Famous Proverbs

1] Care brings grey hair.

2] Weeds need no sowing

3] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

4] Common fame is a liar

5] It is ill striving (or swimming) against the stream (or tide)

6] They can do least two boast loudest

7] Standing pools gather fifth

8] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

9] Put out your tubs when it is raining

10] Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

11] He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good.

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

13] A hungry man smells meat afar off

14] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

15] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

16] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

17] Wives must be had, be they good or bad

18] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

19] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

20] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

21] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

22] When one door shuts, another opens

23] Spread the table, and contention will cease

24] Hunger makes hard bean sweet

25] Care is no cure

26] All’s fish that comes to the net

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

28] Penny wise, pound foolish

29] Take the tone of the company you are in

30] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

31] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

32] Desire beautifies what is ugly

33] Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

34] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

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

36] Happy is the country (or nation) that has no history

37] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

38] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

39] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

40] The deed comes back upon the doer.

41] Many drops make a shower

42] Small is the seed of every greatness

43] The highest tree has the greatest fall

44] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

45] Haste makes waste

46] Hungry bellies have no ears

47] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

48] When the cat is away, the mice will play

49] Every bean has its black

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

51] A straw will show which way the wind blows.

52] If you want peace, prepare for war

53] Do as say, not as I do

54] The early bird catches the worm

55] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

56] Moderation in all things

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

58] Past cure, past care

59] Forethought is easy, repentance hard

60] A good reaper deserves a good sickle.

61] Death devours lambs as well as sheep

62] Shrouds have no pockets

63] Suffering does not manifest itself

64] We shall lie all alike in our graves

65] Too many cooks spoil the broth

66] The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love

67] Poverty is no sin

68] What can’t be cured must be endured

69] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

70] Bad news travels fast

71] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

72] The worst wheel of the cart creaks most

73] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

74] The bread never falls but on its buttered side

75] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

76] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

77] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

78] Coming events cast their shadows before

79] A true man and a thief think not the same

80] Many eyes upon the king

81] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

82] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

83] Quickly come, quickly go

84] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

85] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

86] All is vanity.

87] The axe falls on a straight tree first

88] It’s hard to get one’s own sword back when it’s in someone else’s scabbard

89] Friends are thieves of time

90] Debt is an evil conscience

91] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

92] The golden age was never the present age

93] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

94] He who spends before he thrives will beg before he thinks

95] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

96] Anger without power is folly

97] Wink at small faults

98] The first blow is half the battle

99] Possibilities are infinite

100] Do not halloo till you are out of the wood