Famous Proverbs

1] An evil life is a kind of death.

2] The thief doth fear each bush an offer

3] Sadness and happiness succeed each other.

4] Wrong has no warrant

5] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

6] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

7] Honesty is the best policy

8] Better an open enemy than a false friend

9] No man limps because another is hurt

10] It is a blind goose that comes to the fox’s sermon

11] Time flees without a delay

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

13] If you would be well served, serve yourself

14] Be careful to whom you give

15] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

16] God helps those who help themselves

17] Better late than never

18] Dangerous foreseen are soonest prevented

19] Those who are used to the signs of the dumb, understand them

20] Don’t take your harp to the party

21] You may know by a handful the whole sack

22] Little and often fills the purse

23] Good broth may be made in an old pot

24] Self-praise is no recommendation

25] Experience is good if not bought too dear

26] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

27] Better bend than break

28] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

29] Repentance comes too late

30] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

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

32] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

33] The dog is a lion in his own house

34] He may find fault that cannot mend

35] Look after your money and don’t make your neighbour a thief

36] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

37] Common fame is seldom to blame

38] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

39] Men are known by the company they keep.

40] They say so’ is half a lie

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

42] Point not at other’s spots with a foul finger

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

44] All’s fish that comes to the net

45] Don’t cross the bridge before you get to it

46] Men leap over where the hedge is lowest

47] Wait’ is a hard word to the hungry.

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

49] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

50] Too much cunning undoes

51] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

52] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

53] He who seizes the right moment is the right man

54] Danger makes men devout

55] Now is now, and then was then

56] Life is not all beer and skittles

57] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

58] He that talks much, errs much

59] All roads lead to Rome

60] Necessity is mother of invention

61] Every may be has a may not be

62] Wife and Children are bills of charges

63] Often and little eating makes a man fat

64] Hunger is the best sauce

65] One can’t help many, but many can help one

66] Take heed is a fair thing

67] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

68] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

69] Mustard is a good sauce, but mirth is better

70] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

71] No man is born wise or learned

72] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

73] One father is more than a hundred school masters

74] A man without a wife is but half a man

75] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

76] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

77] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

78] He that is down need fear no fall

79] A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled

80] Health and wealth create beauty

81] Train the child in the way he should go.

82] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

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

84] He who leaps high must take a long run

85] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

86] Better belly burst than good meat lost

87] Never do evil that good may come of it

88] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

89] Dog does not eat dog

90] The wisest of the wise may err.

91] The longest night will have an end

92] You cannot serve God and Mammon

93] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

94] Don’t tell tales out of school

95] Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

96] Let bygones be bygones

97] Better an open enemy than a false friend

98] Where there’s a will there’s a way

99] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

100] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it