Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

2] Might is right

3] Better children weep than old men

4] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

5] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

6] White there’s life there’s hope

7] Death is the grand leveler

8] One potter envies another

9] Accidents will happen

10] Never too late to repent

11] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

12] Share and share alike

13] Who greases his way travels easily

14] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

15] Wink at small faults

16] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

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

18] We soon believe what we desire

19] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

20] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

21] Content is better than riches

22] The age of miracles is past

23] The best things come in small packages

24] All’s well that ends well

25] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

26] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

27] A fool always rushes to the fore.

28] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

29] Like father, like son

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

31] What is word but wind?

32] None but the brave deserves the fair

33] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

34] Call a spade a spade

35] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

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

37] United we stand, divided we fall

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

39] Home is home though it be never so homely

40] Don’t take your harp to the party

41] Haste makes waste

42] A merchant that gains not, loses

43] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

44] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

45] All cats are grey in the dark

46] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

47] Things are seldom what they seem.

48] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

49] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

50] A bully never grows up.

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

52] Little by little and bit by bit.

53] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

54] God helps those who help themselves

55] Will is the cause of woe

56] A closed mouth catches no files

57] One sheep follows another

58] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

59] Crust is better than no bread

60] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

61] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

62] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

63] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

64] Anger without power is folly

65] A bully is always a coward

66] One cannot put back the clock

67] Honesty is the best policy

68] No news is good news

69] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

70] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

71] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

72] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

73] We are all Adam’s children

74] Easier said than done

75] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

76] What is worse than ill luck?

77] Long looked for, comes at last

78] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

79] Black will take no other hue

80] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

81] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

82] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

83] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

84] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

85] Love is without reason

86] It is the unexpected that always happens

87] Pride goes before a fall

88] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

89] Let like mate with like

90] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

91] Of two evils choose the lesser

92] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

93] Never too late to repent

94] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

95] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

96] Never do evil that good may come of it

97] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

98] Every dog is valiant at his won door

99] Love delights in praise

100] Every man has his price