Famous Proverbs

1] Names are debts

2] All’s fish that comes to the net

3] If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks

4] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

5] Facts are stubborn things

6] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

7] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

8] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

9] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

10] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

11] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

12] Life is short and time is swift

13] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

14] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

15] Great talkers are never great doers

16] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

17] He that would know what shall be, must consider what has been

18] He that does most at once, does least

19] He who teaches learns

20] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

21] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

22] An account is an account, and a brother a brother.

23] All truths are not to be told

24] The end crowns the work.

25] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

26] Old foxes want no tutors

27] Example is the greatest of all seducers

28] He that has good money, gives few alms

29] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

30] He who does no good, does evil enough

31] A fool may give a wise man counsel

32] Tell a lie and stick to it.

33] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

34] You must grin and bear it

35] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

36] Anything will fit a naked man.

37] Bind the sack before it be full

38] Nature will have her course

39] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

40] A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is a wife

41] Keep no more cats than will catch mice

42] Where there is no might, right loses itself

43] One must be a servant before one can be a master

44] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

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

46] New brooms sweep clean

47] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

48] The mob tramples on the coward

49] A little too late, is much too late

50] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

51] A good marksman may miss

52] The first blow is half the battle

53] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

54] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

55] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

56] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

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

58] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

59] Love cannot be compelled

60] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

61] Habit is second nature

62] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

63] Empty vessels make the most noise

64] If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well

65] Liars should have good memories

66] An angry man is not fit to pray

67] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

68] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

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

70] We soon believe what we desire

71] Mere wishes are silly fishes

72] Where there is peace, there is blessing

73] Penny and penny laid up will be many

74] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

75] Poverty is no sin

76] Discontent is the first step in progress

77] The tongue stings

78] No feast lasts forever.

79] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

80] A hungry man smells meat afar off

81] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

82] Everyone to his taste

83] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

84] He who sits in the well to observe the sky does not see very much.

85] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

86] One swallow does not make a summer

87] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

88] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

89] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

90] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

91] Don’t kick against the pricks

92] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

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

94] The coward threatens only when he is safe

95] Of three main roads, take the middle one

96] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

97] Affection blinds reason

98] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

99] An old fox is not easily snared

100] The weakest goes to the wall