Famous Proverbs

1] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

2] Too long burden makes weary bones

3] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

4] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

5] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

6] There is nothing lost by civility

7] Asking costs little

8] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

9] He that speaks well, flights well

10] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

11] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

12] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

13] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

14] Hunger finds no fault with the cookery

15] Nothing crave, nothing have

16] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

17] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

18] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

19] It is too late to husband when all is spent

20] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

21] The cowl does not make the monk.

22] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

23] One can’t help many, but many can help one

24] Like master, like man

25] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

26] A miss is as good as a mile

27] By falling we learn to go safely

28] The more you get, the more you want

29] Nature is conquered by obeying her

30] Everyone to his taste

31] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

32] Don’t meet trouble half-way

33] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

34] It is good to follow the old fox

35] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

36] Keep something for a rainy day

37] If you gently touch a nettle, it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

38] Better fill a man’s belly than his eye

39] Let like mate with like

40] Grin and bear it

41] Ale will make a cat speak

42] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

43] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

44] One cannot put back the clock

45] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

46] What can you expect from a pig (or hog) but a grunt?

47] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

48] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

49] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

50] Better be alone than in bad company

51] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

52] If one will not, another will

53] He that cannot ask, cannot live

54] One must howl with the wolves

55] Each day brings its own bread

56] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

57] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

58] Forecast is better than work-hard

59] There’s a time and place for everything

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

61] Much learning makes men mad

62] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

63] Keep some till further more come

64] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

65] Praises fill not the belly

66] Too much cunning undoes

67] No man is wise at all times

68] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

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

70] Dirty water does not wash clean.

71] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

72] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

73] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

74] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

75] Black will take no other hue

76] First impressions are half the battle

77] There is many a fair thing full false

78] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

79] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

80] One man’s means another man’s poison

81] Every why has a wherefore

82] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

83] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

84] Every man to his trade.

85] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

86] If the cap fits, wear it

87] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

88] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

89] Variety is charming

90] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

91] Go while the going is good

92] High places have their precipices

93] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

94] Fools grow without watering.

95] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

96] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

97] Life means strife

98] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

99] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

100] Man proposes, God disposes