Famous Proverbs

1] All glory comes from daring to begin

2] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

3] III luck is good for something

4] There’s always room at the top

5] We don’t get something for nothing

6] A fault confessed is half redressed

7] The devil lurks behind the cross

8] Wise men are caught in wiles

9] Spread the table, and contention will cease

10] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

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

12] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

13] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

14] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

15] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

16] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

17] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

18] There’s no great loss without some gain

19] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

20] The more wicked, the more lucky

21] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

22] What’s done cannot be undone

23] Beauty is only skin deep

24] The bull must be taken by the horns

25] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

26] Do unto others as they should do unto you

27] When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.

28] When you drink water from the stream, don’t forget that the source of it is the spring

29] A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees the farther of the two

30] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

31] The faulty stands on his guard

32] We soon believe what we desire

33] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

34] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

35] A knave and a fool never take thought

36] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

37] Know thyself

38] Love is without reason

39] The great fish eat up the small

40] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

41] Even water has its ebb and flow

42] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

43] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

44] Too much money makes one mad

45] Dirty water does not wash clean.

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

47] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

48] Her that is down need fear no fall

49] Beware of a silent man and still water

50] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

51] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

52] A good conscience is a soft pillow

53] In doing we learn.

54] A healthy man is a successful man

55] First catch your hare

56] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

57] An Englishman’s home is his castle

58] The more you get, the more you want

59] The best things in life are free

60] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

61] Love your friend with his fault

62] A light purse makes a heavy heart

63] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

64] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

65] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

66] Give and spend, and God will send

67] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

68] An old horse knows the route

69] Our own opinion is never wrong

70] A good example is the best sermon

71] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

72] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

73] Pardon makes offenders

74] The best go first

75] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

76] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

77] Of two evils choose the lesser

78] Where there is no trust there is no love

79] Every commodity has its discommodity

80] The good is often the enemy of the best

81] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

82] Health is better than wealth

83] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

84] They brag most who can do least

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

86] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

87] No man is a hero to his valet

88] Dead men don’t bite

89] Wishes can never fill a sack

90] Mirth without measure is madness

91] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

92] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

93] Much learning makes men mad

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

95] Safety lies in the middle course

96] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

97] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

98] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

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

100] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.