Famous Proverbs

1] Love laughs at locksmiths

2] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

3] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

4] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

5] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

6] Sow thin and mow thin

7] Why keep a dog and bark yourself?

8] First thrive then wive

9] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

10] The knowledge of a learned man is limited if he stays at home all the time

11] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

12] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

13] Health and money go far

14] If one will not, another will

15] Dress up a stick and it does not appear to be a stick

16] Life is short and time is swift

17] He that asks faintly begs a denial.

18] Jesters do oft prove prophets

19] Have patience with a friend rather than lost him forever.

20] Tell the truth and shame the devil

21] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

22] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

23] Weapons breed peace

24] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

25] An old ox makes a straight furrow

26] Keep some till further more come

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

28] No tie can oblige the perfidious

29] Better the last smile than the first laugh

30] A bully never grows up.

31] It is too late to husband when all is spent

32] Love turns pimples

33] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

34] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

35] No day so clear but has dark clouds

36] From a foolish judge, a quick sentence

37] Take the will for the deed

38] Hitch your wagon to a star

39] A short cut is often a wrong cut

40] The longest way round is the shortest way home

41] Every beginning is hard

42] The deed comes back upon the doer.

43] There is a great difference between words and deeds

44] A good word for a bad one is worth much and costs little

45] A burnt child dreads the fire

46] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

47] Weak things united become strong

48] Better be a fool than a knave

49] III counsel mars all

50] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

51] The dog that fetches, will carry.

52] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

53] All are not saints that go to church

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

55] God gives the grain, but we must make the furrow

56] The company makes the feast

57] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

58] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

59] Health and wealth create beauty

60] The absent party is always to blame.

61] First come, first served

62] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

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

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

65] What is worse than ill luck?

66] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

67] Some have been thought brave because they are afraid to run away

68] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

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

70] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

71] Alms never make poor

72] All meat pleases not all mouths

73] He that can stay. Obtains

74] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

75] There is death in the pot.

76] Men are known by the company they keep.

77] If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (or might ride)

78] Plain dealing is a jewel

79] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

80] Desires are nourished by delays

81] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

82] Truth is god’s daughter

83] Let bygones be bygones

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

85] Forgive and forget

86] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

87] Some are wise and some are otherwise

88] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

89] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

90] An old horse knows the route

91] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

92] Wrong has no warrant

93] Every light has its shadow

94] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

95] Least said, soonest mended

96] Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

97] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

98] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

99] Only a fool will make the doctor his heir

100] He that lives ill, fear follows him