Famous Proverbs

1] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

2] There is no blindness like ignorance

3] Every may be has a may not be

4] A man must plough with such oxen as he has

5] God is always on the side of the big battalions

6] Knowledge is power

7] Poverty is no sin

8] Care is no cure

9] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

10] East or west, home is best

11] What is worth doing is worth doing well

12] In the end, things will mend

13] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

14] Threatened folk live long

15] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

16] What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind

17] Never do evil that good may come of it

18] An army marches on its stomach

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

20] Money is the root of all evil

21] The tailor makes the man

22] Better sit still than rise and fall

23] Garbage in, garbage out

24] The physician who praises himself has no good medicine

25] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

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

27] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

28] Repentance is a bitter physic

29] All good things must come to an end

30] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

31] Don’t empty (or throw) the baby out with the bath water

32] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

33] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

34] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

35] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

36] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

37] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise

38] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

39] Lend your money and lose a friend

40] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

41] An angry man is not fit to pray

42] Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse

43] White there’s life there’s hope

44] Take the tone of the company you are in

45] If the cap fits, wear it

46] No misfortune will go on forever

47] Health and money go far

48] One man sows and another reaps

49] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

50] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

51] God made the country ,and man made the town

52] Envy never enriched any man.

53] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

54] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

55] Thrift is a great revenue

56] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

57] Talk of an angel and you’ll hear the fluttering of his wings

58] Man punishes the action but God the intention

59] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

60] All heiresses are beautiful.

61] Evil to him who evil thinks.

62] Have two strings to your bow

63] Every Jack must have his Jill

64] Almost’ never killed a fly.

65] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

66] There is no place like home

67] One thief will not rob another

68] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

69] Standing pools gather fifth

70] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

71] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

72] They can do least two boast loudest

73] The tide must be taken when it comes

74] She’s her father’s (or mother’s) daughter

75] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

76] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

77] To err is human

78] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

79] Better children weep than old men

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

81] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

82] Better never begin than never make an end

83] Pride goes before a fall

84] Money has no smell

85] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

86] A good example is the best sermon

87] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

88] It is easier to pull down than to build

89] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

90] Some are wise and some are otherwise

91] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

92] A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good seasons

93] A rolling stone gathers no moss

94] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

95] A woman’s work is never done

96] Once a knave, always a knave

97] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

98] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

99] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

100] Distance lends enchantment to the view