Famous Proverbs

1] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

2] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

3] Nothing comes from nothing

4] He that talks much, errs much

5] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

6] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

7] Hungry bellies have no ears

8] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

9] Go not to hell for company

10] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

11] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

12] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

13] When bees area old, they yield n honey

14] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

15] Hasty work, double work,

16] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

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

18] He that burns most, shines most

19] All things are possible with god

20] If today will not, tomorrow may

21] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

22] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

23] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

24] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

25] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

26] The hand that gives, gathers

27] III counsel mars all

28] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

29] A bow long bent at last waxes weak

30] A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

31] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

32] The goat must browse where she is tied

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

34] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

35] The race is got by running

36] Great talkers are never great doers

37] Wink at small faults

38] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

39] Little wealth, little care

40] Many a little makes a mickle

41] Wife and Children are bills of charges

42] When one door shuts, another opens

43] The dog that fetches, will carry.

44] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

45] He that comes of a hen, must scrape

46] He who teaches learns

47] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

48] The mob has many heads but no brains

49] What is deferred is not abandoned

50] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

51] Do right and fear no man

52] The end crowns the work.

53] If you would be well served, serve yourself

54] One thief will not rob another

55] Let not your tongue run at rover

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

57] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

58] Rust wastes more than use

59] It is useless to flog a dead horse

60] All things that great men do are well done

61] A rich man can do nothing wrong

62] Learn weeping and you shall gain laughing

63] No hair so small but has his shadow

64] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

65] Judge not the tree by its bark

66] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

67] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

68] Home is where the heart is

69] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

70] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

71] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

72] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

73] Little things are great to little men

74] A rose by any other name would smell as sweet

75] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

76] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

77] Words fly, writings remain

78] He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most

79] Jesters do oft prove prophets

80] Bold men have generous hearts

81] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

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

83] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

84] In the end, things will mend

85] Variety is the spice of life

86] Valour delights in the test

87] What will not money do?

88] Dirty linen should be washed at home

89] A creaking gate (or door) hangs long

90] So many countries, so many customs

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

92] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

93] The last drop makes the cup run over

94] Names and natures do often agree

95] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

96] A merry companion is a wagon on the way

97] He that does most at once, does least

98] Safety lies in the middle course

99] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

100] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky