Famous Proverbs

1] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

2] Make the best of a bad bargain

3] Wishes can never fill a sack

4] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

5] God provides for him that trusts

6] Dreams are lies

7] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

8] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

9] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

10] It takes two to make a quarrel

11] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

12] He that is born a fool is never cured

13] Better be alone than in bad company

14] Best is cheapest

15] If today will not, tomorrow may

16] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

17] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

18] He who teaches learns

19] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

20] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

21] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

22] What must be must be

23] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

24] One fool praises another

25] A goose drinks as much as gander

26] Fair play’s a jewel

27] Think on the end before you begin

28] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

29] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

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

31] Frugality is the mother of virtue

32] Whatever man has done, man can do

33] Wife and Children are bills of charges

34] Never hit a man when he’s down

35] Money makes the man

36] Patience is a plaster for all sores

37] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

38] The good is often the enemy of the best

39] Charity begins at home.

40] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

41] Divide and rule

42] Don’t cry stinking fish

43] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

44] There is no accounting for tastes

45] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

46] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

47] Every flow must have its ebb

48] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

49] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

50] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

51] When meat is in anger is out

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

53] Be careful to whom you give

54] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

55] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

56] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

57] No choice amongst stinking fish

58] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

59] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

60] See how the wind blows

61] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

62] True doctrines require no miracles

63] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

64] The eye is bigger than the belly

65] He seems wise with whom all things thrive

66] A bully is always a coward

67] Fingers were made before forks

68] Adam’s ale is the best brew

69] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

70] Asking costs little

71] Beauty fades like a flower.

72] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

73] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

74] Open confession is good for the soul

75] United we stand, divided we fall

76] We don’t get something for nothing

77] Words cut more than swords

78] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

79] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

80] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

81] Wise men do not argue with idiots

82] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

83] All things are possible with god

84] Soon gotten, soon spent

85] An honest good look covers many faults.

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

87] The worse luck now, the better another time

88] What is worth doing is worth doing well

89] Virtue is the only true nobility

90] Little things are pretty

91] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

92] Extremity of right is wrong

93] Appetite comes with eating

94] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

95] In the end, things will mend

96] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

97] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

98] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

99] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

100] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil