Famous Proverbs

1] Tigers and deer do not over.

2] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

3] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

4] No cross, no crown

5] Harp not for ever on the same string

6] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

7] Two heads are better than one

8] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

9] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

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

11] A fool may give a wise man counsel

12] Poverty is not a crime

13] He who leaps high must take a long run

14] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

15] What can’t be cured must be endured

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

17] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

18] Now is now, and then was then

19] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

20] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

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

22] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

23] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

24] A man’s wealth is his enemy

25] Step by step the ladder is ascended

26] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

27] All that glitters is not gold

28] Curiosity killed the cat.

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

30] A fault confessed is half redressed

31] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

32] Of the ten fingers, some are long and some are short.

33] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

34] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

35] Love turns pimples

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

37] Nothing seek, nothing find

38] Stolen sweets are sweeter

39] It takes all sorts to make a world

40] Slow but sure wins the race

41] Blessings brighten as they take their flight

42] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

43] Fortune is blind

44] Blood is thicker than water

45] The lion had need of the mouse

46] Never too late to learn

47] Beware of a silent man and still water

48] You must grin and bear it

49] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

50] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

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

52] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

53] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

54] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

55] Prove your friend ere you have need

56] A great city, a great solitude

57] So many men, so many opinions

58] The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man

59] Death keeps no calendar

60] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

61] A rich man’s joke is always funny

62] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

63] Better eye sore than al blind

64] Blood will have blood

65] The beaten road is the safest

66] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

67] Covetousness is the root of all evil

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

69] The tongue stings

70] Experience is the best teacher

71] Rip not up old sores

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

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

74] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

75] There is no time like the present

76] Six feet of earth make all men equal

77] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

78] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

79] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

80] Money has no smell

81] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

82] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

83] Gold may be bought too dear

84] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

85] Long absent, soon forgotten

86] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

87] Money isn’t everything

88] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

89] Come with the wind, got with the water

90] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

91] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

92] Once a knave, always a knave

93] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

94] Forewarned is forearmed

95] Wrong has no warrant

96] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

97] Much meat, much malady

98] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

99] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

100] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?