Famous Proverbs

1] You cannot unscramble eggs

2] Paddle your own canoe

3] Frugality is the mother of virtue

4] Fire is a good servant a bad master

5] A good conscience is a constant feast

6] All is vanity.

7] Brave actions never want a trumpet.

8] A good servant must have good wages

9] One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine

10] Saying is one thing, and doing another

11] What’s done cannot be undone

12] First creep, then walk

13] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

14] As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamp

15] It is all in the day’s work

16] One must howl with the wolves

17] Many doctors, death accomplished

18] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

19] Soon gotten, soon spent

20] He who hesitates is lost

21] It is ill striving against the stream

22] Catch your bear before you sell its skin

23] The hero appears only when the tiger is dead

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

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

26] Of two evils choose the lesser

27] There is no time like the present

28] Giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man’s store.

29] There would be no great ones if there were no little ones

30] Old cattle breed not

31] Appearances are deceptive

32] Learning is like sailing against the tide - if you don’t move forward, you go backward

33] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

34] What may be done at any time is done at no time

35] Hunger is the best sauce

36] One barber shaves another gratis

37] The sign brings customers

38] When all men say you are an ass, it is time to bray

39] All must be as God will

40] Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand

41] Better say noting than no to the purpose

42] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

43] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

44] The fine pullet shows its excellence from the egg.

45] The righteous man sins before an open chest

46] At a good bargain thinks twice

47] Friends are thieves of time

48] If it were not for hope, the heart would break

49] Sickness soaks the purse

50] Like question, like answer.

51] Every man for himself, and God for us all.

52] A good garden may have some ill weeds

53] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

54] Anything will fit a naked man.

55] Words are but wind

56] East or west, home is best

57] He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

58] When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike

59] A friend in need is a friend indeed

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

61] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

62] No matter how much perfume you put on an onion, it will still emit a bad smell.

63] Money is power

64] Delays are not denials

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

66] A piece of churchyard fits every body

67] See a pin and let it lie, you’ll want a pin before you die

68] He that promises too much means nothing

69] Fair without, false within

70] All for one, and one for all.

71] Every man is the architect of his own fortune

72] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

73] The envious grow thin at others’ prosperity

74] Familiarity breeds contempt

75] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

76] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

77] There’s always room at the top

78] Experience is good if not bought too dear

79] The king can make a knight, but not a gentleman

80] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

81] He who does not kill hogs, ill not get black puddings

82] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

83] If your can’t help friend with money, help him at least with a sigh

84] A gift in hand is better than two promises.

85] Coming events cast their shadows before

86] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

87] Many would be cowards, if they had courage enough

88] Patience is a plaster for all sores

89] Lend your money and lose a friend

90] Nothing succeeds like success

91] Custom makes all things easy

92] What the king wills, that the law wills

93] Wise men are caught in wiles

94] The best is often the enemy of the good

95] He who peeps through a hole, may see what will vex him

96] He that is fallen cannot help him that is down

97] To be discontented is to be like a snake trying to swallow an elephant

98] A trouble shared is a trouble halved.

99] A good face is a letter of recommendation

100] All cats are grey in the dark