Famous Proverbs

1] Hitch your wagon to a star

2] Go while the going is good

3] Even water has its ebb and flow

4] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

5] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

6] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

7] Woes unite foes

8] Learn to walk before you run

9] Dogs bark as they are bred.

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

11] Curiosity killed the cat.

12] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

13] Great fortune brings with it great misfortune

14] Delays are not denials

15] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

16] Few words are best

17] An evil life is a kind of death.

18] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

19] Busiest men find the most time

20] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

21] Money refused loses its brightness

22] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

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

24] Take time by the forelock

25] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

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

27] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

28] What is the mother of industry

29] One master in a house is enough

30] The devil knows many things because he is old

31] An old fox is not easily snared

32] A traveller may lie with authority

33] Good counsel never comes amiss

34] Homo is a common name to all men.

35] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

36] You may lead (or take) a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink

37] Success has many friends

38] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

39] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

40] Experience must be bought

41] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

42] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

43] A fool and his money are soon parted

44] The devil is not as black as he is painted

45] He is a fool that kisses the maid when he may kiss the mistress

46] Lookers-on see most of the game

47] No wrong without a remedy

48] Patience is the remedy of the world

49] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

50] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

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

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

53] A closed mouth catches no files

54] The ant had wings to her hurt

55] God (or Providence) is always on the side of big battalions

56] Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood

57] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

58] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

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

60] Nothing succeeds like success

61] Waste is not grandeur

62] Do right and fear no man

63] A rich man can do nothing wrong

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

65] Lend never that thing you needed most

66] Laugh before breakfast, you’ll cry before supper

67] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

68] Money can influence even the spirits

69] You cannot have your cake and eat it

70] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

71] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

72] The age of miracles is past

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

74] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

75] Even silence may be eloquent

76] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

77] Where there is whispering there is lying

78] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

79] Be just before you are generous

80] Creditors have better memories than debtors

81] One barber shaves another gratis

82] It is ill jesting with edged tools

83] Will is the cause of woe

84] Man punishes the action but God the intention

85] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

86] Even Homer sometimes nods

87] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

88] You cannot unscramble eggs

89] Heaven helps those who help themselves

90] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

91] You cannot have it both ways

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

93] Parents are patterns

94] He laughs best who laughs last

95] Spread the table, and contention will cease

96] Full of courtesy, full of craft

97] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

98] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

99] There’s a time and place for everything

100] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces