Famous Proverbs

1] Two wrongs do not make a right

2] Content is better than riches

3] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

4] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

5] Without diligence, no prize

6] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

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

8] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

9] A man may bear till his back breaks

10] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

11] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

12] Borrowed garments never fit well

13] A good drink makes the old young

14] Don’t cry stinking fish

15] All’s fair in love and war

16] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

17] A hedge between keeps friendship green

18] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

19] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

20] A rolling stone gathers no moss

21] Vice makes virtue shine

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

23] Every man must carry his own cross

24] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

25] A learned man has always riches in himself

26] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

27] Nature surpasses art

28] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

29] Stolen sweets are sweeter

30] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

31] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

32] East or west, home is best

33] Live not to eat, but eat to live

34] Much would have more

35] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

36] Remember, you are but a man

37] The weeds overgrow the corn.

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

39] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

40] The slowest barker is the surest biter

41] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

42] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

43] Life begins only in success

44] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

45] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

46] First impressions are most lasting

47] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

48] Diligence is the mother of good luck

49] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

50] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

51] A man in debt is caught in a net

52] There’s always room at the top

53] The absent saint gets no candle

54] You can’t win them all

55] Better at home than a mile from it

56] It is never too late to mend

57] Many dishes make many diseases

58] Nature hates all sudden changes

59] Credit lost is like a Venice glass broken

60] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

61] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

62] Truth conquers all things

63] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

64] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

65] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

66] Sow thin and mow thin

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

68] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

69] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

70] Weapons breed peace

71] Let not your tongue run at rover

72] Great talkers are never great doers

73] He travels the fastest who travels alone

74] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

75] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

76] Many a little makes a mickle

77] Great actions speak minds

78] He who does not heed the good advice of an experienced person will soon find himself suffering for his stubbornness.

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

80] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

81] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

82] None so deaf as those that will not hear

83] Acorns were good till bread was found

84] Little things are great to little men

85] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

86] Truth is god’s daughter

87] Years know more than books

88] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

89] Better at home than a mile from it

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

91] Learning is the eye of the mind

92] There’s no place like home

93] Experience is the mother of wisdom

94] Possibilities are infinite

95] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

96] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

97] Fortune is blind

98] The good intention excuses the bad action

99] There is no redemption from hell

100] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom