Famous Proverbs

1] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

2] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

3] He that blows best, bears away the horn

4] Better learn late than never

5] He that demands misses not, unless his demands be foolish

6] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

7] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

8] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

9] Faint heart never won fair lady

10] Kind hearts are more than coronets

11] The good intention excuses the bad action

12] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

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

14] Might knows no right

15] Put out your tubs when it is raining

16] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

17] The falling drops hollow the stone

18] Penny and penny laid up will be many

19] One barber shaves another gratis

20] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

21] Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

22] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

23] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

24] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

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

26] Every beginning is hard

27] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

28] Manners and money make a gentleman

29] Early sow, early mow

30] When meat is in anger is out

31] Nature will have her course

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

33] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

34] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

35] Whatever man has done, man can do

36] All roads lead to Rome

37] Marriage is a lottery

38] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

39] If you play with fire you get burnt

40] The hand that gives, gathers

41] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

42] Money is the sinew of affairs

43] Take things as they come

44] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

45] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

46] Still waters run deep

47] Beauty opens locked doors

48] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

49] Keep some till further more come

50] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

51] Of a new prince, new bondage

52] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

53] Make haste slowly

54] Union (or Unity) is strength

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

56] A bribe will enter without knocking

57] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

58] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

59] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

60] Pardon makes offenders

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

62] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

63] Better beg than steal.

64] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

65] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

66] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

67] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church

68] God helps those who help themselves

69] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

70] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

71] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

72] He that will eat the kernel, must crack the nut

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

74] Fortune is blind

75] Often and little eating makes a man fat

76] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

77] Better be born lucky than wise.

78] The first step is the only difficulty

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

80] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

81] Practice what you preach

82] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

83] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

84] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

85] A man is valued as he makes himself valuable

86] None so blind as those who will not see

87] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

88] To err is human

89] One fool praises another

90] As you bake, so shall you eat.

91] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

92] Don’t put the cart before the horse

93] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

94] Words and feathers the wind carries away

95] Open confession is good for the soul

96] Children and chickens must be always picking

97] Care is no cure

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

99] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

100] One cannot love and be wise