Famous Proverbs

1] A good conscience is a soft pillow

2] The early bird catches the worm

3] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

4] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

5] All good things must come to an end

6] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

7] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

8] Nature is the true law

9] Four eyes see better than two.

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

11] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

12] Every man has the defects of his own virtues (or qualities)

13] A good heart conquers ill fortune

14] Empty vessels make the most sound

15] Never make threats you cannot carry out.

16] Mirth is the sugar of life

17] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

18] He is wise who looks ahead

19] Nearest the heart comes out first

20] Love laughs at locksmiths

21] The best wine comes from an old vessel

22] Names and natures do often agree

23] Never too late to learn

24] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

25] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

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

27] Better belly burst than good meat lost

28] No feast lasts forever.

29] Ambition loses many a man

30] Wedlock is padlock

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

32] There is many a true word spoken in jest

33] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

34] Don’t make a mountain out of molehill

35] More haste, less speed

36] Kinsman helps kinsman, and woe to him that has none

37] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

38] Do right and fear no man

39] Seek and you shall find

40] Don’t kick against the pricks

41] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

42] Vice is often clothed in virtue’s habit

43] A true friend is forever a friend

44] Ready money is ready medicine

45] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

46] He that has no shame has no conscience

47] A light purse makes a heavy heart

48] Where there is no might, right loses itself

49] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

50] Cleanliness is next to godliness

51] If you can’t ride two horses at once, you shouldn’t be in the circus

52] Wedlock is padlock

53] Conscience does make cowards of us all

54] Quietness is a great treasure

55] Like master, like man

56] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

57] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

58] He that will steal a pin will steal a better thing

59] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

60] You can’t teach an old dog new tricks

61] Those that make the best use of their time, have none to spare

62] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

63] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

64] Where god will help, nothing does harm

65] What is the good of a sundial in the shade?

66] A good dog deserves a good bone

67] Beauty is but skin-deep

68] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

69] One sword keeps another in the sheath

70] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

71] How who makes no mistakes, makes nothing.

72] It’s a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.

73] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

74] Live and Learn

75] It is easier to capture a tiger in the hills than to ask for favours from a man

76] The fire which warms us a distance will burn us when near

77] He is lifeless that is faultless

78] Necessity knows no law

79] The highest tree has the greatest fall

80] Every dog has his (its) day

81] Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

82] It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen

83] Nothing so bad in which there is not something of good

84] Dying is as natural as living

85] Error cannot be defended but by error

86] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

87] In haste is error

88] Water is the king of food

89] Our own opinion is never wrong

90] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

91] When the word is out it belongs to another

92] Where every man is master, the world goes to wrack

93] An ill tongue may do much

94] No man ever becomes thoroughly bad all at once

95] Better children weep than old men

96] A good garden may have some ill weeds

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

98] Strings high stretched either soon crack or quickly grow out of tune.

99] The best wine comes from an old vessel

100] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused