Famous Proverbs

1] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

2] He stands not surely that never slips

3] Early sow, early mow

4] Small is beautiful

5] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

6] While there is life, there is hope

7] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

8] Give me fire and I’ll give you light

9] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

10] Might knows no right

11] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

12] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

13] He that pities another remembers himself

14] Prospect is often better than possession

15] The envious man shall never want woe

16] The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit

17] If you have known one, you have known them all

18] Better to ask the way than go astray.

19] One potter envies another

20] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

21] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

22] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

23] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

24] Put out your tubs when it is raining

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

26] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

27] Set a thief to catch a thief

28] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

29] A miss is as good as a mile

30] He thinks not well that thinks not again

31] When fortune smiles, embrace her.

32] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

33] It’s dogged that does it

34] He that brings good news, knocks hard

35] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

36] When wine sinks, words swim

37] Help a lame dog over a stile

38] III counsel mars all

39] The greatest step is that out of doors

40] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

41] The money you refuse will never do you good

42] Faint heart never won fair lady

43] A goose drinks as much as gander

44] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

45] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

46] While there is life, there is hope

47] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

48] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

49] It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles

50] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

51] Even reckoning makes long friends

52] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

53] Money has no smell

54] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

55] Step by step the ladder is ascended

56] Lookers-on see most of the game

57] Each day brings its own bread

58] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

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

60] It is not easy to steal when the landlord is a thief

61] Kill two birds with one stone

62] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

63] Goodness is better than beauty

64] Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the kings horses.

65] There is a great difference between words and deeds

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

67] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

68] The owl thinks her own young fairest

69] Every Jack must have his Jill

70] Asking costs little

71] He is an ill husband who is not missed

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

73] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

74] If one will not, another will

75] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

76] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

77] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

78] Cheap is dear in the long run.

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

80] It is ill jesting with edged tools

81] Keep some till further more come

82] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

83] Big fish eat little fish

84] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

85] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

86] You must grin and bear it

87] Half an egg is better than empty shell

88] Home is home though it be never so homely

89] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

90] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

91] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

92] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

93] What everybody says must be true

94] Poverty is no sin

95] Never say die

96] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

97] No answer is also an answer

98] If God does not give us what we want, He gives us what we need

99] East or west, home is best

100] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em