Famous Proverbs

1] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

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

3] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

4] Of evil manners, spring good laws

5] The remedy for injuries is not to remember them

6] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

7] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

8] Findings are keepings

9] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

10] He that compiles against his will, is of his own opinion still

11] Home is where the heart is

12] Honour is the reward of virtue

13] Lavishness is not generosity

14] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

15] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

16] Covetousness breaks the sack

17] Content is the philosopher’s stone that turns all it touches in to gold

18] Young saint, old devil.

19] Too much curiosity lost paradise

20] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

21] One hand washes the other

22] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

23] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

24] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

25] Affection blinds reason

26] A good husband makes a good wife

27] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

28] The best of friends must part

29] Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

30] No man is a hero to his valet

31] Do right and fear no man

32] Call no man happy till he is dead

33] All are not saints that go to church

34] Many doctors, death accomplished

35] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

36] Every medal has its reverse

37] One good turn deserves another

38] He is lifeless that is faultless

39] Fine words dress ill deeds

40] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

41] The cobbler should stick to his last

42] An old man is a bed full of bones

43] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

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

45] Men strain at gnats and swallow camels

46] In my own house, I am king

47] There is no place like home

48] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

49] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

50] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

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

52] Valour delights in the test

53] A joke’s a very serious thing

54] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

55] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

56] You cannot have it both ways

57] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

58] Crime does not pay

59] He that speaks not, God hears not

60] Ignorance is the peace of life

61] Law makers should not be law breakers

62] Take time by the forelock

63] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

64] Spare the rod and spoil the child

65] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

66] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

67] Mirth without measure is madness

68] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

69] He that has no money needs no purse

70] Wash your dirty linen at home

71] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

72] Nature hates all sudden changes

73] All men are mortal

74] Forbidden fruit is sweetest

75] Much babbling is not without offence

76] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

77] Ill gotten, ill spent

78] Money has no smell

79] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

80] There are spots even in the sun

81] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

82] Harp not for ever on the same string

83] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

84] Fire is a good servant a bad master

85] Sour, sweet, bitter and pungent flavours must all be tasted

86] Much science, much sorrow

87] He is wise who looks ahead

88] Take away fuel, take away flame

89] Change of pasture makes fat calves

90] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

91] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

92] All our pomp the earth covers

93] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

94] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

95] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

96] Manners and money make a gentleman

97] Fortune knocks once at everyone’s door (or gate)

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

99] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

100] One is not smelt where all stink