Famous Proverbs

1] If you have known one, you have known them all

2] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

3] If you play with fire you get burnt

4] The death of the wolves is the safety of the sheep

5] Share and share alike

6] He who gives fair words feds you with and empty spoon

7] He that lends, gives

8] When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.

9] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

10] We are all Adam’s children

11] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

12] Example, is better than precept

13] A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion’s paw

14] Adversity makes strange bedfellows

15] Seldom seen, soon forgotten

16] All meat pleases not all mouths

17] A rich man can do nothing wrong

18] Heaven takes care of children, sailor and drunken men

19] The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks

20] Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

21] Ill weeds grow apace (or fast)

22] As you brew, so shall you drink.

23] Like will to like

24] An angry man is not fit to pray

25] At open doors, dogs come in

26] Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings

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

28] Saying is one thing, and doing another

29] Good advice (or counsel) is beyond price

30] Friendship should not be all on one side

31] Haste is of (or from) the devil

32] Death is the grand leveler

33] Good hand, good hire

34] Thatch your roof before the rain begins

35] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

36] Rome was not (or cannot be) built in a day

37] Some are wise and some are otherwise

38] Keep something for a rainy day

39] God never sends mouths but he sent meat

40] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

41] The reason of the strongest is always the best.

42] Beware of a silent man and still water

43] He that dare not venture must not complain of ill luck

44] Don’t ask a blind man which is the right way

45] Actions speak louder than words

46] He who comes first, grinds first.

47] It is too late to look up after you have collided

48] When the ear will not listen, the heart escapes sorrow

49] It is as natural to die as to be born

50] Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.

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

52] Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools

53] Seeing is believing

54] Familiarity breeds contempt

55] A prophet is without honour in his own country

56] A beggar pays a benefit with a louse

57] Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse

58] Never buy a pig in a poke

59] Nothing is so certain as death

60] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

61] Names are debts

62] It is easy to do what one’s own self wills

63] You can be head a man but you can’t shut his mouth

64] He that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss

65] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

66] Gold will not buy everything

67] The race is got by running

68] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

69] Many a true word is spoken in jest

70] A man turned pig no longer fears filth

71] Great oaks from little acorns grow

72] When meat is in anger is out

73] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

74] High places have their precipices

75] He gives twice who gives quickly

76] An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden

77] He who has seen little marvels much

78] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

79] The heart soon forgets what the eye sees not

80] Don’t swap horses while crossing a stream

81] Wise men do not argue with idiots

82] A good beginning makes a good ending.

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

84] Creditors have better memories than debtors

85] The joy of the heart makes the face fair.

86] Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter than again as god shall please

87] Better be first in a village than second at Rome

88] Two things do prolong they life: a quiet heart and a loving wife

89] Even if you wash a crow with rose- water, its feathers won’t become white.

90] Love is lawless.

91] Not even Hercules could contend against two

92] The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching

93] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

94] Rain water leaks through the roof-top

95] Spend and be free, but make no waste

96] Empty vessels make the most noise

97] He that is absent is soon forgotten

98] He loved mutton well that licked where the ewe lay

99] Learn to walk before you run

100] Nothing is so popular as kindness.