Famous Proverbs

1] He knows the water best who has waded through it

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

3] Practice makes perfect

4] Stolen goods never thrive

5] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

6] None can guess the jewel by the casket

7] Success makes a fool seem wise.

8] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

9] There is nothing like being on the safe side

10] Gifts blind the eyes.

11] Nature will have her course

12] Confess and be hanged

13] You are never too old to learn

14] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

15] True gold is not transformed by fire

16] Hunger is the teacher of many

17] No man is born wise or learned

18] A good dog deserves a good bone

19] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

20] The devil looks after his own

21] Of one ill come many

22] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

23] He that follows Nature , is never out of his way

24] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

25] Self-praise is no recommendation

26] Still waters run deep

27] Discontent is the first step in progress

28] The ass that brays most eats

29] A bully is always a coward

30] Pride goes before a fall

31] Choose neither women nor linen by candlelight.

32] Life begins only in success

33] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

34] A goose drinks as much as gander

35] A man of courage never wants weapons

36] Little and often fills the purse

37] None so busy as those who do nothing.

38] Every little helps

39] Divide and rule

40] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

41] God heals, and the physician takes the fee

42] The borrower is servant to the lender

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

44] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

45] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

46] A rich man’s joke is always funny

47] Dying is as natural as living

48] He that loveth danger shall perish therein

49] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

50] He that burns most, shines most

51] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

52] Cheap is dear in the long run.

53] Like mother, like daughter

54] Too much hope deceives

55] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

56] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

57] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

58] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

59] See how the wind blows

60] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

61] He that obey cannot command

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

63] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

64] Numbers overcome the brave

65] Good fences make good neighbours

66] A man without a wife is but half a man

67] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

68] Like mother, like daughter

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

70] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

71] Once a use and ever a custom

72] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

73] Better eye sore than al blind

74] Old foxes want no tutors

75] A useful trade is a mine of gold

76] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

77] It is a poor (or sad) heart that never rejoices

78] Know thyself

79] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

80] The ant had wings to her hurt

81] A wise man hears one word and understands two

82] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

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

84] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

85] Wine is the best broom for trouble

86] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

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

88] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

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

90] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

91] The golden age was never the present age

92] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

93] Might is right

94] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

95] Much babbling is not without offence

96] Through obedience learn to command.

97] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

98] A discontented man knows not where to sit easy

99] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

100] Cleanliness is next to godliness