Famous Proverbs

1] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

2] Human blood is all of a colour

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

4] Creditors have better memories than debtors

5] The sun shines upon all alike.

6] A good conscience is a sure card

7] Love me, love the crows on my roof

8] A living dog is better than a dead lion

9] Some are wise and some are otherwise

10] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

11] Have two strings to your bow

12] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

13] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

14] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

15] If one sheep leaps o’er the dyke, all the rest will follow

16] Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

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

18] No man can serve two masters

19] Great trees keep down the little ones

20] Empty vessels make the most sound

21] Ready money is a ready remedy

22] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

23] Better never begin than never make an end

24] Good clothes open all doors

25] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

26] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

27] Once a use and ever a custom

28] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

29] There is no fool like an old fool

30] The falling drops hollow the stone

31] What’s in a name?

32] He mediates revenge who least complains.

33] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

34] Light burden I heavy if far borne

35] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

36] Blue are the far away hills

37] If one will not, another will

38] Children should be seen and not heard

39] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

40] Whatever man has done, man can do

41] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

42] Good hand, good hire

43] Better be born lucky than wise.

44] It is easier to commend poverty than endure it.

45] Practice makes perfect

46] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

47] The belly carries the legs

48] Half a loaf is better than do bread

49] One barber shaves another gratis

50] Submitting to one wrong brings on another.

51] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

52] Some are wise and some are otherwise

53] He that repairs not a part, builds all

54] Beauty draws more than oxen

55] Give a loan and buy quarrel

56] Nothing is easy to the unwilling

57] Everything would fain live

58] The dog is a lion in his own house

59] Patient waiters are no losers

60] Extremes are dangerous

61] The best wine comes from an old vessel

62] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

63] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

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

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

66] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

67] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

68] Sow thin and mow thin

69] The course of true love never did run smooth

70] Drunkards and fools cannot lie.

71] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

72] A healthy man is a successful man

73] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

74] Little fishes slip through nets, but great fishes are taken

75] There is no time like the present

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

77] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

78] He that would have the fruit, must climb the tree.

79] Blood will have blood

80] Every why has a wherefore

81] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

82] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

83] Stolen sweets are sweeter

84] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

85] Soft fire makes sweet malt

86] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

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

88] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

89] Wrong has no warrant

90] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

91] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

92] Light grows the burden which is well borne

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

94] Even silence may be eloquent

95] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

96] Cheats never prosper

97] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

98] Experience is a dear school, but fools learn in no other

99] Dying is as natural as living

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