Famous Proverbs

1] A good conscience is a constant feast

2] Money is the sinew of affairs

3] Hear twice before you speak once

4] Love me, love the crows on my roof

5] He that has a wife, has strife

6] Rip not up old sores

7] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

8] The money you refuse will never do you good

9] Adventures are to be adventurous

10] One good turn deserves another

11] None so blind as those who will not see

12] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

13] What’s in a name?

14] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

15] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

16] Every why has a wherefore

17] Precepts may lead but examples draw

18] If today will not, tomorrow may

19] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

20] A true friend is forever a friend

21] A good paymaster needs no surety

22] There is a black sheep in every flock

23] Adam’s ale is the best brew

24] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

25] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

26] He that can stay. Obtains

27] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

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

29] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

30] The highest tree has the greatest fall

31] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

32] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

33] No remedy but patience

34] A man’s wealth is his enemy

35] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

36] He is an ill husband who is not missed

37] All things are difficult before they are easy

38] A constant guest is never welcome

39] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

40] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

41] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

42] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

43] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

44] Every deed is to be judges by the doer’s intention.

45] A good payer is master of another’s purse

46] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

47] If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain.

48] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

49] Nature abhors a vacuum

50] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

51] Gold may be bought too dear

52] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

53] When it pleases not God, the saint can do little

54] Appetite comes with eating

55] He is an ill husband who is not missed

56] Diamond cuts diamond

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

58] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

59] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

60] A good husband makes a good wife

61] Love is a disease, and the loved on is the only medicine

62] A fool always rushes to the fore.

63] The cobbler should stick to his last

64] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

65] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

66] Fools grow without watering.

67] The truest jests sound worst in guilty ears

68] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

69] Many irons in the fire, some must cool

70] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

71] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

72] Like breeds like

73] Hope keeps man alive

74] Every man must carry his own cross

75] The king can do no wrong

76] It is never too late to mend

77] No man is born wise or learned

78] All griefs with bread are less

79] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

80] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

81] All must be as God will

82] Let the buyer beware

83] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

84] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

85] The tongue talks at the heads cost

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

87] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

88] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

89] Give a servant a rod, and he’ll beat his master

90] Manners and money make a gentleman

91] Familiarity breeds contempt

92] Trusting often makes fidelity

93] Everything new is fine

94] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

95] The more cost, the more honour

96] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

97] First try and then trust

98] He’s his father’s (or mother’s) son

99] A bad excuse is better than none at all

100] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect