Famous Proverbs

1] Set a thief to catch a thief

2] A spear you can see can easily be avoided; a hidden arrows is difficult to guard against.

3] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

4] There is honour among thieves

5] He who teaches learns

6] Opportunity makes the thief

7] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

8] Jack would be a gentleman if he had money

9] Give a loan and buy quarrel

10] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

11] A man in debt is caught in a net

12] Fingers were made before forks

13] The hunchback does not see his own hump, but his companion’s

14] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

15] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

16] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

17] Boys will be boys

18] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

19] Anger managers everything badly.

20] All cats are grey in the dark

21] Fish and guests smell in three days

22] Often and little eating makes a man fat

23] Too far east is west

24] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

25] Live and let live

26] There is no royal road to learning

27] The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

28] If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

29] He that knows little often repeats it

30] You cannot unscramble eggs

31] Nothing costs so much as what is given us

32] Practice is the science that gives confidence

33] If anything can go wrong, it will

34] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

35] He that eats least eats most

36] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

37] He that is born a fool is never cured

38] Wrong has no warrant

39] A learned man has always riches in himself

40] Hunger breaks stone walls

41] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

42] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

43] A fool and his money are soon parted

44] Wisdom is better than strength

45] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

46] He who waits for another man’s platter has a cold meal

47] Wine is the best broom for trouble

48] Second thoughts are best

49] Nothing comes from nothing

50] Silence is golden

51] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

52] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

53] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

54] It is better (or more blessed) to give than to take

55] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

56] He that speaks well, flights well

57] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

58] A single filament of silk does not make a thread; a single tree does not make a forest

59] He that has a wife, has strife

60] Our worst misfortunes are those which never befall us

61] Money talks

62] What we spent, we had; what we gave, we have: what we left, we lost

63] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

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

65] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

66] What you don’t know can’t hurt you

67] Nothing is so certain as death

68] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

69] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

70] Better eye sore than al blind

71] One cannot put back the clock

72] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

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

74] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

75] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

76] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

77] He that burns most, shines most

78] Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

79] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

80] A willful man will have his way

81] Anger without power is folly

82] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

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

84] The healthful man can give counsel to the sick

85] Handsome is as handsome does

86] A short cut is often a wrong cut

87] If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth

88] One speak of rat droppings will spoil a whole pan of rice

89] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

90] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

91] Much would have more

92] Ill luck is good for something

93] It is lawful to learn even from an enemy

94] In my own house, I am king

95] What we have seen with out own eyes is very much but what we have not seen is infinite.

96] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

97] The soldier who retreated fifty paces laughed at the one who had fallen back a hundred paces

98] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

99] Many words, many buffets

100] Wine unveils the words of the heart