Famous Proverbs

1] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

2] Good fences make good neighbours

3] First think, and then speak

4] First impressions are most lasting

5] A monk can’t shave his own head

6] Learn not and know not

7] A good conscience is a soft pillow

8] Procrastination is the thief of time

9] He that has no money needs no purse

10] The more you have the more you want

11] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

12] Cheats never prosper

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

14] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

15] What cannot gold do?

16] Soft fire makes sweet malt

17] Let us do evil that good may come

18] An old ox makes a straight furrow

19] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

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

21] He who never was sick dies the first fit

22] Better unborn than untaught

23] Empty vessels make the most noise

24] Delay is the antidote of anger

25] Shrouds have no pockets

26] He that pities another remembers himself

27] The love of money is the root of all evil

28] Misfortune does not always come to injure

29] Mirth is the sugar of life

30] Wedlock is padlock

31] Lookers-on see more than players

32] Old age doesn’t protect from folly

33] Adventures are to be adventurous

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

35] Petty laws breed great crimes

36] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

37] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

38] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

39] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

40] He who excuses himself accuses himself

41] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

42] Crust is better than no bread

43] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

44] There’s always room at the top

45] A fool and his money are soon parted

46] Too much cunning undoes

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

48] As soon as there is life there is danger

49] Wise men are caught in wiles

50] He that repairs not a part, builds all

51] Pride goes before a fall

52] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

53] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

54] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

55] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

56] Beauty fades like a flower.

57] Friendship should not be all on one side

58] The best fish swim near the bottom

59] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

60] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

61] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

62] He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief

63] A golden key opens every door

64] Empty vessels make the most sound

65] Every flow must have its ebb

66] All truths are not to be told

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

68] Be just before you are generous

69] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

70] Youth and age will never agree

71] The word is far him who has patience

72] The darkest place is under the candlestick

73] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

74] Have two strings to your bow

75] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

76] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

77] The cobbler should stick to his last

78] What is a workman without his tools?

79] A good name is better than riches

80] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

81] Better an apple given than eaten

82] God provides for him that trusts

83] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

84] III counsel mars all

85] Look on the bright side

86] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

87] Old foxes want no tutors

88] Envy never enriched any man.

89] It is never too late to mend

90] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

91] Let bygones be bygones

92] Friendship should not be all on one

93] Crowns have cares

94] One foot is better than two crutches

95] Jackdaw always perches by jackdaw.

96] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

97] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

98] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

99] An old ox makes a straight furrow

100] Good fences make good neighbours