Famous Proverbs

1] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

2] Ill comes often on the back worse

3] Fingers were made before forks

4] A short cut is often a wrong cut

5] With patience and time, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

6] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

7] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

8] A man’s discontent is his worst evil

9] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

10] Money is the sinews of war

11] Ill news comes often on the back of worse

12] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables

13] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

14] Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows

15] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

16] The devil lurks behind the cross

17] Example is the greatest of all seducers

18] Big fish eat little fish

19] One man sows and another reaps

20] Far from eye, far from heart

21] Every man has his faults

22] Love is without reason

23] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

24] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

25] Brevity is the soul of wit

26] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

27] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

28] The tongue talks at the heads cost

29] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

30] The early man ever borrows from the late man

31] All things that great men do are well done

32] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

33] A living dog is better than a dead lion

34] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

35] Flesh is frail

36] He that serves every body is paid by nobody

37] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

38] Dirty linen should be washed at home

39] Care brings grey hair.

40] Dirty water does not wash clean.

41] Revenge never repairs an injury

42] A penny saved is a penny gained

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

44] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

45] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

46] Come with the wind, got with the water

47] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

48] Give a loan and buy quarrel

49] Trust is dead-ill payment killed it.

50] A person with a determined heart frightens Problems away

51] Better to ask the way than go astray.

52] Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

53] See how the wind blows

54] Variety is charming

55] Every cloud has a silver lining

56] All things are possible with god

57] Praise no man till he is dead.

58] You cannot unscramble eggs

59] Honest is the best policy

60] Love knows no limit

61] It never rains it pours

62] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

63] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

64] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

65] No pains, no gains

66] To fright a bird is not the way to catch her

67] If you pile up enough sand, you can make a pagoda

68] Necessity knows no law

69] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

70] The world is full of fools

71] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

72] All good things must come to an end

73] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

74] Some are wise and some are otherwise

75] A man can die but once

76] Dirty linen should be washed at home

77] A door must be either shut or open

78] Never judge from appearances

79] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

80] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

81] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

82] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

83] God arms the harmless

84] Love is without reason

85] Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again

86] Sow thin and mow thin

87] Things are only worth one makes them worth

88] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

89] Extremes meet

90] He that knows little often repeats it

91] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

92] What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away

93] Fortune is blind

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

95] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

96] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

97] The ass that brays most eats

98] One lie makes many

99] He is wise who looks ahead

100] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.