Famous Proverbs

1] Our neighbour’s ground yields better corn than ours

2] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

3] Little birds that can sing and won’t sing should be made to sing

4] He that may not do as he would, must do as he may

5] Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust

6] He travels the fastest who travels alone

7] Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

8] Variety takes away satiety

9] Kindness lies in one side of the house

10] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

11] A good name is better than riches

12] The tongue stings

13] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

14] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

15] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

16] A good paymaster never wants workmen

17] White there’s life there’s hope

18] To teach is to learn twice over

19] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

20] A burnt child dreads the fire

21] Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

22] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

23] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

24] Morning dreams come true

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

26] Full of courtesy, full of craft

27] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

28] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

29] Art improves Nature

30] Fish and guests smell in three days

31] It is profound ignorance that inspires the dogmatic tone

32] Love delights in praise

33] The best is often the enemy of the good

34] Soft fire makes sweet malt

35] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

36] Long looked for, comes at last

37] An honest good look covers many faults.

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

39] Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn

40] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

41] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

42] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

43] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

44] Everything is of use to a housekeeper

45] Even reckoning makes long friends

46] Bread is the staff of life.

47] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

48] The faulty stands on his guard

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

50] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

51] Busiest men find the most time

52] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

53] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

54] He that travels far knows much

55] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

56] There’s always room at the top

57] Self-preservation is the first law of nature

58] Bad excuses are worse than none.

59] Love will go through stone walls

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

61] Do as you would be done by

62] With seven nurses, the child loses its eye

63] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

64] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

65] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

66] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

67] Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it

68] You never know what you can do till you try

69] It’s dogged that does it

70] A burthen of one’s own choice is not felt

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

72] Love is never without jealousy

73] Even Buddha has a limit to what he can tolerate

74] Cheats never prosper

75] A word spoken is past recalling

76] Charity begins at home.

77] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

78] Health without money is half an ague

79] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

80] Death keeps no calendar

81] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

82] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

83] When the dog catches mice, it is meddling in the cat’s business.

84] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

85] To know the husband, observe the face of the wife

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

87] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

88] Crows are all completely black

89] Make not your sauce, before you have caught the fish.

90] However much the arm may swing out, the armpit is where it sticks

91] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

92] He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning

93] All doors open to courtesy

94] God rejoices when one beggar scratches another

95] The tongue talks at the heads cost

96] A man of courage never wants weapons

97] Every man has his price

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

99] A wise man cares not for what he cannot have

100] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend