Famous Proverbs

1] Rich folk have many friends

2] Nothing seek, nothing find

3] Have but few friends, though many acquaintances

4] Kindness lies in one side of the house

5] Go while the going is good

6] Don’t judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

7] For a web begun, God sends the thread

8] The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window

9] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

10] A bad shearer never had a good sickle

11] Where there is no might, right loses itself

12] Where bad’s the best, bad must be the choice

13] Naturally the same beans from the same bin.

14] He that will not go over the stile, must be thrust through the gate

15] How forceful are right words

16] There is nothing like being on the safe side

17] Don’t hallo (or shout, or whistle) until you are out of the wood

18] Hoist your sail when the wind is fair

19] A little too late, is much too late

20] Fine feathers make fine birds.

21] Slender cannot make a good man bad; when the water recedes, the stone is still there.

22] Nature abhors a vacuum

23] Misfortune does not always come to injure

24] The labour we delight in physics pain

25] Still waters run deep

26] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

27] Nothing venture (or ventured), nothing gain (or gained)

28] Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you

29] Better go about than fall in to the ditch

30] You eat, I dreams, the custard of the day

31] First thrive then wive

32] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

33] Success has many friends

34] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

35] Armies are maintained for years to be used on a single day.

36] Life is short and time is swift

37] Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm

38] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

39] Life is not all beer and skittles

40] Intimacy lessens fame

41] Where there is no trust there is no love

42] A hungry man smells meat afar off

43] Trust not the many-minded populace

44] Every man must carry his own cross

45] Practice is the science that gives confidence

46] Think of ease, but work on.

47] Since god has not bent the top of the palm tree, he has given a long neck to the giraffe

48] A sleepy master makes his servant a lout

49] Every may be has a may not be

50] There is death in the pot.

51] Take the tone of the company you are in

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

53] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

54] The devil finds work for idle hands to do

55] Tell a lie and stick to it.

56] It is too late to grieve when the chance is past

57] A gift much expected is paid, not given

58] Love is lawless.

59] A guilty conscience needs no accuser

60] When you know there are tigers on the hills, don’t go there

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

62] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

63] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

64] No man so good but another may be as good as he

65] First creep, then walk

66] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

67] The courteous one learns his courtesy from the discourteous.

68] Think on the end before you begin

69] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

70] Change brings life

71] Water is the king of food

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

73] He is wise who looks ahead

74] The last drop makes the cup run over

75] Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

76] Give a lie a twenty-four-hour start, and you can never overtake it.

77] The longest journey starts with a single step

78] Will is no skill

79] The pen is the tongue of the hand

80] Judge not of men and things at first sight

81] He is an ill husband who is not missed

82] Bold men have generous hearts

83] Will iron become fine gold, however often refined?

84] Adversity is the touchstone of friendship

85] Charity covers a Multitude of sins

86] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

87] Courtesy (Or Civility, or Politeness) costs nothing

88] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

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

90] There is no place like home

91] Every beginning is hard

92] The hasty leaps over his opportunities

93] All good things must come to an end

94] Home is home though it be never so homely

95] Great minds think alike

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

97] Men are not angles

98] Counsel must be followed, not praised.

99] Ill luck is good for something

100] The garment worn determines how one is served