Famous Proverbs

1] A single rose does not mean spring

2] The word is far him who has patience

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

4] Slander leaves a sc ore behind it

5] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

6] The ass that brays most eats

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

8] What’s learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb

9] Fortune favours fools

10] Charity begins at home.

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

12] Faint heart never won fair lady

13] Open a book and you profit by what you read

14] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

15] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

16] A good wife makes a good husband

17] Make the best of a bad bargain

18] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

19] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

20] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

21] The borrower is servant to the lender

22] The tongue talks at the heads cost

23] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

24] Fair without, false within

25] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

26] Wake not a sleeping lion

27] No news is good news

28] The child is father of the man

29] Cleanliness is next to godliness

30] More have repented speech than silence

31] We live by laws, not by examples

32] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

33] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

34] Real friendship does not freeze in winter

35] Much law but little justice

36] Idleness is the root of all evil

37] The more you get, the more you want

38] A good drink makes the old young

39] A fool is ever dancing on the tip of his tongue

40] When in doubt, do nothing

41] Honest is the best policy

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

43] The slowest barker is the surest biter

44] As you brew, so shall you drink.

45] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

46] None so blind as those who will not see

47] Ill gotten, ill spent

48] Laugh and grow fat

49] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

50] Hear twice before you speak once

51] What cannot gold do?

52] Death does not recognize strength

53] First impressions are half the battle

54] Laws were made to be broke

55] When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing

56] You must grin and bear it

57] There is no smoke without fire

58] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

59] Youth and age will never agree

60] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

61] Custom reconciles us to everything

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

63] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

64] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

65] Every why has a wherefore

66] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

67] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

68] Hope keeps man alive

69] Honour is the reward of virtue

70] Scatter with one hand, gather with two

71] Hunger is the best sauce

72] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

73] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

74] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

75] Dogs bark as they are bred.

76] Weapons breed peace

77] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

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

79] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

80] Much learning makes men mad

81] Every dog has his day

82] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

83] Poverty is not a crime

84] Praises fill not the belly

85] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

86] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

87] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered

88] The biter is sometimes bit

89] The tree that god plants, no wind hurts it

90] Nothing stake, nothing draw.

91] The devil looks after his own

92] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

93] Bear with evil and expect good

94] Don’t build the sty before the litter comes

95] Don’t play with fire

96] Ambition makes people diligent

97] It is an ill bargain where no man wins

98] Set a wolf to keep the sheep

99] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

100] Experience is the mother of wisdom