Famous Proverbs

1] Silence never makes mistakes

2] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

3] The owl thinks her own young fairest

4] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

5] Bear and forbear

6] He that falls today may rise tomorrow

7] Patient men with the day.

8] Bold men have generous hearts

9] Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.

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

11] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

12] Hungry bellies have no ears

13] A child can have too much of his mother’s blessings

14] To err is human

15] The greatest talkers are the least doers

16] They also serve who only stand and wait

17] The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet

18] Cheats never prosper

19] Money talks

20] A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

21] You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

22] Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye

23] Love rules without a sword, and binds without a cord

24] Confide in an aunt and the world will know

25] No bees, no honey’, that sweetness will come in to the mouth

26] As you make your bed, you must lie on it

27] Wrong has no warrant

28] A word spoken is past recalling

29] Do not limp before the lame

30] Wake not a sleeping lion

31] He loses his thanks who promises and delays

32] When a fool is sent to market, the storekeepers rejoice

33] Stolen pleasures are sweetest

34] Train the child in the way he should go.

35] To err is human

36] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

37] A tiger that roars is not a man-eater

38] Ambition makes people diligent

39] Money is power

40] There is nothing like being on the safe side

41] Many words, many buffets

42] God defend me from my friends; from enemies, I can defend myself.

43] Seeing is believing

44] Truth is god’s daughter

45] If there were no receivers, there would be no thieves

46] Crows are all completely black

47] Let not the sun do down on your wrath

48] Forgiveness is perfect when the sin is not remembered

49] Choose your neighbour before your house and your companion before the road.

50] Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today

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

52] You cannot catch old birds with chaff

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

54] All our pomp the earth covers

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

56] The dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not.

57] Flesh is frail

58] You win some, you lose some

59] Repentance is a bitter physic

60] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

61] He daren’t say ‘boo’ to a goose

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

63] Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched

64] Hope springs eternal in the human heart

65] Better learn late than never

66] Habit is second nature

67] Man cannot live by bread alone

68] If you sing before breakfast, you’ll cry before night

69] Hear twice before you speak once

70] Many doctors, death accomplished

71] A penny saved is a penny gained

72] Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.

73] Exchange is no robbery

74] The hand that gives, gathers

75] Often and little eating makes a man fat

76] He who handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung

77] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

78] The biter is sometimes bit

79] When you are an anvil, hold still; when you are an anvil, hold still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

80] That which Nature paints never fades

81] Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards

82] Penny and penny laid up will be many

83] You are never too old to learn

84] He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad

85] Gold will not buy everything

86] Why play music for a deal man or dance for a blind man?

87] An ill payer (or paymaster) never wants an excuse

88] A gift much expected is paid, not given

89] Soon learnt, soon forgotten

90] A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple

91] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage

92] Envy is the sorrow of fools.

93] Shrimps get broken backs when whales fight

94] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

95] You may know by a handful the whole sack

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

97] Pardon one offence and you encourage many

98] It is more blessed to give than to receive

99] A jack of all traders is master of none

100] Rule youth well and age will rule itself