Famous Proverbs

1] The highest tree has the greatest fall

2] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

3] Asking costs little

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

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

6] Judge not of men and things at first sight

7] One can’t go to bed when a visit or stays late

8] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

9] There is no smoke without fire

10] A soft answer turns away wrath

11] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

12] One of these days is none of these days

13] Time and tide wait for no man

14] He who teaches learns

15] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

16] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

17] There is truth in wine

18] No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil

19] If cattle are scattered, the tiger seizes them.

20] Praise no man till he is dead.

21] What’s done cannot be undone

22] Human blood is all of a colour

23] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

24] Friends are thieves of time

25] Work won’t kill but worry will.

26] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

27] The game is not worth the candle

28] Good counsel never comes amiss

29] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

30] Her that is down need fear no fall

31] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

32] Hard words break no bones

33] Penny wise, pound foolish

34] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

35] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

36] A house divided against itself cannot stand

37] Idle folks lack no excuses

38] Wise men silent, fools talk

39] No garden without its weeds.

40] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

41] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

42] Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce

43] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again

44] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

45] Love sees no fault

46] Health and money go far

47] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

48] Good luck beats early rising

49] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

50] Ask, and it shall be given to you.

51] Covetousness breaks the sack

52] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

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

54] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

55] A good drink makes the old young

56] It is ill striving against the stream

57] Self-praise is no recommendation

58] Better the last smile than the first laugh

59] Love knows hidden paths

60] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

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

62] Evil to him who evil thinks.

63] Young colts will canter.

64] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

65] Walls have ears

66] Don’t burn the candle at both ends

67] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

68] He stands not surely that never slips

69] We have all been once in our life

70] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

71] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

73] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

74] What has been, may be

75] Weak things united become strong

76] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

77] He has not lost all who has one cast left

78] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

79] Self-praise is no recommendation

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

81] Let the buyer beware

82] When angry, count a hundred

83] Go not to hell for company

84] Revenge never repairs an injury

85] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

86] Youth and age will never agree

87] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

88] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

89] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

90] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

91] A single rose does not mean spring

92] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

93] A good name is better than riches

94] One is not smelt where all stink

95] Better never begin than never make an end

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

97] Give credit where credit is due

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

99] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

100] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good