Famous Proverbs

1] Learn to walk before you run

2] Walls have ears

3] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

4] He that does most at once, does least

5] A fool may give a wise counsel. A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark.

6] Tomorrow never comes

7] The cobbler’s children are always the worst shod

8] Two midwives will twist the baby’s head

9] Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you

10] Many words, many buffets

11] The pitcher goes often to the well that it is broken at last

12] Great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying

13] He that is absent is soon forgotten

14] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

15] Fools live poor to die rich

16] Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves

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

18] Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man and puffeth up the little man

19] Hard words break no bones

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

21] Hitch your wagon to a star

22] Where there is whispering there is lying

23] Where god will help, nothing does harm

24] The more cost, the more honour

25] Jack would be a gentleman if he could speak French

26] We don’t get something for nothing

27] Riches along make no men happy

28] Dogs bark as they are bred.

29] There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers

30] Prevention is better than cure

31] There is no smoke without fire

32] Years know more than books

33] Rip not up old sores

34] Don’t cut the bough you are standing on

35] It’s a long lane that has no turning

36] Everyone leaps over the dyke where it is lowest

37] He that desires but little has no deed of much

38] A willful man will have his way

39] Hazard not your wealth on a poor man’s advice

40] He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day

41] Unpaid debts are unforgiven sins

42] Every may be has a may not be

43] The longest night will have an end

44] Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich

45] Where there is no trust there is no love

46] Like father, like son

47] The child says nothing but what it hears by the fire

48] United we stand, divided we fall

49] Best is cheapest

50] Tell the truth and shame the devil

51] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others

52] Seldom is a long man wise, or a low man lowly

53] Give him (or knaves) an inch and he (they) will take a yard (or mile)

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

55] If you wish good advice, consult an old man

56] Fools rush in where angles fear to tread

57] The last suitor wins the maid

58] The more cost, the more honour

59] Wiles help weak folk

60] New meat begets a new appetite

61] Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen

62] If the thorn falls, the leaf is pierced; if the leaf falls the leaf is pierced

63] Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that use it die beggars

64] The great fish eat up the small

65] The blind man is not afraid of ghosts

66] A man without a wife is but half a man

67] One must be a servant before one can be a master

68] Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

69] After the extreme of cold comes spring

70] The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one

71] Through indecision, opportunity is often lost.

72] Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left

73] Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny

74] Jack is as good as his master

75] Comparisons are odious

76] With constancy of purpose, you can file a steel rod in to the needle you need

77] They brag most who can do least

78] Nothing is as good as it seems before hand

79] Anger managers everything badly.

80] What is deferred is not abandoned

81] We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

82] Despair gives courage to a coward

83] Remove an old tree and it will wither to death

84] If every man would sweep before his own door, the city would soon be clean

85] Birds of a feather flock together

86] Leave well alone

87] A cheerful wife is the joy of life

88] The effect speaks, the tongue need not

89] One sword keeps another in the sheath

90] They also serve who only stand and wait

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

92] Who lives by hope will die in hunger

93] An ill tongue may do much

94] As you sow, so shall you reap

95] Fair is not fair, but that which pleases.

96] Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves

97] Wise men silent, fools talk

98] Hunger is the teacher of many

99] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

100] The tide never goes out so far but it always comes in again