Famous Proverbs

1] What can’t be cured must be endured

2] A good friend is my nearest relation

3] A little learning is dangerous thing

4] If you would be well served, serve yourself

5] Fools live poor to die rich

6] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

7] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

8] Work expands so as to fill the time available

9] If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty

10] An empty sack cannot stand upright

11] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

12] Thrift is a great revenue

13] It is as hard to please a knave as knight

14] Ale will make a cat speak

15] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

16] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

17] Better unborn than untaught

18] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

19] Desires are nourished by delays

20] Put out your tubs when it is raining

21] Money can influence even the spirits

22] Words cut more than swords

23] A light purse makes a heavy heart

24] Don’t cry before you are hurt

25] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

26] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

27] They also serve who only stand and wait

28] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

29] The hole calls the thief

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

31] Love your friend with his fault

32] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

33] Muck and money go together

34] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

35] The fairest flowers soonest fade

36] Of two evils choose the lesser

37] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

38] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

39] The proud will sooner lose than ask the way

40] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

41] Friends agree best at a distance

42] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

43] A bad padlock invites a picklock

44] Ill news comes apace.

45] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

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

47] Of one ill come many

48] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

49] One can’t help many, but many can help one

50] No pains, no gains

51] All’s well that ends well

52] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

53] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

54] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

55] Thrift is a great revenue

56] Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory

57] Fortune favours fools

58] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

59] The weeds overgrow the corn.

60] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

61] The game is not worth the candle

62] He stands not surely that never slips

63] There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging it.

64] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

65] The more you get, the more you want

66] Steer not after every mariner’s direction

67] The hole calls the thief

68] A fool’s mouth is his destruction

69] Children and fools have merry lives

70] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

71] Often and little eating makes a man fat

72] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

73] The biter is sometimes bit

74] Self do, self have

75] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

76] The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach

77] Take things as they come

78] Faint heart never won fair lady

79] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

80] Vice makes virtue shine

81] Cheats never prosper

82] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

83] The best go first

84] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

85] A black hen lays a white egg

86] Never grieve for what you cannot help

87] Don’t kick against the pricks

88] Bad excuses are worse than none.

89] Make hay while the sun shines

90] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

91] He laughs best who laughs last

92] How forceful are right words

93] The best is often the enemy of the good

94] The poor suffer all the wrong

95] Might knows no right

96] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

97] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

98] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

99] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

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