Famous Proverbs

1] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

2] Diamond cuts diamond

3] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

4] Fair without, false within

5] Divine grace was never slow

6] Brevity is the soul of wit

7] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

8] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

9] An honest good look covers many faults.

10] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

11] Every cloud has a silver lining

12] He that has an ill name is half hanged

13] East or west, home is best

14] Experience is the mother of wisdom

15] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

16] First creep, then walk

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

18] Live not to eat, but eat to live

19] The golden age was never the present age

20] The more laws, the more offenders

21] High places have their precipices

22] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

23] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

24] Love knows no limit

25] The value of money is having it.

26] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

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

28] A jack of all traders is master of none

29] An obedient wife commands her husband

30] It is easier to pull down than to build

31] Every man has his price

32] Don’t take your harp to the party

33] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

34] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

35] The game is not worth the candle

36] He who pays the piper calls the tune

37] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

38] Every man is his own worst enemy

39] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

40] He laughs best who laughs last

41] Wine unveils the words of the heart

42] When wine sinks, words swim

43] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

44] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

45] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

46] He that lives ill, fear follows him

47] That which proves too much proves nothing

48] He that seeks trouble never misses

49] What is new cannot be true

50] Patience is a virtue

51] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

52] Opportunity makes the thief

53] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

54] Years know more than books

55] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

56] Now is now, and then was then

57] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

58] The road to hell is paved with good action

59] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

60] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

61] First try and then trust

62] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

63] There is many a true word spoken in jest

64] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

65] Everything comes to him who waits

66] Loyalty is worth more than money

67] A good face is a letter of recommendation

68] Live not to eat, but eat to live

69] He that eats least eats most

70] Lightning never strikes twice in the same place

71] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

72] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

73] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

74] There are spots even in the sun

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

76] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

77] Wrong has no warrant

78] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

79] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

80] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

81] Every dog has his (its) day

82] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

83] There are hills, and there are swamps as well.

84] Take away fuel, take away flame

85] No answer is also an answer

86] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

87] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

88] Health and money go far

89] The wisest of the wise may err.

90] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

91] A word before is worth two behind

92] There is no rose without a thorn

93] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

94] Experience is good if not bought too dear

95] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

96] A cat may look at a king

97] Stolen goods never thrive

98] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

99] A hedge between keeps friendship green

100] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden