Famous Proverbs

1] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

2] First come, first served

3] Respect is greater from a distance

4] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

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

6] From small beginnings come great things

7] Many words, many buffets

8] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

9] Love is lawless.

10] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

11] An army marches on its stomach

12] He that eats least eats most

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

14] Blue are the far away hills

15] Naughty boys sometimes make good men.

16] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

17] Love delights in praise

18] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

19] Do right and fear no man

20] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

21] Advise none to marry or to go to war

22] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

23] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

24] Either mend or end

25] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

26] God tempers that wind to the shorn lamb

27] A little body often harbours a great soul

28] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

29] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

30] Don’t ride the high horse

31] Like will to like

32] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

33] Practice is the science that gives confidence

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

35] Praises fill not the belly

36] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

37] Fair without, false within

38] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

39] There are more ways to the wood than one.

40] III counsel mars all

41] Wink at small faults

42] Four eyes see more than two

43] Danger makes men devout

44] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

45] Cowards die many times before their deaths

46] An angry man is not fit to pray

47] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

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

49] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

50] The wisest of the wise may err.

51] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

52] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

53] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

54] Money isn’t everything

55] All truths are not to be told

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

57] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

58] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

59] Friendship should not be all on one side

60] There is death in the pot.

61] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

62] He knows most who speaks least

63] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

64] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

65] Man punishes the action but God the intention

66] Don’t cry for the moon

67] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

68] As you brew, so shall you drink.

69] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

70] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

71] Appearances are deceptive

72] As you bake, so shall you eat.

73] No honest man ever repented his honesty

74] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

75] Familiarity breeds contempt

76] Man cannot live by bread alone

77] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

78] What is the mother of industry

79] The delay is good which makes the way the safer

80] He who teaches learns

81] Love me, love the crows on my roof

82] Put not the bucket too often in the well

83] Be just before you are generous

84] The longest day must have an end

85] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

86] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

87] To teach is to learn twice over

88] One sword keeps another in the sheath

89] Do not triumph before the victory

90] Never buy a pig in a poke

91] No sweet without sweat

92] Love delights in praise

93] Beware of a silent man and still water

94] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

95] The money you refuse will never do you good

96] The mob has many heads but no brains

97] Man does what he can, and God what he will

98] Truth conquers all things

99] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

100] Best is cheapest