Famous Proverbs

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

2] Crows are all completely black

3] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

4] Every medal has its reverse

5] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

6] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

7] Repentance is a bitter physic

8] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

9] Even Homer sometimes nods

10] In haste is error

11] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

12] Silence never makes mistakes

13] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

14] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

15] Time has wings

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

17] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

18] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

19] What is deferred is not abandoned

20] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

21] The Pen is mightier than the sword

22] What’s done is done

23] Everything new is fine

24] You may force a man to shut his eyes but you can’t make him sleep

25] Don’t tell tales out of school

26] Better late than never

27] Grief pent up will break the heart

28] The pen is the tongue of the hand

29] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

30] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

31] After the extreme of cold comes spring

32] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

33] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

34] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

35] A piece of churchyard fits every body

36] Union is strength.

37] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

38] You can’t clap with one hand

39] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

40] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

41] Virtue has all things in itself

42] Never hit a man when he’s down

43] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

44] Give the devil his due

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

46] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

47] It is too late to look up after you have collided

48] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

49] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

50] He is an ill husband who is not missed

51] He that desires but little has no deed of much

52] Diseases are the price of ill pleasures

53] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

54] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

55] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

56] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

57] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

58] Dreams go by contraries

59] So many men, so many opinions

60] Like mistress, like maid

61] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

62] There is death in the pot.

63] He that praises himself, spatters himself

64] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

65] He who does no good, does evil enough

66] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

67] Rome was not built in a day

68] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

69] Extremes are dangerous

70] Penny wise, pound foolish

71] He that eats well should do his duty well

72] Big fish eat little fish

73] The best wine comes from an old vessel

74] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

75] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

76] Nearest the heart comes out first

77] Words are but wind

78] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

79] He who considers too much will perform little.

80] He that wants health wants all

81] A constant guest is never welcome

82] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

83] Health without money is half an ague

84] A knave and a fool never take thought

85] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

86] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

87] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

88] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

89] Nature will have her course

90] Crowns have cares

91] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

92] Books and friends should be few but good

93] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

94] Much meat, much malady

95] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

96] Truth is god’s daughter

97] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

98] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

99] Don’t ride the high horse

100] Pleasant hours fly past