Famous Proverbs

1] The falling drops hollow the stone

2] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

3] Opportunity makes the thief

4] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

5] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

6] Opportunity makes the thief

7] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

8] The world is full of fools

9] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

10] There is nothing permanent except change

11] Once a use and ever a custom

12] Appetite comes with eating

13] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

14] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

15] Desperate diseases need (or must have) desperate cures

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

17] A miss is as good as a mile

18] Example is the greatest of all seducers

19] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

20] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

21] A good heart conquers ill fortune

22] If the cap fits, wear it

23] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

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

25] Every advantage has its disadvantage

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

27] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

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

29] Ill gotten, ill spent

30] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

31] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

32] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

33] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

34] Men do more things through habit than reason

35] Care brings grey hair.

36] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

37] One lie makes many

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

39] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

40] A rolling stone gathers no moss

41] Christmas comes but once a year

42] Sorrow will pay no debt

43] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

44] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

45] Truth is god’s daughter

46] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

47] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

48] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

49] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

50] All’s well that ends well

51] No good building without a good foundation.

52] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

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

54] A little help is worth a deal of pity

55] Little pitchers have big ears.

56] The owl thinks her own young fairest

57] Judge not of men and things at first sight

58] Never do things by halves

59] The biter is sometimes bit

60] The last suitor wins the maid

61] Every medal has two sides

62] Necessity is a powerful weapon

63] Few words are best

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

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

66] We live by laws, not by examples

67] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

68] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

69] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

70] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

71] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

72] One father is more than a hundred school masters

73] The best of men are but men at best.

74] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

75] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

76] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

77] Creditors have better memories than debtors

78] Many words, many buffets

79] Appetite comes with eating

80] All things are possible with god

81] Names and natures do often agree

82] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

83] No misfortune will go on forever

84] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

85] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

86] Self do, self have

87] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

88] A beggar can never be bankrupt

89] Every may be has a may not be

90] He who owes is in all the wrong

91] Better eye sore than al blind

92] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

93] Even Homer sometimes nods

94] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

95] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

96] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

97] Needs must when the devil drives

98] Loyalty is worth more than money

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

100] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.