Famous Proverbs

1] Grasp all, lose all

2] It is never too late to mend

3] A good Conscience is the best divinity

4] You are never too old to learn

5] Death alone can kill hope

6] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

7] A blister will rise upon one’s tongue that tells a lie

8] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

9] Do right and fear no man

10] Take things as they come

11] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

12] Love will go through stone walls

13] Many a little makes a mickle

14] Pitchers have ears

15] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

16] New lords, new laws

17] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

18] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

19] Better learn late than never

20] Precepts may lead but examples draw

21] See which way the cat jumps

22] Judge not the tree by its bark

23] Every flow must have its ebb

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

25] Books and friends should be few but good

26] The child is father of the man

27] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

28] Misfortune makes foes of friends

29] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

30] The thing which is rare is dear

31] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

32] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

33] Virtue is the only true nobility

34] Poverty is the mother of crime

35] Things past cannot be recalled

36] Take things as you find them

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

38] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

39] When one door shuts, another opens

40] A good lawyer must be a great liar

41] Misfortunes never come singly

42] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

43] Better late than never

44] Truth is stranger than fiction

45] A word to the wise is enough

46] Honesty is ill to thrive by

47] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

48] Gluttony kills more than the sword

49] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

50] Dreams are lies

51] Cut your coat according to your cloth

52] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

53] The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between

54] Be just before you are generous

55] Children and chickens must be always picking

56] The best of friends must part

57] He who owes is in all the wrong

58] Once bitten, twice shy.

59] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

60] Open a book and you profit by what you read

61] Silence is a woman’s best garment

62] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

63] The best is often the enemy of the good

64] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

65] Look before you leap

66] Beauty draws more than oxen

67] None so blind as those who will not see

68] Appearances are deceptive

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

70] The devil looks after his own

71] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

72] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

73] First think, and then speak

74] Fair face, foul heart

75] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

76] A little impatience will spoil great plans

77] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

78] One potter envies another

79] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

80] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

81] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

82] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

83] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

84] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

85] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

86] Finger were made before forks, and hands before knives

87] The more laws, the more offenders

88] Might overcome right.

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

90] Better the last smile than the first laugh

91] Money isn’t everything

92] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

93] He that eats well should do his duty well

94] We soon believe what we desire

95] Every man praises his own wares

96] No man is a hero to his valet

97] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

98] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

99] What costs little is little esteemed

100] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name