Famous Proverbs

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

2] Plain dealing is best. Plain dealing is a jewel

3] Unless the vessel is clean, what you pour in to it turns sour.

4] The leopard cannot change its spots

5] Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys and quadruples our expenses

6] Marry in haste, repent at leisure

7] It is as natural to die as to be born

8] Better unborn than untaught

9] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

10] Ill gotten, ill spent

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

12] A watched pot never boils

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

14] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

15] Shrouds have no pockets

16] Wrong has no warrant

17] After a dream of a wedding, comes a corpse

18] It is poor dog that is not worth the whistling

19] Better no doctor at all than three.

20] Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm

21] Cut your coat according to your cloth

22] Wife and Children are bills of charges

23] He laughs ill that laughs himself to death

24] The rotten apple injures its neighbours.

25] Lavishness is not generosity

26] Money isn’t everything

27] Necessity is a powerful weapon

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

29] Money has no smell

30] He knows on which side his bread is buttered

31] Praise is always pleasant

32] In peace, prepare for war

33] More haste, less speed

34] All meat No dish pleases all palates alike pleases not all mouths

35] If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work

36] Health and gaiety foster beauty.

37] Every shoe fits not every foot

38] Content is more than a kingdom

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

40] What is shown by example, men think they may justly do

41] A penny saved is a penny gained

42] Like breeds like

43] Curiosity is ill manners in another’s house

44] Every flow must have its ebb

45] Eggs and oaths are easily broken

46] Strength grows stronger by being tried

47] A true man and a thief think not the same

48] Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher

49] Laughter makes good blood

50] Often and little eating makes a man fat

51] He is a fool that makes a hammer of his fist

52] The mean is the best

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

54] The race is got by running

55] The strong man and the waterfall channel their own path

56] Time stays not for the fool’s leisure

57] There grows no herb t heal a coward heart

58] When the word is out it belongs to another

59] Might overcome right.

60] Pardoning the bad is injuring the good

61] Never refuse a good offer

62] Fall not into the fire when you try to avoid smoke

63] Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

64] Silence is golden

65] Delays are not denials

66] No man is a hero to his valet

67] Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow

68] What is the mother of industry

69] Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

70] Soon gotten, soon spent

71] A little learning is dangerous thing

72] Better at home than a mile from it

73] He who lives with cats will get a taste for mice

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

75] Every medal has two sides

76] An ill wound is cured, not an ill name

77] Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

78] Practice what you preach

79] Well done is better than well said

80] The unexpected always happens.

81] The first blow is half the battle

82] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

83] He who considers too much will perform little.

84] Grasp all, lose all

85] In peace, prepare for war

86] The cowl does not make the monk.

87] You cannot sell the cow and sup (or drink) the milk

88] The most high Good sees and bears; me neighbour knows, nothing, and yet is always finding fault.

89] He that has a full purse never wanted a friend

90] They that dance must pay the fiddler

91] All cats are grey in the dark

92] Nothing is certain but the unforeseen

93] Honey is sweet, but the bee stings

94] We soon believe what we desire

95] A good name is better than riches

96] A man apt to promise, is apt to forget

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

98] Laws were made to be broke

99] He stands not surely that never slips

100] Bells call others, but themselves enter not in to the church