Famous Proverbs

1] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

2] Pursuits become habits

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

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

5] A constant guest is never welcome

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

7] Make hay while the sun shines

8] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

9] The mob has many heads but no brains

10] Great trees keep down the little ones

11] If anything can go wrong, it will

12] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

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

14] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

15] We do as we can, since we can’t do as we would

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

17] Stolen goods never thrive

18] You cannot unscramble eggs

19] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

20] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

21] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

22] Haste is of (or from) the devil

23] Had I fish’ was never good with garlic

24] Weak things united become strong

25] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

26] Misfortune makes foes of friends

27] Soon gotten, soon spent

28] It is too late to look up after you have collided

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

30] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

31] A still tongue makes a wise head

32] Young saint, old devil.

33] First impressions are most lasting

34] Pride goes before a fall

35] Take time by the forelock

36] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

37] He may find fault that cannot mend

38] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

39] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

40] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

41] Many doctors, death accomplished

42] All things are difficult before they are easy

43] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

44] Revenge never repairs an injury

45] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

46] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

47] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

48] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

49] What costs little is little esteemed

50] Everyone puts his fault on the times.

51] Good fame is better than a good face

52] Water is the king of food

53] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

54] Plain dealing is best

55] The greatest talkers are the least doers

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

57] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

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

59] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

60] What’s done cannot be undone

61] It is well to live that one may learn

62] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

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

64] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

65] First thrive then wive

66] The darkest place is under the candlestick

67] The axe falls on a straight tree first

68] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

69] It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life

70] Lookers-on see most of the game

71] Better be safe than sorry

72] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

73] The sun shines upon all alike.

74] Procrastination is the thief of time

75] The race is got by running

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

77] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

78] Rome was not built in a day

79] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood

80] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

81] He is wise who looks ahead

82] Morning dreams come true

83] You cannot have it both ways

84] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

85] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

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

87] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

88] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

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

90] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

91] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

92] A watched pot never boils

93] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

94] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

95] He who can does. He who cannot teaches

96] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

97] One barber shaves another gratis

98] You must grin and bear it

99] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

100] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door