Famous Proverbs

1] He thinks not well that thinks not again

2] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

3] Little things please little minds

4] Tell the truth and shame the devil

5] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

6] Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people

7] Familiarity breeds contempt

8] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

9] Who errs and mends, to god himself commends

10] We are all Adam’s children

11] Money isn’t everything

12] An egg thief will become a camel thief

13] A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.

14] Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today

15] Where there are reeds, there is water

16] If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

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

18] Where god will help, nothing does harm

19] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

20] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

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

22] A change is as good as rest

23] Kind hearts are soonest wronged

24] Make the best of a bad job

25] An ill marriage is a spring of ill fortune

26] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

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

28] An honorable man would rather be a chicken’s beak than the rump of an ox.

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

30] Silence never makes mistakes

31] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

32] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

33] Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

34] The world is full of fools

35] A fool always rushes to the fore.

36] Diligence is the mother of good luck

37] Give yourself a pinch, and you will know how a pinch must hurt others

38] Content is more than a kingdom

39] Parents are patterns

40] He that will not have peace, God gives him war

41] No tie can oblige the perfidious

42] Better a louse in the pot than no flesh at all

43] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

44] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

45] As you brew, so shall you drink.

46] Desires are nourished by delays

47] Money talks

48] Silence is golden

49] A gentleman never remembers unkindness shown towards him

50] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

51] The devil sometimes speaks the truth

52] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

53] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

54] Union is strength.

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

56] Better a lean peace than a fat victory

57] Old vessels must leak

58] Keep your eyes open: a sale is a sale

59] Laws were made to be broke

60] He who carries the burden knows the weight of it.

61] Hope often deludes the foolish man

62] Every path has a puddle

63] Every man has his faults

64] The longest way round is the shortest way home

65] Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.

66] Alms never make poor

67] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

68] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

69] Where there is peace, there is blessing

70] What the eye doesn’t see, the heart grieves not

71] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

72] Good clothes open all doors

73] Half the world knows not how the other half lives

74] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

75] The devil looks after his own

76] Wise men learn by other men’s harm, fools, by their own

77] Work expands so as to fill the time available

78] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

79] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

80] Friendship should not be all on one side

81] If there is no wind, the trees will not move

82] It is as natural to die as to be born

83] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

84] Names and natures do often agree

85] Nothing crave, nothing have

86] He knows most who speaks least

87] Hope for the best and prepare for the worst

88] It is equally an error to trust all men or no man

89] To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself

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

91] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

92] Facts are stubborn things

93] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

94] Cowards die often. He that fears death lives not

95] He that has a wife, has strife

96] If you put noting into your purse, you can take nothing out

97] A black hen lays a white egg

98] It is late to cover the well when the child is drowned.

99] Least said, soonest mended

100] Will is no skill