Famous Proverbs

1] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

2] A man with no hands is given a ring.

3] Many kiss the hand they wish to cut off

4] Two wrongs do not make a right

5] Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

6] Dogs bite twice those who wear ragged clothes.

7] Misfortunes find their way even on the darkest night

8] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

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

10] If an ass goes a – traveling, he’ll not come home a horse

11] A guilty conscience feels continual fear

12] One reason is as good as fifty

13] One man eats the jackfruit, another gets his hands sticky

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

15] Even the lion must defend itself against flies

16] Charity begins at home.

17] Example is the greatest of all seducers

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

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

20] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

21] Beware of him who makes thee presents

22] A jack of all traders is master of none

23] Fair is he that comes, but fairer is he that brings.

24] Hunger is the best sauce

25] As soon as there is life there is danger

26] A fool may give a wise man counsel

27] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

28] Remember, you are but a man

29] Hasty work, double work,

30] A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark

31] Misfortunes never come singly

32] He that goes a borrowing goes a-sorrowing

33] The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth

34] Cut your coat according to your cloth

35] Send a donkey to Paris, he’ll return no wiser than he went

36] Time has wings

37] The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.

38] Envy eats nothing but it own heart

39] Beggars must not be choosers

40] To the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. To a thirsty man any drink is sweet.

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

42] Fool rush in where angels fear to trend

43] What’s done cannot be undone

44] If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself

45] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

46] Never try to prove what nobody doubts

47] Stolen sweets are sweeter

48] Barking dogs seldom bite

49] No one ought to judge in his own cause

50] When someone gives up a peach, return him a plum

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

52] The darkest place is under the candlestick

53] Half a word is enough for a wise man

54] Great actions speak minds

55] Soon gotten, soon spent

56] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

57] Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if one breaks the other may hold

58] He who sits chatting about nothing loses his candle

59] Either mend or end

60] Man does what he can, and God what he will

61] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

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

63] He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin

64] A good drink makes the old young

65] Years know more than books

66] It is all in the day’s work

67] A good word stills great anger

68] He that eats well should do his duty well

69] Misfortune does not always come to injure

70] Better eye sore than al blind

71] Poverty does not hurt him who has not been rich before

72] What is new cannot be true

73] Never grieve for what you cannot help

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

75] Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him

76] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

77] Bear and forbear

78] Past experiences are the best guide for future undertakings

79] If the lad goes to the well against his will, either the can will break or the water will spill

80] An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains

81] The fox may grow grey, but never good

82] The end makes all equal

83] One thief will not rob another

84] New brooms sweep clean

85] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

86] All good things must come to an end

87] While the word is in your mouth, it is your own; when ‘tis another’s

88] Clothes do not make the man

89] Every path has a puddle

90] A watched pot never boils

91] Give a dog a bad name and hang him

92] There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle

93] He that eats least eats most

94] Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it

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

96] Money refused loses its brightness

97] He who works before dawn will soon his own master

98] What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

99] You can’t clap with one hand

100] Familiarity breeds contempt