Famous Proverbs

1] Desires are nourished by delays

2] Past cure, past care

3] Walls have ears

4] Long tarrying takes all the thanks away

5] Waste not, want not

6] Easy come, easy go

7] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

8] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

9] Repentance comes too late

10] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

11] Bad news travels fast

12] Man proposes, God disposes

13] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

14] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

15] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

16] Poverty is the mother of crime

17] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

18] What is money to a cat?

19] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

20] In everything consider the end

21] Good counsel never comes amiss

22] Truth lies at the bottom of the well

23] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

24] Give and take is fair play

25] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

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

27] An obedient wife commands her husband

28] One can’t help many, but many can help one

29] A man with no hands is given a ring.

30] Example is the greatest of all seducers

31] Deliver your words not by number but by weight

32] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

33] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

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

35] Every may be has a may not be

36] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

37] Wine unveils the words of the heart

38] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

39] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

40] A loveless life is a living death

41] Everything comes to him who waits

42] The wisest of the wise may err.

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

44] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

45] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

46] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

47] Once a knave, always a knave

48] The first blow is half the battle

49] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

50] Take the will for the deed

51] It is ill waiting for dead men’s shoes

52] Virtue has all things in itself

53] The longest night will have an end

54] Sickness shows us what we are

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

56] The darkest place is under the candlestick

57] A constant guest is never welcome

58] The more wicked, the more lucky

59] Live and let live

60] More have repented speech than silence

61] Her that is down need fear no fall

62] The devil knows many things because he is old

63] Every may be has a may not be

64] The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

65] Patient waiters are no losers

66] All lay loads on a willing horse

67] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

68] Not even Hercules could contend against two

69] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

70] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

71] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

72] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

73] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

74] Soon gotten, soon spent

75] Little and often fills the purse

76] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

77] Covetousness breaks the sack

78] See how the wind blows

79] Wrong has no warrant

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

81] Everything in moderation.

82] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

83] Rome was not built in a day

84] If the cap fits, wear it

85] The envious man shall never want woe

86] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

87] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

88] Time flies

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

90] He is wise who looks ahead

91] The hand that gives, gathers

92] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

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

94] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

95] Mirth without measure is madness

96] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

97] Where there is peace, there is blessing

98] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

99] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

100] Forgive and forget