Famous Proverbs

1] Blood will have blood

2] What is the mother of industry

3] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

4] Stolen sweets are sweeter

5] There is no time like the present

6] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

7] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

8] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

9] One of these days is none of these days

10] Poor folk fare the best

11] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

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

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

14] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

15] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

16] There is no tree but bears some fruit

17] Love knows no limit

18] Forecast is better than work-hard

19] Fair play’s a jewel

20] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

21] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

22] Her that is down need fear no fall

23] The deed comes back upon the doer.

24] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

25] A mill cannot grind with water that is past

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

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

28] If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again

29] Too much hope deceives

30] He that tells a secret, is another’s servant.

31] Cheats never prosper

32] Good ware makes quick market

33] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

34] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

35] Honesty is ill to thrive by

36] Appearances are deceptive

37] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

38] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

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

40] High places have their precipices

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

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

43] No garden without its weeds.

44] Better learn late than never

45] He who hesitates is lost

46] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

47] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

48] You never know what you can do till you try

49] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

50] A penny weight of love is worth a pound of law

51] He who has seen little marvels much

52] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

53] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

54] Shame arises more from fear of men than of God

55] Youth will have its course.

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

57] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

58] He that never ate flesh, thinks a pudding is a dainty

59] Beauty is only skin deep

60] Nature abhors a vacuum

61] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

62] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

63] Despair gives courage to a coward

64] Revenge never repairs an injury

65] A good name is better than a golden girdle

66] Practice makes perfect

67] Set a beggar on horse back and he’ll ride to the devil

68] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

69] Green leaves enhance the charm of the peony flower

70] Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade

71] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

72] He that brings good news, knocks hard

73] Wine and wenches empty men’s purses

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

75] Blue are the far away hills

76] Do as you would be done by

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

78] Failure teaches success

79] Waste is not grandeur

80] The best of men are but men at best.

81] It will be the same a hundred years hence

82] Give and take is fair play

83] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

84] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

85] Better unborn than untaught

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

87] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

88] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

89] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

90] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

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

92] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

93] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

94] Safety lies in the middle course

95] Walls have ears

96] One barber shaves another gratis

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

98] A good beginning is half the battle.

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

100] No sweet without sweat