Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

2] Names are debts

3] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

4] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

5] It is well to live that one may learn

6] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

7] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

8] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

9] Little pitchers have big ears.

10] Practice makes perfect

11] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

12] The deed comes back upon the doer.

13] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

14] The highest tree has the greatest fall

15] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

16] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

17] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

18] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

19] You know what you can do till you try.

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

21] Hope keeps man alive

22] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

23] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

24] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

25] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

26] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

27] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

28] There is no time like the present

29] High places have their precipices

30] Never too late to late to repent

31] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

32] It is ill striving against the stream

33] The best throw of the dice is to throw them away

34] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

35] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

36] There is nothing that costs less than civility

37] The more wicked, the more lucky

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

39] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

40] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

41] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

42] Love and business teach eloquence

43] Virtue joints man to god

44] Content is better than riches

45] Hope is grief’s best music

46] The lion had need of the mouse

47] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

48] Never do evil that good may come of it

49] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

50] The cobbler should stick to his last

51] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

52] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

53] The garment worn determines how one is served

54] Every man to his trade.

55] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

56] Money is the root of all evil

57] There’s always room at the top

58] One must howl with the wolves

59] The ass that brays most eats

60] Advice when most needed is least heeded

61] Cowards die many times before their deaths

62] Dead dogs bark not

63] A strong town is not won in an hour

64] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

65] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

66] Love is blind

67] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

68] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

69] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

70] Without luck, it is better not to be born

71] Wise men silent, fools talk

72] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

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

74] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

75] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

76] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

77] He that desires but little has no deed of much

78] Weak things united become strong

79] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

80] Better the foot slip than the tongue

81] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

82] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

83] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

84] Love turns pimples

85] Might is right

86] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

87] All’s well that ends well

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

89] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

90] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

91] Knowledge is power

92] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

93] A traveller may lie with authority

94] Corn him well and he will work better

95] Like mistress, like maid

96] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

97] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

98] Dumb men get no lands

99] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

100] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows