Famous Proverbs

1] Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

2] Years know more than books

3] It’s dogged that does it

4] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

5] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

6] Rip not up old sores

7] You can’t tell a book by its cover

8] You cannot make a crab walk straight

9] Speech is silver, silence is golden

10] New things are fair

11] What can’t be cured must be endured

12] All heiresses are beautiful.

13] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

14] It never rains it pours

15] Man does what he can, and God what he will

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

17] He that cannot ask, cannot live

18] Worse things happen at sea

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

20] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

21] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

22] The proof of the pudding lies in the eating

23] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

24] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

25] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

26] Children and chickens must be always picking

27] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

28] A useful trade is a mine of gold

29] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

30] He that talks much, errs much

31] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

32] Adventures are to be adventurous

33] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

34] Learn not and know not

35] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

36] Divide and rule

37] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

38] Set a thief to catch a thief

39] There are two sides to every question

40] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

41] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

42] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

43] The race is got by running

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

45] III luck is good for something

46] Ill luck is good for something

47] The sign brings customers

48] The labour we delight in physics pain

49] All meat pleases not all mouths

50] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

51] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

52] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

53] Pride goes before a fall

54] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

55] Hunger breaks stone walls

56] None so busy as those who do nothing.

57] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

58] One father is more than a hundred school masters

59] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

60] He who rides on a tiger can never dismount

61] Harp not for ever on the same string

62] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

63] Better bend than break

64] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

65] A rich man can do nothing wrong

66] Of a new prince, new bondage

67] Heaven helps those who help themselves

68] Little and often fills the purse

69] At open doors, dogs come in

70] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

71] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

72] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

73] The fairest silk is soonest stained

74] How forceful are right words

75] Trusting often makes fidelity

76] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

77] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

78] Through hardship to the stars

79] Love your friend with his fault

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

81] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

82] Might is right

83] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

84] When bees area old, they yield n honey

85] There is truth in wine

86] Take the will for the deed

87] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

88] Too much money makes one mad

89] Like mistress, like maid

90] Names are debts

91] All griefs with bread are less

92] Kindness lies in one side of the house

93] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

94] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

95] Forecast is better than work-hard

96] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

97] Needs must when the evil drives

98] Necessity breaks iron

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

100] The best is often the enemy of the good