Famous Proverbs

1] Money has no smell

2] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

3] Don’t bargain for fish which are still in the water

4] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

5] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

6] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

7] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

8] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

9] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

10] Never grieve for what you cannot help

11] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

12] A great calligrapher isn’t choosy about his brushes.

13] It is misery enough to have once been happy

14] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

15] It is never too late to mend

16] The early man ever borrows from the late man

17] It takes all sorts to make a world

18] Take things as you find them

19] Bear with evil and expect good

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

21] Don’t cry before you are hurt

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

23] One kindness is the price of another

24] He that knows little often repeats it

25] It is not every question that deserves an answer

26] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

27] Better are small fish than an empty dish

28] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

29] Seek and you shall find

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

31] An old fox is not easily snared

32] Without diligence, no prize

33] Nothing seek, nothing find

34] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

35] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

36] Like mistress, like maid

37] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

38] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

39] In my own house, I am king

40] A good heart cannot lie.

41] Live not to eat, but eat to live

42] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

43] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

44] East or west, home is best

45] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

46] The game is not worth the candle

47] Wise men do not argue with idiots

48] What everybody says must be true

49] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

50] Few words are best

51] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

52] A good conscience is a sure card

53] Quietness is a great treasure

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

55] Empty vessels make the most noise

56] The righteous man sins before an open chest

57] Example is the greatest of all seducers

58] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

59] No misfortune will go on forever

60] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

61] Of evil manners, spring good laws

62] Wine does not intoxicate men; men intoxicate themselves

63] If one will not, another will

64] Better sit still than rise and fall

65] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

66] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

67] Death alone can kill hope

68] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

69] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

70] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

71] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

72] The tongue talks at the heads cost

73] Light grows the burden which is well borne

74] Many drops make a shower

75] A miss is as good as a mile

76] Many words, many buffets

77] The longest night will have an end

78] He who has seen little marvels much

79] In doing we learn.

80] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

81] So many men, so many opinions

82] All glory comes from daring to begin

83] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

84] Better the foot slip than the tongue

85] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

86] Like question, like answer.

87] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

88] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

89] Better a bare foot than none

90] Better sit still than rise and fall

91] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

92] Fish and guests smell in three days

93] Appearances are deceptive

94] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

95] Bread is the staff of life.

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

97] What’s in a name?

98] Money is the only monarch

99] It is easier to pull down than to build

100] The lion had need of the mouse