Famous Proverbs

1] Spare the rod and spoil the child

2] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

3] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

4] You cannot make a crab walk straight

5] The great would have none great, and the little all little

6] The axe falls on a straight tree first

7] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

8] A true man and a thief think not the same

9] Penny wise, pound foolish

10] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

11] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

12] Sorrow will pay no debt

13] Common fame is seldom to blame

14] Respect is greater from a distance

15] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

16] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

17] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

18] Experience is the mother of wisdom

19] There is nothing permanent except change

20] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

21] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

22] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

23] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

24] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

25] Children should be seen and not heard

26] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

27] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

28] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

29] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

30] Care killed the cat

31] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

32] A goose drinks as much as gander

33] A rich man’s joke is always funny

34] Best is cheapest

35] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

36] We live laws, not by examples

37] There is safety in numbers

38] Where there’s muck, there’s money

39] Good wine needs no bush

40] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

41] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

42] Expectation is better than realisation

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

44] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

45] A good name is better than a golden girdle

46] Mere wishes are silly fishes

47] Handsome is as handsome does

48] An egg thief will become a camel thief

49] Will is the cause of woe

50] III counsel mars all

51] Marriages are made in heaven

52] A fault once denied is twice committed

53] You are never too old to learn

54] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

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

56] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

57] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

58] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

59] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

60] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

61] Two wrongs do not make a right

62] Slow and steady wins the race

63] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

64] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

65] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

66] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

67] Death keeps no calendar

68] Virtue is the only true nobility

69] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

70] An army marches on its stomach

71] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

72] Everything in moderation.

73] In fair weather prepare for foul

74] An oak is not felled at one stroke

75] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

76] Dumb dogs are dangerous

77] Love is without reason

78] Waste makes wants

79] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

80] Pat any man and dust will fly

81] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

82] It never rains it pours

83] Virtue joints man to god

84] Poverty is the mother of crime

85] Life is not all beer and skittles

86] A closed mouth catches no files

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

88] Money is the only monarch

89] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

90] Children and fools have merry lives

91] There is many a fair thing full false

92] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

93] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

94] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

95] Our own opinion is never wrong

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

97] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

98] No garden without its weeds.

99] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

100] Sickness shows us what we are