Famous Proverbs

1] None so deaf as those that will not hear

2] A useful trade is a mine of gold

3] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

4] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

5] Opportunity makes the thief

6] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

7] Half a word is enough for a wise man

8] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

9] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

10] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

11] Sow thin and mow thin

12] Flesh is frail

13] Fools rejoice at promises

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

15] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

16] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

17] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

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

19] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

20] None so blind as those who will not see

21] He mediates revenge who least complains.

22] Every man has his faults

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

24] First think, and then speak

25] Ill comes often on the back worse

26] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

27] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

28] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

29] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

30] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

31] A word spoken is past recalling

32] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

33] Wrong has no warrant

34] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

35] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

36] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

37] Boys will be boys

38] Time and tide wait for no man

39] First thrive then wive

40] A word spoken is past recalling

41] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

42] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

43] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

44] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

45] Rust wastes more than use

46] He that has an ill name is half hanged

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

48] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

49] The pen is the tongue of the hand

50] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

51] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

52] As you bake, so shall you eat.

53] One man sows and another reaps

54] Crows are all completely black

55] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

56] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

57] Misfortunes never come singly

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

59] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

60] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

61] Love me, love the crows on my roof

62] Share and share alike

63] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

64] Hunger is sharper than the sword

65] He that desires but little has no deed of much

66] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

67] It costs more to do ill than to do well

68] Man punishes the action but God the intention

69] The devil knows many things because he is old

70] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

71] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

72] A good friend is my nearest relation

73] The sign brings customers

74] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

75] Fools grow without watering.

76] He who comes late must eat what is left

77] The more you have the more you want

78] Jack is as good as his master

79] They brag most who can do least

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

81] Though the left hand conquers the right, no advantage is gained

82] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

83] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

84] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

85] Don’t ride the high horse

86] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

87] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

88] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

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

90] All our pomp the earth covers

91] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

92] As you brew, so shall you drink.

93] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

94] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

95] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

96] A fool and his money are soon parted

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

98] An occasion lost cannot be redeemed

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

100] Many dishes make many diseases