Famous Proverbs

1] Money has no smell

2] Custom reconciles us to everything

3] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

4] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

5] A good lawyer must be a great liar

6] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

7] A good beginning makes a good ending.

8] Honesty is the best policy

9] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

10] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

11] The biter is sometimes bit

12] He who owes is in all the wrong

13] Money makes the man

14] Don’t kick against the pricks

15] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

16] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

17] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

18] Idle folks lack no excuses

19] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

20] Affection blinds reason

21] Grin and bear it

22] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

23] True doctrines require no miracles

24] First impressions are half the battle

25] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

26] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

27] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

28] It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest

29] Dog does not eat dog

30] Even silence may be eloquent

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

32] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

33] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

34] Custom makes all things easy

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

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

37] An old dog barks not in vain

38] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

39] The fairest flowers soonest fade

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

41] Jack is as good as his master

42] Tomorrow never comes

43] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

44] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

45] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

46] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

47] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

48] One cannot put back the clock

49] Suffering does not manifest itself

50] A soft answer turns away wrath

51] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

52] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

53] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

54] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

55] No garden without its weeds.

56] He knows which side his bread is buttered

57] Honest is the best policy

58] Gold will not buy everything

59] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

60] No man limps because another is hurt

61] Custom makes all things easy

62] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

63] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

64] Everything comes to him who waits

65] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

66] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

67] Better a bare foot than none

68] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

69] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

70] Tell a lie and stick to it.

71] When the butcher has already killed your pig, it is useless to discuss with him the price

72] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

73] Don’t cry for the moon

74] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

75] He stands not surely that never slips

76] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

77] Morning dreams come true

78] Almost’ never killed a fly.

79] Old foxes want no tutors

80] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

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

82] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

83] First try and then trust

84] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

85] Many a little makes a mickle

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

87] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

88] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

89] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

90] Dirty water does not wash clean.

91] Give and spend, and God will send

92] Too much hope deceives

93] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

94] All things require skills but an appetite

95] After the extreme of cold comes spring

96] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

97] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

98] Share and share alike

99] Nothing is given so freely as advice

100] Ready money is a ready remedy