Famous Proverbs

1] One reason is as good as fifty

2] Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

3] Every beginning is hard

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

5] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

6] Children and fools cannot lie.

7] Patient men with the day.

8] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

9] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

10] New lords, new laws

11] Opportunity makes the thief

12] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

13] One cannot love and be wise

14] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

15] The tide must be taken when it comes

16] Nothing crave, nothing have

17] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

18] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

19] Nothing succeeds like success

20] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

21] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

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

23] The highest tree has the greatest fall

24] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

25] A good conscience is a sure card

26] Little things are great to little men

27] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

28] The world is full of fools

29] A good dog deserves a good bone

30] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

31] Praise no man till he is dead.

32] Many dishes make many diseases

33] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

34] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

35] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

36] Good ware makes quick market

37] Where god will help, nothing does harm

38] Once a knave, always a knave

39] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

40] Lucky men need no counsel

41] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

42] An obedient wife commands her husband

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

44] The sun shines upon all alike.

45] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

46] Empty vessels make the most noise

47] He that touches pitch shall be defiled

48] Needs must when the devil drives

49] Shrouds have no pockets

50] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

51] He that has plenty of goods will have more

52] Good clothes open all doors

53] Like question, like answer.

54] There is a great difference between words and deeds

55] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

56] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

57] Frugality is the mother of virtue

58] There is many a fair thing full false

59] Waste is not grandeur

60] When bees area old, they yield n honey

61] Nothing is more contagious than a bad example

62] Words and feathers the wind carries away

63] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

64] Enough is as good as a feast

65] When luck comes, who doesn’t; when luck doesn’t come, who does?

66] While there is life, there is hope

67] He that knows little often repeats it

68] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

69] Wise men silent, fools talk

70] The early bird catches the worm

71] He that eats least eats most

72] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

73] There is no fool like an old fool

74] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

75] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

76] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

77] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

78] There is safety in numbers

79] Plain dealing is best

80] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

81] Who receives a gift, sells his liberty

82] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

83] Standing pools gather fifth

84] A wise man hears one word and understands two

85] None but the brave deserves the fair

86] Anger managers everything badly.

87] Love is without reason

88] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

89] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

90] Rule youth well and age will rule itself

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

92] Variety is charming

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

94] No choice amongst stinking fish

95] Set a thief to catch a thief

96] Little by little and bit by bit.

97] The whole boat is putrid because of a single carp

98] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

99] You never know your luck

100] A man turned pig no longer fears filth