Famous Proverbs

1] Numbers overcome the brave

2] Why does one man’s yawning make another yawn?

3] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

4] To beat a tiger, one must have a brother’s help.

5] Discretion of speech is more than eloquence.

6] The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny

7] Soon hot, soon cold

8] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

9] He that cannot ask, cannot live

10] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

11] Every beggar is descended from some king, and every king is descended from some beggar.

12] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

13] If you cannot bite never show your teeth

14] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

15] Step by step the ladder is ascended

16] He that is born a fool is never cured

17] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

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

19] Boys will be boys

20] Respect is greater from a distance

21] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

22] First creep, then walk

23] His bark is worse than his bite

24] Little and often fills the purse

25] Men are known by the company they keep.

26] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

27] You are never too old to learn

28] No man can serve two masters

29] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

30] You never know your luck

31] Grin and bear it

32] Borrowed garments never fit well

33] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

34] Never catch a falling knife or a falling friend

35] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

36] Call a spade a spade

37] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

38] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

39] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

40] Save your breath to cool the porridge

41] Standing pools gather fifth

42] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

43] Make hay while the sun shines

44] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

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

46] Black will take no other hue

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

48] There is no time like the present

49] Give credit where credit is due

50] Patient men with the day.

51] Every medal has its reverse

52] A miss is as good as a mile

53] Who greases his way travels easily

54] Necessity is the mother of invention

55] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

56] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

57] It is a great victory that comes without blood

58] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

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

60] A penny saved is a penny gained

61] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

62] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

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

64] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

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

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

67] Better beg than steal.

68] There is no smoke without fire

69] Necessity is mother of invention

70] Poverty obstructs the road to virtue

71] Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

72] The worse the evil, the calmer we face it.

73] A good garden may have some ill weeds

74] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

75] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

76] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

77] White there’s life there’s hope

78] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

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

80] A good conscience is a constant feast

81] Findings are keepings

82] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

83] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

84] Handsome is as handsome does

85] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

86] To advise someone not to gamble is to win money for him

87] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

88] Let not your tongue run at rover

89] For a web begun, God sends the thread

90] First thrive then wive

91] What is a workman without his tools?

92] Better are small fish than an empty dish

93] A tree often transplanted, bears not much fruit

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

95] Love will go through stone walls

96] Misfortune arrives on horseback but departs on foot

97] There is none misfortune cannot reach

98] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

99] He may find fault that cannot mend

100] Lend only that which you can afford to lose