Famous Proverbs

1] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

2] The darkest place is under the candlestick

3] That which Nature paints never fades

4] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

5] Fish and guests smell in three days

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

7] Do as I say, not as I do

8] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

9] All for one, and one for all.

10] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

11] There’s always room at the top

12] Long life has long misery

13] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

14] It is as natural to die as to be born

15] An army marches on its stomach

16] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

17] Put out your tubs when it is raining

18] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

19] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

20] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

21] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

22] He that peeps in at his neighbor’s window may chance to lose his eyes

23] What everybody says must be true

24] Some are wise and some are otherwise

25] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

26] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

27] Opportunity makes the thief

28] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

29] Appetite comes with eating

30] Like father, like son

31] He who sows, trusts in God

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

33] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

34] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

35] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

36] Either mend or end

37] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

38] Many words, many buffets

39] Marriages are made in heaven

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

41] He that dwells next door to a cripple, will learn to halt

42] Distance lends enchantment to the view

43] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

44] Exchange is no robbery

45] Comparisons are odious

46] His bark is worse than his bite

47] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

48] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

50] A good face is a letter of recommendation

51] A friend is easier lost than found

52] Suffering does not manifest itself

53] Virtue is its own reward

54] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

55] Every advantage has its disadvantage

56] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

57] Excessive happiness produces pain

58] He that ventures not fails not.

59] An obedient wife commands her husband

60] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

61] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

62] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

63] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

64] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

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

66] Honesty is ill to thrive by

67] Sickness soaks the purse

68] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

69] Learn not and know not

70] A true friend is forever a friend

71] Names and natures do often agree

72] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

73] Company in misery makes it light

74] Prove your friend ere you have need

75] Pleasing ware is half sold

76] Good clothes open all doors

77] First impressions are the most lasting

78] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

79] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

80] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

81] Well done is better than well said

82] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

83] Abundance, like want, ruins many

84] Much learning makes men mad

85] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

86] The bull must be taken by the horns

87] Make hay while the sun shines

88] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

89] Jesters do oft prove prophets

90] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

91] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

92] Fingers were made before forks

93] All is fair in love and war

94] Hear twice before you speak once

95] Barking dogs seldom bite

96] Great hopes make great men

97] Weapons breed peace

98] All’s fish that comes to the net

99] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

100] There are two sides to every question