Famous Proverbs

1] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

2] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

3] He that talks much, errs much

4] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

5] A sluggard takes a hundred steps because he would not take one in due time.

6] The poor sit on the front benches in Paradise

7] He that promises too much means nothing

8] He thinks not well that thinks not again

9] Travel broadens the mind

10] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

11] He that stumbles twice over one stone, deserves to break his shin

12] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

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

14] He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut

15] He who begins many things, finishes but few

16] As is the mould, so will the cake be.

17] Would you know what money is, got borrow some

18] Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion

19] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

20] Give him an inch and he’ll take a yard

21] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

22] A rich man can do nothing wrong

23] Past cure, past care

24] A watched pot never boils

25] If you run after two hares, you will catch neither

26] Content is more than a kingdom

27] Much law but little justice

28] Often and little eating makes a man fat

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

30] Soon gotten, soon spent

31] Man cannot live by bread alone

32] Grief pent up will break the heart

33] He that is born a fool is never cured

34] Go to bed with the lamb, and rise with the lark

35] Judge not the tree by its bark

36] Affection blinds reason

37] Envy shoots at others and wounds herself

38] You never know what you can do till you try

39] Stolen goods never thrive

40] A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years

41] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept

42] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

43] Ready money is ready medicine

44] Every man is his own worst enemy

45] A fool and his money are soon parted

46] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

47] It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him

48] He that has a good memory, gives few alms

49] He that lends, gives

50] No hair so small but has his shadow

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

52] Praise makes good men better and bad men worse

53] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

54] Every oak has been an acorn

55] Use makes mastery

56] Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

57] He has to do what is foul, never comes away clean

58] Nature surpasses art

59] Every dog has his (its) day

60] Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

61] False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

62] Riches rather enlarge than satisfy appetites

63] Set a thief to catch a thief

64] Familiarity breeds contempt

65] None can guess the jewel by the casket

66] Eat at pleasure, drink by measure

67] The company makes the feast

68] Many drops make a shower

69] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

70] Let not thy tongue run away with thy brains

71] Good words are worth much and cost little

72] Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

73] True doctrines require no miracles

74] Once you have been bitten by a snake, even a piece of cord will frighten you.

75] It is easy to be wise after the event

76] A man whose conscience is clear, of a knock at midnight has no fear

77] The tongue is more to be feared than the sword

78] Learn to walk before you run

79] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

80] The devil’s children have the devil’s luck

81] Blood cannot be washed out with blood

82] A thing you don’t want is dear at any price.

83] Covetousness breaks the sack

84] Precepts may lead but examples draw

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

86] A hungry man smells meat afar off

87] A rich man’s joke is always funny

88] It is a sorry flock where the ewe bears the bell

89] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

90] Wine is the best broom for trouble

91] Procrastination is the thief of time

92] Good ware makes quick market

93] One kindness is the price of another

94] Virtue joints man to god

95] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

96] The envious man shall never want woe

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

98] Company in misery makes it light

99] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

100] All things for not all persons