] There is safety in numbers

68] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

69] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

70] Beware of him who makes thee presents

71] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

72] There is truth in wine

73] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

74] It’s a long lane that has no turning

75] In wine there is truth

76] One kindness is the price of another

77] Parents are patterns

78] Have two strings to your bow

79] What is money to a cat?

80] First think, and then speak

81] Nothing seek, nothing find

82] A friend is easier lost than found

83] A jest breaks no bones

84] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

85] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

86] A good wife makes a good husband

87] A living dog is better than a dead lion

88] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

89] A short cut is often a wrong cut

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

91] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

92] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

93] Wishes can never fill a sack

94] We shall lie all alike in our graves

95] None so blind as those who will not see

96] Nature will have her course

97] We have all been once in our life

98] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

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

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