Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

2] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

3] When I lent, I was a friend; and when I asked, I was unkind

4] Fear of death is worse than death itself

5] Love and business teach eloquence

6] Bare walls make giddy housewives

7] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

8] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

9] The king can do no wrong

10] Easier said than done

11] Muck and money go together

12] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

13] It needs more skill than I can tell to play the second fiddle well

14] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

15] Tomorrow is another day

16] Prospect is often better than possession

17] A word is enough to the wise

18] The good die young.

19] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

20] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

21] Enough is as good as a feast

22] Good is good but better carries it

23] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

24] Idle folks have the least leisure

25] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

26] Everything is good in its season

27] Every groom is a king at home

28] A wise man will learn something even from the words of a fool

29] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

30] Familiarity breeds contempt

31] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

32] A good name is better than a golden girdle

33] If you have known one, you have known them all

34] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

35] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

36] Muck and money go together

37] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

38] He that forecasts all perils will never sail the sea

39] Old cattle breed not

40] Tigers and deer do not over.

41] A willful man will have his way

42] After the extreme of cold comes spring

43] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

44] Good broth may be made in an old pot

45] Better unborn than untaught

46] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

47] Without luck, it is better not to be born

48] Findings are keepings

49] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

50] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

51] You cannot serve God and Mammon

52] Beware of a silent man and still water

53] Too much cunning undoes

54] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

55] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

56] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

57] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

58] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one

59] Vice makes virtue shine

60] There is no smoke without fire

61] He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue

62] Riches along make no men happy

63] Love can find a way

64] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

65] He that sows virtue reaps fame

66] All our pomp the earth covers

67] Christmas comes but once a year

68] Lookers-on see more than players

69] First try and then trust

70] There are two sides to every question

71] He knows which side his bread is buttered

72] It is too late to husband when all is spent

73] Custom reconciles us to everything

74] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

75] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

76] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

77] Confess and be hanged

78] Cleanliness is next to godliness

79] In indecision itself, grief is present.

80] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

81] Charity excuseth not cheating.

82] A good dog deserves a good bone

83] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

84] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

85] More have repented speech than silence

86] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

87] Old foxes want no tutors

88] It is too late to call back yesterday

89] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

90] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

91] A good word stills great anger

92] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

93] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

94] Good ware makes quick market

95] Not even Hercules could contend against two

96] Love turns pimples

97] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

98] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

99] Sooner will men hold fore in the mouth than keep a secret

100] The more laws, the more offenders