Famous Proverbs

1] Be still and have thy will

2] He that has an ill name is half hanged

3] When two tigers fight, one is sure to be hurt

4] He conquers who endures

5] Gold will not buy everything

6] Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.

7] Too much curiosity lost paradise

8] He that eats least eats most

9] There is many a fair thing full false

10] If you want a thing well done, do it yourself

11] Much learning makes men mad

12] Nature surpasses art

13] Let another’s shipwreck be you sea-mark.

14] He that hopes not for good, fears not evil.

15] Local ginger is never as hot as imported ginger

16] First things first

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

18] He that does most at once, does least

19] A good conscience is a sure card

20] There are two sides to every question

21] First impressions are half the battle

22] The mouse that has but one hole is quickly taken

23] Nothing ventured, nothing gained

24] Put too much lemon-grass into the curry and you’ll spoil the flavour

25] Better die a beggar than live a beggar

26] The labour we delight in physics pain

27] A beggar can never be bankrupt

28] Children and fools must not play with edged tools

29] The worse luck now, the better another time

30] He is lifeless that is faultless

31] Curses, like chickens, come home to roost

32] One man’s means another man’s poison

33] Adam’s ale is the best brew

34] Sorrow will pay no debt

35] Words have wings, and cannot be recalled

36] You cannot have it both ways

37] He is not fit to command others, that cannot command himself

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

39] Every man praises his own wares

40] Big words seldom go with good deeds

41] Blood will have blood

42] Even a clever wife cannot prepare a meal when there is no food

43] One lie makes many

44] Don’t wash your dirty linen in public

45] Mirth is the sugar of life

46] Medical plants from one’s own back-yard are no valued.

47] Necessity turns a lion into a fox

48] When meat is in anger is out

49] Wise is the man who never exposes himself to unnecessary danger

50] Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration

51] What is worse than ill luck?

52] No hair so small but has his shadow

53] A liar is sooner caught than a cripple

54] Don’t wear out (or outstay) your welcome

55] Patience is the remedy of the world

56] Nothing is impossible to a willing heart

57] An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory

58] Calamity is man’s true touchstone

59] He who works before dawn will soon be his own master

60] Wine uncloaks the words of the heart

61] Repentance is a bitter physic

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

63] He who excuses himself accuses himself

64] Time and tide wait for no man

65] God arms the harmless

66] God comes at last when think he is farthest off

67] He that mischief hatches mischief catches.

68] Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

69] Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy

70] The least boy always carries the greatest fiddle

71] He who comes first, grinds first.

72] A good horse cannot wear two saddles

73] No like is the same.

74] Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

75] God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands

76] Red ink gives what it touches a pink glow; black ink gives what it touches a dirty stain.

77] Don’t take your harp to the party

78] Delay is the antidote of anger

79] Words are but wind, but seeing’s believing

80] Divide and rule

81] Extremity of right is wrong

82] The greater the kindred, the less the kindness.

83] Love is without reason

84] One kindness is the price of another

85] Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is

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

87] High places have their precipices

88] Without wisdom, wealth is worthless

89] Where grooms and householders are all alike great, very disastrous will it be for the houses and all that dwell in them

90] If you would wed fitly, wed in your station

91] Nature is the true law

92] He mediates revenge who least complains.

93] Of three main roads, take the middle one

94] Wedlock is padlock

95] A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice

96] Fools rejoice at promises

97] There is no blindness like ignorance

98] Bare walls make giddy housewives

99] Man proposes, God disposes

100] An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure