Famous Proverbs

1] Hungry bellies have no ears

2] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

3] He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

4] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

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

6] There is many a fair thing full false

7] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

8] They brag most who can do least

9] Better be out of the world than out of the fashion.

10] Truth has no need of rhetoric

11] You cannot make a crab walk straight

12] No playing with a straw before an old cat.

13] Money is the root of all evil

14] Procrastination is the thief of time

15] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

16] You cannot make bricks without straw

17] In my own house, I am king

18] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

19] When we have gold, we are in fear; when we have none we are in danger

20] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

21] The devil looks after his own

22] Seeing is believing

23] A knave and a fool never take thought

24] A knave and a fool never take thought

25] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

26] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

27] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

28] It is more pain to do nothing than something

29] Absence diminished little passions and increases great ones

30] I may not have tasted their flesh but I’ve seen enough to know how pigs walk

31] A house divided against itself cannot stand

32] Let not your tongue run at rover

33] Wife and Children are bills of charges

34] In a clam sea, every man is a pilot

35] There are more men threatened than stricken

36] A good Conscience is the best divinity

37] Don’t quarrel with your bread and buffer

38] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

39] Nothing comes from nothing

40] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

41] It is useless to flog a dead horse

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

43] Good ware makes quick market

44] What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own

45] Sometimes the best gain is to lose

46] Failure teaches success

47] Every flow must have its ebb

48] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

49] They also serve who only stand and wait

50] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

51] Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance

52] He who does nothing but sits and eats, will wear away a mountain of wealth

53] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

54] Hear twice before you speak once

55] The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill

56] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

57] Cloudy mornings turn to clear afternoons

58] Long life has long misery

59] Save a thief from the gallows and he’ll cut your throat

60] Truth is stranger than fiction

61] A good payer is master of another’s purse

62] The last drop makes the cup run over

63] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

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

65] Why play the harp to a buffalo?

66] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

67] Never hit a man when he’s down

68] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

69] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

70] One good turn deserves another

71] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

72] If he ball does not stick to the wall, it will at least leave a mark

73] Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist

74] Idleness is the root of all evil

75] Time flies

76] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

77] The pen is the tongue of the hand

78] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

79] One hand washes the other

80] The cord breaks t last by the weakest pull

81] Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost

82] No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

83] Diligence is the mother of good fortune

84] Friends agree best at a distance

85] All cats are grey in the dark

86] The best go first

87] He freezes who does not burn

88] Repentance comes too late

89] There’s always room at the top

90] Many doctors, death accomplished

91] Great barkers are no biters

92] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

93] Travel with open eyes and you will become a scholar

94] He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like

95] We shall beat our swords into ploughshares

96] Pinch the right thigh and the left will feel the pain too.

97] Better do a kindness near home than go to a temple far away to burn incense.

98] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

99] One hour today is worth two tomorrow

100] Good horses always get ridden; good men get imposed upon.