Famous Proverbs

1] Art improves Nature

2] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

3] A healthy man is a successful man

4] Every medal has its reverse

5] Homer sometimes nods

6] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

7] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

8] Man does what he can, and God what he will

9] There’s no great loss without some gain

10] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

11] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

12] Exchange (or Fair exchange) is no robbery

13] Comparisons make enemies of our friends.

14] Years know more than books

15] No land without stones, or meat without bones

16] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

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

18] The first blow is half the battle

19] Findings are keepings

20] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

21] The best is often the enemy of the good

22] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

23] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

24] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

25] Novelty always appears handsome

26] One sheep follows another

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

28] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

29] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

30] Every may be has a may not be

31] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

32] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

33] No land without stones, or meat without bones

34] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

35] What’s done cannot be undone

36] Spend and be free, but make no waste

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

38] He that cannot ask, cannot live

39] Sooner begun, sooner done

40] A healthy man is a successful man

41] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

42] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

43] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

44] Better late than never, but better never late

45] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

46] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

47] Who suffers much is silent

48] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

49] The golden age was never the present age

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

51] Go while the going is good

52] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

53] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

54] Hope often deludes the foolish man

55] The kind-hearted person has a heavy load.

56] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

57] Never grieve for what you cannot help

58] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

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

60] Like will to like

61] We have all been once in our life

62] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

63] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

64] Never do evil that good may come of it

65] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

66] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

67] A man may bear till his back breaks

68] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

69] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

70] Laughter makes good blood

71] Never too late to repent

72] Great hopes make great men

73] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

74] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

75] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

76] The bull must be taken by the horns

77] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

78] One must be a servant before one can be a master

79] A man’s mother is his other God

80] Second thoughts are best

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

82] Clothes do not make the man

83] Anger without power is folly

84] One good turn deserves another

85] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

86] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

87] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

88] Circumstances alter cases

89] Truth conquers all things

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

91] Every cloud has a silver lining

92] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

93] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

94] Patient waiters are no losers

95] Divide and rule

96] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

97] United we stand, divided we fall

98] Wine is the best broom for trouble

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

100] The darkest hour is that before the dawn