Famous Proverbs

1] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

2] Hard words break no bones

3] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

4] A great city, a great solitude

5] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

6] Time lost cannot be recalled

7] A little too late, is much too late

8] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

9] Little and often fills the purse

10] Weeds need no sowing

11] Handsome is as handsome does

12] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

13] You can’t take it with you when you die

14] Charity excuseth not cheating.

15] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

16] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

17] If you have known one, you have known them all

18] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

19] Trust is the mother of deceit

20] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

21] Full of courtesy, full of craft

22] Even fools sometimes speak to the purpose

23] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

24] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

25] A little body often harbours a great soul

26] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

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

28] Time has wings

29] Heaven helps those who help themselves

30] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

31] You must grin and bear it

32] No man is born wise or learned

33] Patience is the remedy of the world

34] Put not the bucket too often in the well

35] Many a true word is spoken in jest

36] Revenge is sweet

37] Pride goes before a fall

38] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

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

40] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

41] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

42] Grief pent up will break the heart

43] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

44] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

45] Great talkers are never great doers

46] The absent saint gets no candle

47] He that is absent is soon forgotten

48] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

49] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

50] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

51] Sickness soaks the purse

52] One is not smelt where all stink

53] Who is more busy than he that has least to do?

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

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

56] Many words, many buffets

57] What has been, may be

58] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

59] If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

60] Choose thy company before thy drink

61] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

62] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

63] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

64] A loveless life is a living death

65] Don’t put the cart before the horse

66] He who has a mind to beat his dog will easily find a stick.

67] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

68] Take the will for the deed

69] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

70] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

71] Nature is conquered by obeying her

72] If the fingers of one hand quarrel, they cannot pick up food

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

74] Divide and rule

75] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

76] New brooms sweep clean

77] Silence never makes mistakes

78] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

79] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

80] Man proposes, God disposes

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

82] Virtue has all things in itself

83] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

84] Fortune favours the brave (or bold).

85] Between two stools you fall to the ground

86] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

87] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

88] Bold men have generous hearts

89] Friendship should not be all on one

90] Hope often deludes the foolish man

91] No cross, no crown

92] Some are wise and some are otherwise

93] Hear twice before you speak once

94] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

95] Cheats never prosper

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

97] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

98] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

99] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

100] Every may be has a may not be