Famous Proverbs

1] Gossiping and lying go together

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

3] Better ask the way than go astray

4] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

5] The ant had wings to her hurt

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

7] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

8] Abundance, like want, ruins many

9] Life means strife

10] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

11] Fortune is blind

12] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

13] Do right and fear no man

14] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

15] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

16] Better late than never

17] A golden key opens every door

18] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

19] An army marches on its stomach

20] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

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

22] The mob tramples on the coward

23] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

24] Every oak has been an acorn

25] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

26] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

27] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

28] It is no use crying over spilt milk

29] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

30] An open door may tempt a saint

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

32] A good lawyer must be a great liar

33] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

34] Blood will have blood

35] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

36] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

37] One father is more than a hundred school masters

38] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

39] Fair face, foul heart

40] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

41] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

42] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

43] He that gives his goods before he be dead, take up a mallet and knock him on the head

44] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

45] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

46] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

47] Laws were made to be broke

48] A soft answer turns away wrath

49] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

50] All for one, and one for all.

51] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

52] Take things as you find them

53] Bad luck often brings good luck

54] We have all been once in our life

55] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

56] All things are difficult before they are easy

57] A true friend is forever a friend

58] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

59] When the word is out it belongs to another

60] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

61] An army marches on its stomach

62] A knave and a fool never take thought

63] A black hen lays a white egg

64] Every man is his own worst enemy

65] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

66] The longest day must have an end

67] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

68] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

69] Four eyes see better than two.

70] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

71] God arms the harmless

72] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

73] Manners and money make a gentleman

74] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

75] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

76] What is new cannot be true

77] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

78] Hunger is the teacher of many

79] Hunger is sharper than the sword

80] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

81] Even silence may be eloquent

82] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

83] The more laws, the more offenders

84] Appetite comes with eating

85] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

86] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

87] Better eye sore than al blind

88] Early sow, early mow

89] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

90] No tie can oblige the perfidious

91] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

92] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

93] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

94] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

95] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

96] III luck is good for something

97] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

98] Every shoe fits not every foot

99] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

100] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade