Famous Proverbs

1] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

2] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

3] A good name is a rich heritage

4] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

5] A bully never grows up.

6] The eye sees only what it has the power of seeing

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

8] It is easy to be wise after the event

9] If you walk in the sun, you will know the blessedness of being in the shade

10] Like mistress, like maid

11] Like will to like

12] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

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

14] There’s a time and place for everything

15] He that wants health wants all

16] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

17] Never too late to repent

18] A fool and his money are soon parted

19] A good heart conquers ill fortune

20] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

21] Keep your mouth shut and your ears open

22] Fortune favours those who use their judgement

23] Prospect is often better than possession

24] God’s help is better than the early rising

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

26] It is easier to praise poverty than to bear it.

27] Love cannot be compelled

28] Kindness lies in one side of the house

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

30] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

31] Like master, like man

32] You must lose a fly to catch a trout

33] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

34] None so deaf as those that will not hear

35] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

37] History repeats itself

38] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

39] Words fly, writings remain

40] In all the weeding cake, hope is the sweetest plum.

41] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

42] Too many cooks spoil the broth

43] There is a great difference between words and deeds

44] Children should be seen and not heard

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

46] He who rouses a sleeping tiger exposes himself to danger

47] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

48] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

49] He who demands does not command

50] One cannot put back the clock

51] Lend never that thing you needed most

52] Art improves Nature

53] Every dog is valiant at his won door

54] Experience must be bought

55] Dying men speak true

56] It is n time to stoop when the head is off.

57] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

58] To study a great deal is to acquire a priceless treasure

59] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword

60] Money can influence even the spirits

61] The first step is the only difficulty

62] Fish and guests smell in three days

63] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

64] Go while the going is good

65] The goat must browse where she is tied

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

67] The flesh is aye fairest that is farthest from the bone

68] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

69] Money is the sinews of war

70] His bark is worse than his bite

71] Clothes do not make the man

72] The young will sow their wild oats

73] If you can’t bite, never show your teeth.

74] Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

75] Experience without learning is better than learning without experience

76] Might is right

77] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

78] Not lock will hold against the power of gold

79] Idle folks have the least leisure

80] First impressions are the most lasting

81] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

82] The dog is a lion in his own house

83] Far from eye, far from heart

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

85] What costs little is little esteemed

86] What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning

87] Forecast is better than work-hard

88] A bully is always a coward

89] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

90] Lookers-on see more than players

91] After a storm comes a calm

92] Old vessels must leak

93] Thieves and rogues have the best luck, if they do but escape hanging

94] A good example is the best sermon

95] Patience is a plaster for all sores

96] Of one ill come many

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

98] The wise forget an insult, as the ungrateful a kindness

99] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

100] Friendship is a plant which must be often watered