Famous Proverbs

1] Great barkers are no biters

2] There is no place like home

3] There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip

4] Better cut the shoe than pinch the foot

5] God’s help is better than the early rising

6] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

7] No pot so ugly as not to find a cover

8] The highest branch is not the safest roost

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

10] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

11] Man punishes the action but God the intention

12] He that is in poverty is still in suspicion

13] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

14] The love of money is the root of all evil

15] The bird is known by his note, the man by his words

16] Pardon makes offenders

17] Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh

18] Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know

19] A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder

20] The good die young.

21] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

22] Dirty water does not wash clean.

23] Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge

24] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

25] The first step is the only difficulty

26] What children hear at home, soon files abroad

27] What is worth doing is worth doing well

28] You can’t take it with you when you die

29] Fair face, foul heart

30] The mill cannot grind with water that is past

31] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

32] There’s small choice in rotten apples.

33] Wrong never comes right

34] Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

35] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

36] Virtue is the only true nobility

37] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

38] Many words, many buffets

39] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

40] What costs little is little esteemed

41] Patient men with the day.

42] Bear and forbear

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

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

45] Don’t hide your light under a bushel

46] Do not kick against the pricks

47] A good face is a letter of recommendation

48] He that is long a-giving knows not how to give

49] Of three main roads, take the middle one

50] Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy

51] Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

52] Good fame is better than a good face

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

54] Gifts are scorned where givers are despised

55] All is fair in love and war

56] War, hunting and love are as full of trouble as pleasure

57] Brevity is the soul of wit

58] Slow and steady wins the race

59] The early man ever borrows from the late man

60] Patience is a flower that grows not in everyone’s garden

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

62] Little pitchers have big (or long) ears

63] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

64] Never buy a pig in a poke

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

66] Absence makes the heart grow fonder

67] Take things as you find them

68] The best of men are but men at best.

69] Work won’t kill but worry will.

70] He that sleeps sound feels not the toothache

71] Great alms-giving lessens no man’s living

72] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

73] In haste is error

74] Praise is a spur to the good, a thorn to the evil

75] It is not the hood that makes the monk.

76] If one will not, another will

77] He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich

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

79] Excessive politeness is often a cloak for insincerity

80] The hand that gives, gathers

81] A man of gladness seldom falls into madness

82] Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

83] It never rains it pours

84] A rich miser is poorer than a poor man

85] Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

86] The company makes the feast

87] Make hay while the sun shines

88] As long as the old horse lives, his habits will not change

89] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

90] There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

91] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

92] He that speaks well, flights well

93] He loves roast meat well that licks the spit.

94] Ill comes often on the back worse

95] Every man must carry his own cross

96] Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know the man

97] God’s lambs will play.

98] Cruelty is more cruel, if we defer the pain

99] The hole calls the thief

100] Experience is the best teacher