Famous Proverbs

1] The poor suffer all the wrong

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

3] Truth is mighty and will prevail

4] He thinks not well that thinks not again

5] Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

6] Forecast is better than work-hard

7] He that speaks well, flights well

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

9] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

10] A nod is as good as wink to a blind horse

11] A word spoken is past recalling

12] A man can do no more than he can

13] Brute strength without reason falls of its own weight

14] Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

15] Patience surpasses learning

16] Water far away will not extinguish a fire that is nearby; relatives far from you are not as good as neighbours close to you.

17] Rats desert (or forsake) a sinking ship

18] What is new cannot be true

19] The Friar Preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve

20] He who pays the piper calls the tune

21] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

22] He gives twice who gives quickly

23] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

24] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

25] You cannot make a crab walk straight

26] Silence is golden

27] Say as men say, but think to yourself.

28] The resolved mind has no cares

29] Fear the Greeks (or Beware of Greeks) bearing gifts

30] At the game’s end we shall see who gains

31] The last drop makes the cup run over

32] Poverty is no disgrace but it is a great inconvenience

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

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

35] No man fears what he has seen grow

36] Think on the end before you begin

37] He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.

38] Dirty water does not wash clean.

39] It’s either not to begin or not to stop once you’ve begun

40] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

41] None but the brave deserves the fair

42] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

43] Slow but sure wins the race

44] One volunteer is worth two pressed men

45] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

46] The labourer is worthy of his hire

47] The good intention excuses the bad action

48] Come with the wind, got with the water

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

50] Who greases his way travels easily

51] Great trees keep down the little ones

52] Praise is always pleasant

53] He who sows, trusts in God

54] The golden age was never the present age

55] Every man praises his own wares

56] Dirty water does not wash clean.

57] Look on the bright side

58] What is the mother of industry

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

60] An old cart well used may outlast a new one abused

61] The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth

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

63] A good conscience is a soft pillow

64] Pride goes before a fall

65] There is no smoke without fire

66] The slowest barker is the surest biter

67] New brooms sweep clean

68] Ugly women finely dressed, are the uglier for it.

69] A clear conscience fears not false accusations

70] Like question, like answer.

71] Advise none to marry or to go to war

72] Empty vessels make the most sound

73] The longer you look at it, the less you will like it

74] Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.

75] Harp not for ever on the same string

76] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

77] Poor men’s words have little weight

78] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

79] The rich knows not who is his friend

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

81] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

82] Do as say, not as I do

83] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

84] Those who live near water know the nature of fish; those who live near hills know the calls of birds

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

86] Mix work with pleasure and you will never go mad.

87] A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.

88] An Englishman’s home is his castle

89] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

90] The labour we delight in physics pain

91] He that would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom

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

93] Extremity of right is wrong

94] A fox should not be of the jury at a goose’s trial

95] Give and take is fair play

96] The dog that fetches, will carry.

97] Where there’s muck, there’s money

98] The dog that fetches, will carry.

99] Marriage is a lottery

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