Famous Proverbs

1] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

2] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

3] Riches along make no men happy

4] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

5] Threatened folk live long

6] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

7] Be still and have thy will

8] Life is short and time is swift

9] If anything can go wrong, it will

10] Live and Learn

11] Fair face, foul heart

12] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

13] None so busy as those who do nothing.

14] He may find fault that cannot mend

15] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

16] Cheap is dear in the long run.

17] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

18] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

19] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

20] No honest man ever repented his honesty

21] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

22] Life means strife

23] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

24] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

25] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

26] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

27] Names and natures do often agree

28] Virtue has all things in itself

29] A good heart conquers ill fortune

30] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

31] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

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

33] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

34] Beware of him who makes thee presents

35] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

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

37] An egg thief will become a camel thief

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

39] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

40] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

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

42] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

43] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

44] Brevity is the soul of wit

45] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

46] A closed mouth catches no files

47] They say so’ is half a lie

48] All is fair in love and war

49] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

50] Let bygones be bygones

51] The highest branch is not the safest roost

52] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

53] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

54] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

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

56] A fool believes everything

57] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

58] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

59] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

60] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

61] They can do least two boast loudest

62] Fortune is blind

63] Better the last smile than the first laugh

64] A monk can’t shave his own head

65] A true man and a thief think not the same

66] You know what you can do till you try.

67] Moderation in all things

68] Many a true word is spoken in jest

69] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

70] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

71] The borrower is servant to the lender

72] The tongue breaks bone, and herself has none

73] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

74] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

75] Double charge will rive a cannon

76] An old ox makes a straight furrow

77] Good ware makes quick market

78] An ill tongue may do much

79] Will is no skill

80] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

81] The beaten road is the safest

82] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

83] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

84] The hole calls the thief

85] He that lives ill, fear follows him

86] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

87] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

88] Money can influence even the spirits

89] Better at home than a mile from it

90] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

91] Too far east is west

92] Dead men tell no tales

93] Once a use and ever a custom

94] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

95] The good intention excuses the bad action

96] The best fish swim near the bottom

97] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

98] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

99] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

100] Truth conquers all things