Famous Proverbs

1] A bad workman always blames his tools

2] Every tub must stand on its own bottom

3] As soon as there is life there is danger

4] He that wants health wants all

5] All must be as God will

6] Birds of a feather flock together

7] Nothing so bad as not to be good for something

8] Every Jack must have his Jill

9] Human blood is all of a colour

10] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

11] Better to wear out than rust out

12] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

13] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

14] Even silence may be eloquent

15] The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle

16] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

17] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

18] Health and money go far

19] Many a true word is spoken in jest

20] All doors open to courtesy

21] The poorer one is, the more devils one meets

22] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

23] God makes the back for the burden

24] The road to hell is paved with good action

25] The best of men are but men at best.

26] A learned man has always riches in himself

27] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

28] Love cannot be compelled

29] Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish

30] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

31] Law makers should not be law breakers

32] Those who sell dog-meat often display a lamb’s head

33] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

34] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

35] A bully is always a coward

36] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

37] It foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor

38] He knows which side his bread is buttered

39] God sends cold after Clothes

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

41] Expectation is better than realisation

42] Gold is tried in the fire

43] A good conscience is a sure card

44] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

45] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

46] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

47] The camel never sees its own hump, but that of its brother is always before its eyes

48] Necessity is mother of invention

49] Ill news comes apace.

50] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

51] He is not laughed at the laughs at himself first

52] Christmas comes but once a year

53] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

54] Findings are keepings

55] Though a lie be swift the truth overtakes it

56] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

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

58] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

59] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

60] White there’s life there’s hope

61] Nature abhors a vacuum

62] Be still and have thy will

63] Care brings grey hair.

64] Other times, other manners

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

66] There’s a black sheep in every flock

67] First creep, then walk

68] Don’t meet trouble half-way

69] The dog is a lion in his own house

70] He who leaps high must take a long run

71] An ill tongue may do much

72] Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king

73] Wine unveils the words of the heart

74] Strike while the iron is hot

75] A rich man’s joke is always funny

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

77] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

78] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

79] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

80] Dog does not eat dog

81] Union is strength.

82] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

83] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

84] What is money to a cat?

85] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

86] Good counsel never comes amiss

87] First catch your hare

88] Money is the sinews of war

89] Manners and money make a gentleman

90] He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of hens

91] Cheats never prosper

92] A little learning is dangerous thing

93] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

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

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

96] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

97] The best is often the enemy of the good

98] A jack of all traders is master of none

99] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

100] No misfortune will go on forever