Famous Proverbs

1] Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom

2] A good husband makes a good wife

3] His own ingenuity pricks him.

4] A ragged colt may make a good horse.

5] If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun

6] Hungry bellies have no ears

7] A man’s wealth is his enemy

8] First creep, then walk

9] Hunger is the best sauce

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

11] Each man, in corrupting others, corrupts himself

12] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

13] Lucky men need no counsel

14] Practice what you preach

15] Do leaves sprout on rootless trees?

16] To refuse and to give tardily is all the same

17] You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

18] If one sheep leaps over the ditch (or dyke), all the rest will follow

19] Friendship cannot stand always on one side

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

21] An army marches on its stomach

22] A parrot will only say what it is taught

23] A man with no hands is given a ring.

24] One sheep follows another

25] Good luck beats early rising

26] Throw out a sprat to catch a mackerel

27] The worse luck now, the better another time

28] A thief passes for a gentle man when stealing has made him rich

29] Names and natures do often agree

30] He conquers who endures

31] Beauty fades like a flower.

32] Remember, you are but a man

33] Don’t stitch your seam before you’ve tacked it.

34] Time has wings

35] We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours

36] Money gives a bold front: it doesn’t talk – it screams

37] Respect is greater from a distance

38] Better a little loss than a long sorrow

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

40] It is not gay coat that makes the gentleman

41] None so blind as those who will not see

42] Thrift is a great revenue

43] Who suffers much is silent

44] Good hand, good hire

45] Wise men silent, fools talk

46] If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it.

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

48] Keep some till further more come

49] A drowning man will clutch at a straw

50] A thief knows a thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf

51] Better at home than a mile from it

52] Rats know the ways of rats

53] He that eats least eats most

54] He that is absent is soon forgotten

55] In vain they rise early that used to rise late

56] Be careful to whom you give

57] Gnaw the bone which is fallen to thy lot

58] He who cannot bear misfortune is truly unfortunate.

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

60] It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the pope

61] Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard

62] A good beginning makes a good ending.

63] He that seeks trouble never misses

64] At the end of the game, the king and pawn go in to the same bag.

65] It chances in an hour, that appears not in seven years

66] The anvil lasts longer than the hammer

67] Children and fools cannot lie.

68] Three helping one another, bear the burthen of six

69] Money breeds (or makes, or begets) money

70] In haste is error

71] Facts are more eloquent than oratory

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

73] Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man by overturned

74] The peacock has fair features, but foul feet.

75] A thousand cranes in the air are not worth one sparrow in the fist.

76] Empty vessels make the most sound

77] When it rains porridge, the beggar has no spoon.

78] Care brings grey hair.

79] In a gambling house, there are no fathers and sons.

80] A good wife is a good prize

81] Forgive and forget

82] As soon as man is born, he begins to die

83] Can we ever too much of a good thing?

84] Open a book and you profit by what you read

85] Great barkers are no biters

86] The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.

87] The end makes all equal

88] Better say noting than no to the purpose

89] He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly

90] Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

91] He wants both the flour and the cake that it makes

92] No man is infallible

93] The tongue talks at the heads cost

94] It is never too late to mend

95] If you want peace, prepare for war

96] All is fair in love and war

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

98] Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

99] It takes all sorts to make a world

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