Famous Proverbs

1] Necessity knows no law

2] Every advantage has its disadvantage

3] Call a spade a spade

4] Despair gives courage to a coward

5] Take the tone of the company you are in

6] The best things are hard to come by.

7] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

8] Nothing is given so freely as advice

9] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

10] Words and feathers the wind carries away

11] No one ought to judge in his own cause

12] The young will sow their wild oats

13] A rolling stone gathers no moss

14] Dreams go by contraries

15] A heavy purse makes a light heart

16] Plain dealing is a jewel

17] Every man praises his own wares

18] Truth is mighty and will prevail

19] No day so clear but has dark clouds

20] He that cannot ask, cannot live

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

22] It is useless to flog a dead horse

23] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

24] Silence is a woman’s best garment

25] No pain, no cure

26] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

27] Take away fuel, take away flame

28] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

29] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

30] Better an open enemy than a false friend

31] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

32] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

33] Nothing is so certain as death

34] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

35] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

36] The axe falls on a straight tree first

37] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

38] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

39] It’s dogged that does it

40] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

41] Children learn to creep ere they can go

42] Might overcome right.

43] Take things as they come

44] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

45] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

46] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

47] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

48] Life is not all beer and skittles

49] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

50] He is an ill husband who is not missed

51] Truth is stranger than fiction

52] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

53] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

54] It is never too late to mend

55] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

56] Do it now

57] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

58] You can’t tell a book by its cover

59] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

60] Though it rains gold and silver there, it’s a foreign land; though it rains daggers and spears here, it’s our own country

61] Fortune is blind

62] Men are known by the company they keep.

63] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

64] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

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

66] As long lives a merry man as a sad

67] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

68] Help a lame dog over a stile

69] Money is the sinews of war

70] A goose drinks as much as gander

71] No wrong without a remedy

72] All for one, and one for all.

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

74] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

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

76] The worse luck now, the better another time

77] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

78] Comparisons are odious

79] Faint heart never won fair lady

80] One must howl with the wolves

81] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

82] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

83] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

84] He who begins many things, finishes but few

85] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

86] None so deaf as those that will not hear

87] The grapes are sour’, as the fox said when he could not reach them

88] If you do not enter a tiger’s den, you cannot get its cubs

89] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

90] Tomorrow never comes

91] Good ware makes quick market

92] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

93] Ambition loses many a man

94] Grief pent up will break the heart

95] Though a man lives for less than a hundred years, he burdens himself with the anxieties of a thousand years

96] Where there is no trust there is no love

97] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

98] Children and fools have merry lives

99] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

100] Good hand, good hire