Famous Proverbs

1] Homer sometimes nods

2] Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces

3] Learn to see in another’s misfortune, the ills which you should avoid.

4] Ill – gotten goods never prosper

5] The hand that gives, gathers

6] Misfortune does not always come to injure

7] Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent

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

9] He knows which side his bread is buttered

10] One lie makes many

11] When two elephants struggle, it is the grass that suffers

12] Habit is second nature

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

14] A successful man is seldom at ease; a life of ease does not breed success

15] The dog that fetches, will carry.

16] He travels the fastest who travels alone

17] Muck and money go together

18] Where there is a question, there must be an answer

19] A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

20] Good is good but better carries it

21] Mirth is the sugar of life

22] He who aims at the moon may hit the top of a tree; he who aims at the top of a tree is unlikely to get off the ground

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

24] Nature is content with little.

25] T’ is safest making peace with sword in hand

26] Virtue is its own reward

27] He who leaps high must take a long run

28] Faint heart never won fair lady

29] The more cost, the more honour

30] Love conquers all

31] Every may be has a may not be

32] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

33] All’s grist that comes to the mill.

34] The mob has many heads but no brains

35] An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening

36] Mirth without measure is madness

37] Much meat, much malady

38] It is not work that kills but worry

39] On an open plain, the rhododendron is a tall tree

40] All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws

41] Keep conscience clear, then never fear

42] Never too late to late to repent

43] The lion had need of the mouse

44] The bigger they are, the harder they fall

45] Revenge never repairs an injury

46] Call no man happy till he is dead

47] Let people laugh, as long as I am warm

48] Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand

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

50] You cannot get blood (or water) out of a stone

51] The envious man shall never want woe

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

53] Enquire not what boils in another’s pot. ¶ Listeners seldom hear good of themselves

54] Fair exchange is no robbery

55] A man’s in his own mouth stinks

56] If the father is spotted, the son will be speckled

57] A growing youth has a wolf in his belly

58] Enough is enough

59] The end justifies the means

60] No man is his craft’s master the first day

61] The crow laughs at the pig for being black

62] When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then a gentleman?

63] Self-praise is no recommendation

64] When a tiger dies, it leaves a skin; when a man dies, he leaves a name

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

66] Everything tempts the man who fears temptation. If you can’t be good, be careful.

67] Of evil manners, spring good laws

68] Take away fuel, take away flame

69] Hitch your wagon to a star

70] Boys will be boys

71] The last drop makes the cup run over

72] Drops that gather one by one finally become a sea

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

74] A jack of all traders is master of none

75] We have all been once in our life

76] A dragon that is stranded in shallow water, becomes the butt of shrimps

77] A fool at forty is a fool indeed

78] Spend not where you may save, spare not where you must spend

79] There is no smoke without fire

80] He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse

81] Don’t change horses in mid-stream

82] He mediates revenge who least complains.

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

84] You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

85] One cannot put back the clock

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

87] Never buy a pig in a poke

88] If youth knew what age would crave. It would both get and save

89] A traveller may lie with authority

90] He is a gentleman that has gentle conditions

91] Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat.

92] He that sings on Friday, will weep on Sunday

93] A cotton dress wants to be alongside a silk one

94] Never too late to learn

95] Manners and money make a gentleman

96] Children speak only words they have heard.

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

98] Anger without power is folly

99] Crust is better than no bread

100] Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it