Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

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

3] Grief pent up will break the heart

4] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

5] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

6] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

7] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

8] What must be must be

9] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

10] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

11] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

12] Men are not angles

13] The pen is the tongue of the hand

14] A good example is the best sermon

15] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

16] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

17] Brevity is the soul of wit

18] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

19] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

20] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

21] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

22] Bad news travels fast

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

24] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

25] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

26] Love will find a way

27] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

28] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

29] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

30] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

31] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

32] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

33] Train the child in the way he should go.

34] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

35] Will is the cause of woe

36] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

37] All are not saints that go to church

38] Quietness is a great treasure

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

40] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

41] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

42] All are not saints that go to church

43] Better sit still than rise and fall

44] Nearest the heart comes out first

45] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

46] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

47] In my own house, I am king

48] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

49] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

50] Money is the sinews of war

51] Never refuse a good offer

52] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

53] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

54] Home is home though it be never so homely

55] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

56] It is not every question that deserves an answer

57] He that cannot ask, cannot live

58] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

59] Old habits die hard

60] Self-praise is no recommendation

61] Curiosity killed the cat.

62] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

63] See how the wind blows

64] An egg thief will become a camel thief

65] Common fame is a liar

66] A man’s studies pass in to his character

67] Ready money is ready medicine

68] A good friend is my nearest relation

69] All for one, and one for all.

70] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

71] Manners make the man

72] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

73] He would command must serve

74] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

75] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

76] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

77] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

78] Every law has a loophole

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

80] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

81] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

82] The borrower is servant to the lender

83] The best things are hard to come by.

84] Harp not for ever on the same string

85] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

86] Content is better than riches

87] It is useless to flog a dead horse

88] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

89] Content is more than a kingdom

90] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

91] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

92] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

93] Weak things united become strong

94] Wise men propose, and fools determine

95] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

96] Everything must have a beginning

97] Hope is grief’s best music

98] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

99] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

100] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick