Famous Proverbs

1] No, thank you’ has lost you many a good butter-cake

2] It takes two to make a quarrel

3] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

4] If you agree to carry the calf, they’ll make you carry the cow.

5] One fool praises another

6] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

7] Who hath a good trade, through all waters may wade

8] Put out your tubs when it is raining

9] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

10] Cowards die many times before their deaths

11] To teach is to learn twice over

12] If you play with fire you get burnt

13] Calamity is the touchstone of a brave mind

14] A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners

15] Waste not, want not

16] An old dog barks not in vain

17] A small pepper is hotter than a large one

18] A great city, a great solitude

19] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

20] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

21] One master in a house is enough

22] The day obliterates the promise of the might

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

24] Money would be gotten if there were money to get it with

25] Home is where the heart is

26] What is not even scabies, he makes out to be an ulcer

27] When bees area old, they yield n honey

28] The loftiest towers rise from the ground

29] They also serve who only stand and wait

30] His bark is worse than his bite

31] Time flees without a delay

32] Anger restrained is wisdom gained

33] Love laughs at locksmiths

34] Know your own faults before blaming others for theirs.

35] Wine is one thing; drunkenness another

36] Shame in a kindred cannot be avoided

37] He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

38] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

39] A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend

40] Forewarned is forearmed

41] It is the beautiful bird which gets caged

42] An honest good look covers many faults.

43] You see a man’s face but not his heart.

44] Advice is something the wise don’t need and fools won’t take

45] Where there is no trust there is no love

46] Frugality is the mother of virtue

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

48] In peace, prepare for war

49] Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise

50] Handsome is as handsome does

51] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

52] Haste trips up (or over) its own heels

53] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

54] He that once deceives, is ever suspected

55] Good ware makes quick market

56] A curse will not strike out an eye unless a fist goes with it

57] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

58] An oak is not felled at one stroke

59] A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

60] I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

61] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

62] He preaches well (or best) that lives well (or best).

63] Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl

64] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

65] The tide must be taken when it comes

66] Better an open enemy than a false friend

67] Live and Learn

68] There is safety in numbers

69] Much law but little justice

70] Love will find a way

71] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

72] He is lifeless that is faultless

73] You cannot make a crab walk straight

74] Discontent is the first step in progress

75] An enemy may chance to give good counsel

76] Venture a small fish to catch a great one.

77] Silence is also speech

78] Every man has his faults

79] Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.

80] A lion may be beholden to a mouse

81] Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

82] Good merchandise finds a ready buyer

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

84] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

85] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

86] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

87] One must howl with the wolves

88] The faulty stands on his guard

89] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

90] You may know by a handful the whole sack

91] Mercy surpasses justice

92] A miss is as good as a mile

93] It is hard to sail over the sea in an egg-shell

94] Files are easier caught with honey than with vinegar

95] Keep some till further more come

96] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

97] At the end of the game, you’ll see who’s the winner

98] Full of courtesy, full of craft

99] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

100] All cats are grey in the dark