Famous Proverbs

1] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

2] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

3] Don’t cast your pearls before swine

4] All roads lead to Rome

5] No misfortune will go on forever

6] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

7] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

8] It is useless to flog a dead horse

9] There are spots even in the sun

10] The highest tree has the greatest fall

11] Patient men with the day.

12] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

13] He would command must serve

14] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

15] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

16] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

17] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

18] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

19] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

20] Never do evil that good may come of it

21] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

22] An ass must be tied where the master will have him

23] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

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

25] The devil looks after his own

26] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

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

28] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

29] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

30] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

31] Lovers’ quarrels are soon mended

32] Dead men don’t bite

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

34] Idle folks have the least leisure

35] Familiarity breeds contempt

36] It is not the burden but the overburden that kills the beast

37] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

38] Content is more than a kingdom

39] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

40] Findings are keepings

41] All truths are not to be told

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

43] Think not on what you lack as much as what you have

44] Let like mate with like

45] Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck eggs

46] Poor men’s words have little weight

47] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

48] He that has lost his credit, is dead to the world

49] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

50] A good Conscience is the best divinity

51] There is none misfortune cannot reach

52] He conquers who endures

53] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

54] Beggars must not be choosers

55] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

56] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

57] Young colts will canter.

58] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

59] The labourer is worthy of his hire

60] Ale will make a cat speak

61] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

62] Small is the seed of every greatness

63] It is more blessed to give than to receive

64] The mean is the best

65] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

66] God sends cold after Clothes

67] Love will go through stone walls

68] The rain of tears is necessary to the harvest of learning

69] Pleasure has a sting in its tail

70] A wicked man is his own hell

71] What is word but wind?

72] Love is without reason

73] Conscience is a thousand witnesses

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

75] A parrot will only say what it is taught

76] Judge not of men and things at first sight

77] Misfortunes never come singly

78] Anything will fit a naked man.

79] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

80] It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none

81] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

82] The best things are hard to come by.

83] It is a poor kin that has neither whore nor thief in it

84] Do as you would be done by

85] A healthy man is a successful man

86] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

87] Pat any man and dust will fly

88] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

89] Better say noting than no to the purpose

90] Harp not for ever on the same string

91] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

92] He is an ill husband who is not missed

93] He who begins many things, finishes but few

94] Charity excuseth not cheating.

95] There is truth in wine

96] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

97] He that eats least eats most

98] Talk of the devil, and he is bound to appear

99] Blue are the far away hills

100] Children have wide ears and long tongues.