Famous Proverbs

1] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

2] The first step is the only difficulty

3] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

4] See which way the cat jumps

5] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

6] It is good fishing in troubled waters

7] Corn him well and he will work better

8] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

9] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

10] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

11] One lie makes many

12] Fools grow without watering.

13] Silence is golden

14] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

15] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

16] Know thyself

17] Dreams are lies

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

19] Tell a lie and stick to it.

20] God’s help is better than the early rising

21] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

22] The tailor makes the man

23] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

24] Better an apple given than eaten

25] Birds once snared fear all bushes

26] Acorns were good till bread was found

27] Rust wastes more than use

28] Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows

29] Little and often fills the purse

30] Precepts may lead but examples draw

31] Old cattle breed not

32] Nothing comes from nothing

33] There is honour among thieves

34] God arms the harmless

35] Whom god loves, his house is sweet to him

36] The good intention excuses the bad action

37] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

38] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

39] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

40] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

41] Who greases his way travels easily

42] Time flees without a delay

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

44] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

45] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

46] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

47] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

48] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

49] Men are not to be measured in inches

50] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

51] An Englishman’s home is his castle

52] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

53] The ant had wings to her hurt

54] Life means strife

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

56] Good is good but better carries it

57] First creep, then walk

58] No man fears what he has seen grow

59] Lucky men need no counsel

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

61] In wine there is truth

62] The money you refuse will never do you good

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

64] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

65] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

66] Truth is stranger than fiction

67] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

68] Respect is greater from a distance

69] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

70] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

71] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

72] Flesh is frail

73] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

74] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

75] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

76] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

77] A light purse makes a heavy heart

78] Advice when most needed is least heeded

79] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

80] A house divided against itself cannot stand

81] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

82] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

83] The receiver is as bad as the thief

84] Little things are pretty

85] Better bend than break

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

87] One barber shaves another gratis

88] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

89] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

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

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

92] Every may be has a may not be

93] Despair gives courage to a coward

94] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

95] Better be a fool than a knave

96] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

97] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

98] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

99] The little cannot be great unless he devours many

100] The loftiest towers rise from the ground