Famous Proverbs

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

2] A fool and his money are soon parted

3] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

4] It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to find a cure.

5] Precept begins, examples accomplish

6] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

7] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

8] Dogs bark as they are bred.

9] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

10] Bear with evil and expect good

11] Great gain makes easy work

12] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

13] Pardon makes offenders

14] Dreams are lies

15] So many men, so many opinions

16] After the extreme of cold comes spring

17] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

18] The good die young.

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

20] The last straw breaks the camel’s back

21] Ale will make a cat speak

22] Every groom is a king at home

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

24] Love and business teach eloquence

25] Knowledge is power

26] An apple a day keeps the doctor away

27] Nothing is so certain as death

28] Not good is it to harp on the on the frayed string

29] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

30] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

31] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

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

33] Health is better than wealth

34] Learn not and know not

35] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

36] Where there’s muck, there’s money

37] A man with no hands is given a ring.

38] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

39] A fair face may hide a foul heart.

40] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

41] The squeaking wheel gets the grease

42] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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

44] Every path has a puddle

45] No tie can oblige the perfidious

46] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

47] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

48] Quickly come, quickly go

49] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

50] He knows most who speaks least

51] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

52] It is more pain to do nothing than something

53] A short cut is often a wrong cut

54] Things are only worth one makes them worth

55] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

56] The garment worn determines how one is served

57] Life begins only in success

58] Success makes a fool seem wise.

59] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

60] Prospect is often better than possession

61] High places have their precipices

62] Bold men have generous hearts

63] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

64] Needs must when the devil drives

65] Abundance, like want, ruins many

66] Lookers-on see most of the game

67] Far fowls have fair feather

68] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

69] Names are debts

70] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

71] Ill comes often on the back worse

72] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

73] Advice when most needed is least heeded

74] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

75] The axe falls on a straight tree first

76] Give and take is fair play

77] Soft fire makes sweet malt

78] A foolish man knows not the art of forgiveness

79] He stands not surely that never slips

80] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

81] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

82] Nothing is so popular as kindness.

83] Out of debt, out of danger

84] Lend never that thing you needed most

85] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

86] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

87] The absent saint gets no candle

88] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

89] Wash your dirty linen at home

90] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

91] First impressions are most lasting

92] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

93] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

94] Home is where the heart is

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

96] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

97] A parrot will only say what it is taught

98] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

99] Wife and Children are bills of charges

100] Zeal without prudence is frenzy