Famous Proverbs

1] Take heed is a fair thing

2] Never buy a pig in a poke

3] From small beginnings come great things

4] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

5] The road to hell is paved with good action

6] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

7] Trusting often makes fidelity

8] Too many cooks spoil the broth

9] He who teaches learns

10] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

11] The envious man shall never want woe

12] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

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

14] Bread is the staff of life.

15] Wink at small faults

16] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

17] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

18] If one will not, another will

19] He who does no good, does evil enough

20] Much science, much sorrow

21] Hunger is the teacher of many

22] The end makes all equal

23] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

24] Do not wear out your welcome

25] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

26] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

27] No man is content with his lot

28] In everything consider the end

29] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

30] A good wife and health is a man’s best wealth

31] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

32] One man sows and another reaps

33] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

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

35] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

36] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

37] Might knows no right

38] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

39] Health is great riches

40] All is vanity.

41] Valour delights in the test

42] What’s done is done

43] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

44] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

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

46] Cut your coat according to your cloth

47] You cannot unscramble eggs

48] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

49] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

50] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

51] There is nothing new under the sun

52] Half a word is enough for a wise man

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

54] Double charge will rive a cannon

55] Years know more than books

56] Prevention is better than cure

57] A good face is a letter of recommendation

58] Everything must have a beginning

59] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

60] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

61] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

62] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

63] Virtue is its own reward

64] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

65] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

66] We live laws, not by examples

67] Ill luck is good for something

68] The tide must be taken when it comes

69] The longest day must have an end

70] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

71] A hungry man smells meat afar off

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

73] Where there is whispering there is lying

74] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

75] Beauty draws more than oxen

76] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

77] How forceful are right words

78] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

79] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

80] Discretion is the better part of valour

81] The absent party is always to blame.

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

83] Lookers-on see most of the game

84] Patient men with the day.

85] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

86] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

87] Much travel is needed to ripen a man’s rawness

88] Gold will not buy everything

89] Think of ease, but work on.

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

91] None so blind as those who will not see

92] Threatened folk live long

93] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

94] There is honour among thieves

95] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

96] Almost’ never killed a fly.

97] You cannot make a crab walk straight

98] The faulty stands on his guard

99] Love me, love my dog

100] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.