Famous Proverbs

1] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

2] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

3] Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pain: grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains

4] Joy and sorrow are next door neighbours.

5] An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest

6] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

7] In the end, things will mend

8] That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait

9] It is good fishing in troubled waters

10] All’s well that ends well

11] A rich man can do nothing wrong

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

13] Success has many friends

14] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

15] Patient men with the day.

16] It is good fishing in troubled waters

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

18] No like is the same.

19] A blind man who sees is better than a seeing man who is blind

20] A gift much expected is paid, not given

21] One pair of heels is often worth two pairs of hands

22] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

23] Every little helps

24] Accidents will happen

25] Virtue is praised by all, but practiced by few

26] Children learn to creep ere they can go

27] Erring is not heating

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

29] A good wife is a good prize

30] Call a spade a spade

31] Old cattle breed not

32] He that tells his wife news, is but newly wed

33] Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings

34] Soon gotten, soon spent

35] Do as you would be done by

36] Silence is golden

37] Don’t meet trouble half-way

38] We live by laws, not by examples

39] They that value not praise, will never do anything worthy of praise

40] Lookers-on see most of the game

41] What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts

42] He that hath a full purse never wanted (or lacked) a friend

43] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

44] Corruption of the best becomes the worst

45] Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down

46] Neither bribe, nor lose thy right

47] Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting

48] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

49] It is as well to know which way the wind blows

50] Everything comes to him who waits

51] Confess and be hanged

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

53] When the horse has reached the brink of the precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.

54] With wealth, you are as grand as a dragon; without wealth you are as insignificant as a worm.

55] If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything

56] A burnt child dreads the fire

57] What costs little is little esteemed

58] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link

59] Half a loaf is better than do bread

60] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

61] Never hit a man when he’s down

62] A burdened conscience will never need a hangman

63] Every light has its shadow

64] Better a husband without love than a jealous husband

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

66] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

67] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

68] Possibilities are infinite

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

70] What has been, may be

71] Practice is the science that gives confidence

72] Grief pent up will break the heart

73] He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow

74] The poor suffer all the wrong

75] Honest is the best policy

76] A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds

77] The best things carried to excess are wrong

78] Men are not angles

79] Crows are all completely black

80] One is never too old to learn

81] Poverty is the mother of crime

82] Without diligence, no prize

83] United we stand, divided we fall

84] No man is indispensable

85] Do not limp before the lame

86] Every bean has its black

87] He that is down need fear no fall

88] Acorns were good till bread was found

89] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

90] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

91] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

92] Necessity is a powerful weapon

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

94] Dying is as natural as living

95] All things that great men do are well done

96] If you would be well served, serve yourself

97] One father is more than a hundred school masters

98] Money makes the man

99] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

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