Famous Proverbs

1] If you pile up enough sand, you make a pagoda

2] Constant dripping (or dropping) wears away the stone

3] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

4] An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter’s head

5] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

6] Children learn to creep ere they can go

7] Live and Learn

8] Nothing is given so freely as advice

9] A wicked man is his own hell

10] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

11] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

12] Hear twice before you speak once

13] Worse things happen at sea

14] Time has wings

15] Worse things happen at sea

16] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

17] Revenge never repairs an injury

18] The sun shines upon all alike.

19] He is wise who looks ahead

20] Custom takes the taste from the most savoury dishes

21] He that has a wife, has strife

22] Patience under old injuries invites new ones

23] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

24] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

25] Honesty is ill to thrive by

26] True doctrines require no miracles

27] Standing pools gather fifth

28] If you have bread, don’t look for cake

29] Love and business teach eloquence

30] Tell a lie and stick to it.

31] Love delights in praise

32] A good conscience is a sure card

33] He who leaps high must take a long run

34] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

35] Many words, many buffets

36] First catch your hare

37] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

38] God gives us the milk, but not the pail

39] Adam’s ale is the best brew

40] Haste is of (or from) the devil

41] Every man has his faults

42] It never rains it pours

43] One good turn deserves another

44] Children learn to creep ere they can go

45] One good deed makes up for a thousand bad ones.

46] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh

47] The eye that sees all things else sees not itself

48] Patient waiters are no losers

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

50] Mercy surpasses justice

51] All is vanity.

52] It takes all sorts to make a world

53] It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust

54] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

55] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

56] Four eyes see more than two

57] Let sleeping dogs lie

58] Punishment is a cripple, but it arrives

59] The receiver is as bad as the thief

60] Never tell your enemy that your foot aches

61] Water is the king of food

62] Enough is as good as a feast

63] The faulty stands on his guard

64] It is useless to flog a dead horse

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

66] A thing of beauty is a joy forever

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

68] No man knows what good is than he who has endured evil

69] Manners make the man

70] First impressions are half the battle

71] Harsh words cut wounds that fester like cankerous sores

72] Every man praises his own wares

73] We must not look for a golden life in an iron age

74] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

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

76] Fair exchange is no robbery

77] How ever much you learn, you won’t know how to raise the dead

78] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

79] If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die

80] Of three main roads, take the middle one

81] Wrong has no warrant

82] The end makes all equal

83] A man with no hands is given a ring.

84] He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune

85] What has been, may be

86] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

87] One must howl with the wolves

88] The cowl does not make the monk.

89] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

90] Call no man happy till he is dead

91] An empty sack cannot stand upright

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

93] Liars should have good memories

94] He who teaches learns

95] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

96] Arms bend inwards – not outwards.

97] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

98] First impressions are the most lasting

99] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

100] The wish is father to the thought