Famous Proverbs

1] A fool’s bolt is soon shot

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

3] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

4] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

5] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

6] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

7] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

8] An angry man is not fit to pray

9] Covetousness brings nothing home

10] III counsel mars all

11] God’s help is better than the early rising

12] Master easy, servant slack

13] Sickness soaks the purse

14] The dog that fetches, will carry.

15] Slow and steady wins the race

16] He should have (or He needs) a long spoon who sups with the devil

17] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

18] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

19] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

20] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

21] The end crowns the work.

22] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

23] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

24] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

25] Like breeds like

26] A hungry man smells meat afar off

27] Beggars must not be choosers

28] Needs must when the devil drives

29] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

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

31] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

32] Asking costs little

33] The bull must be taken by the horns

34] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

35] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

36] Children should be seen and not heard

37] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

38] You never know your luck

39] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

40] Birds once snared fear all bushes

41] Every cock crows on his own dunghill

42] Don’t put the cart before the horse

43] Where there is whispering there is lying

44] White there’s life there’s hope

45] The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil

46] Novelty always appears handsome

47] The longest night will have an end

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

49] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

50] Every may be has a may not be

51] He that does most at once, does least

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

53] Harp not for ever on the same string

54] Charity begins at home.

55] Out of the frying-pan into the fire

56] His bark is worse than his bite

57] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

58] It is safer to hear and take counsel, than give it.

59] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

60] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

61] Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency

62] A wicked man is his own hell

63] Penny and penny laid up will be many

64] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

65] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

66] He that travels far knows much

67] A man can die but once

68] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

69] Grasp all, lose all

70] Fire is a good servant a bad master

71] He who sows, trusts in God

72] Might knows no right

73] Idle folks have the least leisure

74] The tongue stings

75] A word to the wise is enough

76] Advice when most needed is least heeded

77] Moderation in all things

78] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

79] He who last, laughs longest.

80] Better sit still than rise and fall

81] What will not money do?

82] Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom

83] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

84] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

85] The best of men are but men at best.

86] The good is often the enemy of the best

87] No one betrays himself by silence

88] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

89] Children speak only words they have heard.

90] Little by little and bit by bit.

91] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

92] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

93] A bad workman always blames his tools

94] A useful trade is a mine of gold

95] Might is right

96] Dreams go by contraries

97] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

98] Little things are pretty

99] A good name is better than a golden girdle

100] He that will thrive must rise at five