Famous Proverbs

1] Poverty is not a crime

2] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

3] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

4] Acorns were good till bread was found

5] Virtue has all things in itself

6] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

7] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

8] The best of men are but men at best.

9] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

10] In a church, in an inn, and in a coffin, all men are equal

11] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

12] White there’s life there’s hope

13] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

14] Men are not angles

15] A learned man has always riches in himself

16] Better eye sore than al blind

17] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

18] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

19] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

20] Names and natures do often agree

21] When the word is out it belongs to another

22] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

23] Gold will not buy everything

24] Little and often fills the purse

25] The road to hell is paved with good action

26] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

27] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

28] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

29] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

30] Take the tone of the company you are in

31] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

32] Crime does not pay

33] Possibilities are infinite

34] A mouse may help a lion

35] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

36] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

37] Lend never that thing you needed most

38] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

39] After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

40] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

41] Cast not the first stone.

42] Home is where the heart is

43] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

44] Manners and money make a gentleman

45] Worse things happen at sea

46] In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

47] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

48] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

49] Out of sight, out of mind

50] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

51] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

52] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

53] Without luck, it is better not to be born

54] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

55] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

56] Common fame is seldom to blame

57] The best wine comes from an old vessel

58] Every groom is a king at home

59] Don’t tell tales out of school

60] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

61] Dumb dogs are dangerous

62] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

63] There is safety in numbers

64] A good heart cannot lie.

65] All is vanity.

66] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

67] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

68] Time flies

69] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

70] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

71] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

72] Easter so longed for is gone in a day

73] The poor suffer all the wrong

74] The greatest talkers are the least doers

75] Four eyes see more than two

76] Delays are not denials

77] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

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

79] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

80] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

81] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

82] He that will thrive must rise at five

83] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

84] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

85] One man’s means another man’s poison

86] Seek and you shall find

87] We should publish our joys and conceal our griefs

88] Judge not the tree by its bark

89] He who hesitates is lost

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

91] Now is now, and then was then

92] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

93] Every Jack must have his Jill

94] A heavy purse makes a light heart

95] Curiosity killed the cat.

96] Appetite comes with eating

97] He that has plenty of goods will have more

98] Wise men learn by other men’s harms (or mistakes), fools, by their own

99] Old foxes want no tutors

100] Expectation is better than realisation