Famous Proverbs

1] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

2] Take things as you find them

3] The longest day must have an end

4] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

5] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

6] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

7] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

8] Many drops make a shower

9] Wise men do not argue with idiots

10] God is always on the side of the big battalions

11] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

12] Never spend your money before you have it

13] A man may bear till his back breaks

14] Necessity is mother of invention

15] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

16] There is many a true word spoken in jest

17] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

18] Example is the greatest of all seducers

19] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

20] Like question, like answer.

21] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

22] The falling drops hollow the stone

23] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

24] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

25] Nothing is so certain as death

26] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

27] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

28] Two blacks do not make a white

29] Curiosity killed the cat.

30] Friendship should not be all on one

31] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

32] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

33] There is a great difference between words and deeds

34] Kind hearts are more than coronets

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

36] Experience is the mother of wisdom

37] One beats the bush, and another catches the birds

38] Covetousness brings nothing home

39] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

40] One learns to know oneself best behind one’s back

41] Rats know the ways of rats

42] The mob has many heads but no brains

43] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

44] He who demands does not command

45] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

46] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

47] Novelty always appears handsome

48] No remedy but patience

49] When bees area old, they yield n honey

50] The highest branch is not the safest roost

51] Young colts will canter.

52] Blood will have blood

53] Custom reconciles us to everything

54] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

55] Six feet of earth make all men equal

56] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

57] Better be safe than sorry

58] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

59] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

60] Accidents will happen

61] He who pays the piper calls the tune

62] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

63] A learned man has always riches in himself

64] The end justifies the means

65] Art improves Nature

66] Better no doctor at all than three.

67] He that sows virtue reaps fame

68] Laugh and grow fat

69] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

70] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

71] Stolen goods never thrive

72] Because he would not eat it, the food got maggoty

73] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

74] Company in misery makes it light

75] He that blows best, bears away the horn

76] A house divided against itself cannot stand

77] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

78] Dumb dogs are dangerous

79] You never know what you can do till you try

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

81] Like breeds like

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

83] The great would have none great, and the little all little

84] Great trees keep down the little ones

85] Silence is a woman’s best garment

86] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

87] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

88] After the extreme of cold comes spring

89] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

90] Better at home than a mile from it

91] All good things must come to an end

92] They that dance must pay the fiddler

93] Through hardship to the stars

94] Easier said than done

95] An old fox is not easily snared

96] He who touches pitch will be defiled

97] He who serves is not free

98] Where there is peace, there is blessing

99] Six feet of earth make all men equal

100] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens