Famous Proverbs

1] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

2] Have two strings to your bow

3] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

4] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

5] Step by step the ladder is ascended

6] Never too late to learn

7] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

8] Tomorrow is another day

9] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

10] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

11] Custom reconciles us to everything

12] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

13] Christmas comes but once a year

14] An honest good look covers many faults.

15] Go not to hell for company

16] Circumstances alter cases

17] Every law has a loophole

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

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

20] There’s a black sheep in every flock

21] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

22] A good Conscience is the best divinity

23] After the extreme of cold comes spring

24] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

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

26] Mirth is the sugar of life

27] 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.

28] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

29] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

30] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

31] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

32] Like mother, like daughter

33] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

34] Laughter makes good blood

35] Never do evil that good may come of it

36] The ass that brays most eats

37] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

38] There is nothing lost by civility

39] Business is business

40] Keep something for a rainy day

41] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

42] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

43] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

44] Marriage makes or mars a man

45] A man’s mother is his other God

46] One is what one eats

47] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

48] A barber learns to shave by shaving fools

49] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

50] Grief pent up will break the heart

51] No man can serve two masters

52] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

53] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

54] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

55] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

56] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

57] Nature hates all sudden changes

58] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

59] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

60] The best things carried to excess are wrong

61] Love cannot be compelled

62] He may find fault that cannot mend

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

64] One foot is better than two crutches

65] He conquers who endures

66] Familiarity breeds contempt

67] After the extreme of cold comes spring

68] It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

69] Names and natures do often agree

70] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

71] They say so’ is half a lie

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

73] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

74] He that can stay. Obtains

75] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

76] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

77] There are more ways to the wood than one.

78] The slowest barker is the surest biter

79] A hedge between keeps friendship green

80] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

81] Sickness soaks the purse

82] Do it now

83] Necessity breaks iron

84] Words cut more than swords

85] Common fame is a liar

86] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

87] Advice when most needed is least heeded

88] Don’t play with edged tools

89] A little too late, is much too late

90] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

91] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

92] A wise man is never less alone than when alone

93] Where there is no might, right loses itself

94] He who hesitates is lost

95] Dreams are lies

96] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

97] It’s dogged that does it

98] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

99] Work won’t kill but worry will.

100] Would you know what money is, got borrow some