Famous Proverbs

1] A man may bear till his back breaks

2] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

3] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

4] He that lends, gives

5] Necessity is a powerful weapon

6] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

7] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

8] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

9] Appearances are deceptive

10] No one betrays himself by silence

11] Ill news comes apace.

12] Fling dirt enough, and some will stick

13] Never too late to learn

14] Give and spend, and God will send

15] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

16] Hungry bellies have no ears

17] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

18] At a good bargain thinks twice

19] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

20] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

21] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

22] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

23] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

24] Praise no man till he is dead.

25] Wise men propose, and fools determine

26] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

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

28] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

29] A rich man’s joke is always funny

30] No man is his craft’s master the first day

31] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

32] No one ought to judge in his own cause

33] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

34] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

35] It is more blessed to give than to receive

36] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

37] He who last, laughs longest.

38] The great fish eat up the small

39] Haste makes waste

40] He mediates revenge who least complains.

41] Shrouds have no pockets

42] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

43] Hope is the poor man’s bread

44] A man’s mother is his other God

45] Things are seldom what they seem.

46] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

47] He that travels far knows much

48] The pen is the tongue of the hand

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

50] Blood will have blood

51] Don’t have too many irons in the fire

52] Adam’s ale is the best brew

53] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

54] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

55] God’ s mill grids slow but sure

56] Wise men do not argue with idiots

57] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

58] Let not your tongue run at rover

59] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

60] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

61] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

62] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

63] He that ventures not fails not.

64] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

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

66] Fools live poor to die rich

67] The end crowns the work.

68] A joke’s a very serious thing

69] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

70] Ill luck is good for something

71] An old man is a bed full of bones

72] Bad news travels fast

73] Half an egg is better than empty shell

74] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

75] Come with the wind, got with the water

76] New lords, new laws

77] Every beginning is hard

78] Delays are not denials

79] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

80] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

81] There is many a fair thing full false

82] Fair face, foul heart

83] Who greases his way travels easily

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

85] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

86] The beaten road is the safest

87] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

88] The longest way round is the shortest way home

89] The best things come in small packages

90] A gift much expected is paid, not given

91] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

92] Money is the root of all evil

93] Misfortune does not always come to injure

94] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

95] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

96] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

97] Marriage makes or mars a man

98] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

99] As soon as there is life there is danger

100] Judge not of men and things at first sight