Famous Proverbs

1] A piece of churchyard fits every body

2] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

3] It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock

4] Beware of him who makes thee presents

5] Even the grubs in the rocks manage to survive

6] Fine feathers make fine birds.

7] It is a hard-fought field where no man escapes unkilled

8] He is lifeless that is faultless

9] The devil dances in an empty pocket

10] Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

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

12] Bad news travels fast

13] Grin and bear it

14] What is word but wind?

15] Fools grow without watering.

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

17] Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still

18] Quarrels do not last long if the wrong is only on one side

19] A good name is better than riches

20] Health and money go far

21] The more cost, the more honour

22] Vast chasms can be filled, but the heart of man never

23] Covetousness brings nothing home

24] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

25] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

26] The more you get, the more you want

27] A gift much expected is paid, not given

28] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

29] Practice is the science that gives confidence

30] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

31] Home is where the heart is

32] Every path has a puddle

33] No land without stones, or meat without bones

34] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

35] He that is absent is soon forgotten

36] Almost’ never killed a fly.

37] Of thy sorrow be not too sad, of thy joy be not too glad

38] Give a loan and buy quarrel

39] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

40] Death does not recognize strength

41] In everything consider the end

42] Dying is as natural as living

43] Though the food is plain, stomach may be filled; though the cloth is coarse, one may be clad to a ripe old age

44] Grief pent up will break the heart

45] Behind the smile, a dagger may be hidden

46] An old ox will find a shelter for himself

47] Youth will have its course.

48] Possibilities are infinite

49] Beauty is in the face; grace is all over.

50] Blessed is he who excepts nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

51] A liar can go round the world but cannot come back

52] The highest tree has the greatest fall

53] III luck is good for something

54] Time and tide wait for no man

55] No like is the same.

56] There’s no fence against ill fortune.

57] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

58] The pen is the tongue of the hand

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

60] Despair gives courage to a coward

61] Take not a musket to kill a butterfly

62] You cannot have your cake and eat it

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

64] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

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

66] The early bird catches the worm

67] Years know more than books

68] He that will not endure to itch must endure to smart

69] A good Conscience is the best divinity

70] You cannot get ivory from a dog’s mouth

71] You never know your luck

72] Change brings life

73] Children and fools have merry lives

74] He who can wait obtains what he wishes.

75] A little help is worth a deal of pity

76] Cheats never prosper

77] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

78] When things are at the worst, they begin to mend

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

80] Whatever man has done, man can do

81] Look before you leap

82] A house divided against itself cannot stand

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

84] He that shows his purse, longs to be rid of it

85] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

86] A word spoken is past recalling

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

88] Truth conquers all things

89] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

90] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

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

92] There is many a fair thing full false

93] A bad workman always blames his tools

94] Cast not the first stone.

95] By doing nothing, we learn to do ill

96] As you plant wild grass, you won’t get a crop of rice.

97] Wrong never comes right

98] Good counsel has no price. Nothing is given so freely as advice.

99] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

100] We shall lie all alike in our graves