Famous Proverbs

1] Whatever man has done, man can do

2] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

3] Money talks

4] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

5] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

6] Delays are not denials

7] A fool always rushes to the fore.

8] Tomorrow never comes

9] Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best

10] The young will sow their wild oats

11] First thrive then wive

12] Better wear out shoes than sheers.

13] Truth has a good face but bad clothes

14] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

15] Money is power

16] Children and fools cannot lie.

17] Zeal without prudence is frenzy

18] Lookers-on see more than players

19] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

20] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

21] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

22] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

23] Pride is the mask of one’s own faults

24] It is better to conceal one’s knowledge than to reveal one’s ignorance

25] Clothes do not make the man

26] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

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

28] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

29] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

30] The weakest goes to the wall

31] Make hay while the sun shines

32] Necessity is the mother of invention

33] Lend your money and lose a friend

34] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

35] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

36] He that burns most, shines most

37] Bold men have generous hearts

38] The best wine comes from an old vessel

39] Once bitten, twice shy.

40] Let bygones be bygones

41] Waste not, want not

42] He mediates revenge who least complains.

43] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

44] Friendship should not be all on one side

45] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

46] You cannot skimp on the fodder and have an energetic horse.

47] Never judge from appearances

48] Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned.

49] Like mistress, like maid

50] Anger without power is folly

51] A little help is worth a deal of pity

52] The value of money is having it.

53] Wine unveils the words of the heart

54] Diamond cuts diamond

55] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

56] There is many a true word spoken in jest

57] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

58] There are more ways to the wood than one.

59] Little by little and bit by bit.

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

61] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

62] A man may learn wit every day.

63] Long absent, soon forgotten

64] A friend is easier lost than found

65] There is more than one way to skin a cat.

66] Nature surpasses art

67] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

68] The devil dances in an empty pocket

69] Fools grow without watering.

70] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

71] No one is rich enough to do without his neighbours

72] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

73] Friends agree best at a distance

74] A hedge between keeps friendship green

75] Men make houses, women make homes

76] Every lot is to be overcome by endurance

77] A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours

78] The hand that gives, gathers

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

80] He gives twice who gives quickly

81] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

82] You may have too much of a good thing

83] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

84] Love is blind

85] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

86] Never spur a willing horse

87] Time flies

88] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

89] You cannot unscramble eggs

90] Beauty draws more than oxen

91] Often and little eating makes a man fat

92] Anger and haste hinder good counsel

93] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

94] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

95] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

96] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

97] A constant guest is never welcome

98] The bait hides the hook

99] A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth

100] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words