Famous Proverbs

1] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

2] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

3] God gave us the seed of every plant, but we must sow it.

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

5] Asking costs little

6] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

7] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

8] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

9] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

10] The disinterested observer may perceive what is missed by those who are directly involved

11] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

12] Muck and money go together

13] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

14] He that has a wife, has strife

15] Do as you would be done by

16] No pains, no gains

17] Fear of death is worse than death itself

18] Don’t meet trouble half-way

19] After the extreme of cold comes spring

20] Love conquers all

21] Every Jack must have his Jill

22] A good example is the best sermon

23] First come, first served

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

25] First impressions are most lasting

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

27] Give and take is fair play

28] The dancing girl who could not dance, said that the hall was not big enough.

29] Striving to better, often we mar what’s well.

30] When we sing, everybody hears us; when sigh, nobody hears us

31] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

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

33] The early bird catches the worm

34] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

35] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

36] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.

37] One man’s means another man’s poison

38] Love can find a way

39] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

40] When bees area old, they yield n honey

41] All our pomp the earth covers

42] Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

43] Love me, love my dog

44] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

45] He conquers who endures

46] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

47] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

48] Death keeps no calendar

49] Luck for fools and chance for the ugly

50] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

51] It is as natural to die as to be born

52] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

53] High places have their precipices

54] Clean and whole makes poor clothes shine.

55] Excessive happiness produces pain

56] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

57] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

58] Valour would fight, but discretion would run away

59] Light burden I heavy if far borne

60] The last suitor wins the maid

61] Truth is god’s daughter

62] Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea

63] Even the compelling beauty of the Diamond Mountain cannot be appreciated when the stomach is empty

64] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

65] It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

66] Plain dealing is a jewel

67] Affection blinds reason

68] Grief pent up will break the heart

69] A word before is worth two behind

70] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

71] Take away fuel, take away flame

72] Early sow, early mow

73] Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

74] Good fame is better than a good face

75] Gold is tried in the fire

76] When you do not know what to do – wait.

77] Men are not to be measured in inches

78] Might overcome right.

79] Under the tongue, men are crushed to death

80] The best things are hard to come by.

81] Confession of our fault is the next thing to innocence

82] Every man is his own worst enemy

83] Every light has its shadow

84] A door must be either shut or open

85] The exception proves the rule

86] If anything can go wrong, it will

87] Let bygones be bygones

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

89] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

90] His bark is worse than his bite

91] Truth has no need of rhetoric

92] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

93] Soon hot, soon cold

94] They say so’ is half a lie

95] Desert and reward seldom keep company

96] Flesh is frail

97] The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands

98] What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

99] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

100] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend