Famous Proverbs

1] From word to deed is a great space

2] A good name keeps its luster in the dark

3] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

4] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

5] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

6] Evil often triumphs but never conquers.

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

8] Morning dreams come true

9] Children and fools have merry lives

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

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

12] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

13] It is more blessed to give than to receive

14] Too much cunning undoes

15] A mouse may help a lion

16] Spare the rod and spoil the child

17] Example is better than precept

18] Claw me, and I’ll claw thee

19] You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

20] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

21] What is a workman without his tools?

22] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

23] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

24] If the father is a tiger, the son cannot be a dog.

25] He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs

26] The slowest barker is the surest biter

27] He who considers too much will perform little.

28] Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen

29] Cleanliness is next to godliness

30] Big words seldom go with good deeds

31] Worry is the interest we pay on trouble before it is due

32] Needs must when the evil drives

33] The greatest step is that out of doors

34] Where god will help, nothing does harm

35] Idleness (or An idle brain) is the devil’s workshop

36] Kindness to the good is better investment than kindness to the rich.

37] What is money to a cat?

38] Grasp all, lose all

39] Noting is impossible to a willing heart

40] From small beginnings come great things

41] It takes a wise man to be a fool

42] Tomorrow never comes

43] Small is beautiful

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

45] Long roads test the horse; long dealings test the friend

46] Borrowed garments never fit well

47] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

48] Opportunity makes the thief

49] Do as you would be done by

50] Better sit still than rise and fall

51] When meat is in anger is out

52] Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime

53] An evil life is a kind of death.

54] The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts

55] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

56] Nature abhors a vacuum

57] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

58] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

59] Hungry bellies have no ears

60] Wise men propose, and fools determine

61] Needs must when the devil drives

62] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

63] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it

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

65] A man has choice to begin love, but not to end it.

66] One cannot put back the clock

67] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

68] It is ill jesting with edged tools

69] We don’t get something for nothing

70] A kind heart loseth nought at last.

71] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

72] He knows most who speaks least

73] Divide and rule

74] What the king wills, that the law wills

75] He learned timely to beg that could not say ‘Nay’

76] The tailor makes the man

77] You cannot have your cake and eat it

78] Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

79] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

80] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

81] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

82] Gold brings gold; lack of gold, a headache

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

84] A white –wasted crow will not long remain white

85] Wedlock is padlock

86] One lie makes many

87] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

88] All glory comes from daring to begin

89] An angry man is not fit to pray

90] Desperate diseases need desperate cures

91] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

92] His bark is worse than his bite

93] Things past cannot be recalled

94] Idle folks lack no excuses

95] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

96] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

97] A good name is better than a golden girdle

98] The tongue is more venomous than a serpent’s sting

99] The cat shuts its eyes while it steals cream

100] Don’t tell tales out of school