Famous Proverbs

1] Creditors have better memories than debtors

2] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

3] Does sound come from an unstruck drum?

4] He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels

5] Common fame is a liar

6] Idle folks lack no excuses

7] Content is more than a kingdom

8] All things that great men do are well done

9] Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance

10] The longest journey starts with a single step

11] There is a great difference between words and deeds

12] Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

13] All are not thieves that dogs bark at

14] The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf

15] If we have not the world’s wealth, we have the world’s ease

16] Take things as you find them

17] Bold resolution is the favourite of providence

18] All good things must come to an end

19] No man can serve two masters

20] A man may learn wit every day.

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

22] One is never too old to learn

23] All things require skills but an appetite

24] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

25] Friends are thieves of time

26] Servants will not be diligent, where the master’s negligent

27] Ask no question and you’ll be told no lies

28] Give a loan and buy quarrel

29] God is always on the side of the big battalions

30] A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose

31] The time to come is no more ours than the time past

32] There is no blindness like ignorance

33] First impressions are the most lasting

34] He that has plenty of goods will have more

35] Sow thin and mow thin

36] Who greases his way travels easily

37] A good lawyer must be a great liar

38] Too many cooks spoil the broth

39] Pleasure is due only when all duty’s done.

40] Sickness soaks the purse

41] Slow and steady wins the race

42] Prevention is better than cure

43] Leave well alone

44] Just give me one end of the line and I’ll get to the other

45] Long looked for, comes at last

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

47] Follow love and it will flee thee; flee love and it will follow thee

48] An old ox makes a straight furrow

49] Truthfulness becomes the gentleman

50] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

51] It is good to follow the old fox

52] A mouse may help a lion

53] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

54] The young will sow their wild oats

55] Much science, much sorrow

56] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

57] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

58] Better belly burst than good meat lost

59] Repeat a piece of good advice three times and even a dog will be bored.

60] He that keeps not crust not crumb, shall ever want some

61] It is easy to move rivers and mountains, but difficult to change a person’s basic nature

62] Money is the root of all evil

63] Eat an apple going to bed, make the doctor beg his bread.

64] Death keeps no calendar

65] When in Rome, do as the Romans do

66] It is no use spoiling the ship for a half penny worth of tar

67] The dog is a lion in his own house

68] Don’t tell tales out of school

69] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

70] Patience is the remedy of the world

71] Little by little and bit by bit.

72] The weeds overgrow the corn.

73] No man is content with his lot

74] All things for not all persons

75] A good conscience is a soft pillow

76] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

77] The purse of the patient protracts the disease

78] Crust is better than no bread

79] One sheep follows another

80] Keep some till further more come

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

82] Fine feathers make fine birds.

83] Two heads are better than one

84] All that glitters is not gold

85] It takes a wise man to be a fool

86] A man in debt is caught in a net

87] Let every pedlar carry his own burden

88] You cannot unscramble eggs

89] Great actions speak minds

90] The worth of a thing is what it will bring

91] If you always say ‘No’, you’ll never get married

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

93] You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

94] Will without reason is blind, and against reason, is mad

95] Fools grow without watering.

96] When you live next to a cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone

97] You never know your luck

98] Hope is but the dream of those that wake

99] The sun shines upon all alike.

100] If you would know the value of a ducat, try to borrow one