Famous Proverbs

1] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

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

3] Ill gotten, ill spent

4] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

5] You cannot serve God and Mammon

6] Good luck beats early rising

7] Good wine needs no bush

8] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

9] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

10] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

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

12] Union (or Unity) is strength

13] No man so good but another may be as good as he

14] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

15] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

16] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

17] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

18] Ill gotten, ill spent

19] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

20] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

21] Haste makes waste

22] Love me, love the crows on my roof

23] Needs must when the devil drives

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

25] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

26] Moderation in all things

27] Fools grow without watering.

28] No pain, no cure

29] He that lends, gives

30] A good drink makes the old young

31] Friends agree best at a distance

32] You can’t clap with one hand

33] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

34] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

35] East or west, home is best

36] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

37] When wine sinks, words swim

38] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

39] Children speak only words they have heard.

40] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

41] Danger makes men devout

42] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

43] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

44] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

45] Who suffers much is silent

46] Live and Learn

47] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

48] The king can do no wrong

49] Sooner begun, sooner done

50] Well begun is half done.

51] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

52] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

53] Now is now, and then was then

54] Good luck beats early rising

55] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

56] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

57] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

58] Garbage in, garbage out

59] Virtue is its own reward

60] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

61] Let like mate with like

62] Love will go through stone walls

63] Money refused loses its brightness

64] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

65] Gifts blind the eyes.

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

67] He that brings good news, knocks hard

68] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

69] The envious man shall never want woe

70] Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house

71] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

72] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

73] The best things in life are free

74] Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.

75] Crows are all completely black

76] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

77] A word is enough to the wise

78] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

79] Second thoughts are best

80] Life begins only in success

81] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

82] Death keeps no calendar

83] Experience is the mother of wisdom

84] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

85] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

86] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

87] Time has wings

88] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

89] He is wise who looks ahead

90] Stolen goods never thrive

91] Almost’ never killed a fly.

92] Much law but little justice

93] Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant

94] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

95] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

96] Beggars must not be choosers

97] You may know by a handful the whole sack

98] Where there is whispering there is lying

99] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

100] Business is business