Famous Proverbs

1] Knavery may serve for a turn, nut honesty is best in the long run

2] No man limps because another is hurt

3] One fool praises another

4] He who cannot put up with extreme hardship cannot be the best among men

5] What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals

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

7] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

8] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

9] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

10] Danger makes men devout

11] He who last, laughs longest.

12] None can guess the jewel by the casket

13] The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity

14] Better an egg in peace than an ox in war

15] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

16] God made the country ,and man made the town

17] No like is the same.

18] Do right and fear no man

19] It never rains it pours

20] A contented mind is a perpetual feast

21] He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere

22] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

23] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

24] An angry man is not fit to pray

25] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

26] Don’t cry stinking fish

27] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

28] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

29] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

30] By his deeds we know a man

31] Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him

32] Even the tiger will appear if you talk about him

33] Wrong has no warrant

34] When one door shuts, another opens

35] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

36] Beauty is eloquent even when silent

37] What costs little is little esteemed

38] Never was a cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore

39] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

40] Two blacks do not make a white

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

42] Empty vessels make the most sound

43] Destroy the lion while he is yet but a whelp

44] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

45] Good fences make good neighbours

46] Wine is the best broom for trouble

47] Death is the grand leveler

48] The tailor makes the man

49] A man’s mother is his other God

50] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

51] Cleanliness is next to godliness

52] Gold may be bought too dear

53] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

54] All heiresses are beautiful.

55] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

56] No man is his craft’s master the first day

57] Fish begins to stink at the head

58] Once bitten, twice shy.

59] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

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

61] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

62] The fowler’s pipe sounds sweet till the bird is caught.

63] The highest branch is not the safest roost

64] No news is good news

65] He that has plenty of goods will have more

66] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

67] A good dog deserves a good bone

68] One needs a full stomach to keep the precepts

69] Self-praise is no recommendation

70] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

71] While there is life, there is hope

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

73] Like father, like son

74] Second thoughts are best

75] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

76] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

77] Light grows the burden which is well borne

78] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

79] It takes two to make a quarrel

80] It the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.

81] A crust is better than no bread.

82] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

83] Many a little makes a mickle

84] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

85] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

86] A golden key opens every door

87] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

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

89] Bear with evil and expect good

90] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

91] The young will sow their wild oats

92] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

93] Don’t take a bull in to a china shop.

94] There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

95] There is a black sheep in every flock

96] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

97] That which proves too much proves nothing

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

99] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

100] Misfortune does not always come to injure