Famous Proverbs

1] Birds of a feather flock together

2] Work expands so as to fill the time available

3] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

4] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

5] Trust is the mother of deceit

6] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

7] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

8] Needs must when the devil drives

9] He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf

10] Learn not and know not

11] Judge not of men and things at first sight

12] What is deferred is not abandoned

13] Bad luck often brings good luck

14] A word before is worth two behind

15] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

16] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

17] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

18] A good marksman may miss

19] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

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

21] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

22] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

23] His own ingenuity pricks him.

24] One man’s loss is another’s gain

25] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

26] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

27] Of a new prince, new bondage

28] The cobbler should stick to his last

29] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

30] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

31] Affection blinds reason

32] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

33] The love of money is the root of all evil

34] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

35] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

36] Truth is stranger than fiction

37] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

38] Fish begins to stink at the head

39] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

40] Better belly burst than good meat lost

41] Many drops make a shower

42] Sickness soaks the purse

43] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

44] Revenge never repairs an injury

45] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

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

47] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

48] A useful trade is a mine of gold

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

50] Money talks

51] Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge

52] Laughter makes good blood

53] Beauty is but skin-deep

54] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

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

56] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

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

58] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

59] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

60] We soon believe what we desire

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

62] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

63] He that has a fellow-ruler, has an over-ruler. ¶ There is no good accord, where every man would be a lord

64] When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war

65] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

66] A monk can’t shave his own head

67] Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

68] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

69] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

70] Children and chickens must be always picking

71] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

72] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

73] Man cannot live by bread alone

74] An angry man is not fit to pray

75] Give credit where credit is due

76] The end crowns the work.

77] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

78] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

79] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

80] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

81] Judge not, that ye be not judged

82] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

83] It is courage that wins, and not good weapons

84] There is no time like the present

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

86] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

87] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

88] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

89] III counsel mars all

90] Words cut more than swords

91] Too many cooks spoil the broth

92] Dead men tell no tales

93] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

94] Out of sight, out of mind

95] It never rains it pours

96] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

97] They are rich who have true friends

98] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

99] As soon as there is life there is danger

100] Youth and age will never agree