Famous Proverbs

1] Threatened folk live long

2] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

3] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

4] He who never was sick dies the first fit

5] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

6] Do as say, not as I do

7] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

8] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

9] Alms never make poor

10] Bread is the staff of life.

11] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

12] He that would catch fish must venture his bait

13] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

14] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

15] Never too late to late to repent

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

17] The owl thinks her own young fairest

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

19] A joke’s a very serious thing

20] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

21] When the word is out it belongs to another

22] A rich man can do nothing wrong

23] He stands not surely that never slips

24] Company in misery makes it light

25] Open a book and you profit by what you read

26] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

27] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

28] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

29] Grasp all, lose all

30] It is not work that kills but worry

31] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

32] You can’t clap with one hand

33] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

34] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

35] The absent saint gets no candle

36] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

37] In fair weather prepare for foul

38] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

39] No convenience without its inconvenience

40] Possibilities are infinite

41] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

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

43] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

44] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

45] Remember, you are but a man

46] The devil looks after his own

47] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

48] Intimacy lessens fame

49] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

50] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

51] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

52] The labourer is worthy of his hire

53] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

54] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

55] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

56] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

57] It is too late to look up after you have collided

58] Let us do evil that good may come

59] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

60] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

61] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

62] They that dance must pay the fiddler

63] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

64] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

65] The highest branch is not the safest roost

66] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

67] A mouse may help a lion

68] He that brings good news, knocks hard

69] Choose thy company before thy drink

70] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

71] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

72] It’s dogged that does it

73] He who pays the piper calls the tune

74] Fire is a good servant a bad master

75] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

76] There is no redemption from hell

77] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

78] Fools grow without watering.

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

80] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

81] In peace, prepare for war

82] The pot calls the kettle black

83] Every light has its shadow

84] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

85] Truth is god’s daughter

86] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

87] The cobbler should stick to his last

88] He that is born a fool is never cured

89] A closed mouth catches no files

90] Manners make the man

91] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

92] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

93] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

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

95] Innocence is no protection

96] Laughter makes good blood

97] One is never too old to learn

98] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

99] Accidents will happen

100] A cat has nine lives