Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot make bricks without straw

2] Friends agree best at a distance

3] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

4] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

5] Handsome is as handsome does

6] They can do least two boast loudest

7] The tongue stings

8] The goat must browse where she is tied

9] Thrift is a great revenue

10] Adversity comes with instruction in its hand

11] Nothing comes from nothing

12] Haste is of (or from) the devil

13] Lend only that which you can afford to lose

14] Fire is a good servant a bad master

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

16] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

17] All things are easy, that are done willingly

18] No one betrays himself by silence

19] Light grows the burden which is well borne

20] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

21] Acorns were good till bread was found

22] Never hit a man when he’s down

23] Life means strife

24] Nothing comes from nothing

25] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

26] A good conscience is a sure card

27] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

28] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

29] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

30] Variety is charming

31] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

32] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

33] Youth and age will never agree

34] A man may learn wit every day.

35] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

36] Every oak has been an acorn

37] Praise is always pleasant

38] A man may say too much, even up on the best subjects

39] Manners make the man

40] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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

42] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

43] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

44] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

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

46] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

47] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

48] A wounded reputation is seldom cured

49] The golden age was never the present age

50] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

51] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

52] The hen that lays the eggs knows the pain

53] Man punishes the action but God the intention

54] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

55] Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter

56] Never say die

57] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

58] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

59] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

60] Goods that are much on show lose their colour

61] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

62] Wine unveils the words of the heart

63] Covetousness is the root of all evil

64] The devil is not as black as he is painted

65] No wrong without a remedy

66] All are not saints that go to church

67] Enough is enough

68] Now is now, and then was then

69] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

70] Better an open enemy than a false friend

71] Every one thinks his own cross is heaviest

72] Sorrow will pay no debt

73] The wish is father to the thought

74] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

75] He that wants health wants all

76] All things are possible with god

77] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

78] When one door shuts, another opens

79] Silence is also speech

80] Death alone can kill hope

81] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

82] Remember, you are but a man

83] Good company on the road is the shortest cut

84] Tie a chicken with an elephant rope, and it will slip off; tie an elephant with a chicken-tether, and it will break away.

85] Better to be safe than sorry.

86] Don’t cry before you are hurt

87] Hasty climbers have sudden falls

88] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

89] He that borrows must pay again with shame or loss

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

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

92] If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold.

93] A bribe will enter without knocking

94] Even dust, when piled up, may form a hill

95] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

96] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

97] Crime does not pay

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

99] Cheats never prosper

100] Habit is second nature