Famous Proverbs

1] Often and little eating makes a man fat

2] Bind the sack before it be full

3] The last suitor wins the maid

4] Eat a clove of garlic and you smell of garlic; eat two cloves and you smell the same.

5] It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good

6] First thrive then wive

7] Confess and be hanged

8] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

9] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

10] Help a lame dog over a stile

11] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

12] It is easier to get a favour from fortune than to keep it

13] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

14] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

15] Covetousness breaks the sack

16] White there’s life there’s hope

17] A good Jack makes a good Jill.

18] No man fears what he has seen grow

19] Every one thinks his own sack heaviest

20] The great would have none great, and the little all little

21] Friendship should not be all on one side

22] Where your will is ready, your feet are light

23] It will be the same a hundred years hence

24] He is a fool who makes his physician his heir

25] A good husband makes a good wife

26] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

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

28] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

29] Great minds think alike

30] Needs must when the devil drives

31] Don’t make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you

32] What one loses (or you lose) on the swings, one makes up (or you gain) on the roundabouts

33] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

34] Virtue is its own reward

35] A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats.

36] Nothing is so bad but might have been worse

37] A rich man can do nothing wrong

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

39] Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

40] He that brings good news, knocks hard

41] One is not smelt where all stink

42] Confess and be hanged

43] The bee sucks honey out of the bitterest flowers

44] It is a great victory that comes without blood

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

46] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

47] A old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

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

49] The more you have the more you want

50] The perfect good is the exercise of virtue

51] A good name is a rich heritage

52] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

53] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

54] The hand that gives, gathers

55] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

56] A merchant that gains not, loses

57] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

58] Where god will help, nothing does harm

59] What is worth doing is worth doing well

60] He is an ill husband who is not missed

61] Diligence is the mother of good luck

62] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

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

64] A forced kindness deserves no thanks

65] In everything consider the end

66] Fortune knocks once at every man’s door

67] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

68] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

69] The bait hides the hook

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

71] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

72] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

73] Love your friend with his fault

74] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

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

76] Poverty is no sin

77] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

78] Men do more things through habit than reason

79] Nature will have her course

80] Money is power

81] The last drop makes the cup run over

82] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

83] Good goods are not cheap; cheap goods are not good

84] Blood is thicker than water

85] There’s a black sheep in every flock

86] Parents are patterns

87] The first step is the only difficulty

88] A good wife makes a good husband

89] An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth

90] A soft answer turns away wrath

91] Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel

92] Eaten bread is soon forgotten

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

94] A man of knowledge increaseth strength

95] One may change the place but not the mind.

96] Time flees without a delay

97] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

98] All things require skills but an appetite

99] Forecast is better than work-hard

100] An obedient wife commands her husband