Famous Proverbs

1] An open door may tempt a saint

2] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

3] Good hand, good hire

4] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

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

6] Company in misery makes it light

7] A man of courage never wants weapons

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

9] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

10] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

11] The game is not worth the candle

12] Standing pools gather fifth

13] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

14] The more laws, the more offenders

15] A bad workman always blames his tools

16] Learn not and know not

17] Patch by patch is good housewifery, but patch upon patch is plain beggary

18] Necessity breaks iron

19] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

20] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

21] Where there is no might, right loses itself

22] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

23] There are spots even in the sun

24] Necessity is mother of invention

25] Gold goes in at any gate except heaven’s

26] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

27] See how the wind blows

28] Don’t tell tales out of school

29] The higher the mountain, the greater the descent

30] Even though one’s aunt sells the cakes, one will not buy unless they are cheap.

31] Ale will make a cat speak

32] Fools grow without watering.

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

34] A fool may give a wise man counsel

35] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

36] The longest night will have an end

37] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

38] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

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

40] They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts

41] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

42] The best of friends must part

43] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

44] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

45] The submitting to one wrong brings on another

46] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

47] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

48] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

49] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

50] Life is short and time is swift

51] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

52] Beware of no man more than himself

53] Ambition makes people diligent

54] Faint heart never won fair lady

55] First impressions are most lasting

56] Moderation in all things

57] Love can find a way

58] Better be a fool than a knave

59] As you bake, so shall you eat.

60] When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her

61] A piece of churchyard fits every body

62] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

63] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

64] Business is business

65] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

66] The leopard cannot change its spots

67] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

68] One sheep follows another

69] When the boat reaches the middle of the river, it is too late to repair the leak

70] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

71] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

72] Go not to hell for company

73] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

74] The best is often the enemy of the good

75] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

76] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

77] Dreams are lies

78] Nature surpasses art

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

80] The mean is the best

81] There is a great difference between words and deeds

82] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

83] A good marksman may miss

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

85] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

86] He that seeks trouble never misses

87] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

88] Sailors get their money like horses, and spend it like asses

89] Time flees without a delay

90] An old dog barks not in vain

91] The great would have none great, and the little all little

92] Children learn to creep ere they can go

93] It is too late to call back yesterday

94] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

95] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

96] The deed comes back upon the doer.

97] He who begins many things, finishes but few

98] Every oak has been an acorn

99] Much learning makes men mad

100] If wishes were butter cakes, beggars might bite