Famous Proverbs

1] What is money to a cat?

2] Flesh is frail

3] The best go first

4] Between two stools you fall to the ground

5] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

6] Flesh is frail

7] Send a fool to France and he’ll come back a fool

8] The early bird catches the worm

9] Hungry bellies have no ears

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

11] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

12] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

13] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

14] Let not your tongue run at rover

15] An empty sack cannot stand upright

16] Great actions speak minds

17] Exceptional bravery is often hidden under a cloak of timidity

18] Beware of him who makes thee presents

19] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

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

21] The game is not worth the candle

22] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

23] A mouse may help a lion

24] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

25] There is a great difference between words and deeds

26] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

27] Barking dogs seldom bite

28] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

29] Honesty is ill to thrive by

30] Dead men don’t bite

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

32] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

33] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

34] The greatest talkers are the least doers

35] The ass that brays most eats

36] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

37] No naked man is sought after to be rifled

38] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

39] An evil life is a kind of death.

40] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

41] Tomorrow is another day

42] He that cannot ask, cannot live

43] Books and friends should be few but good

44] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

45] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

46] All meat pleases not all mouths

47] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

48] No hair so small but has his shadow

49] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

50] Empty vessels make the most noise

51] Fortune favours fools

52] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

53] The fox may grow grey, but never good

54] A fault once denied is twice committed

55] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

56] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

57] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

58] The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer

59] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

60] He that can stay. Obtains

61] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

62] He that will not be counseled, cannot be helped

63] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

64] What everybody says must be true

65] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

66] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

67] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

68] Let an ill man lie in the straw and he looks to be thy heir

69] Men are blind in their own cause

70] Go while the going is good

71] Lookers-on see most of the game

72] He who wills the end, Wills the means

73] Patient waiters are no losers

74] Familiarity breeds contempt

75] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

76] Walls have ears

77] Better late than never, but better never late

78] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

79] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

80] A good paymaster never wants workmen

81] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

82] The voice is the best music

83] Second thoughts are best

84] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

85] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

86] Make the best of a bad bargain

87] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

88] Safety lies in the middle course

89] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

90] Tomorrow never comes

91] Let sleeping dogs lie

92] There is no redemption from hell

93] A heavy purse makes a light heart

94] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

95] A good conscience is a soft pillow

96] The longest (or farthest) way round is the nearest (or shortest) way home.

97] First things first

98] Beware of no man more than himself

99] When one door shuts, another opens

100] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend