Famous Proverbs

1] Better at home than a mile from it

2] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

3] Slow help is no help

4] The good die young.

5] Truth is stranger than fiction

6] Use the means, and God will give the blessings

7] A good word stills great anger

8] When the melon is ripe, it will drop by itself

9] No honest man ever repented his honesty

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

11] A swine over-fat, is the cause of his own bane

12] Make hay while the sun shines

13] He freezes who does not burn

14] The leopard cannot change its spots

15] Better at home than a mile from it

16] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six.

17] What is word but wind?

18] Do not limp before the lame

19] Ready money is a ready remedy

20] Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

21] Great gain makes easy work

22] Love cannot be compelled

23] It is the first step that is troublesome

24] A little help is worth a deal of pity

25] Money is the root of all evil

26] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

27] Spit to the heavens, and spittle falls on your own nose

28] Circumstances alter cases

29] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

30] If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city

31] Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken

32] There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

33] No pains, no gains

34] It is good to follow the old fox

35] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

36] What is deferred is not abandoned

37] He is not poor that has little, but he that desires much

38] Heaven helps those who help themselves

39] Hope deferred makes the heart sick

40] It is good sheltering under an old hedge

41] One barber shaves another gratis

42] Might overcome right.

43] Win a good reputation, and sleep at your ease

44] Better the last smile than the first laugh

45] A word before is worth two behind

46] Far fowls have fair feather

47] A man may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven

48] Of three main roads, take the middle one

49] There is many a true word spoken in jest

50] A man can do no more than he can

51] God is a sure paymaster

52] The worse luck now, the better another time

53] He that will steal an egg, will steal an ox

54] A good heart cannot lie.

55] Silence is also speech

56] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

57] Promises may make friends, but it is performances that keep them

58] New meat begets a new appetite

59] They brag most who can do least

60] Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face

61] Kick a tone in anger, and you will hurt your own feet

62] Misfortune tells us what fortune is

63] The first time, a novice the second time, an adept

64] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

65] Every man is his own worst enemy

66] He who does not rise early never does a good day’s work

67] Wine is the best broom for trouble

68] History repeats itself

69] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

70] Every may be has a may not be

71] The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles

72] Don’t go near the water until you learn how to swim

73] The sieve says to the needle, “You’ve hole in your head”.(

74] Fortune is blind

75] When the weather is cold, there is not such thing as dirty clothing

76] Wishes can never fill a sack

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

78] The more a man dreams, the less he believes

79] The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature

80] Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits

81] The hand that gives, gathers

82] Diligence is the mother of good luck

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

84] That voyage never has luck where each one has a vote.

85] A ragged coat may cover an honest man.

86] A word is enough to the wise

87] In doing we learn.

88] Tune the harp strings to be neither too loose nor too taut

89] The higher you climb, the harder you fall

90] A man without a smiling face must not open a shop

91] Blue are the far away hills

92] If anything can go wrong, it will

93] From word to deed is a great space

94] He that has nothing need fear to lose nothing

95] Even silence may be eloquent

96] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

97] If two men ride on a horse, one must ride behind

98] Common fame is a liar

99] When a dwarf ascends a staircase, he gets higher every step

100] An ill paymaster never wants excuse