Famous Proverbs

1] Jack is as good as his master

2] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

3] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

4] Homo is a common name to all men.

5] Ready money is a ready remedy

6] Let us do evil that good may come

7] Saying is one thing, and doing another

8] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

9] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

10] Never do evil that good may come of it

11] Misfortunes never come singly

12] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

13] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

14] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

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

16] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

17] Virtue is its own reward

18] Give the devil his due

19] Light burden I heavy if far borne

20] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

21] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

22] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

23] No remedy but patience

24] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

25] Two blacks do not make a white

26] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

27] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

28] Every why has a wherefore

29] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

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

31] Things past cannot be recalled

32] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

33] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

34] The greatest step is that out of doors

35] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

36] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

37] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

38] The devil is not as black as he is painted

39] An army marches on its stomach

40] The good intention excuses the bad action

41] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

42] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

43] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

44] There is no rose without a thorn

45] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

46] There’s no place like home

47] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

48] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

49] A long tongue is a sign of a short hand

50] Nothing crave, nothing have

51] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

52] He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved

53] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

54] A crust is better than no bread.

55] Every may be has a may not be

56] The longest day must have an end

57] Children and fools cannot lie.

58] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

59] Every man has his faults

60] Other times, other manners

61] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

62] Discretion is the better part of valour

63] A word before is worth two behind

64] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

65] Dead dogs bark not

66] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

67] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

68] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

69] A good garden may have some ill weeds

70] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

71] A good marksman may miss

72] Gold will not buy everything

73] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

74] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

75] You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours

76] Come with the wind, got with the water

77] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

78] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

79] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

80] Every little helps

81] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

82] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

83] The last suitor wins the maid

84] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

85] Many hands make light work

86] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

87] Care is no cure

88] It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

89] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

90] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

91] He that is down need fear no fall

92] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

93] Words and feathers the wind carries away

94] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

95] The Pen is mightier than the sword

96] Charity excuseth not cheating.

97] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

98] No choice amongst stinking fish

99] Dying is as natural as living

100] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice