Famous Proverbs

1] When the fox preaches, then beware your geese

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

3] The noblest vengeance is to forgive

4] When bitterness reaches its extreme, sweetness will follow

5] Life means strife

6] Homer sometimes nods

7] Kill two birds with one stone

8] The great would have none great, and the little all little

9] In your anxiety to avoid losing a drop, you spill the whole lot

10] Intimacy lessens fame

11] Save a stranger from the sea and he’ll turn your enemy

12] The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small

13] Don’t pour out the dirty water before you have cleaned

14] The day obliterates the promise of the might

15] Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

16] Every ass likes to hear himself bray

17] There is honour among thieves

18] The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives

19] Wrong never comes right

20] The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor

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

22] A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his home

23] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

24] Better bend than break

25] Courtesy on one side never lasts long

26] Honesty is ill to thrive by

27] Man may have a thousand plans, but god’s plan is best

28] Lend, and lose the loan or gain an enemy

29] The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice

30] They bow to you when borrowing; you bow to them when collecting

31] A banana tree won’t bear fruit twice.

32] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

33] Creditors have better memories than debtors

34] The rich man thinks of the future, the poor man thinks of today

35] The devil dances in an empty pocket

36] Burn not your house to fright the mouse away

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

38] Judge not the tree by its bark

39] It is no use crying over spilt milk

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

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

42] A cat has nine lives

43] A good servant should never be in the way and never out of the way

44] Where there is no might, right loses itself

45] He that sows thistles shall reap prickles.

46] The belly carries the legs

47] Many eyes upon the king

48] Everyone is a kin to the rich man

49] Every cloud has a silver lining

50] Necessity breaks iron

51] The devil dances in an empty pocket

52] God provides for him that trusts

53] Beware of a silent man and still water

54] An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue

55] The highest branch is not the safest roost

56] He who sows, trusts in God

57] Do right and fear no man

58] Beggars must not (can’t) be choosers

59] He who gives to the unworthy loses doubly

60] The envious man shall never want woe

61] You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk

62] The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

63] Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

64] Dead dogs bark not

65] Will is the cause of woe

66] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

67] God forgives sins, otherwise heaven would be empty.

68] Be not too bold with your biggers or betters

69] Death and life are in the power of the tongue

70] An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet

71] Do right and fear no man

72] No answer is also an answer

73] He who squeezes in between the onion and the peel, picks up its stink.

74] Money has no smell

75] Past cure, past care

76] He that commits a fault, thinks everyone speaks of it.

77] Conscience does make cowards of us all

78] Love and business teach eloquence

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

80] You cannot know the wine by the barrel

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

82] Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pay to virtue

83] It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year

84] Every why has a wherefore

85] Children and chickens must be always picking

86] He who makes no mistakes makes nothing

87] Debt is an evil conscience

88] Misery loves company.

89] Don’t take your harp to the party

90] Praise without profit puts little in the pot

91] The folly of one man is the fortune of another

92] It is a foolish bird that soils (or defiles ) its own nest

93] Great barkers are no biters

94] Money is the only monarch

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

96] Know when to spend and when to spare, and you need not be busy, you’ll never be bare

97] You cannot have it both ways

98] The pitcher goes so often to me well that it is broken at last

99] All men are mortal

100] Good company on the road is the shortest cut