Famous Proverbs

1] Let the buyer beware

2] There is no rose without a thorn

3] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

4] Forgive and forget

5] Choose thy company before thy drink

6] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

7] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

8] There is a black sheep in every flock

9] What is worth doing is worth doing well

10] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

11] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

12] Between two stools you fall to the ground

13] Keep something for a rainy day

14] One cannot put back the clock

15] Care is no cure

16] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

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

18] A heavy purse makes a light heart

19] Think of ease, but work on.

20] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

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

22] Asking costs little

23] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

24] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

25] Sickness soaks the purse

26] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

27] A scalded cat fears hot water.

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

29] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

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

31] It is more blessed to give than to receive

32] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

33] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

34] Love is sweet torment

35] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

36] Circumstances alter cases

37] Ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer.

38] You can’t win them all

39] Truth has no need of rhetoric

40] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

41] He mediates revenge who least complains.

42] Everything comes to him who waits

43] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

44] Hunger is sharper than the sword

45] A good name is better than a golden girdle

46] Never grieve for what you cannot help

47] Better say noting than no to the purpose

48] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

49] He that knows little often repeats it

50] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

51] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

52] Flesh is frail

53] His bark is worse than his bite

54] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

55] A wicked man is his own hell

56] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

57] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

58] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

59] Better to wear out than rust out

60] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

61] Plain dealing is a jewel

62] Strength grows stronger by being tried

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

64] All things require skills but an appetite

65] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

66] He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day

67] Idle folks have the least leisure

68] New meat begets a new appetite

69] The best of friends must part

70] Give and take is fair play

71] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

72] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

73] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

74] A bad padlock invites a picklock

75] The more you get, the more you want

76] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

77] Laugh and grow fat

78] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

79] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

80] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

81] A good face is a letter of recommendation

82] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

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

84] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

85] No man is infallible

86] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

87] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

88] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

89] The tongue talks at the heads cost

90] A man can die but once

91] All our pomp the earth covers

92] A word is enough to the wise

93] Common fame is a liar

94] There is no blindness like ignorance

95] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

96] Of two evils choose the lesser

97] No misfortune will go on forever

98] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

99] Nature will have her course

100] Cleanliness is next to godliness