Famous Proverbs

1] Better an apple given than eaten

2] Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler

3] Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.

4] The early bird catches the worm

5] A bad excuse is better than none at all

6] Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

7] Where there is peace, God is

8] Creditors have better memories than debtors

9] Afflictions are sent to us by God for our good

10] It is not work that kills but worry

11] Small gifts make friends, great ones make enemies

12] He freezes who does not burn

13] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

14] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

15] Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry

16] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

17] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

18] A constant guest is never welcome

19] The darkest hour is that before the dawn

20] Cross the stream where it is shallowest

21] Honest men marry soon, wise men not at all

22] A man should keep from the blind and give t his kin.

23] A fool says what he knows, and a wise man knows what he says.

24] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

25] Out of debt, out of danger

26] Names are debts

27] No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself

28] Hard words break no bones

29] Don’t meet trouble half-way

30] Like father, like son

31] The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it

32] Fields have eyes and woods have ears

33] Slow and steady wins the race

34] Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse

35] From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step

36] Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number

37] He conquers who endures

38] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

39] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

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

41] The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

42] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

43] There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

44] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

45] If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.

46] Curiosity killed the cat.

47] When you do not know what to do – wait.

48] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

49] He that praises himself, spatters himself

50] The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead

51] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

52] Wedlock is padlock

53] Better be alone than in bad company

54] When bees area old, they yield n honey

55] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

56] Abundance, like want, ruins many

57] He conquers who endures

58] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

59] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

60] How seldom in life is the moon directly overhead

61] A good conscience is a soft pillow

62] One swallow does not make a summer

63] Morning dreams come true

64] A true man and a thief think not the same

65] The worse luck now, the better another time

66] If anything can go wrong, it will

67] The absent saint gets no candle

68] Shrouds have no pockets

69] Do as most men do, then most men well speak well of you

70] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

71] Do not limp before the lame

72] Every shoe fits not every foot

73] Words cut more than swords

74] Better the foot slip than the tongue

75] Better to have one eye than be blind altogether

76] The highest tree has the greatest fall

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

78] Pat any man and dust will fly

79] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

80] He that has an ill name is half hanged

81] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

82] Good fame is better than a good face

83] It is easier to pour away water than to gather it.

84] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

85] At a good bargain thinks twice

86] The great fish eat up the small

87] Words are but wind

88] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

89] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

90] Little things please little minds

91] It is the lot of a king to do well but to be ill-spoken of

92] Life means strife

93] Quietness is a great treasure

94] Fool’s haste is no speed

95] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

96] If you don’t have good weapons, it is better for you to submit

97] As soon as there is life there is danger

98] Children have wide ears and long tongues.

99] True gold is not transformed by fire

100] To speak as the common people, to think as the wise