Famous Proverbs

1] Wake not a sleeping lion

2] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

3] A hedge between keeps friendship green

4] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

5] All our pomp the earth covers

6] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

7] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

8] Few words are best

9] Either mend or end

10] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

11] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

12] Wise men propose, and fools determine

13] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

14] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

15] Life begins only in success

16] A door must be either shut or open

17] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

18] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

19] A good paymaster never wants workmen

20] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

21] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

22] No flying without wings.

23] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

24] Open confession is good for the soul

25] Wink at small faults

26] When two men look after a horse, it will surely be thin; when two families keep a boat, it will surely leak

27] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

28] He that can stay. Obtains

29] Idle folks lack no excuses

30] The great fish eat up the small

31] As long lives a merry man as a sad

32] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

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

34] Fools live poor to die rich

35] He that repairs not a part, builds all

36] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

37] Nature abhors a vacuum

38] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

39] Love sees no fault

40] No road is long with good company

41] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

42] Be careful to whom you give

43] He thinks not well that thinks not again

44] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

45] Love is without reason

46] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

47] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

48] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

49] Love me, love my dog

50] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

51] Well begun is half done.

52] Every dog has his day

53] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

54] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

55] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

56] After the extreme of cold comes spring

57] Art improves Nature

58] A jack of all traders is master of none

59] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

60] The mob tramples on the coward

61] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

62] A good lather is half the shave

63] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

64] A prophet is without honour in his own country

65] Share and share alike

66] Never grieve for what you cannot help

67] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

68] Good hand, good hire

69] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

70] Dogs bark as they are bred.

71] Every little helps

72] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

73] Too long burden makes weary bones

74] Even Homer sometimes nods

75] Pleasing ware is half sold

76] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

77] All cats are grey in the dark

78] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

79] The falling drops hollow the stone

80] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

81] Safety lies in the middle course

82] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

83] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

84] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

85] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

86] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

87] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

88] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

89] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

90] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

91] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

92] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

93] Necessity breaks iron

94] All roads lead to Rome

95] The best fish swim near the bottom

96] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

97] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

98] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

99] Where there is whispering there is lying

100] There is no place like home