Famous Proverbs

1] Better to ask the way than go astray.

2] Bear with evil and expect good

3] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

4] Silence never makes mistakes

5] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

6] Confess and be hanged

7] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

8] It is ill striving against the stream

9] It at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again

10] The best of friends must part

11] The greatest step is that out of doors

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

13] Virtue joints man to god

14] Despair gives courage to a coward

15] What must be must be

16] God sends cold after Clothes

17] Covetousness brings nothing home

18] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

19] Love sees no fault

20] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

21] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

22] Delays are not denials

23] First impressions are half the battle

24] Truth is mighty and will prevail

25] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

26] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

27] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

28] Many doctors, death accomplished

29] The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

30] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

31] Much meat, much malady

32] Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

33] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

34] Abundance, like want, ruins many

35] Accidents will happen

36] No man is born wise or learned

37] Charity begins at home.

38] A good heart conquers ill fortune

39] The first step is the hardest

40] All heiresses are beautiful.

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

42] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

43] Fair exchange is no robbery

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

45] All must be as God will

46] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

47] Adam’s ale is the best brew

48] Fool’s haste is no speed

49] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

50] Beggars must not be choosers

51] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

52] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

53] A man of many trades, begs his bread on Sunday

54] Riches along make no men happy

55] Money is the only monarch

56] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

57] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

58] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

59] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

60] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

61] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

62] It’s dogged that does it

63] Blood is thicker than water

64] What’s the good of thatching someone else’s roof?

65] The grace of God enough

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

67] As soon as there is life there is danger

68] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

69] All truths are not to be told

70] Kind hearts are more than coronets

71] Don’t try to run before you walk

72] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

73] Practice is the science that gives confidence

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

75] A black hen lays a white egg

76] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

77] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

78] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

79] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

80] Never refuse a good offer

81] Opportunity seldom knocks twice

82] It is all in the day’s work

83] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

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

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

86] Great barkers are no biters

87] Even water has its ebb and flow

88] An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles

89] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

90] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

91] Silence is also speech

92] One cannot put back the clock

93] He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.

94] Young saint, old devil.

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

96] One is not smelt where all stink

97] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

98] Accidents will happen in the best regulated families

99] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

100] He that speaks well, flights well